Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Please talk me out of the Sako 85

You're right about the long actions. I just modified my post to indicate what I had. Have not heard any complaints about short actions. As far as changing the spring? Raised that possibility with customer service and they denied there was anything wrong to fix. Said they'd never heard of that. As you can probably tell I have a very negative opinion of their customer service (oxymoron) after this experience. After dealing with them and taking a really good look at the mechanical design of the extraction/ejection system I decided I didn't want to MAKE it work. I didn't want anything else to do with it. Speaking of my particular rifle it didn't matter if I worked the action fast or slow it failed. Glad yours is satisfactory. But as far as I'm concerned every time that design works, it almost didn't. I would never trust it. But continued good luck to you with yours.