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Sako Collectors Club Discussion Forum
While I'm a "pre-Garcia" fan, I'll be the first to say that later Sako Deluxes tend to have much better wood than the earlier rifles. It seems as if Sako paid little or no attention to the wood they were putting on their rifles from the 1950's up until around 1971. Not that there was anything wrong with the Sako stocks, just that the quality of the figuring was somewhat random, with some standard grade stocks often having better grain than Deluxes, and Deluxes with plain vanilla wood. That appears to have changed about the time that Garcia took over U.S. importation -- which may be coincidental or may be cause/effect, we probably won't ever know. Anyway, post-1972 Deluxe stocks tend to be somewhat better figured. A stretch of the A-series stocks showed some outstanding fiddleback; then some later stocks like the one illustrated above had some outstanding contrast.
No flies on those two. I always have to trot out my pride and joy when we start talking about "squiggly wood", as keving likes to refer to it. This is my A-I .223. In addition to its magnificent fiddleback, its magazine also holds 7-down, something I've never seen in another Sako L461/A-I.
