#SAKOTRGM10

The Finnish and Swedish Defense Forces will purchase a range of various rifles from Sako Ltd. TFB reported about this almost two years ago, but it’s now official what the framework and the firearms will look like.

Just a few days ago, it was announced that the Finnish Defence Forces were buying Sako TRG M10 Precision Rifles. Now Beretta USA, a member of the Beretta Defense Technologies alliance, has announced that the New York Police Department and its Emergency Service Unit (ESU) also bought several Sako TRG M10 multi-caliber sniper systems. The announcement doesn’t reveal which version or caliber(s) the department has chosen, but the picture above shows a black TRG M10, with the 20″, barrel, short fore-end configuration and the optional rear monopod. The rifle is crowned with a riflescope by Steiner (possibly the T6Xi 3-18×56 model), also a member of the Beretta group.

The Finnish Ministry of Defence announced that the Finnish Defence Forces will purchase Sako TRG M10 precision rifle systems, spare parts and sniper equipment in a deal worth 11 million euros. According to the Ministry of Defence, the multi-calibre TRG M10 precision rifle system can hit a variety of targets at ranges exceeding 1,400 metres.

Precision Rifle Series (PRS) can best be described as a mixture between long-range and precision rifle shooting and practical shooting. TFB recently reported about the plans for a Precision Rifle World Championships in 2022, and hopefully, it will happen.

A new dimension for the Hécate II Sniper Rifle – this is our topic for today’s Photo Of The Day, but there’s room for other sniper rifles as well.

Photo Of The Day – We are looking at a rather unusual SAKO TRG M10. Unusual, why? Because it is painted in white. The rifle is suppressed (probably by ASE Utra from Finland) and has a Steiner rifle scope (a 5-25×56 I suppose) and a Spuhr/SAKO mount. The pictures are taken from the SAKO Defence 2019 brochure.

The current sniper rifles in the Swedish Army are the PSG90 and the AG90. The AG90 is the Barret M82 in .50 BMG and the PSG90 is made by Accuracy International in .308 Win. The M82 is more of an anti-material rifle than a sniper rifle.

In 2017 Beretta acquired the Victrix Armaments brand from the Italian firm Rottigni.

So far this is The Bible on the Sako TRG A1, with almost 3 000 words of cleaning, shooting, testing and wisdom from Finland.

Today’s Photo Of The Day is the SAKO TRG M10 and its new cousin Sako TRG22A1 next to it.

Last week we enjoyed looking at a number of pictures from Europe’s Best Sniper Team Competition.

Here you can find a nice array of photos (from Bartosz Różański) from the Polish Snipers of the 21:st Brigade.

Three holes in a paper at 100 meters. Some times these groupings come together, sometimes they don’t.