
The bottom line is that Beretta now owns the Sako subsidiary (and has also bought another Finnish gun manufacturer, Tikka, and merged it with Sako.)Ĥ. Businesses go through all sorts of financial machinations and contortions seeking the most advantageous position, and whether Sako or the Sako subsidiary ever went through a "bankruptcy" (the definition of which and laws governing vary tremendously from country to country) is a matter of semantics. At one time it was owned by the Finnish conglomerate of which the most best known subsidiary was Nokia, the phone makers. The Sako company has existed at one time or another as a Finnish government entity, a non-profit organization controlled by the International Red Cross, an independent business, and as a subsidiary of various conglomerates. Pictures and descriptions of markings might help.ģ. It could also be a military FN with a Sako trigger replacing the abominable military trigger. Chick's rifle sounds like a custom built on one of these actions, but as Paulson indicates, it could have originally been a Sako-Mauser from the 1950's which has been rebarreled to. The FN Mauser action was very popular for building custom rifles. Sako furnished their #4 trigger to FN for a period in the late 1950's into the 1960's (or perhaps beyond.)Ģ. This thread is getting a little tangled up. You’d be surprised of how much one can find out about a person from just a username on a forum such ad our! Then use the report function in each message or post so I can kick them out!īeware of anything that might seem fishy!Īnd again, for all of you who registered your personal name as username, please contact me so I can change it to a more anonymous username. Check them too and if they are long standing members, PM them and ask if the message is legit. Same goes for other members they might refer to. If they have no posts and signed up the same day or very recently, stay away. Email him at: ”Ĭheck the status of whoever message you.



Saw your post about purchasing a stock for a Safari. The reply contains a gmail or hotmail address or similar ”anonymous” email addresses which they want you to reply to. They register and replies to members requests for guns and/or parts or other things. Lately there has been more and more scammers on the forum board.
