A new to me 300 Southgate weatherby has some wear from use but good bore 4x post scope guy next to me at range said no offence but I'm moving down guess the concussion was too much lol😄
Maybe about 1956 or so, I was in Weatherby's there on Firestone Blvd., Southgate, Ca. A teen, I bough a Sako 98 barreled action in 300 H&H, which the shop there rechambered to Wby. Had it stocked by Bishop in Warsaw, Mo. I'm assuming likely that 98 is a Sako too. If so should be marked atop chamber area. They have a really good trigger & really great FN actions! Pix below! Enjoy that nice rifle!!! Best & Happy Holidays To All! John
Maybe about 1956 or so, I was in Weatherby's there on Firestone Blvd., Southgate, Ca. A teen, I bough a Sako 98 barreled action in 300 H&H, which the shop there rechambered to Wby. Had it stocked by Bishop in Warsaw, Mo. I'm assuming likely that 98 is a Sako too. If so should be marked atop chamber area. They have a really good trigger & really great FN actions! Pix below! Enjoy that nice rifle!!! Best & Happy Holidays To All! John
Don't think they are Sako 98's or there is such a thing. They are FN actions.
Hi blair in vt, In latter fifties, Sako made complete rifles based on the FN mauser action. This for some few years as the firm had no proprietary long action offering, but the desire to enter that segment of the sporting rifle market. By '61, the firm's own long action had arrived as the "L61" aka "Finnbear". So that model window was relatively short. You can get more info about these rifles within the Sako Collector's Forum. Best & Stay Safe! John
Hi blair in vt, In latter fifties, Sako made complete rifles based on the FN mauser action. This for some few years as the firm had no proprietary long action offering, but the desire to enter that segment of the sporting rifle market. By '61, the firm's own long action had arrived as the "L61" aka "Finnbear". So that model window was relatively short. You can get more info about these rifles within the Sako Collector's Forum. Best & Stay Safe! John
I have one. A Sako rifle with a FN 98 action. I was saying Sako didn't supply actions to Weatherby. They had to get their own from someone else too at that time. Maybe I misunderstood.
Maybe about 1956 or so, I was in Weatherby's there on Firestone Blvd., Southgate, Ca. A teen, I bough a Sako 98 barreled action in 300 H&H, which the shop there rechambered to Wby. Had it stocked by Bishop in Warsaw, Mo. I'm assuming likely that 98 is a Sako too. If so should be marked atop chamber area. They have a really good trigger & really great FN actions! Pix below! Enjoy that nice rifle!!! Best & Happy Holidays To All! John
Don't think they are Sako 98's or there is such a thing. They are FN actions.
Both Weatherby and Saturn used FN Supreme actions. I've owned a 7MM Southgate on the FN, and all Saturn's were on the FN. Juenke and Weatherby were friends. Weatherby was far in a way the superior promoter. Juenke made parallel cartridges; Weatherby with the radiused shoulders, and Juenke with a sharp 45 degree one.
I had a Saturn in 25-270 ICL Ram. It closely resembled the 7MM Wby. I wish I still had either or both.
This Sako on a Supreme FN is chambered in 375 Wby.
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Don't know where we are with the issue of whether Sako made mauser based sporters. Again, the answer is yes. As I said above, they used FN actions, offered as complete rifles and barreled actions bearing "Sako" nomenclature. Here is the Sako Collector Website entitled: "Sako Mausers, High Power and Magnum Rifles".
JB has covered the Weatherby FNs pretty well in an article, and maybe one or more of his books. Actions came straight from FN, IIRC. Once he got the MK Vs in production, those went away.
Had one of the Sako FN High Powers for a bit. Nice rifle, but like all ‘06s seem to do, wandered off someplace. Don’t think there were any markings that showed it came from Belgium, but it was clearly an FN-made action in every detail except the trigger and safety. Not sure if any actually were made for the US market, or if some just ended up here after being purchased in Yurrup.
Once during an Elk season many years ago some guys camped next to us. Their Dad had one of those FN Weatherby’s chambered in 270 Weatherby. Gosh what a beautiful rifle. That rifle was the one that started my desire to move towards Mauser type actions. I never was much of a fan of the Weatherby style stock. Everybody in my family had one. 300 Weatherby’s. I liked the more Classic styled stocks. But I sure liked that one.
My Uncle had a German Weatherby in .257 WM in the 50's. We went fox hunting and there was no saving fur with that beast. It was a high grade with inlays on the stock and just a beautiful rifle. On of his relatives bought him a Interarms .243 NIB and traded even over. I was sick because my Dad did the loading for Uncle Roy and it was such a beautiful gun. This rifle had a Mauser action.
The Southgate Weatherby’s are desired. They were made in common calibers such as .270 and 30/06 as well as the more often seen Weatherby calibers. I’ve always appreciated the Weatherby’s.
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My Uncle had a German Weatherby in .257 WM in the 50's. We went fox hunting and there was no saving fur with that beast. It was a high grade with inlays on the stock and just a beautiful rifle. On of his relatives bought him a Interarms .243 NIB and traded even over. I was sick because my Dad did the loading for Uncle Roy and it was such a beautiful gun. This rifle had a Mauser action.
"Uncle Roy" is a great name for a Weatherby owner!
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