![]() Just as in the M55, some models feature iron sights attached to the barrel rear sight is an open notch and front sight is a hooded post. The M65A also has a polyacrylamide bushing as a bolt guide. The later model bolts have a large handle with a plastic ball-shaped end. The receiver has 17 mm dovetail rails milled on its top side for attaching optical sights as in the M55. Unlike the M55, the M65 also features an integral recoil lug, which is made to the receiver in the milling process. The repeating magazine fed rifle features a milled receiver made from special steel, to which a 90° rotating, two-lug cylindrical bolt locks the M65 also incorporates two additional safety lugs at the rear of the bolt, as well as two vent holes in the bolt body to vent off gases to the side if a primer breaks. The Tikka M65 action is based on the Tikka M55, which in turn is loosely based on the Mauser action, which Tikkakoski had wanted to modernise. The design work from the Tikka M65A and Valmet Sniper M86 were used to develop the Sako TRG sniper rifle in the early 1990s. In 1990 the Tikka M65 was superseded by the Tikka M658 rifle of the Tikka M88 series. : 158–159 The last Tikka M55 and M65 were assembled in 1989. In 1987 the Tikkakoski factory was run down, all its machinery was destroyed, and production of Tikka rifles was transferred to Sako factory at Riihimäki. The M65A took some design features from the Valmet Sniper M86, such as the aluminium bedding block. ![]() : 142–144 After the success of the Tikka M55 as a sniper rifle, in 1988 Sako brought a purpose-built sniper rifle Tikka M65A to the market, with significant modifications to the basic design. Tikkakoski company was bought by Nokia in 1974 and by Sako in 1983. However, it could only use cartridges with cases up to 55 mm, and Tikkakoski decided to develop a long action rifle in 1969, the M65, which initially was called LSA65, for cases up to 65 mm long (after which the rifle was named). Tikkakoski company had designed the Tikka M55 in 1967–1968 and it had been brought to production in 1968 (initially called Tikka M76 but already in 1969 LSA55). Like the Tikka M55, the M65 was imported to the United States by Ithaca Gun Company. It was designed as a long action rifle on the basis of the short action Tikka M55 rifle, however its action differs much from the M55. The Tikka M65 (originally Tikka LSA65) is a Finnish rifle designed by a Finnish firearms company Tikkakoski in 1969. ![]() 1140 mm (Sporter, Super Sporter and Continental)Ħ20 mm (Sporter, Super Sporter and Continental)īolt action, 90° rotating bolt, two locking lugs, two safety lugsĤ, 5, 7, 8 or 10-round detachable double stack box magazine ĥ or 10-round detachable single stack box magazine (M65A) ![]()
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