verminer Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 never heard of them, sounds swedish though but i have the chance to buy one for £150.00, o/u non eject fixed chokes. good advice please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 they make tractors don't they Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandersj89 Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Just about to say the exact same thing, decent tractors too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 They make these too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 A friend of mine had one years ago and has been trying to find a replacement now he's getting back into the sport. He really rates them as a reliable and well made gun, but they don't come up often. For £150 I'd buy it if it's in reasonable condition. I'd imagine parts could be an issue, but then they don't break often Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy22 Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 (edited) This one's cheaper http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=53647 Finnish by the way. Edited April 4, 2008 by sandy22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berettaman1 Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Valmet Shotguns are handled by JLS Arms,in Wednesbury, West Midlands, they are the stockists for those guns, For info, ask them, they carry all parts required. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Hi Guys I own one of these shotguns, Bought it off a friends dad for £100 at the beginning of last year I have used it for clays, pigeons and lamping rabbits and never had a problem with it. It looks like it has been well used but keeps soldiering on. Regards Alec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Quality built gun, for £150 it's a bargain. The company merged with Sako, that's why the name is not heard so much now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berettaman1 Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Quality built gun, for £150 it's a bargain. The company merged with Sako, that's why the name is not heard so much now. Yes your right there Bob, The barrel locking latch is exactly the same system as the Krieghoff, I allmost purchased a new one about 4 years ago, but they all had a sling swivell lug on the blued barrels, unless you had the dull chrome model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazykayaker Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 i have a Valmet, i keep it as a spare gun (just in case!) it a fixed choke, single trigger ejector. Great gun, does the job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodeer Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Sounds expensive to me. Non ejector o/u with no spares available. Gunshop would offer you £10 for it if you take it in there. Worth retail £50-60 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbruno Posted April 5, 2008 Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 Valmets are brewd in finland and excelent firearms Valmet i do believe has some connection to Sako, for example they take simplistic fail safe russian concepts and add germanic style ubber quality and machiening and you truely have one of the finnest and best weapons in the world I got to fire the new Finland army's Valmet m90 and what a beautiful infantry rifle i would say it equalls swiss infantry rifles which i believe both hold slightly better over German/Austrian weapons, and i cant imagine any hunting rifle comming from them being any less desirable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vuo Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 they make tractors don't they The word Valmet originally came from ValtionMetalli, which roughly translates as State-owned Metalworks. The company was formed after the war and included factories that had been involved in the manufacture of weapons. Since then, they've been involved in the manufacture of cars (Valmet currently builds the Porsche Boxster and Cayman here in Finland), paper making machinery and of cours weapons. The "defence" company Patria is a spin-off from Valmet. The tractor making business started in 1951 in the old rifle factory in Tourala, Jyväskylä, Central Finland. It was called Valmet at the time. In the 90s it was decided to change the name of the tractor business, which became ValtraValmet, and then about 10 years ago, simply Valtra (Valmet Tractors, see all very logical ) The Valmet name is still in use for other products in Finland. Very similar to Nokia, who also used to make rubber boots and tyres! But once Nokia phones really took off, then the rubber boot and tyres companies changes their names and became: Nokian Footwear and Nokian Tyres "Nokian" is the possessive form of the word "Nokia", and would translate into English as Nokia's (i.e. belonging to or of - Nokia). Anyway this is my first post on here, I live in Finland, shoot a bit and enjoy the outdoors, so hello everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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