Originally Posted by ULA24
One lemon does not make all Sakos bad. Maybe you cannot work a bolt properly, who knows. Fact is, there has been a bunch of Browning A-Bolt horror tales posted here, and elsewhere. Some involving high dollar hunts. Having examined both rifles, Browning's A-Bolt is not fit to be in the same sentence as Sako. I have owned a few Sakos, all were as good out of the box rifles as it can possibly get. My only issue at the time I was playing around with them, was they were heavier than I wanted for my personal uses, and I don't want a chopped barrel like on the Finnlight. Otherwise, they are darn near perfect.


Again, if you need to think about how you are working the bolt in order for it to eject the shells properly, why is it better? I want a rifle to work when and how it is supposed to, and not have to think about if I am working the bolt fast enough, or hard enough to do what every other bolt rifle I own does. As far as A-bolts, dont own one of them, just several x-bolts.