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1899

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I was visiting with an old friend over Easter and he says - I think the time has come that I want to give you my rifle. I was surprised by this as I had asked him several times over the years if he would consider selling me this rifle and he always said "no". He is in his mid 70's and bought this rifle new many years ago. He fired it a few times on one trip and then stored it. He cleaned it every year and then put it away again. It's never been scoped. I looked at it and it could easily pass as never fired. There is not even a mark on the follower. It has a few very light marks on the stock - nothing you can really see on the pictures (some reflection can be seen).

So, the search for a nice rifle for my wife is complete. Now I need to scope it. I am happy because this old friend - I've known him for about 30 years - will be "with us" when we go to the range or hunting. We are going to pass this rifle on to our son when we get too old to hunt.

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Nice find there, that's one to hold on to. I have the same rifle (in 6.5x55) but with a rubber buttpad (looks orginal) and on the barrel its inscribed "Tikkakoski" instead of Ithaca but says ithaca somewhere else on the receiver. These are great rifles if not a tad heavy and built like a Tank. Mine seems to like bullets from 85 to 160gr. (not too picky).
 
Those are, in my opinion, the best of the Tikkas. I've had three or four and foolishly sold them, mostly because they just didn't seem to fit me - but they were, every one, wickedly accurate.
 
Tumbleweed - the LOP is a bit long and a recoil pad would be nice for my wife. I don't know whether I should have the stock shortened and add a Decelerator or order a McMillan for it and keep the original stock in this condition.
 
If the rifle was a gift, I would order in a replacement stock and leave that pretty piece of tree alone.
And a Zeiss Conquest would look absolutely wonderful on that fine jem.
Now I can hardly wait.........
 
Yes, I am leaning towards a replacement stock, but I also figure if we are keeping it forever then there really isn't a point to the "collectability". I'll post up after I take it to the range.
 
1899 said:
Yes, I am leaning towards a replacement stock, but I also figure if we are keeping it forever then there really isn't a point to the "collectability". I'll post up after I take it to the range.
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There've been a 'number' of times I've made similar plans, but down the road, somehow those plan were changed.
 
1899 said:
Yes, I am leaning towards a replacement stock, but I also figure if we are keeping it forever then there really isn't a point to the "collectability". I'll post up after I take it to the range.
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Except as a hand-me-down, one day one of your grandchildren or even later on will pick up said chopped stock and say "Too bad great granddad cut it too short for me, but still, it's a beautiful piece of family history", instead of "I am sure glad great granddad kept the original stock! And when little Johnny gets a bit older I'll put the synthetic back on for him to use until he gets a little older/bigger!"
 
I have the mid 70s tikka m65 in 7mm
I bought it in like 82 I have hunted very heavy with this rifle for 30 years
It has more taken 1-2 animals every year .
The last few years I have been using it as my long range rifle .
At 300 yards it 1.5 inch group and 4-5 inch group at 600.
It has taken plenty of elk at 600 + yards
And a few deer at 3-500
It's my solid accurate rifle .

Ps . Watch out for the magazine they stick
Under load it by one round ,keep it clean .
And always tap it to keep round up .

Lost a few elk to that

Cheers and good shooting
 
The Safari is for 75 actions only, you will have to go Sako classic or hunter.

Our Sako Hunter, Sako Classic, Sako Varmint and Sako Thumbhole stock designs can be inletted for most of the older Sako actions from the L461-L579-L61R series thru the AI, AII, AV series, the A7 and the 491-591-691 series. We have reduced size versions for the little L461 and AI actions. The older L46 and L57 actions will not fit our stock designs and we do not offer stocks for them. We can also inlet our Sako stocks for the Tikka 595-695, 55, 65, T3 and Howa/Vanguard series of rifles.

The newer Sako 75 series require their own stock designs and these stocks are so indicated.

The newest Sako 85 series also requires their own designs and we have versions of the Sako Hunter and Sako Classic stocks for this series.
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