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Sako Fiberclass stock manufacturer??

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264magnum

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Hello

I just purchased an unfired Sako Fiberclass in 338 Win Mag. It has the AV action. The stock is black wrinkle finish. Is this a McMillan stock as I have always heard or is this an HS stock? It has the cheekpiece etc and I know some of the early ones were straight comb and some were charcoal grey I think. Did McMillan make all the stocks for the fiberclass or no? Also did Sako make the fiberclass after they went to the L691 action and discontinued the AV series? Thanks for all the help and hopefully one of you experts can clear these questions up.
 
264,

I'll share with you what I know. The wrinkle finish stock was made by McMillan. It has a cheekpiece, but not the full rounded hunter style stock cheekpiece.

Sako made the Fiberclasses toward the middle-end of the AV production run which was prior to the 691. Stocks for the AV are not interchangeable with those for the 691. Hope this helps.

Dave
 
Hi and congratulations!! You have just bought one of the finest rifles ever made!! In my opinion that is!!

I have 4 of those and IxB4 ll share my little knowledge with you.

As Dave said, McMillan made the stocks for Fiberclass and they are mostly black and wrinkled. Other colour options were available here in Europe as were a smoother version of the stock. I have a white 30-06 (there is a pic on this site) with stainless barrel which also were available as an option. The white stock is much smoother than my other Fiberclass rifles which are black and wrinkled. I have also heard of green, blue, camo and red ones!!
Fiberclass has AV actions but I have seen one (a 375H&H;) with AIII action (with shorter tang) and there is rumour about a few with L691 actions as well.
SAKO probably used what they had lying around when they went from one action to another!

To make it even more difficult, I have a Stoeger catalogue with Fiberclass fitted with AI and AII actions. McMillan denies to have made stocks for these actions and I have been in contact with some SAKO collectors and no one has ever seen one!!

The Fiberclass were available up to 416 Rem Mag but according to the Norwegian importer a special run was made with four 458 WinMagxB4 s. I know of one of these and if I can get that one!! Well that would be better than the lottery!!

Good Luck with your new rifle and let us know how it shoots!!

Jim
 
Thanks for all the help guys. A couple last questions. It is an AV serial # 814XXX. This should have the #4 Sako trigger in it right? Also how come I have seen Fiberclass pictures in old catalogs and the shooting bible that have a monte carlo fiberglass stock that looks like the hunter stock with the full rounded contours etc and yet I have never seen one. All the Fiberclass rifles I have seen have had the straight comb small cheekpiece "standard fiberglass stock". Are these monte carlo stocks made by someone other than Mcmillan or were there ever any of these produce? Thanks again.
 
Not sure about the trigger but if youxB4ve seen synthetic Mont Carlo stocks on a SAKO iits probably a TRG-S youxB4ve see.

It came around 95-96 and has a cold-forged reciever, 5-round detachable magazine and fully adjustable trigger.

Jim
 

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