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I was fortunate to find this Sako on a Facebook local gun group a couple months ago. It was being sold by the son of a elderly collector who bought it about 20 years ago and locked it away in his safe. It is a obvious post-war Finn refurb with a replacement post war stock with square finger joints. Every bit of the metal is as close to 100% blued condition as I have ever seen, including the cleaning rod and beneath the wood line. Almost a antique, the receiver was made in 1899. There is a very discreet import mark by Auto Ord? I don't remember seeing this before.
Nice find, Auto-Ord is from the early 90's, notice they applied the serial number to the top of the receiver, Century stuck it on the side.
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redspoon wrote:Very nice BD Is that a PL mark I see on there? If so you trying to sneak one thru to see if we're paying attention
Yeah BD, I was expecting to see a run of the mill Sako (as if there is such a thing) but you went all stealthy on us with this one! Heck of a nice find & congrats on the great addition to your collection!
Beautiful! Still on the lookout for one of these....
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