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Hey Guys, I am looking at a LH Sako AV rifle in 338wm on gun broker. Looks like a very nice rifle, but I know nothing about the brand. Have several LH rifles 3ea 700's, 1ea A bolt and a Ruger 77. Calibers from 270 to 338wm. Any problems with this model? Price range for a rifle advertized at 98%? Or any comments on this brand? | ||
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Owned a couple in my life last being a 375 H&H. Nice push feed rifles but in my opinion not any better than a run of the mill Remington. But some people think they are the greatest rifle ever built as well, to each there own  As far as that one on Gunbrokers it is a nice rifle with great wood. But the seller states it only has a LOP of 13 inches and that means someone shortened the stock at some point, or he posted the incorrect LOP. My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost. | |||
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I have one in .338, LH, mannlicher stock. I have a lot of confidence in it (killed African game + elk), but have had the bolt worked on. I think the Schmidt & Bender scope (only one I own) has a lot to do with it. I agree with Snowwolfe, I own a few Remingtons, it isn't a death-ray, but good enough. The only rifle I own that has major mojo and shoots better than I do is a pre-'64 Win. .243 (RH). Only a marginal deer caliber, I know, but it's the only rifle I've owned that's positively "freaky". Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but it's always irritated me (and I'm really right-handed/left-eye dominant) that the safety on the Sako is really right-handed. Not a true LH rifle. | |||
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Thanks for the input guys. I really like the wood but the 13" LOP would be a little short for me. | |||
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I believe the older Sako rifles were some of the best push feed rifles ever mass produced for the LH shooter. I have had several and they all shot very well. The new stuff is not the same IMO. ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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I have a LH AV Laminate in 338 Win Mag. I sent it down to Bansners a bunch of yrs ago for new stock & accurizing, it didnt need the accurizing but I figured while it was there they might as well do something with it Loved it before, love it even more now ps, hard to see but its the rifle in my sig line Rod -------------------------------- "A hunter should not choose the cal, cartridge, and bullet that will kill an animal when everything is right; rather, he should choose ones that will kill the most efficiently when everything goes wrong" Bob Hagel | |||
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