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I have had my first Sako 75 for over 15 years. Being stainless synthetic it has taken all the abuse that I and Mother Nature could throw at it and serves me now as it did when I did a couple of years as a Pro Stalker.

It's light and it needed to be Ive probably lugged it several thousand miles on foot.

Things faultless. Worth now not much less than I paid for it. General consensus is that Sako went backwards on the 85. So this isn't the latest model.

If you want real rifle snobbery then let's talk Blaser. Don't get me started on Swarovski bins and scopes!

To follow your logic then Dromia the gun that's probably accounted for more Deer in the world than any other is the .303 lee Enfield. So perhaps we should have stopped at that pinnacle of development?

I could also book the stalk on my Motorola
And write it in my Filofax.
Before watching TV

You have PM.

try this , a super rifle in a great calibre and a good price to boot!

http://www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk/s ... 7mm-08-R-H

I've got a switch-barrel rifle for hunting - only bunnies mind in .22 or HM2 - but find the switching thing more hassle then it's worth. As Badger doesn't appear to be short of a rifle or two, I would suggest that switch-barrel sounds like a better idea in theory then it is in practice.
My advice would be to get something handy and light . . . plastic stocks and shorter, standard profile barrels get points here. And don't forget the moderator when you're trying them out in the shop as this changes the balance of a rifle completely. At the end of the day, the deer won't care whether it was shot by a new rifle or an old one. Nor what caliber . . . bullet placement is more important.

Scope-wise a fixed 6 or 8 mag is all you need. Swaro/S&B/Zeiss/Meopta in 6x42 would be my suggestion, all available a reasonable price second-hand.

Does Mr Plod know of your intention to go off-piste yet?

Triffid

dromia wrote: For the price of a Tikbergmerksak you could get at least three S/H BSA/Parker Hales.

They are absolutely fine firearms and I have taken thousands of reds and roes with mine over the decades and never seen the need to change, to my mind buying a new or even second hand Tikbergmerksak rifle is throwing away money that would be better spent on good glass..

Oh we don't disagree Dromia, and our 1905 Charlie G did just fine on the shooting tests. We could have it drilled and tapped for mounts, then stick one of our second paw Pecars on it. However, we don't really fancy butchering a fine old rifle, and think it deserves better than to be dragged and scratched about in the rain and forest. Plastic and stainless might be modern but we wouldn't cry if we got it wet and battered.

tackb wrote:try this , a super rifle in a great calibre and a good price to boot!

http://www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk/s ... 7mm-08-R-H

Good gun and good price and a buddy of a buddy to boot!

Countryman wrote:I have had my first Sako 75 for over 15 years. Being stainless synthetic it has taken all the abuse that I and Mother Nature could throw at it and serves me now as it did when I did a couple of years as a Pro Stalker.

It's light and it needed to be Ive probably lugged it several thousand miles on foot.

Things faultless. Worth now not much less than I paid for it. General consensus is that Sako went backwards on the 85. So this isn't the latest model.

If you want real rifle snobbery then let's talk Blaser. Don't get me started on Swarovski bins and scopes!

To follow your logic then Dromia the gun that's probably accounted for more Deer in the world than any other is the .303 lee Enfield. So perhaps we should have stopped at that pinnacle of development?

I could also book the stalk on my Motorola

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And write it in my Filofax.

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Before watching TV

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Your examples are at best disingenuous in the context of this comparison, firearms have not developed in the leaps and bounds that your examples seek to evidence.

mossberg mvp predetor in .308


greenshoots

meles meles wrote:

dromia wrote: For the price of a Tikbergmerksak you could get at least three S/H BSA/Parker Hales.

They are absolutely fine firearms and I have taken thousands of reds and roes with mine over the decades and never seen the need to change, to my mind buying a new or even second hand Tikbergmerksak rifle is throwing away money that would be better spent on good glass..

Oh we don't disagree Dromia, and our 1905 Charlie G did just fine on the shooting tests. We could have it drilled and tapped for mounts, then stick one of our second paw Pecars on it. However, we don't really fancy butchering a fine old rifle, and think it deserves better than to be dragged and scratched about in the rain and forest. Plastic and stainless might be modern but we wouldn't cry if we got it wet and battered.

No one is suggesting that you sporterise an old firearm, all those In my list for example were commercial sporters a few years ago, except for the 218 Bee Martini. They were the Tikbergmerksaks of their time and are not so different from todays offerings, as some on here would try and mislead you to believe, just lots cheaper.

Hell, my Parker Hale in 6mm Remingtom even sports a placcy stock.

When I compare the old Annie I used to shoot, the Lee No.4 and my SS Sako it's like an alien race from the future landed in Finland for the very purpose of equipping me with a tool to decimate the fox population.