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"Trivia" Forester Price Comparison 1959 - 2009

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A Forester in 1959 cost $149.50

The average price of the SAKO 85 Finnlight ST, the SAKO 85 Bavarian and the SAKO 85 Classic in .270 cal is about $1950, (Recommended retail).

Using Federal minimum hourly rates for 2005 (Official rate for 2005, not 2009) and archives from 1959.

You would have to work 2 and half times longer in 2009 than you would 50 years ago to own your rifle.
 
Wookie316, I'm not sure if the older rifles are better or not but they sure are more expensive.

Here's the original advertisement from a copy of "Guns" magazine August 1959.
 
I'll take 30 of those please!
[SakoCollectors.com] "Trivia" Forester Price Comparison 1959 - 2009
 
An extra $4.90 for a dual yardage peep sight? Highway Robbery!

Actually, according to the inflation calculator I used, the $149.50 price for the standard Forester in 1959 is equal to approximately $1075 today. If you take 20% off of the price for being used-but-as-new, then you have the $800-850 that a nice standard pre-Garcia Forester might bring today. You see, prices really haven't changed much. Unless it's a .244
[SakoCollectors.com] "Trivia" Forester Price Comparison 1959 - 2009
 
Goodaye stonecreek

"An extra $4.90 for a dual yardage peep sight? Highway Robbery!"
[SakoCollectors.com] "Trivia" Forester Price Comparison 1959 - 2009


You read well
[SakoCollectors.com] "Trivia" Forester Price Comparison 1959 - 2009


1959 was a good year!
 
Interesting to see an ad for my rifle. Also interesting to see the rifle pictured as a "new rifle" is actually an L57 which had been avaiable for 2 1/2 years.

My L57 is s/n 209 in, you guessed it, .244!! ( finally shot out the barrel and it is now a .308 until I get a heavy barrel made over the winter and restock it.(the light barrel overheats when trying to shoot 10 shot 7 or 10 minute groups in Hunter or Hunter Varmint class BR shoots).

AL W
 
alcap

Any chances of seeing some images of your rifle?

Jim
 
Pix of my L57 .244 purchased 1962 from co-worker (don't know if I did this right)

This is a shooter, not a museum piece. Notice the difference in the chamber profile between the Sako .244 barrel and the mounted Wards .308 (thanks to hayseed)
 
Comments to photos

S/N engraved on underside of bolt #209 probably late Jan. 1957

Safety on square bolt shroud

Original buttplate. White Line pad added to lengthen stock - uncut - long arms

"Cal..244" and proof marks only barrel markings. no "made in finland" no "bofors"

Floorplate release inside trigger guard

Grip plate

Shot out barrel while developing sub 3/8 MOA groups (5 shot - 100 yds - .345") 68gr Berger, VV N140 40.5gr, Federal 210

"Made in finland" on right receiver

"SAKO L57 No.209"
 
Looks like she's been a real workhorse for you Al. Any idea how many rounds you've run through it? Had it been shot much when you got it? Who makes the trigger tripper you have mounted? Nice shooting too...
 
As I guessed when we first met, around 2500 - 3000 rds. Not much use before I got it, then about 300 rds when I was in Vegas then poorly stored for 40 years (hence the bluing problem) and the rest in the last year.

EZPullTriggerAssist.com - can't adjust trigger now because of 40 years of rusted adjusting screws. (They were slotted set screws at this time and trying to turn them broke the screw sides, flats or whatever you would call them. The assist cut the already crisp pull to less than a pound. All for $40.

The scope is a 36X Sightron (The door prize at a beginners bench rest clinic). Thank you, Sightron.

Spending the next two days at the range now that the rain has stopped here in Jersey.,
 
Hayseed:

.244 barrel was 12 groove as was the Monkey Ward .308 from you. The chamber area contour on the .308 matches the channel on the stock I picked up on eBay so you were probably right about it being Ward's too. I'm planning to reprofile the bottom of the buttstock to Bench rest specs. to get used to the rest/bag behavior for the 6PPC LVBR that Bob White is building me. Over the winter I'll order a heavy .244 prefit barrel from PacNor and set it up in the L579 Varmint stock I picked up for Hunter/Hunter Varmint benchrest next season. I'm a diehard .244 Rem fan except that the new barrel will be 14 twist instead of 12. The .308 barrel appears to be 11"
 
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