New rifle, new (to me) cartridge… 6.5x55

[JD338]

Now i want a pretty wooden stock Sako.....haha

Why stop there?

JD338

 

[Blkram]

Now i want a pretty wooden stock Sako.....haha

Be careful!
They are addicting!

 

[Hunter26]

I got my first 6.5x55 last year in a wood stocked Tikka T3x Stainless. Beautiful rifle and shoots lights out. Was lucky enough to shoot two bucks including my personal best with it last year too. I'm still working on loads with it, but Staball 6.5 with 140gr Partitions have been amazing. Your Sako looks awesome, hopefully it shoots as good as it looks.

 

[nhenry]

I’ve had a few days now. Man, I love this thing. Something I didn’t know is they switched it from the Sako tapered dovetail to the Tikka 17mm dovetail. That made mounting much easier. Ran to Cabela’s and grabbed these Warnes.


Can’t wait to shoot it. I cleaned it today because I had some time and man it was filthy for a NIB rifle.


I had it in the sunlight through my window and noticed it still had some hammer forging marks. So cool. Gotta look closely


It weighs 8lbs 4oz scoped. Points like a wand. Balanced like a seesaw. This is my new favorite rifle. Don’t feel the need to change anything, except for the LOP because it’s a darn boat paddle right now. I have a classical gunsmith friend who will be doing that work

 

[JD338]

I’ve had a few days now. Man, I love this thing. Something I didn’t know is they switched it from the Sako tapered dovetail to the Tikka 17mm dovetail. That made mounting much easier. Ran to Cabela’s and grabbed these Warnes.
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Can’t wait to shoot it. I cleaned it today because I had some time and man it was filthy for a NIB rifle.
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I had it in the sunlight through my window and noticed it still had some hammer forging marks. So cool. Gotta look closely
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It weighs 8lbs 4oz scoped. Points like a wand. Balanced like a seesaw. This is my new favorite rifle. Don’t feel the need to change anything, except for the LOP because it’s a darn boat paddle right now. I have a classical gunsmith friend who will be doing that work

Beautiful rifle, congrats.

JD338

 

[nhenry]

This rifle is a straight up shooter. Got two types of ammo that were on the shelf at Cabela’s in KC, and went shooting out to 685 yards with my old man.
Here’s with the cheapest stuff, PPU 139gr SPBT. Chrono’d at 2577fps, 5fps SD.


Hornady Superformance 140gr SST last week; 2700fps avg, 17fps SD. All of these are 3 shot groups:

Didn’t have any problem shooting out to distance. Dad even hit out pretty far as soon as he got used to the set trigger.
Now the stock is off to my gunsmith buddy because it is almost unusable offhand since it is so long in the LOP department.

Will start on load development when the stock gets back to me. Thinking Hammers or LRX.

 

[Blkram]

My LH Sako Model 85 Hunter produced 0.516" 3-shot groups at 100 yards with factory ammo (Nosler 140 gr AccuBond) right out of the box.
Gotta love that kind of accuracy!

 

[Hunter26]

Nice shooting! She's a keeper. Hopefully it'll shoot as well or better with handloads. I'm looking forward to trying some other powders in mine.

 

[grry10]

That is a beautiful looking rifle and in a GREAT cartridge. Please keep us posted on your load development and how it preforms.