This came up in another thread, but I think it's worth making it a topic of it's own; It's about Sako and their future:

I live about 300 meters from the Sako factory and this year they have kicked out about 30 persons. They were doing fine, but the people from Beretta (who own Sako at the moment) want more profit, so they have figured out that the best way to do that is to convert Sako factory into some sort of assembly line and all they are going to actually make in the future is barrels and some action components. It'll be just a question of time when the people of Beretta calculate that it's better to move the whole system to Turkey or some place like that.

In short: If you have a good Sako, keep it, since it's value will not be diminished in the future.

This is solely my personal opinion.

It's an Italian thing...

Jag såg et folk, som kunde alt,
blott ej sin æra svika!
Jag såg et folk, som frøs ock svalt,
men segrade tillika!

Hastily translated:

I saw a people, able of everything,
short of betraying their honor.
I saw a people, freezing an starving,
yet fighting victorious!

J H Runeberg, describing the finns during the war against the russians in the 1800's.

Time for some finnish wardrums?

I want to vomit.

Bloody Hell

Can anyone tell me who the main owners of Beretta are. I mean are they owned in Europe? Japan? still Italy etc. We are going with 1 assembly Line in Japan or some place.

Friggin Bloody eyetalians. They could screw up a two-car funeral.

Rich

I've understood that the ownership of Beretta is still pretty much in Italian hands. The stocks for Sakos and Tikkas are already coming from somewhere I don't know where (Turkey?), but now they are really going to diminish the amount of the rifle parts actually made here in Finland to the very extreme.

Soon it'll be just like any other RemRugChester (no offence!) or any other of those assembly factories with more or less same parts coming from around the world and sold under different brands, I'm afraid. The Sako used to be a real rifle factory until recently and that makes this a very sad direction of progress.