Unlike most of my other Finn rifles this one has no shims at all, being a Finn rifle had it needed them it would have gotten them I suppose so I am not worried about that.
Most of the above is from my records, probably from the original post, The rifle is a sub MOA shooter at 100 yards with Hungarian light ball, because of the date it wasn't cheap, but it lives up the the M39 reputation. With Dolk it's stripes, with me it's dark stocks, they remind me of my US milsurps.
I have this in my file from when I range tested the rifle.
The date does make this rifle somewhat special, it's one of 6500 M39's put together by SAKO in 1945 mostly from parts that had already been made. Information seems to be a bit hard to come by concerning post war Finn rifle production, the next one I have coming is one of the "48" marked ones. 1948, inspector #48, I was bored and stamping M39's with my favorite number 48, nobody seems to know, it's rare, that much seems to be agreed on.
Now, for the rest of the update, I got the rifle down to the range tonight, making it the first rifle I have fired in 2009. The ice was cracking under me in spots, and I thought I had 20 minutes of light left, turns out I had 15, but that was enough. four groups of five shots each, 15 rounds of Hungarian light ball, five rounds of Yugo. First group 1", second group 1/2", third group 3/4", Fourth group 3/4". It was the Yugo stuff that closed it up to 1/2", three of the holes in that group were connected to each other. I then took a mixed bag of 20 rounds, and fired them as fast as I could load, and fire the weapon. The bolt works as smooth as a hot knife through butter, another hallmark of these rifles, just a little over a minute to fire them off , all 20 into a three inch circle, turned the center of the target into swiss cheese, the high visibility targets are working out well. I don't use the stripper clips often, the Izhevsk clips I used tonight worked without difficulty. I don't usually just blast away, but I had too many loose rounds floating around on my desktop, the rifle handles pretty good under rapid fire, I was able to acquire a site picture very quickly between the M39's large front sight blade, and the high visibility target. I like the new targets, unfortunately I can't make them myself, I have to pay wallyworld for them. 1/2" group, I guess that means the rifle didn't have any need of shims, or any other adjustments for that matter. The sights are dead on at 100 yards no matter what ammo I was using, I aimed dead center of target, and that's exactly were the rounds hit. Absolute magic, dam thing outshoots almost everything I own including US milsurps, and expensive sporters, and it's not the only M39 I have that does that. I am starting to wonder just what sort of armorers SAKO, Tikka, and VKT were using during the war that they could consistently take ancient leftover parts, add a few new ones and turn out rifles capable of the same performance as a high end modern Remchester, and do it with leftover commie surplus ammo. Sorry if the rifle still looks a little greasy, I only wiped it down a bit for the pics.
My back won't let me do too much either. I make it as far as pics in the garage for that safe and then if it is in the other safe, then it might get an outside foto. 
