Bruce, looking at those two Valmets you gave links for answers a question I'd had for a long time--were the 330 stocks made in Finland or the US?
I'd had the notion that the "relatively crude" (some tending more towards "crappy") stamped checkering 330 stocks and forends were something Savage cooked up and added to the Finnish made barreled actions. Couldn't believe that Valmet had made them when so many early and later non-Savage Valmets have positively yummy stock wood and expert hand checkering!
Wrong again.
Anybody have or have seen a 16 guage Valmet, by the way? I just missed a 16 guage "Leijona" at a gunshop in Western Massachussets a few years ago. Never even got to see it!
