ricksengines
Sako-addicted
No doubt many of you have seen the 7 X 33 on GB over the past several days. On the surface this might seem to be a very collectible rifle commanding a rather stiff price but to me the devil is in the details. The rifle has been re-blued, restocked, I don't know about the rear sight on the barrel as I have never seen something like that before. Judging from the bolt, tt doesn't look to me to be in all that great a shape either. All this said depending on the reserve it might be worth some sort of restoration. The owner said he pulled the original stock to make it available to us collectors for copying. Not a bad idea but it seems to me that leaving the original furniture on the rifle would have garnered a better price at auction. It certainly would have enhanced the collector value. I guess I don't understand why a person would pull the furniture off of a rifle as rare as this one is. Once that happens the two will probably never join up again.
Also there are several boxes of ammo listed in other auctions so if you have one of these rifles now might be the time to pick up a box or two of ammo.
I hope that info was useful to some of our rare Sako collectors.
rick
Also there are several boxes of ammo listed in other auctions so if you have one of these rifles now might be the time to pick up a box or two of ammo.
I hope that info was useful to some of our rare Sako collectors.
rick