Sako Finnlight,short action.

[Tez308]

Who here has handled/own's a Finnlight in 308W action length?
Comments?
 

[Zachary]

Awesome rifle.  It doesn't get much better than a Sako.

The only thing that I don't like about the Finnlight is that is comes with a really short barrel.  I think that the barrel length is 20" for standard cartridges and only 22" for magnums.  Personally, I like it 24"/26".

If you don't mind the shorter barrel, then get the Sako.  If you want a little longer barrel, yet just as excellent high quality, then get a Kimber.

Zachary

[muzzleblast525]

I owned the Finlight in .270 WSM for a short period of time.  It shot okay, just couldn't get it to drive like a tack.  I was probably asking too much from it.  It was probably shooting about 1.5-2.0 MOA, but I wanted more from it.  Sold/Traded it for a Kimber in .243 and getting about .50 MOA.

One thing I found out was that the Sako was not pillar bedded nor did have aluminum blocks.  The Kimber does.

[Brithunter]

The problem with bedding is that it's subjective. If used in a new wood stock due to the wood not being cured properly nowadays  :roll:  the wood moves after it's machined and cut. A lot of plastics are not as stable as properly cured aged Walnut and some plastics are heavier too so I cannot see any real advantage to them  :? . Piller bedding and using bedding compunds are cheap shortcuts to get around a proper bedding job in the first place. If you ever get the chance to look at the bedding of say a Sporting Mauser from before WW1 you would be amazed at the smoothness and accuracy of the stock inletting and all done by hand with chisels  :wink:

   It was the terrible waste of human life during the Great war which decimated the skilled craftsmen and trades. Then of course later on came dammned accountants who demanded cost cutting fpr more profots and so we have Kiln dried wood instead of the old way of air drying on racks. A old friend who is a Chippy (carpenter) recalls how they used to be shown the Good stuff which was air dried then there was the cheap stuff whcih was the kiln dried. Now we are told the good stuff is the Kiln dried, the cheap stuff is not seasoned nor dried at it it seems  :cry: . Progress they call it but I really sometimes wonder how far we have really progresed and how far we have gone backwards  :roll: .

[conrad101st]

Do you gentlemen think that the WSM caliber rifles are not living up to the hype.  I am severly tempted to get a finnlight, but want it in plain-jane 300 win mag.  I just have an unfounded fear that the WSM won't group.

I bought the Weatherby SBGM 3 years ago and it group just OK, which really is dissapointing for the $$$ it cost, so I was looking to try a different weapon, but with similar feel.

[Tez308]

WSM's are great shooters.I'm on my third,this is my latest.
300WSM M70,& she's a keeper.