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Sako l61r, 7mag. Best, GWB
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That thing looks like it should be in a museum. Nice grab.
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Sako l61r, 7mag. Best, GWB Your a good killer!
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85 FL in 30-06 85 Classic 7mmRM 75 Hunter 30-06
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Thanks. That was shot a week ago in SE Neb. Single digits and 20-30mph winds. Still warming up!
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Thanks. That was shot a week ago in SE Neb. Single digits and 20-30mph winds. Still warming up! Good stuff!!!! Best, GWB
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There are 2 Sakos posted here I would like to add to my own collection. That 243 is really a nice example of that era of Sako Deluxes. The second is that 300. I just ordered a Pre-Garcia Bofors, Mannlicher in 222 mag in 98% condition. It wasn't cheap but will almost round out a complete set of 222 mags. For the sake of an offer, I do have a nice Pre-Garcia Bofors Deluxe in 264 Win Mag that I would trade for that 300 H&H. It is a nice gun with 2 Deluxe stocks... The prize of my modest Sako collection is this 95% condition 1969 Pre-Garcia L61R Finnbear Deluxe in 300H&H w/ original peep. I stopped by a gun show on my way back from making a killer deal on a Weatherby MK V with a couple of 44mag handguns to try to trade for something. Came across this gun in a booth and continued to wander around and realized what I had seen. Went back and the guy with the gun was the past president of the now defunct Sako Collectors Association and it was his personal custom ordered gun with his initial in the sterling silver grip; same as mine. Had to have it. [img] http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x400/cruiser111/P1030369_zpsbbfbf30b.jpg[/img]
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L461 in 222 Remington and 222 mag in Bofors Deluxe...
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Speaking of repeaters............. GWB
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GW you must have cracked another safe. Mr. Sako indeed! You need a custom knife for each.
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You're a baaaad man Ricky Bob......... Soon as that Ivory Micarta skinner gets here,......... between you and Shrapnel, I may be short a Sako or two. Good thing I got a couple Coopers layin' around with which to console myself. Best, GWB
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1956 vintage L46 Riihimaki in 222 Rem; nice little shooter; one of the few I have seen with a jeweled bolt.
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Bofors Steel 338 I took an elk with a month ago: Pre Garcia 30/06. Made the stock myself from a stump cut of a walnut. A man that was like a second dad to me gave me the board when he was dying of cancer. He had planted the walnut on his family farm when he was a young man in hopes of getting him a gunstock out of it later on in life. It took me a year to work the stock up. I did it all from the ground up, excepting the checkering, which I didn't have the patience to do. She shoots under an inch and has taken a number of nice deer for me. Thanks Sammy...hope I did you proud! Pre Garcia straight from Finland. Our neighbor was stationed in the military in Finland and bought this, shipped it home and never pulled the trigger. Dad was at the family farm when the neighbors decided to sell it. My mom had to make the decision on her own: buy or let it go? She called me and asked if it was worth the $600 they were asking for the unfired, hang tags still intact, 30/06 Sako Deluxe! I told her to snatch it up and I'd reimburse her for it the next time I was in town. About a month later me, wife, kids came home and I picked it up dumbfounded. As I wrote her a check she asked for a kiss on the cheek. As soon as I did, she said "Paid in full". I never fired the safe queen, only replacing the collapsed recoil pad we see all the time on vintage Sakos. She died in September of 2007 and it was at that point I decided to smack a deer in her honor...but it had to be a good one. This was the first deer that appeared on the first morning I ever took that rifle out. I think I did OK don't you? I love my Sakos.... That #2 and 3 rifle sure would take a hold of someone and never let go. Great memories Thank you....they mean the world to me.
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Mr Sako is right. Of course, I'm still hooked on that 7mm-08. Don't start draggin' out the coopers, I'm not sure I could take it. Nice Aoudad btw. Speaking of repeaters............. GWB
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Pre-brownskin. Forester in .243. First group. Shot @ 330yds. I know, I know... I'm FOS. Travis Nice
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Very nice collection of rifles
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