Sako also took up a similar design based on the patent №72807 for production in their Sako M85 Exige. The idea for the multi-calibre rifle was later used by a small Finnish firearms company Pirkan Ase to develop their Lynx TD12 and TD15 rifles, as well as a modification to Sako 85. The produced rifle was meant to be a military sniper rifle in many of its features. The produced rifles however didn't yet incorporate all of the features developed during the development, such as the multi-calibre rifle patent (Finnish patent № 72807), which featured an aluminium bedding block ( chassis) to which barrelled actions of different calibres could then be quickly changed. The trial rifle turned out very accurate, and a small batch was manufactured for the civilian market before the merger of Sako and Valmet. Creating a magazine for the 7.62×53R was problematic, and Valmet opted for using a modified Lahti-Saloranta M/26 magazine for the 7.62×53R version. 300 Winchester Magnum and other magnum options were planned to increase the effective range of the rifle, but since the initial aim was to produce a rifle which the FDF could use, the initial development was centered on the 7.62×53R. The initial setting was to produce a 7.62×53R sniper rifle also. Valmet started also designing a proper sniper rifle completely from scratch on their own, which was also recommended by a FDF HQ major Kari Aro. The tight production schedule laid out by the Finnish Defence Forces for the new sniper rifle programme led to them using once again the venerable Mosin-Nagant construction, albeit heavily modified, in the TKIV 85, which was assembled at Asevarikko 1 ('Arsenal 1') in Kuopio, with major input and parts production from Valmet. : 113 In 1982 FDF came to the conclusion that no commercial rifle in the Finnish market is suitable as a 7.62×53R military sniper rifle without distinct modifications to the action, : 114 and competing Finnish major firearms companies Sako and Tikkakoski (which was owned by Sako) weren't interested in developing a sniper rifle, especially not using the 7.62×53R cartridge. : 112 In the early 1980s the FDF was again looking for new sniper rifles in the FDF proprietary 7.62×53mmR cartridge, to replace the older Finnish M28 Mosin-Nagant based sniper rifles, whose latest model M28-76 was employed as a stopgap measure following the failure of the TAK. : 112 The prototypes however weren't satisfactory and the project was shelved as a failure, although Valmet incorporated some improvements developed from the experiences of the TAK project to their rifles. Valmet and the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) had attempted to develop a semi-automatic sniper rifle, whose prototype name was Valmet TAK, during the 1970s on the basis of the Valmet RK 71 assault rifle. The rifle was produced only in small numbers in 1987 due to the merger. The rifle was Valmet's first and only proper sniper rifle, and after the merger with Sako in 1986, its development work was the basis for the Sako TRG sniper rifles. The Valmet Sniper M86 (also Valmet M86 Sniper and Valmet Sniper) is a Finnish sniper rifle designed by the former Finnish state firearms company Valmet. Bolt action, 60° rotating bolt, three locking lugs ĭay or night optics, aperture sights for target shooting.
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