Sako 85 Finnlite, worth the extra $$ ?

blargon said:
Mmmm, finnlights...

I bought the 75 finnlight in .308 about 4 years ago, then bought the olive EDGE 2 years ago. It goes 7lbs even, with the VX3 2.5-8. The 85 Finnlight .30-06 I bought used on here and it already had the EDGE on it. It goes 7lbs 2oz scoped, also with a VX3 2.5-8. The top one is my 85 SS .260, also with an EDGE, and goes 7lbs 10oz, with the VX3 3.5-10.

All 3 will shoot under an inch, consistently, and usually under 2" at 300yds.

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damm,...that's a nice set of Sakos:cool:......260 and 30-06 is all a guy would need.....;)
 
It got brought to my attention that Finnlites can be had for closer to 1500$,and this changes my opinion on value. When I was seriously contemplating buying one I was ready to pay over 2000$ all in with optilocks [Wholesale Sports].
500$ towards an Edge and you have a fine mountain rifle in my books.
Much like Blargons' beauties.
 
Re: Sako A7 as accurate as my Finnlights. My stainless 308 will place 5 shots touching dead center at 100 yards with Fusion 180s. :) Unbelieveable accuracy for the price.
 
Animal.5 said:
Re: Sako A7 as accurate as my Finnlights. My stainless 308 will place 5 shots touching dead center at 100 yards with Fusion 180s. :) Unbelieveable accuracy for the price.
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I picked up the sako a7 package deal.. still have to take it out and try it before I go out this coming weekend. got the 180gr winchester super x ammo and a box of barnes triple shock x bullet 150gr..

Maybe I sohuld take a look at the fusion 180s , just testing to find my go to bullet for the gun.
 
I said yes earlier in this thread. I have been turning my nose up at Tikka's funny magazine, plastic bits etc.

yesterday I was the range with a couple of loads for my latest purchase and T3 hunter in 6.5x55 and here are some of the groups.
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And the best one, the flyer high made the group .42, the big hole is 4 shots measuring .308 side to side making it a .044 4 shot group. This is pretty good fro a gun that weighs 7 lbs 9 oz inlcuding the scope and mounts.

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Here's the gun

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I have two Sako 85's, one Finnlite in a 25-06 and the other regular stainless 30-06. Both have McMillian Edge stocks on them. Great rifles IMO, and the new stock just tops them off nicely! I picked the 25-06 up from Prophet River and did not pay $2000 for it either ;) and as far as the stock, I got them both on sale so they weren't $700.
 
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