I would absolutely take the same money and buy two Remingtons. Sako has never showed me that they are twice the gun the Remington is. I have not had a bad Remington. I quess I am lucky that everyone else is getting the bad ones. More good ones for me. I don't have the kind of money it takes to spend that much more on a gun that won't outshoot my Remingtons. I have had Sako rifles and they were good guns, just not worth that much more money to me. A little over 400.00 bucks will buy a new Remington 700 synthetic and they all shoot well. I had had a bunch of them, never felt that I didn't get all my monies worth, At least..