Okay someone asked a little while back difference between models:
L49R is the Sako Vixen - short action for .222's
L57R is the Sako Forrester - medium action for .243, .308 so on
L61R is the Sako Finnbear - Long action for .25/06, .270, .30/06
All the same rifle and actions , just long, shorts action lengths...
Untill 1979, when they decided to make five action lengths instead of three and number them A11, A111 A1v AV and AV Magnum...
The A11 were still Sako Vixen's, A111 were Forresters and so on, its just a numbering for the action lengths much the same as Sako do with the Sako 75...The rifles were the same action and models, with some very minor differences with the older Sako's...
...in 1992 I think they started up the L691 591 models which were not received that favourably and in 1997 they completely redesigned the action and called it the Sako 75.
The Sako 75 action bears no relationship to the "classic" Sako's of the previous decades.
(As for "Garcia" rifles and "Stoeger" rifles, it doesnt matter if its pre Garcia post whoever or whatever they were just the distributers in the States.)
