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Hey All! Lately there has been more and more scammers on the forum board. They register and replies to members requests for guns and/or parts or other things. The reply contains a gmail or hotmail address or similar ”anonymous” email addresses which they want you to reply to. DO NOT ANSWER ANY STRANGE MESSAGES! They often state something like this: ”Hello! Saw your post about purchasing a stock for a Safari. KnuckleheadBob has one. Email him at: [email protected]” If you receive any strange messages: Check the status of whoever message you. If they have no posts and signed up the same day or very recently, stay away. Same goes for other members they might refer to. Check them too and if they are long standing members, PM them and ask if the message is legit. Most likely it’s not. Then use the report function in each message or post so I can kick them out! Beware of anything that might seem fishy! And again, for all of you who registered your personal name as username, please contact me so I can change it to a more anonymous username. You’d be surprised of how much one can find out about a person from just a username on a forum such ad our! All the best! And be safe! Jim
Christmas List - SAKO BigFoots (do they exist ??!!)
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topgear
Sako-addicted
Enotstehw as mentioned before ones been found you just need to buy it!
http://www.gunsinternational.com/SAKO-Vixen-Deluxe-7-x-33.cfm?gun_id=100365718
Please post some photos up when you get it home!
On a serious note your comment about "big collectors being shy" why is that? There are a couple of guys I know of in Australia (but not personally) that have very big collections. It would be really great to have those guys contribute to the forum in some way. I often wonder if they follow this forum or not?
Anyway I am still waiting in the hope that one day I'll see a deluxe .22 hornet, 7x33, 25-20 or 218 bee posted up here that has the engraved floor plate and caliber stamp in the magazine. Until then I think its always going to be controversial. I would have thought if Mims Reed or Jim Lutes had one as they said there would be photos of it kicking around somewhere?
http://www.gunsinternational.com/SAKO-Vixen-Deluxe-7-x-33.cfm?gun_id=100365718
Please post some photos up when you get it home!
On a serious note your comment about "big collectors being shy" why is that? There are a couple of guys I know of in Australia (but not personally) that have very big collections. It would be really great to have those guys contribute to the forum in some way. I often wonder if they follow this forum or not?
Anyway I am still waiting in the hope that one day I'll see a deluxe .22 hornet, 7x33, 25-20 or 218 bee posted up here that has the engraved floor plate and caliber stamp in the magazine. Until then I think its always going to be controversial. I would have thought if Mims Reed or Jim Lutes had one as they said there would be photos of it kicking around somewhere?
enotstehw
Banned
The 7 x 33 Deluxe is in my safe now. You can see the photos on guns international.
I know a guy on the left coast. We call and talk about Sako's.
He has very pre 72 Sako mannlicher. And he had made it clear to me that he wants to remain invisible. If I disclose his name or address, then I'm not a true friend. I honor my friends requests.
Again if a fake 7 x 33 Deluxe pops up . . . please don't buy it. Allow me to make a fool of myself.
I know a guy on the left coast. We call and talk about Sako's.
He has very pre 72 Sako mannlicher. And he had made it clear to me that he wants to remain invisible. If I disclose his name or address, then I'm not a true friend. I honor my friends requests.
Again if a fake 7 x 33 Deluxe pops up . . . please don't buy it. Allow me to make a fool of myself.
topgear
Sako-addicted
Awesome stuff enotstehw. Santa has come early to you!
Do you know if this is the one Mims mentions in the newsletter or is it a different one? You could well have one of the most collectable sako's on the planet. If I get back to the US one day I hope you let me visit and have a look at her!
In regards to your friend remaining invisible that's perfectly understandable. However, on the forum you really only know peoples users name, hence your pretty invisible in that sense I suppose.
Anyway great stuff. Looks like you now have a captured "Bigfoot"
.Cheers John
enotstehw
Banned
The 7 x 33 Deluxe was purchased in July of 2013 from a guy in Pennsylvania. He made no mention of the former owner. I could contact him for more information.
I too thought it was fake, however the seller offered a three day inspection. So . . . I was out only the shipping . . . if it was a dog.
Upon hands on inspection . . . she was a keeper at the price I paid.
I do remember a photo of Jim Lutes with over 100 Sako's in the backround in one of the Sako news letters. A few L46 Deluxe's may be in the back round.
I too thought it was fake, however the seller offered a three day inspection. So . . . I was out only the shipping . . . if it was a dog.
Upon hands on inspection . . . she was a keeper at the price I paid.
I do remember a photo of Jim Lutes with over 100 Sako's in the backround in one of the Sako news letters. A few L46 Deluxe's may be in the back round.
L-46
Well-Known Member
Always keen to learn more about these rifles.
What where the features that showed the 7x33 deluxe originality?
L-46
topgear
Sako-addicted
Sorry enotstehw, I didn't realise you were the seller! You kept this one quiet when you landed it!
I too would love to know more about it. Stonecreek mentioned this was from the second production run of L46 so it makes it late enough for things to fit with a deluxe. Is this correct? If you don't mind me asking what is the serial no. approximately? I have seen one other 7x33 (a standard rifle) from this second production run serial no. 805XX (photo's around of it too) and it also had the rear ramp site.
Anyway I would also love to hear more about the rifle. I'd be knocking the guys door down you brought it off to try and find out as much about it as possible if it were me. Its definitely a very very interesting rifle! It could also as well as being the only 7x33 deluxe made also be the last 7x33 sako ever chambered if its from the second production run and serial number above the one mentioned!
Interesting stuff!
Cheers John
I too would love to know more about it. Stonecreek mentioned this was from the second production run of L46 so it makes it late enough for things to fit with a deluxe. Is this correct? If you don't mind me asking what is the serial no. approximately? I have seen one other 7x33 (a standard rifle) from this second production run serial no. 805XX (photo's around of it too) and it also had the rear ramp site.
Anyway I would also love to hear more about the rifle. I'd be knocking the guys door down you brought it off to try and find out as much about it as possible if it were me. Its definitely a very very interesting rifle! It could also as well as being the only 7x33 deluxe made also be the last 7x33 sako ever chambered if its from the second production run and serial number above the one mentioned!
Interesting stuff!
Cheers John
oldsako
Member
In my humble opinion gentlemen the 7x33 deluxe on guns international is most likely a bitsa. If it were the real deal the for end rosewood tip would be angled IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION . as the early deluxe s the first DELUXE'S didn't have that configuration i am very sure but have been proven wrong before. but i am fairly sure on this one. That gun should have a rosewood fore end angled in the opposite direction.
enotstehw
Banned
John
The serial number is 84xxx range. I got a phone call from a big collector on the left coast. Asking the same question about the serial number. He said . . . . . he also has a 7x33 Deluxe and it did not have the engraved floorplate.
That's when the price went from $3000.00 to $7400.00
I also have a sako vixen deluxe stock . . . no barrel or action, with the rosewood slanting in the opposite direction . . . however it has the fire red dot and area cut out for the new bolt safety. Where the stock on the 7 x 33 Deluxe does not have the fire red dot or the area cut out for the thumb safety.
Now . . . go figure on that one for a while.
cheers my friends
The serial number is 84xxx range. I got a phone call from a big collector on the left coast. Asking the same question about the serial number. He said . . . . . he also has a 7x33 Deluxe and it did not have the engraved floorplate.
That's when the price went from $3000.00 to $7400.00
I also have a sako vixen deluxe stock . . . no barrel or action, with the rosewood slanting in the opposite direction . . . however it has the fire red dot and area cut out for the new bolt safety. Where the stock on the 7 x 33 Deluxe does not have the fire red dot or the area cut out for the thumb safety.
Now . . . go figure on that one for a while.
cheers my friends
Rick, could you post some photos of that stock? I can't quite follow whether it is for an L46 or L461, but it sounds very interesting.
I'm not sure that anyone knows. The serial numbers appear to have been intermingled with L461's coming off of the line contemporaneously.
topgear
Sako-addicted
DeerGoose I think Jim (L6r) mentioned that he thought the run was 2500 rifles and they ran from 80 000 to 82 500. At one stage we had a thread running to see if anyone had a L461 with a serial number in that range and I don't think one was found, but can't remember or find the thread now.
