David Henzler
Well-Known Member
If you look at my collection http://24.172.105.90/guns/sakos/ and especially at the Deluxe Forester (early gun) and the Finnbear 7mm Mag you'll see two distinctly different pad waffle patterns. The 7 Mag seems to look more like the ones pictured above.
The whole FACTORY PAD episode is bothersome to me. Normally a member of a group would obtain and offer for a reasonable profit some parts obtained. However in this instance I believe REASONABLE has been exceeded. And if someone offered to purchase multiple units, reason has it that a discount may be available for expediting sale of your holdings. I will shoot my SAKO's with sagging pads and enjoy them. At some point I may replace them with a quality pad installed by a competent stock man. But it goes against my grain to be exploited by someone asking for tripple the value.
I would like to have a few more models of SAKO. I'm not interested in having one of each. But the small 7mm Finish cartridge intrigues me. And I'm still on the prowel for a pre-Garcia Forester 22-250 with white outline pistol grip.
I owned a pre-Garcia 30-06 which was a Firearms Intl import. Nice gun, had a different barrel contour, not marked Bofors Steel, and shot beautifully. But I sold it and bought an earlier gun to make most of my collection the same vintage.
I actually prefer that guns NOT be equipped with pads. However I don't get to vote on such.
Dave
The whole FACTORY PAD episode is bothersome to me. Normally a member of a group would obtain and offer for a reasonable profit some parts obtained. However in this instance I believe REASONABLE has been exceeded. And if someone offered to purchase multiple units, reason has it that a discount may be available for expediting sale of your holdings. I will shoot my SAKO's with sagging pads and enjoy them. At some point I may replace them with a quality pad installed by a competent stock man. But it goes against my grain to be exploited by someone asking for tripple the value.
I would like to have a few more models of SAKO. I'm not interested in having one of each. But the small 7mm Finish cartridge intrigues me. And I'm still on the prowel for a pre-Garcia Forester 22-250 with white outline pistol grip.
I owned a pre-Garcia 30-06 which was a Firearms Intl import. Nice gun, had a different barrel contour, not marked Bofors Steel, and shot beautifully. But I sold it and bought an earlier gun to make most of my collection the same vintage.
I actually prefer that guns NOT be equipped with pads. However I don't get to vote on such.
Dave