Pyscodog
Gold $$ Contributor
Months ago, I traded into a Sako L461 with a Wilson barrel and Canjar trigger. A very nice little rifle but it had issues. It didn't really shoot as good as I was hoping and sometimes it wouldn't extract the fired hull. Every time I took it to the range, I had to take a cleaning rod in case it didn't extract. Seems as though when the smith installed the barrel, instead of cutting a relief in the barrel for the extractor which sticks up pst the bolt face about .030, he just ground off the extractor. The problem with that is he ground so much there wasn't enough left to grab the hull consistently. If he had any idea how scarce extractors for the L461 are maybe he would have done it correctly. Any way, $125 for the extractor and $50 smith fee later, my smith installed it. He took about .030 of the back of the barrel. Just enough to allow the bolt to close with the new extractor. While it was out of the stock I bed the action and opened the trigger guard enough to allow the trigger shoe to pass through the trigger guard without taking the trigger apart. Now the groups are consistently under a half inch, sometimes much better and it extracts perfectly. Before, it struggled to get under an inch and extraction was hit and miss. I don't know if I just fouund a load it really like or if the bedding was the problem but its a shooter now. Guess maybe I just got lucky.
