There is a Sako Mannlicher chambered in 7x57 that a dealer I know has just put up on Gunbroker. He says it was listed in 1996 as a one-of-a-kind in the Rock Island auction catalog as being custom made for a guy identified as "R. Sylvester" and the only one in existence.

I've seen (at least pictures of) a Sako 7x57 in a standard sporter, and even one in a Deluxe sporter that a guy in South Africa has, but I can't find anyone who has seen another Mannlicher 7x57.

I've looked at this rifle at the dealer's store and it can't be told from new, plus has the box. He said he didn't know how to price it, so he simply put it on Gunbroker to let it sell for whatever it will. Here are some photos of it on the dealer's website: https://www.sakosource.com/mannlicher-7x57.html

I have 3 Sako Full Stock Finbears, 375, 338 win and a 7x57. The Action was the L61R
The interesting thing about the 7x57 was you wont see it listed on the Sako SN history on their website and yet they were quite popular in the 70's in South Africa.

If you use the search terms full stock or Stutzen, you will find a lot of Sakos with the timber all the way to the muzzle.

Mannlicher is an Austrian brand, not a style of stock, Mannlicher made many half stock rifles, probably far more than their full stocks

Thanks for responding! Could you post a photo of the 7x57 caliber stamping? It would be great to have that as a record for those of us who are Sako enthusiasts/collectors.

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Originally posted by GBE:
If you use the search terms full stock or Stutzen, you will find a lot of Sakos with the timber all the way to the muzzle.

Mannlicher is an Austrian brand, not a style of stock, Mannlicher made many half stock rifles, probably far more than their full stocks

Of course there are many, many full stock Sako carbines (as well as "rifles" with full length barrels.) The point is how many of them may exist chambered in 7x57. It was never a caliber which Sako cataloged in their full stock models.

The term "Mannlicher" is certainly attributable to Steyr. However, just like "Kleenex" or "Xerox", the term "Mannlicher" as applied to makes of rifles other than those of Styer has come to be a generic term for a full stock or full wood rifle (whether with carbine or rifle length barrel.) Sako even uses the term "Mannlicher" in describing its full stock rifles.

On the other hand, the term "stutzen" (as applied to a rifle) simply refers to a shortened rifle (usually a short-barreled rifle) regardless of its stock configuration. "Stutzen", in my minimal understanding of German, is actually a verb meaning "to cut or to shorten", but when used as a noun is somewhat interchangeable with the term "carbine".

Not full length barrels on these rifles
all 20 inch Stutzen. The muzzle blast and recoil on the 338 and 375 bad, real bad !

All 3 were bought from VLT arms in Pretoria
all 3 are L61R rifles

The oddity about them is all 3 were sold out of factory with a Williams rear sight and not the usual Sako rear sights of the "full size " Finnbear

I had at the time two hunting friends who also owned and hunted with the 7x57 Sako Stutzen.





The rifle in these two scanned photographs are of the 338 win Sako