Canadian SAKO .222
- Thread starter Rob
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patricksbb391
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- Ottawa & WMU 62
I have one of their .22 LR rifles. The model is a Grizzly, as I recall! Plain as heck but it points like a well built rifle 15 x 's it value. Cannot part with it.
here is a catalog cover
found at h ttps://www.canadabrass.ca/products/naaco-nineteen-sixtyone-catalogue
also this http://sakocollectors.com/forum/threads/north-american-arms-grizzly.7994/
found at h ttps://www.canadabrass.ca/products/naaco-nineteen-sixtyone-catalogue
also this http://sakocollectors.com/forum/threads/north-american-arms-grizzly.7994/
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I've had two of these NAA's in 308, both on Sako L57 actions. Here are some pics. The other one had a plain stock, no checkering.
Rembo! Stop showing my rifle!
It sits nicely with the rest of my Sakos
BTW, nice rifle Rob. Also had a plain single shot Grizzly .22 made by NAA.
I still have yet to shoot the NAACO .222 (and the range is probably covered with ice right now), but if it shoots anything like my even earlier fullstock Sako .222 then I will be pleased. (Sako fullstock .222 is second from the left in photo, between the Sako M38 fullstock .22LR and a very early Sako fullstock .243 that will shoot half-inch 100 yd. groups with cheap factory ammo. In my experience, every Sako is accurate.)
I used to reload for .222 but am now shooting factory ammo...picked up at a small Nova Scotia gun show last year: Privi Partizan ammunition, brand new,
$5.00 per box of twenty. I think I bought 40 boxes...(see it in photo behind the 30-06, which was also $5. per box)...It is accurate in the fullstock...so I'll use it for both...and if and when I run out, I'll reload for .222 again. I'll have plenty of brass.
Written from a balcony overlooking the Caribbean in Runaway Bay, Jamaica.
I used to reload for .222 but am now shooting factory ammo...picked up at a small Nova Scotia gun show last year: Privi Partizan ammunition, brand new,
$5.00 per box of twenty. I think I bought 40 boxes...(see it in photo behind the 30-06, which was also $5. per box)...It is accurate in the fullstock...so I'll use it for both...and if and when I run out, I'll reload for .222 again. I'll have plenty of brass.
Written from a balcony overlooking the Caribbean in Runaway Bay, Jamaica.
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I still have yet to shoot the NAACO .222 but if it shoots anything like my even earlier fullstock Model 461 .222 then I will be very pleased.
And although I used to reload for .222 I now am shooting factory ammo...picked up at a small Nova Scotia gun show last year: Privi Partizan ammunition, brand new,
$5.00 per box of twenty. I think I bought maybe 30 boxes...(see it in photo behind the 30-06, which was also $5. per box)...It is quite accuate in my other Sako .222....when I run out, I'll reload again.
(Written from a balcony overlooking the Caribbean in Runaway Bay, Jamaica)
thats a super sweet deal on that ammo, congrats on that score
Mount Sweetness
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- Southern Ontario
The Prvi .222 ammo is awesome.
I pay $18 a box!
I pay $18 a box!
Rob,
More than fifty years ago I gave the same rifle, but with a 26" sporter profile barrel, to my sweetheart. Even the buttplate is the same as yours. That was before we got married, and I wanted to teach her how to shoot. A fine gunsmith, Charlie Parkinson if anyone here remembers him, had one in his shop in London, Ontario, and I bought it for her.
She very quickly became an excellent shot, as a few guys on here can attest to, and is still shooting it. I have no idea how many southern Ontario woodchucks were taken care of in farmers field with that rifle. They were eager to have her come and "clean them out". She moved up from the 222 to her big game outfits after learning to shoot with that SAKO.
Just today I loaded up twenty rounds of Sierra 53 gr hp ahead of a perky load of A2460 and CCI 400 primers. The rifle will still put five of them close to half an inch after all these years. FYI, it will also shoot the Speer 70gr soft points well under an inch if you need a deer load.
If I ever get around to downloading another photo host, will post a few pictures.
Ted
More than fifty years ago I gave the same rifle, but with a 26" sporter profile barrel, to my sweetheart. Even the buttplate is the same as yours. That was before we got married, and I wanted to teach her how to shoot. A fine gunsmith, Charlie Parkinson if anyone here remembers him, had one in his shop in London, Ontario, and I bought it for her.
She very quickly became an excellent shot, as a few guys on here can attest to, and is still shooting it. I have no idea how many southern Ontario woodchucks were taken care of in farmers field with that rifle. They were eager to have her come and "clean them out". She moved up from the 222 to her big game outfits after learning to shoot with that SAKO.
Just today I loaded up twenty rounds of Sierra 53 gr hp ahead of a perky load of A2460 and CCI 400 primers. The rifle will still put five of them close to half an inch after all these years. FYI, it will also shoot the Speer 70gr soft points well under an inch if you need a deer load.
If I ever get around to downloading another photo host, will post a few pictures.
Ted
Still has a following in Europe and elsewhere. European rifle and ammo makers offer it, as does PMP in South Africa. If not for loads for brass and cheap Savage range toy I would happily switch my .223 for a .222
