I'm not sure what the new sakos are classified as, but the look more like a PF than a CRF. However, I was looking at some pictures of a AIII model and it looks like it has the full claw for CRF. Here's a link Has sako ever made a CRF rifle? Thanks for the input.



Sevens

That is not part of the Sako extractor. It is a non-rotating guide rib that makes bolt travel smoother. It is held on the bolt body using two mauser-style collars.

Sako once used 98-pattern actions made by FN.

Their current crop of three-lug push feeds have been modified into a type of CRF by milling off the bottom of the bolt face and increasing the size of the extractor. My understanding is that this is only being done with a limited number of large bore safari rifles that approach the 5-figure price mark.

If you check out the current Beretta/Sako catalog, they list their safari model as controlled round feed. It doesn't have a pic though.

Aaron

Sako once made the Mauser action and barrel for Browning bolt-action rifles and sent them to FN in Belgium for finishing and mating with stocks. I'd take an old Sako Mauser action over the current crop of Sakos, or Browning A-Bolts, any day.

Actually, F.N.-Browning made the Mauser-type actions and sent them to Sako to be built into rifles in .30-06, .270 Win. and .300 H&H and possibly some Euro rounds. Sako made their lovely little push feed medium actions and sent THOSE to Browning circa. the late '60's to be built into .22-250s( before commercial intro. of this round), .243 Win. and .308 Win. rifles; the latter two were originally chambered in actual SMALLRING FN crf Mauser-type actions which I consider the most useful of all FN actions for hunting rifles.

I have handled and examined one of the crf Sako Safari rifles, it is a nice rifle about equal to my Dakota 76 in over-all quality although I hate the rinky-dink "engraving" on the floorplate. This rifle is grossly over-priced, IMO and I would spend the money on a good American custom maker's DGR, such as an Echol's Legend, before I would buy one of these-but, each to his own.

Outside of the 30/06 length FN actions used by Sako before 1961 there have been NO control round feed actions. The current 75 series is a version of control round feed.
The actions sold to Marlin, Colt, Browning, Anschutz, Sears, H&R etc. were just push feed actions.

Sevens,

What looks like an extractor is just an anti bind device. They did list their 75 Safari action as CRF very similar treatment to the Win M70 CRPF system.

Otherwise what others have said. They used to make rifles with FN actions before the started to build their L46 actions.

Regards
JohnT

Not trying to be a know it all here...Actions for centerfire were the FN action (30/06 length) and when Sako made a 30/06 length action it was numbered named Finnbear L61 R (came out in 1961 and R is for the Finnish word meaning rifle)
Other centerfire actions were
L46 (magazine)small action (known as the Riihimaki aciton..city in Finland where factory is.)
L469 (magazine) 222 Mag action
L461 small action with hinge floorplate (Vixen)
L 57 and later L579, medium 308 length (Forester)
L 61 R large action (Finnbear)
This was all the stuff up to 1972 at least.

When did the L691 action come about??

And, of course, there was the L-42...the small Sako-built action which pre-dated the L-46..........

AC

KUTENAYMTNBOY, Knows his Sako med actions that were send to browning in the late 60's as being made in 243 and 308 looks like a mauser action. I happened to buy one back then and still have it. Saw alot of browning on mauser type action back then in 270/30-06 and some mag calibers kind of kick my self for not getting one of those mags. Think there was alot of those rifles not catalog remember when browning made 20 rifles chamber for all the caliber they made at that time and serial # when from 01 to 20 and cost was $1000. each took don't know how many years for them to complete since # were control by the government they completed that order but wouldn't do it again.

Sako now (new this year I think) have a 416 rem DeLux model that sell for less than Custom shop prices. Look at it on: www.sako.fi under custom rifles/416 rem. Nice pictures showing CRF. Their Safari Custom rifles sold for 10k+, but this one should be within the reach for Joe Average...+/-2k in US I guess