I’ll bite, Steve. A number of years ago I bought the rifle I had always wanted. I have some Finnish ancestry so I naturally, beginning as a child, came to covet a Sako. Years passed and I finally gave up a job that had prevented me from hunting (huge time commitment through the fall) and started looking at rifles. I found a lovely Sako AV that someone had butchered the stock trying to shorten the LOP. I picked it up on the cheap. I hunted with it for a number of seasons and took deer and elk including my best blacktail buck. I have since relegated it to the safe in favor of, ironically, a Model 70 classic. I have no intention of selling it and I still like it very much. Perhaps, one day, my son will hunt with it but if not, it will remain where it is where I can admire it and appreciate all the nostalgia and memories it brings of clear, frosty mornings heading up the logging road with my granddad to the stories of the old brothers favorite hunting places like “uncle Paul’s ridge” or “the cupboard”. I’m grateful to have it. Best of luck on your search.
