You are killing me over here....haha...THE FINNISH WHISPERER strikes again
Man what a beauty
Congrats

 

Very nice!

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Love this rifle. So jealous.

My biggest question about it is... The serial seems very high for a civilian/police rifle like this. Also the ones I've seen on Vics website the serials are all under the wheel on on the side of the barrel.
Could any of the bigwigs on here shed light on these questions.

 

My biggest question about it is... The serial seems very high for a civilian/police rifle like this. Also the ones I've seen on Vics website the serials are all under the wheel on on the side of the barrel.

Obviously this rifle has a standard SIG-made barrel with SY series serial number already stamped but, for some reason, the SY property mark was devalidated with large (=the early type) commercial SAKO gearwheel logo and the rifle was sold to someone else. None of this type of rifles I've seen have the Civil Guard issue number or the S number on the barrel.

Usually the commercial barrels were, or so it seems, picked before the serial number (or other CG markings) was stamped which would explain why their serial number is much lower. Please note, none of these "large gearwheel" marked guns actually have a SAKO-made barrel.

KC651, now you have a reference what the early m/28 barrel bands and screws look like, congrats!

 

Real nice rifle, very few around!

Pahtu.

 

CH - On the right side of the barrel there is a S, but it's not the =S= stamp.

Something else I noticed, it seemed a bit peculiar the nose cover was an early style cover with the 3 screws. The same style nose cover used on my early Ski rifle, but yet this is a °18xxx series serial number.

 

Something else I noticed, it seemed a bit peculiar the nose cover was an early style cover with the 2 screws.

Probably just used an earlier hand guard band they had on hand, this type had the plate with the screws - You see them every now and then, a few M28s over the years have been posted and the plate is missing!

Pahtu.

 

Nice find, very nice. I know you asked CH but all of my SIG M28s have that cover on the upper band with screws. Except maybe on that had it but lost it somewhere sometime before I got it. I have always thought that was just a SIG/1st contract type of thing. All of my Tika/Sako M28s have the one pc upper band. Congrats on the rifle. John.

 

A very nice rifle. Hard to find and a good example of m28's in anyone's collection. I think the round dot in front of the serial number indicates SIG barrel. The SIG logo should be on the right side of the barrel under the stock, like in this picture.

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Vic's M28 article states the one piece front band was introduced in the 3rd production series.....maybe someone else has additional info on this?. Nice looking M28 KC651 congrats. Denny

 

I have never seen an m28 with this marking how rare are they if it were on the one to ten rarity scale. I know it would just be a guess . thanks very cool. Neil

 

Hard to say what is a 10 and what is a 1. An M27rv is far more common in numbers known than say a 1927 M27 but that doesn't make it as desirable or expensive.

If you are referencing the gun currently up for auction somewhere, it is one of 28 known out there and new ones show up from time to time - about 10 have appeared in the last two years I have kept track. The one up for sale has been really worked over.

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?377166-What-is-the-earliest-known-M28 go to post #35 for the list.

The gun in this post with a regular serial number instead of an o number on the top is one of just 4 known.