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New to this forum but not to Sako firearms. Now in my 80's and about to hand down my Sako Finnwolf .308 (Serial #6260) to my Grandson on his upcoming 17th birthday. I was just wondering if someone on this site could provide me with information regarding when this particular rifle (Serial #6260) was manufactured. Appreciate any information you might have. My email address is [email protected]. Thanking you in advance for any info you may have.
 
IssaquahBob said:
Is there no one who could just provide a year of manufacture without paying $10?
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No there is not! Sako didn't make rifles in sequential order with the serial numbers & factory records are very limited & hand written in Finnish. Our club is lucky to have the records we have. The records we do have show rifles with serial numbers one number apart being shipped 5 to 10 years apart (in one case 16 years apart) & rifles with serial numbers thousands apart being shipped on the same day. It is a tedious process to find this information. The fee for looking up the manufacturing date is to help support this website & is done by volunteers. If $10 bucks is too much for you to get the answer to when your rifle was made, then maybe you should look somewhere else. Really??? Do you expect everything to be free???? Do you think this site is just here for your personal benefit & doesn't cost anything to exist? It took a lot of effort to get these records & it takes lot of effort to look up the information. Then you show up out of the blue & expect the club to GIVE you what you want & then never contribute anything back. By posting your email address on the open forum you just gave it to the entire world, so don't be surprised if you start getting scam emails & attempts to hack your computer. Take 1976 with a grain of salt as without factory records or other written documentation it is impossible to date a Sako. Just food for thought!
 
paulsonconstruction said:
No there is not! Sako didn't make rifles in sequential order with the serial numbers & factory records are very limited & hand written in Finnish. Our club is lucky to have the records we have. The records we do have show rifles with serial numbers one number apart being shipped 5 to 10 years apart (in one case 16 years apart) & rifles with serial numbers thousands apart being shipped on the same day. It is a tedious process to find this information. The fee for looking up the manufacturing date is to help support this website & is done by volunteers. If $10 bucks is too much for you to get the answer to when your rifle was made, then maybe you should look somewhere else. Really??? Do you expect everything to be free???? Do you think this site is just here for your personal benefit & doesn't cost anything to exist? It took a lot of effort to get these records & it takes lot of effort to look up the information. Then you show up out of the blue & expect the club to GIVE you what you want & then never contribute anything back. By posting your email address on the open forum you just gave it to the entire world, so don't be surprised if you start getting scam emails & attempts to hack your computer. Take 1976 with a grain of salt as without factory records or other written documentation it is impossible to date a Sako. Just food for thought!
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Didn't realize all these facts but don't appreciate the tone of your response so you know what you can do!!! Just food for your thought!!
 
paulsonconstruction said:
1976 with a grain of salt as without factory records or other written documentation it is impossible to date a Sako. Just food for thought!
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1976 was a good year .. I was 14 years old then and I knew even less than what I know now about Finnwolves .. but you really can’t expect a whole lot for free now days.
Free food maybe?🤔
 
bloorooster said:
1976 was a good year .. I was 14 years old then and I knew even less than what I know now about Finnwolves .. but you really can’t expect a whole lot for free now days.
Free food maybe?🤔
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Ok Bloo........

According to my figgurin' ........that would make you 5 years old in 1967.
So........how does that equate with the moniker "The Old Hippie"??.....huh?.....🤣🤣😎😇

BTW.........I was 17 at the time......and still didn't go to Woodstock.😉
 
Actually…the “old Hippie” was my nickname for the last couple of years before retiring. My tool buddy was a tad older than me and a bit slower on the move. We were the senior electricians on the crew. We got all the fire calls and clean work 😅…
My long hair and beard , along with a passion for tye-dye t-shirts and his short temper grumpiness and Tim Conway shuffle earned us the team moniker of “The Grump and the Old Hippie”… good times were guaranteed!🪛🔧🧰
 
bloorooster said:
Actually…the “old Hippie” was my nickname for the last couple of years before retiring. My tool buddy was a tad older than me and a bit slower on the move. We were the senior electricians on the crew. We got all the fire calls and clean work 😅…
My long hair and beard , along with a passion for tye-dye t-shirts and his short temper grumpiness and Tim Conway shuffle earned us the team moniker of “The Grump and the Old Hippie”… good times were guaranteed!🪛🔧🧰
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Love it! In a world where everybody seems to be obsessed with identity, The Old Hippie is a great one.

Nobody ever mistook me for a hippie, and I didn't consider going to Woodstock, but I did go to a lot of MC5 and Commander Cody concerts! I've been around so long I can remember hanging around a college bar where Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen were the house band, and on break sometimes the Commander would sit down next to me at the bar and we'd talk about nothing in particular. I was a biker through quite a bit of my second and third college excursions, but eventually got a haircut, went back to school, and somehow stumbled into being a diplomat for Uncle Sam. So I feel a lot in common with a guy who calls himself the Old Hippie.

On second thought, I did once get mistaken for a hippie. One of my many weird jobs in college was as a board engineer at a country radio station. This was back when Waylon Jennings still had a backup band called the Waylors and Bill Anderson was singing about what made Milwaukee famous. Anyway the owners were some real had-core peckerwoods from God knows where and they couldn't handle the idea that they had a guy on the air who had long hair, a beard, and rode a motorcycle to work. So they fired me. Just about when I was getting really good at the job. And it wasn't more than a year or two later that Waylon, Willie, David Allan Coe and all the other outlaw country artists had long hair and beards, were riding motorcycles, and dominated country music. Revenge is sweet, sometimes. I was annoyed about losing the job, but back then it was no big deal, anybody who was willing to work could find a job in a few days. I wound up as night manager at a bowling alley, and the boss couldn't have cared less that I rode a motorcycle to work.

And by the way, there's a band in Finland that does great David Allan Coe covers. Just to throw in a Sako connection.
 
[SakoCollectors.com] Sako Finwolf .308

My last club ride…2019
IBEW ride. 450+ bikes
That’s me next ahead!

David Allen Coe…I almost got fired once on a job for playing one of his greatest hits CDs. To say it was kinda racey is an understatement….
 
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But hey…enough about all that.
Let’s play with some more guns!

Here’s my line up of this season’s top three picks….[SakoCollectors.com] Sako Finwolf .308

Sorry .. no Finnwolf here , whatever those are 😉
 
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