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L461 ID help plz

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Fairly new here and need some help getting the " real" story on my 3 Sako's from those so well versed on them here.

First one is a L461 222 Remington that has been customized. Serial range is 1126XX. It has a 25" barrel and a very nice Fajen full coverage curly walnut thumbhole stock with rosewood caps, holly spacers. Butt pad is a Fajen composite rosewood with holly spacer. Nice rifle in great overall condition. Metal is clean and crisp, wood with some nimor handling marks.

I am far from a Sako expert and so not even sure what year it was made. Looks like it is close to being a pre Garcia maybe?

What kind of resale value would the rifle have including scope bases only?

Thanks for any enlightenment you can offer.

[SakoCollectors.com] L461 ID help plz
 
emmerth said:
What are the markings on the barrel? This will tell us a lot about the gun.
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I assumed the Douglas barrel is not the original barrel, but a custom barrel added later. So that would have no bearing on identification. Are you saying I assumed wrong and the Douglas is a factory barrel?

Thanks.
 
ladobe,

Sorry...I must have missed where you said Douglas. You are correct in your assumtion that the barrel is not factory. I am not up on the custom gun values but here is my guess. At a minimum, the action is worth $500, barrel $200 or more, and stock $100 or more.
 
Ladobe -

I handled a L461 at a local gunshow a couple weeks ago. It carried s/n 110xxx, and was Garcia etched. Hard to say when yours was produced, as the numbers are pretty goofy right about then. Maybe '71?

Dick
 
Obviously information is not forthcomming anytime soon on what should be an easy one for Sako experts. So I won't bother with the harder/rarer one I was going to ask about.

Back to the regular gun boards.
 
ladobe said:
Obviously information is not forthcomming anytime soon on what should be an easy one for Sako experts. So I won't bother with the harder/rarer one I was going to ask about.
Back to the regular gun boards.
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Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
You asked for information that is readily available from links on this site. Are you too lazy to look it up yourself and want others to do it for you?

You ask if your action is a "pre-Garcia". But you apparently don't realize that in this action during this period there is absolutely no difference in "pre-Garcias" and those imported by Garcia. The only way to have told the difference would be to look for the importer's mark on the original barrel, which your rather disinteresting put-together gun doesn't have.

And you also don't realize that the pre- and post- serial numbers were scattered about in the low 100,000's, thus it is impossible to tell who the importer of your L-461 was, even if it mattered.

Then you want someone to estimate the value of a non-factory gun from a cursory description and a long-distance photo. You even want the value of " scope bases" accounted for, even though you don't descrbe what the "scope bases" for this integral-base reciever might be.

It is no surprise that responses to your post have been few and long in coming.

Have a nice life somewhere else. Bye.
 
Adios amigo...

Sorry we didn't live up to your expectations. Not really sure what you expected - most here are interested mainly in original Sako weapons. The two customs you chose to share utilized Sako actions, but that's it. Expecting a 'blue book' sort of value for a one of type firearm is unrealistic, and I don't think it matters if it's based on a Sako, Mauser, or whatever. It's value is largely in execution, condition, and perception.

Regarding production date, if you had looked around a bit more you would have come to understand that without the original inspection tag or box, it's just educated guesswork. While Sako's sequential/chronological usage and record keeping might drive a Winchester guy to drink, it does also create some very interesting anomilies.

Good luck wherever you end up. I guess we'll just have to struggle along without you. Dick
 
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