hi looking for info on the age of sako rifle im looking to buy markings are sako A II NUMBER IS 353484 any help please

Sako Collectors Club website.

I'm pretty sure the Sako website will have your information as well. They have a lot of info on out of production Sako rifles. http://www.sako.fi/pdf/datatab...dmodelsNumbering.pdf

+1 Sako PDF has what you need unless it's newer than a 75.

Always take Sako serial numbers with a grain of salt as the factory tended to produce finished rifles with actions considerably out of sequence. The semi-official website that is linked above is a good guide, but has some identifiable errors.

However, the A-II will typically be somewhere in the early to mid-1980's. Exactly where is usually a matter of speculation. If it has the Sako #4 trigger, then it is toward the earlier end of the spectrum; if it has the later "Tikka-style" trigger then it is a later gun.

Saw off the stock through the pistol grip and count the annual rings...

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Saw off the stock through the pistol grip and count the annual rings...

I remember Peter Powell of the well known Birmingham, England gunmaker William Powell and Sons telling me that on a particularly fine French walnut blank they were working on they had found the embedded tip of a bayonet!

Thus pretty much dating the tree to a least 1914-18!

Enfield, although not in the US I'm told that many stock blanks are found to contain musket balls from the Civil War. Not sure what "many" means...