Hey Guys, can I get help with pricing a Sako?

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Alrighty, as the title states...I need a littler pre-buyer's advice :D

Looking at a Sako AV in 30-06 for deer hunting this year.
There's a fellah wanting $850 firm for one in perfect condition, wooden laminated stock, build date on it is around 1988-1989 according to him

I plan to offer $800 or walk on it, I can get a new Tikka T3 Hunter for $679+tax so around $730-740 so I figure that I'm doing well for 50 bucks more for a Sako.

Is the price right?

Thank you
 
I find $740 for a Tikka outrageous! IMO a Tikka is in the same category as a Ruger American, Mossberg ATF, MarlinX, ect.

I'm not bashing their usefulness, just their price.

The receiver is drilled out bar stock, recoil lugs are washers, the bolt isn't solid and one size bolt fits all. Trigger guard and magazine are plastic. I know them to have good Sako barrels, and a good trigger. They have a reputation for accuracy. The trend, started with Rem 700, drilling bar stock and cutting every corner possible, and made a reliable, accurate centerfire rifle, affordable for many more hunters. They are also grossly over priced for what they are.

The Sako on the other hand is a real piece of craftmanship. I would pay $850 as long as I was satisfied by condition. The Sako is everything that the Tikka is not. The bolt is machined, bolt handle and all from a forged billet, so is the receiver, with machined recoil lug integral. The bolt is a 3 lug design that features a 60 degree bolt turn.

Tikka rifles are perfectly serviceable, if over priced. I would shell the $100 and get the Sako.

I have owned MDL 700's in the past and can't bash their operation. My gunsmith uncle taught me a great deal about rifles and left me his 340 WBY Deluxe. It changed the way I look at rifles now, and the way I buy them. I would rather have a few really high quality rifles than many more mainstream models.

I now own and reload for 300WBY, 340WBY, Ruger 77v 223, Cooper MDL 22 LVM, 6.5-284 Norma, along with 44mag, 357/38SPL. The Cooper is quite similar to the SAko in design, and is by far the finest, most accurate rifle I have ever owned. I started collecting in 1976, but only kept the real keepers.
 
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Get the Sako, you won't regret it and $850 is a real good price if it's in the cond. you say it is.;)
 
Get the Sako. Tikka are a affordable line for those that can't afford the Sako. My Sako was a bit on the heavy side but a nice rifle non the less.
 
Well....it is a late eighties gun, maybe one box of ammo through it according to the seller.
The only thing I'm not sure of is what model, etc it is and how that affects it's value.

I called the seller and the only marking on the barrel is Sako and AV

So I do not think that it is a deluxe version...I have seen those deluxe models going on gunbroker, etc for upwards of $1,200 used
 
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