Sako - dates of manufacture - reference source?
I'm looking for a source that can help me with serial numbers and their dates of manufacture on older Sako models (Finnbear, Forester, Vixen).
If you know of any other reference material/books on these models, for general information, is appreciated too.
Thank you
If you know of any other reference material/books on these models, for general information, is appreciated too.
Thank you
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Try this and see if it works. **Export_.Info**@sako.fi
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coltnutz-- Take a look at the Sako Collectors site. There is a little bit of info there.
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can you please tell me how to find the sako collectors site. I have searched and do not seem to be able to find it. I have several questions like ones that have been asked in previous threads, bu tno answers are there and would like to research further.
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Try this link: http://groups.msn.com/SakoCollectorsClub/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us
The only other way I know of is to ask and hope someone has experience and knowledge that helps. For instance, Pre-1972 guns have serial numbers that owners, (and collectors), are able to recognize and give close dates of manufacture. It is more difficult in the later years but there are some who know.
Unfortunately, I know of no real source of information that is published anywhere concerning manufacture dates, models, etc. Hopefully, the link I posted above can be of some small help to you..... Good Luck!
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Thanks for the info, I am going to go over there and search and see what I can find as well.
What I have is a .222 REM Sako riihimaki, serial no 16757. It has a detachable magazine, a hooded front site, no rear site as it has a Pecar scope, marked Berlin, 4-10 variable scope. The front of the stock is black, with a hooked bill to it. It is 99.9% perfect condition other than riding around in a soft case for the last 30 years. It has had 11 rounds through. As the story goes, my grandparents visited the factory and had this made for my Grandmother to fit her. I have been through several books and nothing quite matches up with the specific features of this.0 -
is the safety on the right side or the left side? 0 -
Right side. Located on a square hunk of steel the bolt goes through. It also has a white to light tan piece about 1/8 thick between the wooden stock and the butt plate. I read that was another different item. 0 -
The gun you are describing is an L-46 short action which is the one Sako used with a detachable magazine, which would be a pre-Vixen model and sounds to have been stocked as a "Deluxe" model. It would definitely be a pre-1972 gun which makes it somewhat easier to estimate a date for its manufacture. The serial number you say it has would correspond to guns that were made around the 1955 to 1957 period. I base this on a couple of guns I own that have serial numbers slightly higher and one slightly lower than what you have. This is only a best "guestimate" but I believe it is quite close........maybe someone else can do better to pin it down.
If the provinance is true about the gun as your relate it, it sounds as if it is a "family heirloom" of sorts and might have more value to you for sentimental reasons although a gun such as you describe in that condition could easily be worth in excess of $1,000 to a collector, and possible more than that. Enjoy the fine old rifle!
Henry Ford stated: "There is no one more useless than a Convict, except perhaps, those that guard him." This was his reason NOT to hire either one!0 -
Thanks for the additional info. I could not pin down the deluxe, and just what made up a deluxe or regular. Between several sites and a book from the library I have it narrowed down pretty good now.
I have family heirlooms coming out my ears. If it was only this gun, I would surely keep it, but I have my own collection plus two sides of my families guns now with both sets of grandparents dying off and I am the only one interested in firarms, or without a felony conviction! I am pretty sure I will put it on the gunbroker site, now that I have a better idea what it should bring. It is a very nice and unique gun, but I hate to have something that is a wall hanger or a cabinet hugger. If something is so nice that I would be ruining it or bringing it down in value by taking it out and using it, then I feel it would better serve someone else who can appreiate it for a collectors piece. I can take the old savage duck blind gun out that we have fired 1000s of rounds through over the years and remember people better than something like this. I have enough other guns that have seen action that putting an afternoon out in the field is not going to hurt them.
I am keeping the officers issue pistol, all original, in the box, with military paperwork, extra clips, sholder holster, hip holster, cleaning kit, that my grandfather received when he retired from the Air force in 1969. Its still wrapped in cosmolean and resides securely in my safe. It gets a unwrapping and look at once a year, then away she goes. [:D]
Added: I think if I sell it to anyone, I will make it mandatory that they sit with my 87 year old Gramma and listen to the WHOLE story of how they went and picked out and had HER gun made. She loves telling it, and you better bring a lunch.0
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