Why Are Sako Rifles so expensive?
- Thread starter dgradinaru
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So your logic is that because they are both made in the same continent they should have the same price tag??? Ok makes sense.
This talk makes me smile. My local gun club offers both shotgun sports, rifle and handgun facilities. Any number of the serious shotgunners will spend between $6,000 and $15,000 for a gun without blinking. When it comes to the rifle shooters they cry like babies at anything costing more than $1,000. (An exception here would likely be the serious bench rest shooters as they will usually go up to $5,000 or more for a competitive level gun.) Why is it rifle shooters are so cheap? I don't have an answer but have pondered this question for a long time. Does anyone have any opinions?
Jim
Jim
bearkilr
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- Nowhere, ......just past the middle
Many shotgunners put hundreds if not thousands of rounds through their guns every year at sporting clays,trap,etc. The vast majority of rifle shooters send a few dozen rounds through their hunting rifle every year at the range in preparation for their weekend deer getaway. I think there's your answer. One of the reasons the EE is a great place to buy a rifle!
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- Southern Vancouver Island
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- Southern Vancouver Island
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- Sudbury, On
I'm sorry, but for the price of a sako, you're venturing into custom action territory. The value component, IMO, is not there.
Do you own any customs??? I don't know where these astronomical numbers keep coming up. A sako 85 hunter is like $1900. Barnard actions alone cost $1500-$2000. Let alone barrel, trigger, stock and gunsmith.
$2000 is not a expensive gun. I have semi auto black rifles over $3000. I have long range precision set ups I'm in over $5000 into it. You guys make it seek sako is most expensive gun in the world. Gunwerks hunting rifle is $10,000.
Somebody else's (used) custom action rifle maybe but the 2 grandish price for a new Sako won't get you very far building a rifle with a custom action.
When you think of new rifles in Sako's price range; Cooper, Forbes, Kimber the new Nosler's etc there's pretty good competition in this price class. And I think Sako holds its own quite well in that group.
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- Southern Vancouver Island
America of course. Sako's are nice, but for accuracy vs dollars, it's hard to beat a Savage.
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Opinion on cheap people: many hunters consider the doller per pound of meat. Vehicle cheap on gas, cheap rifle = meat for less than grocery prices.
To me it is more the trips in the woods with friends, at the end of every season my wife usually tells me that my moose is only about 30 dollars per pound.
stickhunter
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There is a pretty easy solution for dealing with the current rise in Sako prices: buy used on the EE. Sako A-series rifles seem to show up on the EE with pretty good regularity in the $700 - $900 range, and at that price I think they are a tremendously good value. Plus, as several have noted, build quality was first rate in the 80's and 90's vintage Sakos, so it's a win-win to buy an older model. For me, the only appeal in the later generation m75 and m85 Sakos would be the 60 degree bolt lift and the stainless options.
I had a Sako 75 stainless in 7-08, but ended up replacing it with a Sako AV Fiberclass for less money. I got a much better stock (factory McMillan) and a beautifully polished blue rifle, but gave up the detachable magazine and shorter bolt lift -- yet, I think I came out ahead.
I had a Sako 75 stainless in 7-08, but ended up replacing it with a Sako AV Fiberclass for less money. I got a much better stock (factory McMillan) and a beautifully polished blue rifle, but gave up the detachable magazine and shorter bolt lift -- yet, I think I came out ahead.
