Here are a few of pictures showing a Remington 700 SA and a Tikka M55 - Ithace LSA 55 action. People like Dottie from the Arcade and Lefty Canuck's Dad used to deal with stuff like this, but they are gone now. I am doing this all from memory.:) The Garcia Tikka association come from catalogues that used to also sell a lot of fishing equipment. Take a look at the catalogue that had the introduction of the Ithaca Mag 10 Semi Auto. I recall the LSA rifles being distributed in the last issues of the Ithaca catalogues. The first place to look is at the early seventies Ithaca catalogues with the introduction of the LSA line. Come to think of it I have some other documents on the subject and don't recall seeing Garcia in that either, but I would love to see some. If you have any literature on the Garcia line it would be interesting to see. When Ithaca packed it in a dealer in Ontario picked up the balance of parts from Ithaca USA. I know they were heavily involved in the Sako rifles but never did see literature from them on the Tikka line.

I am not sure if the two were connected, but they seemed to have held a monopoly in Alberta. I think Ruko Canada was involved with Garcia. A fair amount of Garcia product made it into Alberta Gun Stores during the early 70's. I remember LSA rifles being marketed out of the Garcia Corporation. Your rifle has two locking lugs and two additional safety lugs as backup. All steel rifles with forged one piece bolts. Mag was moved opposite the direction of the port thereby stiffening the right side if the action. 65 is m65 and 55 is m55 with offset feed to try to uniformly stiffen the action. The first three digits of the serial number (actually first 2) define model. I cant recall what my rifles say as a have several of them plus old literature to support the rifles. Tikka a subsiduary of sako was finally taken over by sako.or associated larger corp. When ithaca fell apart you could find actions where tikka milled the lsa xx off and restamped to mxx. When they were marketed in north america it was under ithica lsa 65. Wanted.308 (Tikka T3, Sako 85 in Stainless or Sako 75) and moderator. Hi, i'm trying to find out when my Tikka M595 was produced, the serial number is 221104 any help appreciated ATVB Richard.

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