Thread: School me on Sako Vixens...

Here is the one I'm borrowing. This is an after market fibreglass stock. I had to use the big base and ring system because the bolt handle lift was too high for the standard one piece optilocks. This is an old scope with a trim ocular bell too.





Most Vixens were .222RREM I understand but this one was factory 6mmPPC.
It is the Hunter model so has a 5 shot magazine.
The stock had been swapped by a previous owner for one from a single shot target rifle - looks and feels nice but very bulky and heavy. I won't show a pic of it. I don't have the original hunter stock.



Is the test pressure stated here a routine working pressure or a maximum before the rifle blows up and you need to leave a big safety margin below that ?





The feed is a bit erratic. Sometimes the back of the case gets stuck down so the bolt doesn't pick it up and sometimes the tip is stuck down so it rams into the action below the feed ramp. It seems as if stretching the spring in various places could improve matters but the balnce seems quite twitchy. I suspect the spring might be a bit weak as its 30 yr old and I do't like to bend it to increase the overall force. It seems to feed better with plastic tip bullets than the hollowpoints shown here.



I'd be interested to hear whether spring balance and force is "user adjustable" and whether people have ever got a new spring made. Can you just cut off a bit of spring out of an old .223 magazine grind it to size and pop it in ?