Thanks to a friend, I was able to snag these two recently.

top rifle: Sako L461, 222 Rem. Mag

bottom rifle: Sako AII, Mannlicher stock, 7mm-08

Best,

GWB

Nice. Have a few myself but none as pretty as the top one.

Those are sweet rifles, love the 222 mag, many a round downrange with that cartridge.

Enjoy them.

Those are some nice rifles. I has a SAKO 223 once, [my brother has it now, I love those small actions. He has my SAKO 375 H&H Handy rifle as well.

I much prefer the older 2 lugged SAKO actions to the newer ones.

very nice set

Bushcook,

couldn't help but notice your "sigline"

I do luv perforating porkers myself,

prolly more than most..........





















and do it with Sakos quite often.

Best,

GWB

I love those small action Sakos. I have a handful of them.

Nice find. Is that a Leupold LPS on the bottom rifle? I have one on my 375 H&H.

Another nice Sako in that top photo. Unfortunately I don't get to perforate anything like as many porkers as I'd like to. None close by. I usually travel 2000 miles to the NT to hunt them.

Beautiful rifles GW! Fine catches!


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Two very nice Sakos, the stock on that 461 is off the charts!

Very nice, what is the origin of the stock on the top rifle, I like the stock
Profile on it very much. Thanks for sharing.

Do you know who the stockmaker was? Whoever, it looks like he didn't just buy his lumber at the local Home Depot.

A couple of years ago I lucked into a custom L461 in .221 Fireball with a stock almost as nice as your .223. It's always nice when someone else shells out the money for the custom work and waits the months on end for the result, then you reap the benefit years later.

I went to the Saxet GS earlier this month and met a vendor there from Webster, TX. Who claimed he had 500 SAKOs at one time ---he said he is douwn to approx 300 -- His goal is about 75. He may have had 10 on his table.
Non of them were as nice as yours

Sweet little rifles.

That little .222 Mag is the prettiest Sako I've ever seen and there are a lot of pretty ones.

Beautiful, love the Mannlicher...........

Geebubya,

Does the custom 222 Magnum have a custom trigger and bolt handle?

Nice wood!!

Kevin

Nice knife as well. Randall?

Kevin,


I could not answer you as to the custom trigger as I've not yet taken the rifle apart. The bolt handle has been chromed as you can see in the picture that follows. A friend pointed this rifle as well as the Mannlicher. They were listed on Gunbroker by different sellers. I liked what I saw, e-mailed the owners and ended up being the high bidder. If you know the history of this rifle I'd love to hear about it.




Dave,

The knife that is in the picture with the Sakos was made years ago by a knifemaker out of Oklahoma by the name of Ricky Bob Menefee. His sig. "Menefee Made" is imprinted on all his knives. A while back we struck up an acquaintance and he asked if I would like to own one of his knives..............


Anywho, RB calls it a "Stick Tang". He is in the process of making me a Randall style fighter. I've seen the blade and the scales and bolsters. Will have to wait on the finished product a while longer. I tell him not to rush.











Perhaps you’ve hear the old joke about the cowboy and the lesbian.

Seems this ol’ cowpoke was getting up in years and had come into town on a Friday afternoon somewhat early. He’d stopped at the local watering hole and was sitting at the bar nursing a beer. Next thing he notes looking at the mirror over the bar in front of him is this woman. He figures she’s in her late twenties. She is definitely out of place. She has on skin tight spandex, and a crop top and four inch heels. All is black. She sits down on the stool next to the cowboy, smiles and tells the bartender she wants a tequila shot and a beer. After she orders she looks at the ol’ cowboy and asks. Are you a cowboy.
Well the old fellow looks at her, smiles, as he is used to city folk passing through asking this same question. He tells her, ma’am, I get up in the morning, have toast and coffee, saddle my horse and climb on. I ride most all day checking the fences, looking for stray cows. I round em’ up, I brand em’, I look for them when they are lost. I break bronc when it’s necessary. Been doing that for near on 45 year.
Well, sez the woman. I’m a lesbian. I get up in the morning thinking about women. I spend my day thinking about women. I think about women till I go to bed. She shoots her shot, downs her beer, then gets up and leaves. A few minutes later another person sits down next to the cowboy, and proceeds to ask, “Are you a cowboy. The old fellow looks at the newcomer and says. You know, all my life I thought I was a cowboy. I just found out I was a lesbian.

At the outset of our friendship I told him I was not a collector, rather a user. Well I found out diffeent............

I'm not sure how many of his knives I have, well over a dozen now.

Best,

GWB

PS: The knife on the right (the one with honey colored micarta) beside the semi-skinner is kinda special. Seems Rick had a piece of petrified Walrus penis. He use a bit of it and inlaid that shield. He said he had just enough of that Micarta left to do one more knife, then there was no more.

I call it my "blue streak Walrus dick boner"






Life is good when an ol' man like me can get a "boner" whenever he wants. LOL

GW,

Nope....I don't have any specific on your custom 222Mag Sako. I just happened to notice a few things.....like the trigger. Older factory Sako triggers had a "surface ground" finish on the trigger lever sides.

You'll know more, when you remove the barrelled action from the stock. Perhaps the custom gunsmith's signature is somewhere inside.

Oddly enough, I've recently bought a custom Sako......also in 222Mag. But, I haven't found the maker's signature yet. Maybe it's under the trap-door buttplate.....but it's so closely fitted, I hesitate to look.

Kevin

Kevin