Sako Finnbear 375 h&h mag with Leupold Scope

D

deerhunter67

CGN Regular
Rating - 100%
2   0   0
Location
SW Ontario
Greetings all,

Have a Sako Finnbear 375 h&h mag with Leupold Scope and thinking about selling it. Had the gun for over ten years and has been used during one hunting trip. Only fired five bullets and has been cleaned annually and kept it in the safe.
It is in a brand new condition. Just wondering what woulld be the reasonable price to ask for it.
Thank you all in advance for your guidance.
Here are some pictures:)







 
Last edited:
I'll give you $100...you pay shipping though :) In all honesty its a beauty but I don't know what Sako goes for. Good luck!
 
Thanks MDR for the offer. lol
And Thanks CZ_Brno. If I recall correctly, I paid around $3k when I bought the rifle and the scope from LeBaron here in Toronto. I am trying to understand what would be a realistic expectation when I put it up for sale:)
 
If you're hoping to make a profit on your $3K, you might be disappointed. You'll probably find that a reduction of 30% from the purchase price is reasonably as much as you can expect, provided the piece has seen light use. Had the rifle been the more desirable Safari model, the news might have been better.
 
Last edited:
Thanks MDR for the offer. lol
And Thanks CZ_Brno. If I recall correctly, I paid around $3k when I bought the rifle and the scope from LeBaron here in Toronto. I am trying to understand what would be a realistic expectation when I put it up for sale:)
Click to expand...
... seems like you paid an awful lot when you bought it. Sako's were always pricey but I bought several from LeBaron's in the late 70's to mid 80's and usually for about a third of that cost. Course if you paid full list and bought when everything from Europe was crazy priced ?!? Anyway I think you may find that your rifle is at least 30 years old so you may have had it a little longer than 10 years or someone had it about a 1/4 century before you bought it. It appears in nice shape and has the second recoil cross bolt in the pistol grip (at least it appears so) .. seems to be a standard deluxe (and not a Safari version) and I dont believe that action has the third lug so it is very unlikely you will get 3k for it today .. I would hope you could because I have a number of Sako's all with the factory boxes etc (including deluxe LNIB) that I would happily sell for $3k if I thought I could get it. But the sale/market price doesnt diminish the fact that you have a great rifle
 
Great insight AP.
I did mention that I got it over 10 years ago. If my memory serves me well it was either 2000 or 2001 and it was was brand new as they opened the box for me.
Of course I am very realistic and I dont expect to make money off of it or sell it at the price I paid for. But if I can`t get $2K for it, it can go right back to my safe and stay there as I love the rifle. I am just starting to get into Black and Military rifles so need room in the safe:)
 
Even a good to excellent Sako 85 synthetic is still going to command $12-1500. Since this one sits in a nice piece of furniture, decent scope, and in a good overall/minimum africa caliber...Hmm i would think its a $2000-$2500 rifle as it sits. Any extras have a tendency to help it sell, not necessarily for a better price....i mean ammo, dies, brass...

Everything is worth exactly what someone will pay for it
 
If my memory serves me well it was either 2000 or 2001 and it was was brand new as they opened the box for me.
Click to expand...
could be -- but they must have had it laying around a couple of decades by 2000 ... I think you will find that IF the bolt matches the receiver --- then a check of the serial number will reveal it was build not much later than 1981 - and possibly a little earlier -- it looks to be an L series (L61 or L61R) which were pretty much discontinued by 1981 with that style of bolt eg lacking the streamlined bolt shroud
 
deerhunter67 said:
Great insight AP.
I did mention that I got it over 10 years ago. If my memory serves me well it was either 2000 or 2001 and it was was brand new as they opened the box for me.
Of course I am very realistic and I dont expect to make money off of it or sell it at the price I paid for. But if I can`t get $2K for it, it can go right back to my safe and stay there as I love the rifle. I am just starting to get into Black and Military rifles so need room in the safe:)
Click to expand...

Me pense you need to find room for another safe............... :wave:.........problem solved.
Keep them ugly kritters to themselves.
 
It is an L61R Finnbear Delux and sold for 9-1000 dollars new in the late 70s and early 80s, with the Leupold scope it is worth about 1500 bucks, not 2K or 3K. I just bought an A IV Safari for 2500 bucks and these guns are worth 1/2 the price of a Safari. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but if you paid 3K for it then you got severely ripped. The gun has not been made since the late 70s, so if you bought it NIB 10 years ago it sat somewhere for 2 1/2 decades prior to your purchase. These are nice rifles but not worth 2K, sorry. I have owned many Sakos over the years and they just aren't as pricey as some people wish they were.
 
Leupold looks like a VXII or Vari-XII, so $250 used would be the approximate value of that. A 375 H&H with no open sights is a tougher sell. Even in a Sako, you won't get more than $1500 for the plain gun. I'd sell the scope separately as well, you'll rarely get full value packaging it with a gun and most guys are pretty picky with optics on a 375 so they'd likely remove that one anyhow.
 
Sorry, deerhunter, but I'm with these other guys. A finnbear deluxe new would have been in the $1000-1200 (max) range, the Leupold scope isn't a highly sought after model scope. (VX-III's + models were more valuable)
My father bought several new Sako's in the A series, which were later models than the finnbear. His were the plain hunter versions, but they ranged in the new price from $595, $695 and the final ones he bought were $795, the price increase was simply the new price increasing over the years. The deluxe models were if I remember $200-300 more than hunters.
All that being said, you have a gorgeous rifle, in what appears to be new new condition. A nice finnbear, or A series hunter model will go for $1000-1100 used right now. Your deluxe would add $200-300, the scope and rings wouldn't bring a whole lot more value unfortunately. A honest opinion of value would be $1500 on the higher end for the rifle alone.
Just my 2 cents
 
Guys thank you so very much for all the feedback. Obviously, I got a wide range of opinions in terms of what the gun's monetary value is.
As I said earlier I am getting into Military and Black Rifles and needed to make room in the safe. But this gun worth to me personally more than $1500 and I don't think I would take anything less than $2k for it.
All that said as our friend Kamlooky put it on his post and I quote "find room for another safe............... .........problem solved." maybe that might be the best option:)
 
Good choice Deerhunter67.
With that rifle, if you lock it away, keep it in as good as shape, its value will not drop. It's a keeper for sure.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom