Which of your Sakos do you shoot the most?

[stonecreek]

Quite a few members here have multiple Sako rifles. Some of them naturally get used more frequently than others. I'd be interested in which are your "go to" Sakos.

For me, it would be an HB .244 (prairie dogs), a .270 Bofors (deer), and a TRGs .338 (elk and African game). I have and shoot many others, and purposefully set these guns aside on ocassion in order to use some of the others, but if I had to choose just one gun for each of these purposes, those are the ones I'd choose.

How about you guys?

 

[deergoose]

.222 Riihimaki for groundhogs and predators.
.270 Finnbear for Virginia whitetails and turkeys
.300 H&H for paid hunts for bear, boars and caribou.

All of these are sporters, still is good condition and shoot very well. I also break out a .30-06 occassionaly for deer season.

DeerGoose

 

[stonecreek]

Deergoose,

I took my .300 H&H on a whitetail hunt last weekend. I took a ten-point buck (100 yards) and a feral hog (300 yards) with it. It is more gun than necessary for this type of hunting, but I enjoyed seeing how it would perform. In fact, it has been two years since I took my "favorite" .270 on a whitetail hunt, simply because I wanted to try a .308 Mannlicher and a .25-06 out on critters.

 

[misako50]

Guys- I have used a .243 and a 7mm08 along with my trusty .308 Deluxe (1963 vintage) for whitetails, mule deer and antelope, over the last several years. Always feel like I am betraying an old friend when I don't use the .308. I have sent a few elk to the happy hunting ground with it also. I have a 22-250 and the 222 mag if I want to shoot some small varmints. We don't have a rifle season for goblers in our state, so I use a shotgun that is not a sako, unfortunately.-Mike

 

[gunner620]

Wow,it is hard to pick.I like to use several guns for deer.I have a 300 win mag. model 72 that I have a hard time leaving home and also AV 7mm rem mag that I feel the same about.This year I used L61R in 30-06 (the first sako I purchased new in 1969) and it proved to completly adaquate for Virginia white tail.Well I didn't mention the 270, how could I not say good things about it.I have others and they all are great rifles. Oh, and the 222 rem and 243 for ground hogs and such.But fact is it is very hard to pick a favorite as they are all such great shooting and quality guns. Jim

 

[2greggs]

For 25+ years I have used my sako dlx .270 on deer until a few days ago I used my .300 win mag for the first time. I took a 8 pt at 100 yards & he folded like a accordian!. Way too much for deer. The .270 is geat medicine for deer.

 

[emmerth]

For the past couple of years, I have been hunting whitetails with my TRG-S 995 in 7mmWBY. This gun is truely the best in Sako accuracy. It is not as SEXY as my other Sako's but it gets the job done! From 0 to 400 yards, all you need to do is point, squeeze the trigger, and watch them drop like rocks.

This past Saturday I took another really nice 8 point with it.

 

[cmjr]

Well I"m mostly a varmint hunter, I get my deer meat from buddies that can't get their wives to cook what they shoot. Looking back a L579 in 6mmAI(previously owned by DAA of Rocky Mountain Varmint Hunters) seems to get the most action lately on feral pigs. Next is a L491 HB in 223 in the PD fields and last a L461 in 20VT for targets of the varmint type, aka beaver and nutria. Almost all of my collectible unmodifed rifles are of the small action types, L46 up to A1, primarily Deluxes and HB models and they actually see very little action.

 

[Anonymous]

I have several rifles and handguns. I like shooting my suppressed TRG 42 .338 LM for long distance "target" practice the best. My favorites are my L61R Finnbear Deluxes, and most loved, the Golden Anniversary's I own. My next hunt will be my first big bore revolver hunt with my .500 S & W scoped magnum (which I say under my breath in the back pew). As far as a "go-to" gun for hunting, it would be my .30-06 Finnbear deluxe and a close second, the 7mm rem Mag.
S-A

 

[aj8300]

For me it's my A5 fiberclass 7mm Rem Mag. I bought the gun as a shooter. Has some thin spots in the bluing. Don't know how it doesn't kick but it doesn't. I've got other brands in this calibre and they slap you, but somehow even with the very light McMillan stock it just doesn't. My other is a 243 AI that is a tack driver. My other Sako's live in the safe. Most of them I can't bring myself to shoot. I figure if I'm going to beat around a gun I can do that to a Ruger I'd cry if I put a mark in any of my Sako's