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The Sako S20 is a bolt-action rifle designed and manufactured by Finnish firearms company Sako since 2020. The rifle features an aluminium chassis, which allows for modularity and different configurations, due to which Sako calls it a hybrid rifle .
Sako Limited (natively Sako Oy) [1] is a Finnish firearm and ammunition manufacturer located in Riihimäki, Tavastia Proper in southern Finland. It also has owned the Tikka brand of bolt-action rifles since 1983, and is now owned by the Italian firearm holding company Beretta Holding .
Sako A7 is a bolt-action rifle made by Sako since 2008, and is meant to fill the gap between premium models such as Sako 85 and the cheaper Tikka T3 model made by the same company. [2] Sako A7 has some technical similarities with both Sako 85 and Tikka T3, but also have some of its own unique design features.
Between 1965 and 1994 350,000 M62 rifles were produced jointly by Valmet and Sako. It is the basis of the IMI Galil , an Israeli-made assault rifle with many similarities. The RK 62 has a three-pronged flash suppressor , and a groove for a specially designed knife bayonet , which can be used alone as a combat knife .
' Automatic Carbine 24 '), initially the Självskyddsvapen 24 is a Swedish version of the Finnish Sako M23 assault rifle that is in service with the Swedish Armed Forces as of December 2024, [1] fully replacing the Automatkarbin 4 and Automatkarbin 5 along with the Automatkarbin 25. [2] [3]
The Sako 75 was named after the 75 year anniversary of Sako in 1996, when the first Sako 75 was made. [5] The Model 75 was externally very similar to earlier Sako models, but its construction was different, having 3 symmetrical locking lugs, [6] a manual ejector, and a detachable magazine. Hitherto, only one Sako rifle, the L46, had a ...
The new cartridge was loaded with a 9.1 grams (140 gr) boat-tail spitzer bullet (D-projectile) fired at a muzzle velocity of 800 m/s (2,625 ft/s) with 2,912 J (2,148 ft⋅lbf) muzzle energy from a 739 mm (29.1 in) long barrel. [30] The new spitzer cartridge was adopted from around 1941 onwards.
The 6.5-284 has been used extensively in benchrest competitions and is known as an extremely accurate long range round. Using an improved version of the 6.5-284, Rich DeSimone set a 1,000-yard (914.4 m) world record with a 1.564-inch (39.73 mm) group. [4]