Without a doubt, if it was to be a beautiful rifle a Sako deluxe, if a nice rifle, a standard Sako. Of course it would be pre-Garcia in either case and it would shoot with the best of them and still hold it's value.
Custom rifle, I would stay with the Sako action, again a Garcia or earlier, and put a Lilja barrel on it and a nice xxx American walnut stock, built by Dennis Olson.
Either way, no disappointment and not a long wait if you went custom...
I bought my first Sako, a finnbear, a couple of weeks ago on a whim. Went into to buy model 70 they had advertised and saw the sako that just came in on consignment. Price was right and after reading shrapnel write about them on here I thought I would try it out.
Enjoying it almost to the point of wondering how I ever hunted with Brownings and Remington's before. Usually as soon as I get a rifle I dream up a million things to change on it. With this one the only change I'll make is to up a nicer piece of wood on it eventually
