Beautiful rifle. I have a "varmint" version in 25-06 with a 6X Redfield that was given to me. I need to sit down at the bench and make some ammo for it.
The Weaver looks perfect on yours
Beautiful rifle. I have a "varmint" version in 25-06 with a 6X Redfield that was given to me. I need to sit down at the bench and make some ammo for it.
The Weaver looks perfect on yours
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I said 'heard' not read.
My point was that such a rifle as this Sako is certainly not 'useless for combat'.
While it's rare, having spent 10 years in the Army has put me around enough other Soldiers with the occasional story about one or two Iraqi's or insurgent MF'ers making a real pain in the ass out of a situation because one or both had SVD's or some other scoped rifle and actually had some idea of how to shoot.
I don't have any romantic notions about the M14 and I honestly don't care much for it as a working rifle, but if I'm regularly engaged by assholes with PKM's and SVD's at 400M+ I'd much rather have a 22in M14 with an ACOG than a 14.5 M4 with a CCO.
But in a pinch, that Sako .243 with a decent piece of glass would certainly do.
My view is that while the M-14 is heavy-ish, as is its ammo, new or reasonably lightly used ones were nice, accurate and reliable rifles. I can't speak to the ones that remain in inventory, but I can speak to the ones in inventory the better part of 50 years ago. They were good weapons (although the ones made with fiberglass stocks by H&R were treated with some suspicion).
And a Sako .243 from the same era could be a terrific combat weapon, particularly if you are engaging at some distance.
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Looks good, @Jaywalker, but you got me started looking at vintage rifles on GunBroker last night.
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My “Frankenrifle”:
Interarms Mk-X long action, .30-06 FN barrel, Weaver K4 scope and an Interarms stock. All but the action were bought from ads in Shotgun News, back in the day.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.