Sako Safari .375 H&H.......Now Restocked........Photos Up

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I posted a thread many months ago, when I purchased this rifle, showing one of the rifles I had been on a search for, for many years and was finally able to secure one. A comment was made that for the money one would have thought that it should have nicer wood. After looking long and hard at it I came to the same conclusion. I dropped it off with a well known stockmaker in Taylor B.C. a little over a year ago and have waited in anticipation since. He called a month or so ago and told me it was done, so last trip through I stopped in and picked it up. Here's the photos of the finished product.

















Comments and opinions welcome.........do you guys like the British style forend tip or do you like the more straight and rounded American classic style?
 
Doug, that is freaking beautiful. There is nothing about that stock that I don't like. The red recoil pad. The finish. And especially the fairly slim forend with the British(Rigby)-style tip. IMHO, that style of tip compliments the slim forend much better than a more rounded tip.
 
I think I like the straighter American style fore end better but IIRC the Safari also has a drop magazine that is nicely accentuated with this stock ... I like the grain, checkering and the butt pad very much . The grip is very nice but if you paid a HUGE amount I would be little annoyed at the space around the lower part of the grip cap (at 7:00 o'clock) and the gap (that appears to exist) between the rear of the magazine and the stock in your top picture (although maybe that is a mechanical item) .

OTOH this comment is coming from a guy who has nothing as nice as that in my quiver and if left with a piece of wood like your stock ... would likely end up with something resembling a well used canoe paddle
 
Very nice before, and after - that is a sweet rifle. Personally I prefer the more rounded forend tip - but of course that's just a matter of personal preference. Very nice rig
 
medvedqc said:
i like it very well ...

beautiful work.

how come you have done that on a push feed rifle lol ....
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Because Phil, I didn't design the rifle and that's the way it comes from the Sako factory AND having harvested more game than most and all with push feed rifles and never having an issue...........I can see no reason not to. Besides I've said here a few times I'm totally bifeedual and not married to one action to the exclusion of the other.........a beautiful well made rifle, is what it is, and I fully appreciate it, regardless of feed style and extractor style.
If Winchester/FN were to make a rifle as perfect in design and execution as this rifle I would own one in a heart beat...........Can you envision a new mod 70 with a 5 round drop belly magazine, quarter rib with leaf express sights, banded front sling eye and front sight, 5 degree cast off stock and Neidner grip cap. All done up in a supergrade version with the Rigby style forend and AAA wood stock..........and of course chambered in .375 H&H. It would be a steal even at $5K........
 
Beautiful rifle for sure...sweet colored wood. Reminds me of a friend who's dad hand carved a stock for a rifle that the stock broke. I was on a Golden Eagle 300WM....oiled finish. My friend still has the rifle today.

As for me, I prefer the m75 Monte Carlo stock design (fell in love with the first m75 rifle I bought back in 1997 and never looked back), but love the pics of your rifle.
 
I can appreciate the beneficial qualities of 'plastic & stainless' but my favorite is and always will be blued steel and NICELY figured wood. Yours is a great example of exactly that. VERY nice:).
 
"Because Phil, I didn't design the rifle and that's the way it comes from the Sako factory AND having harvested more game than most and all with push feed rifles and never having an issue...........I can see no reason not to. Besides I've said here a few times I'm totally bifeedual and not married to one action to the exclusion of the other.........a beautiful well made rifle, is what it is, and I fully appreciate it, regardless of feed style and extractor style.
If Winchester/FN were to make a rifle as perfect in design and execution as this rifle I would own one in a heart beat...........Can you envision a new mod 70 with a 5 round drop belly magazine, quarter rib with leaf express sights, banded front sling eye and front sight, 5 degree cast off stock and Neidner grip cap. All done up in a supergrade version with the Rigby style forend and AAA wood stock..........and of course chambered in .375 H&H. It would be a steal even at $5K........ "

I agree with everything after IF
 
beautiful. I would see some dishes coming out of the china cabnet to make a spot for this rifle. All hell would break lose before and after someone found out the cost. It would be fondald more often than the dishes through.
 
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