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Sounds good in theory,because the stock is fitted to that contour and Stonecreek said it's not factory.If you cut the threads off the ogive that means a rechamber job though.
 
Wouldn't it also be possible that the builder recontoured the barrel removing the SAKO stamp just forward of the caliber stamping when he cut & recrowned it???? Who knows, once he chucked it up in a lathe he might have felt nostalgic. Does make one wonder.
Dose this help, hurt or just confuse this build price point ?
Getting the ammo in today and going to shoot tomorrow will post accuracy and feed
 
It's a mute point as to what you have in it now.You own it.Take it out and have fun with it.Too late to worry about how much you have in it now.
 
Dose this help, hurt or just confuse this build price point ?
Getting the ammo in today and going to shoot tomorrow will post accuracy and feed
As has been pointed out, the market for customized rifles is erratic and it is almost impossible to say what a non-factory rifle with a Sako action and modified(?) Sako barrel might bring. With the exception of very high quality and expensive custom work (extra high grade wood; well-executed checkering; deep, high-polished bluing or deep matte bluing; etc.), most customizing lowers the value of a rifle compared to the same in a fully original factory version.
 
The value of any custom rifle can be all over the map, as was borne out by my assessment being quite different than icebears. As your rifle is not a factory gun it has zero collector interest & is just another "shooter" rifle among millions. Regardless what it is worth, it's not going to make a difference in your life or y0ur retirement, so just go out with your son and have fun shooting it. The "old school" barrel mystery makes for a good conversation starter, at the very least, & one your son could possibly pass on to his someday. Thanks for sharing your rifle with us.
 
Sounds good in theory,because the stock is fitted to that contour and Stonecreek said it's not factory.If you cut the threads off the ogive that means a rechamber job though.
Not sure what you mean. Recontouring a barrel has nothing to do with the threads on the shank & I am not aware of a barrel with a "threaded ogive". Just curious.
 
If the ogives are usually longer than that shorty that appeared in the pictures and they left the front of ogive alone where the caliber was stamped then one would think that they removed most of the ogive from the threaded end.
 
My understanding of the terms are that bullets have "ogives" & barrels have shanks & tapers. Ogives can be either secant or tangent & are a curved surface, but the straight section of the barrel just forward of the action is not an ogive according to Webster's dictionary, but it might be what they call it in your neck of the woods.
 
If the guy took a newer barrel,changed the contour,and shortened the "shank" as you call it to make it look like a much older barrel,wouldn't the guy have to rethread and rechamber the barrel?
 
Why would changing the outside shape of the shank require rethreading or cutting a new chamber??? Recontouring the outside of the barrel has no impact on the threads or the chamber. If someone did indeed recontour the barrel, which is merely speculation, he removed the "forward" part of the shank, not the rear of the shank. That's one hypothesis as to why the SAKO stamp forward of the caliber stamp could be missing. We will never know for sure about this barrel, regardless. Could be guys at the Sako factory were joking around with an inspector!!
 
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