Seller Description
For sale is a Sako .243 Win Model A-II rifle S/N 356567 in what I’ll call 99+% ’s been shot, and it’s been hunted, but I always protected it with Gun Chaps and you‘d be hard pressed to find a flaw anywhere on it.
It is stocked in an English walnut with very striking coloration and contrast, obviously grown in a very wet ’s has a glass bedded action & free floated bbl. 14-inch has a hand rubbed, satin, in-the-wood finish and is hand checkered in 18 LPI, also has a 3/8” cast-off built into the stock, reducing felt recoil and better aligning the eye with the scope when it is brought up quickly.
It has Decellerator recoil pad & Pachmeyer flush sling swivel mounts and the
original old-style Sako 1" rings (These are going for $130 used now).
The scope is 's a Leupold Vari-XIII in 2.5-8X in perfect condition.
I'm asking $900 for it rifle only, $1025 with the rings only, $1250 with rings and scope.
Why should you consider buying this rifle? Well, if you’re seriously looking for a nice Sako in this caliber, and you must be or you wouldn’t be reading this, why would you even consider anything else? A standard caliber factory Sako in 98% condition goes for about $750-1000, magnums about $100 more; you can see that from the listings here and many other high-grade walnut blank alone on this one cost me $250, and I had to have it rough inletted ($100), shaped, sanded and bedded ($150), hand finished ($300) and checkered ($200). And those were 1985 dollars! Then there are the Sako rings ($130) and installation of the pad and sling swivels ($150). So to duplicate this rifle would run you at least twice the price it’s listed for.
This is a custom Sako priced like a plain ’s a rifle I’ve been proud to shoot, and you would be don’t ask me if I’ll accept less for it, because it doesn’t cost me a cent to keep it in my safe and pass it on to my kids and grandkids. I’d just rather see it out getting some use.