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May 2000

Testing A Trio of Foreign .270s

The weighty, costly, accurate and well-made Sako was overshadowed by the shiny Browning White Gold Medallion. SIG’s SHR 970 well also worth a look because of its barrel-swap feature.

The domestic rifle market is well populated with brands that consumers know well and trust, and as a result, they buy a lot of Weatherbys, Remingtons, Winchesters, Savages, Marlins, and Rugers. These companies make a number of grades of bolt-action guns, ranging from $300 to $350 entry-level guns to much more expensive custom-shop products, and everything in between. But across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, there are few pretty talented production gun makers whose products find favor overseas—and to a lesser extent on these shores—and we wondered how such bolt actions would rank when pitted against more familiar marques. …

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