Since then, SAKO leaders have made several business moves, including the acquisition of Tikka Firearms in 1983 and a merger with the Beretta Holding Group (SAKO’s present-day parent company) in 2000. Trade Count: Member Posts: 16 Sako date of Manufacture « on: April 04, 2003, 02:44:54 PM » I have a Sako marked Sako Rhimaki 39606 (ser ) in 222. Author Topic: Sako date of Manufacture (Read 937 times) 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. In about 1957 the company began chambering the 30-06 in a Mauser action made for them in Belgium (FN). The company continued manufacturing submachine gun cartridges for the Finnish Defense Forces through World War II. Sako date of Manufacture « previous next » Print Pages: 1 Go Down. Sako Date of Manufacture by Serial Number Anyone have a website/link for checking Sako serial numbers to find out Date of Manufacture There are some web sources with a few references for pre-1972 Sakos but apparently none for later vintage guns.

In between wars, the company gained financial independence from the Finnish Civil Guard, relocated its headquarters to Riihimäki, assumed the name SAKO, and began exporting pistol cartridges to Sweden. the owner knows nothing about it and I wanted to find out the year and make of the rifle and whether or not its worth the money. Im looking at a sako bolt action 30-06 rifle serial number 531832. Their first shop was a converted Helsinki brewery, where gunsmiths refurbished captured Russian weapons for use in the Finnish Army. BOB REESMAN DATE OF MANUFACTURE FINNBEAR 270 WINCHESTER SERIAL. SAKO first opened its doors in 1919, shortly after Finland declared its independence from Russia, under the name Civil Guard Supreme Staff Gun Works. The company’s name hails from a voluntary Finnish militia, called the “Civil Guard” or “White Guard”, that successfully crushed socialist opposition during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. SAKO, Ltd., or Suojeluskuntain Ase- ja Konepaja Oy ('Civil Guard Gun and Machining Works”), is a Finnish firearms company that can trace its roots all the way back to post-WWI Europe.

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