I've had a couple of short action Sako 85's with no problems, and one long and one magnum action rifle with some ejection issues. I solved that annoyance by having a skilled machinist make a couple of new extractor claws with minimal ( 0.002" - 0.004" or so) clearance between extractor claw and rim on the base of the cartridge. The original extractor claws had perhaps 0.010" clearance, too much. Both rifles have perfect ejection every time now, in a horizontal direction. With low mounted scopes. The ejection problems are not so much a design flaw in my opinion, but a tolerance and clearance issue. It only cost me $50 to have the new extractor claws made. I'm happy with my Sako 85 rifles. I would prefer if they all worked perfectly from the box, but many, many other brands of rifles have bigger quality control issues than that Sako 85 extractor. Sako 85's are accurate, smooth, well balanced, and have great triggers. I like the magazine. I'd buy another if I needed one.
