LifeNRA Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 According to Beretta USA, there is a recall on certain Sako and Tikka rifles with stainless barrels that were manufactured around February 2004. It has to do with a particular batch of substandard stainless steel and could result in a massive failure. If you purchased a stainless rifle after Feb 2004, please contact the Sako / Tikka Recall Center immediately at 800-503-8869 with your rifle's serial number and they will tell you if your firearm is affected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTbowman Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! Wow that could really suck.. Thanks for posting even though I do not own either brand. This should be pinned to the top! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! Thanks for posting this. I own a couple of Tikka's but they are not stainless! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ExtremeSoloDubV Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! Has this recall been issued for a while? They had a post on here at the beginning of November that talked about this. I contacted Beretta USA and they said mine was not effected. Just making sure that im safe and that there was not another recall. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted December 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! Not sure I ran accross this on another forum. Thought I would post for you all in here!!! Being the nice guy that I am!!! LOL!!! BTW, how did I pinned this??? Or was that AJ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! [ QUOTE ] BTW, how did I pinned this??? Or was that AJ??? [/ QUOTE ] Call it Christmas magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plannerman Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! Does this happen often in gun manufacturing? Don't ever recall a SAKO/TIKKA recall prior to Beretta taking over! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonhunter Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! Wasnt there a link in here of a sako that went boom big time?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron buck Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! BOOM!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted December 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! GEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!! IB is that a Tikka???? WOW!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron buck Posted December 29, 2004 Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! Actually that WAS a Sako. I got the pictures from over at Accurate Reloading in the gunsmithing section. Here is the link: Accurate Reloading-Sako Blow Up Link Sakos rep is taking a HUGE set back after these incidents. I hope that they can recover & that no one gets injured or killed because of the bad steel they used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted December 29, 2004 Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! The bottom pic looks a little fishy to me. I have never seen a barrel blow like that. I don't see how it could. The upper pic looks legit, but the bottom one, well, it looks more like a setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonhunter Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! AJ that bottom one was in a whole group that was posted in here awhile ago buy me got it off a differant site, it all looked legit to me but im no expert, on real real close-ups you can see where the metal started to pull apart in a couple of differant spots but held a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! I still don't buy it. I can do that with a vise and a pry bar. Another thing that makes me raise the BS flag is the magazine. If the gun fragged like it appeared to, the magazine would have been mangled or in pieces. And for this to have happened with factory ammo? Well, I have the BS flag waving at full mast. We can see in the pics its a belted magnum. Judging from the short neck length, I will say its a .300 Win Mag. For a magnum to come apart like that, takes some serious problems. PO Ackley intentionally blew guns up just to see what it took to frag a receiver. I have seen a lot of pics of guns that fragged and none have looked like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron buck Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! AJ The pictures look real enough to me. At any rate, rifles have blown & problems do exist. According to the thread at AR , the problem was/is due to bad steel. As such it may not blow in what would be considered a traditional manor, due to overloads. Sako has admitted that they have an issue due to bad steel. And from the AR thread, it apears that this has happened to both Sako & Tika rifles with SS barrels. Not a pleasent thought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robk Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! aj it could happen but i see what your talking about i have been studying these pics and wish i could seee more of the pieces and different angles. did you chek out the bolt itself? if it had to do with back poressure the bolt should look like it was hammered with back blast and i don't see it. i am curious also as to themakrs on the reciever as well it all looks to clean and even if they cleaned it it would look a lot worse i would think. it could of been a hot load they were trying and it had too much back pressure enough to pop the action but the barrel makes me wonder. i had a m16 come apart in vietnam and i was very lucky but the blowup showed severe carbon blast and totaled the bolt which the sako the bolt looks new and the rest of it hasd me worried about someone messing up or not and then trying to save face and blame the company. i was not there so i don't know but it looks too clean too me and i am guessing aj caught on to that also rob k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! Uh huh. Yep, something does not look right in the one pic. For the action to come apart that violently, the bolt will not be straight. Granted we can not tell 100% from the camera angle but it looks like a setup to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Re: Sako and Tikka rifles, RECALL!!! I talked Beretta today and the only thing they would say is there might not be any need for a recall. They would send out further information when it becomes available. My feeling is that if there was a problem this serious, they would be all over it. I think those are phony pictures! I would be very careful if I owned one of those guns until I heard something from Beretta, Sako or Tikka. Who knows the truth behind those pictures and what happened. If it really happened, I believe the story would be circulating with the pictures in great detail! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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