Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Guess I drew short straw on a new Sako

I have owned a grand total of three Sako rifles, still have two.
A stainless laminate 75(traded off, heavy...), stainless/syn 85 and a stainless A7, all 300 WSM's.


The 85 with lunker Z and optilocs must weigh 9lbs. Way too heavy for a walk around gun IMO. Shot one dink antelope with it, over 2k rounds through it but only hunted a few times.


Old pic when it was new.

Nice rifle, the stock is nothing to brag about but the barrel and action are slick(IMHO), great trigger. I keep thinking it should become a 270 or 7 WSM. Maybe a McMillian stock.





By far my favorite is the A7, 7lbs scoped with a 6x42 Leupold.
Used it 4 years in a row and took 4 bucks with it.

Both rifles love the same 180 Partition load(yeah I know PT's suck....grin)
175 SMK's for fun, shoot to the same POI as the Noslers.