SAKO W/M-98 ACTION ?
Customer brought in a sako (makered on barrel .300 mag., mgf. in finnland)with a f-n m98 action (marked under stock, mgf. in belguim). I lost most of my ref. books so any body know how old this is and value? I assume this was a .300 H&H cal., it also has H.G.Baucher, improved stamped on the barrel and chamber cast looks like a .300 Weatherby.
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they made it back in the 50's. 100% one maybe worth $700.
hope it helped
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Mike,
According to Jon Speed, these receivers were made by FN in Liege and shipped to Finland for use by Sako between the years of 1946 and 1949 after which Sako developed their own line of receivers starting with the L-46. It was a common practice by manufacturers around the world to buy Mausers receivers from FN and build proprietary rifles on them.
More than likely it was originally chambered for the 300 H&H then re-chambered for the 300 Weatherby. The conversion is often referred to as 'improved'. It was and is a common conversion. I would measure that chamber cast carefully because there were also a bunch of individual gunsmiths that had 'improved' reamers made in order to appear special. But the common practice was to allow the new cartridge to fireform from the original 300 H&H brass since the headspace is controlled by the belt. If the double radius is present then Weatherby would be my guess. If it is a Weatherby chamber, the place to pay attention to is the throat and leade (freebore). Some reamers were made without the Weatherby freebore and you have to pay more attention to working up loads due to the increase in pressure.
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NON- Thanks for the info, the chamber cast i made sure looks like a weatherby and the customer said it has a short lead. I'm going to wack the threads off, rethread and recammber it to .300 win. mag. the fun part is indexing the sights. 0
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