Yes sir they really are beautiful and a bit to figure out as far as the history. So it was sako then assembled by FN sold by Browning thats awesome not a every day find for sure
The research that I've found shows it as .243 high power safari grade. Browning contracted work to FN Belgium a short period later FN gave the only company they thought to be up to the task because of their quality gave sako of Finland a contract to build we hade #s looked up the ending z69...
yeah your definately rite. MAJOR failures in less than 1k rounds. never had one long enough to send a 1000 through thanks for heads up was thinkin of gettin one at 699 NOPE