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New Member From Northern California

Sako Collectors Club Discussion Forum

Good evening! Just wanted to introduce myself. I enjoy shooting and appreciate the history of firearms. I also hunt a bit. When I was a teenager, my Dad got the old yellow, black and red Herter's catalogs. I would read them and occasionally buy a duck call or pancake batter kit from it. But, I always wanted to buy a Sako Finnbear from them. Never could afford it. But I finally bought my Finnbear 30-06 from a local gun store. It is pretty old, having only a three-digit serial number. But what a honey! I love it. My other Sako is a '41 m/39 Finnish Mosin. It has honest wear and remains very accurate with a sweet trigger. I look forward to lurking in the corner, learning from you all and contributing when appropriate. Cheers!
 
Welcome! I also had to wait a long time to get my first Sako.

I did visit the old Herters store in Waseca back in the '70's. Crazy place. Likewise, I only had a precious few bucks to spend. Plenty of out and out junk there, too. I came back with a cheap fishing rod.
 
The lion's share of my meager teenage wages from summer jobs went in the mail to Herter's in exchange for dies ($4.95), brass cases ($2.00 per box for magnums), and even a close-out on an XK-3 German-made barreled action in .257 Roberts ($45.00). That all sounds cheap now, however when you run those prices through an inflation calculator and factor for wages you find that nothing was cheap back then. But just reading the catalog was a hoot.
 
Back in the '70's, I remember a remark made about Herters by a millwright I worked with at a steel foundry. He said that if Herters removed all the "greatest ever made with finest imported materials" language they could cut the catalog down to comic book size.
 
Hi and welcome. Kindly post some pics of your Sako's we do encourage all newbies to do so because we enjoy seeing the great Sako rifles that folks like yourself have in their collections.

Since Herters was brought up in this thread I thought that I would mention that I went to a gun show in Florida over the weekend and in one of the racks was a Herters rifle built on a Sako action. I can't remember what caliber the old girl was chambered in but it was really great seeing something like that in the flesh. I still have my old Black and Yellow catalog. I still can't believe that Herters offered as much stuff as they did. Nothing today even compares to them.

rick
 
Hello Rick,

I have many Parker/Hale catalogues from the 1950's 60's 70's & 80's. The 1950's are the best ones, with fantastic drawings of every thing for sale, plus a price list including purchase tax. The paper quality is suberb with ring binding. My favorite P/H catalogue is 1950.

Blackjack
 
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