Thread: NZ Police Sako 222

Thanks for the info' about sights and the original supplier. Gives me a few more lines of enquiry to pursue.

Maybe I should expand on the reason for the quite specific original enquiry.
I spend quite a bit of my time working in Australia where I continue to enjoy competitive marksmanship.
One of the disciplines that I indulge in is "Service Rifle". The ozzies are a bit touchy about anything that they perceive as being not quite within the "spirit of the rules". Lee Enfields, Swedish Mausers, Mosins etc. are all OK, but a Sako?
Set the cat amongst the pigeons, so to say! So now the "powers that be" set up a series of hoops to jump through; hence the original question.
I have been able to establish in the affirmative that the Sakos of that model were indeed NZ Police issue, but the specifics of sights, in particular, has drawn a vexed question as to what precisely they were issued with. Some may have been scoped and others just iron sights. Getting documentation to that effect is proving somewhat difficult. I'm not sure that Allan G Mitchell, or its successor, exists or whether documentation could be provided. Anecdotal evidence doesn't quite cut it.
And I really don't want to back off in the quest to have another legitimate, authenticated, "service rifle" approved for use within the Australian rules.
Isn't that what evolution is about?