If you’ve seen 1 AR15, you’ve seen them all. If you’ve seen one bolt action, you want them all.

Being an Aussie I just love the fact you feature so many bolt action and repeating firearms. You can feel a bit out of the loop on other channels that are all about auto's.

I NEVER get tired of your wonderful, honest assessments and opinions. You are a true gift to us shooting sports loving folks all over the world! Good on you!

I have he 100 in .223. It shoots amazingly well and feels like a much more expensive rifle. Thank you for your videos.

I really enjoy the videos. I would just like to say I bought a Saur 100 Caratech in 308 as hunting rifle. They have an excellent reputation here in Australia. Funny thing happened to me the guy at the Gun shop suggested I get a Mauser M18 it came with a free Chain Saw. I also want to say as Aussie it’s great you cover bolt actions so thoroughly.🙂

I really truly enjoy your videos, thank you for your hard work.

I have most recently discovered your channel Sir. I appreciate that you approach your content with an eye toward information and without the usual, and unfortunate, self promotion. Well done I say! I have subscribed.

Great review...refreshingly honest insightful perspective...thank you...keep up the banter...

Very well done video sir! Always a treat to watch

I use 10-round mags from Lucky 13 in my Sauer 100. Best rifle I've ever shot. It feels like it should cost twice as much! Uncommonly high cycle speed, accuracy, and reload speed, with the highest capacity permitted in this country. It would be a great action shooting rifle, if we had action shooting in Australia.

I have had a Sauer 100 XT in 9.3x62 for a few years. Purchased it because when you handle it, it shoulders magnificently. Mine needed to be serviced for weak primer strikes on Ppu and other cartridges, and since it was purchased to hunt bear, that wasn't a good trait. The higher end synthetic models have a rubber coating, which is amazing, but the price difference wasn't justifiable for me. I do think the Mauser M18 is also a relative of this design.

Thank you that was a nice treat. cheers.

Engineering adventures is a very polite way of saying a Rube Goldberg! Too funny!

I am growing more fond of the idea that I like old rifles better, or at least made in a very traditional way!

Great video, thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Also, yes the Franchi Momentum rifles are excellent…I have an Elite in 350 Legend and it’s an absolute joy to shoot…what a trigger!

I bought a 100 in 6.5x55 Swede last summer, I love it.

Excellent vid ,so much info 👍

It is my understanding that: the twin ejector arrangement is designed to provide reliable ejection of fired cases and unfired cartridges to the side, as opposed to upward ejection and or incomplete ejection that leaves the fired case or unfired cartridge in the breechbolt way. The closed breech-bolt face that accompanies plunger ejector systems will always collect brass shavings and other debris thus requiring a higher level of user maintenance than open breech face designs such as the Mauser 98, Winchester 73, 76, 86, 92, 94, 95, Marlin 94 and 336, etc. Self-loading and select-fire rifles with breech-bolts and their accompanying single plunger-ejector breech-bolt actions reciprocate rapidly enough to minimise such problems but will themselves require a higher level of maintenance than equivalent rifles with either a tipping breechblock or a roller-locking breechblock and a fixed ejector, provided of course that they all have either a solid action top or an FN FAL style sheet metal cover.

All the actions on the Sauer rifles you showed reminds me of the SHR 970, which was made by Sig in the early 2000s

That must have been a surprise, the socket and all. The rest of the video was fantastic, thanks for the information.

I am honestly in shock. Sauer of all company's, would press fit the barrel.

I like these. A friend went shopping for a new .223 just the other day and it was between the Sauer 100 Atacama and the Tikka Veil Wideland. In the end he preferred the lighter weight of the Tikka with the fluted barrel. And he has several other T3's and two T1X's.

The rifles I’ve seen that are friction fit, by heating and/or pressing, have barrels machined to allow the bolts to lock to them directly. You won’t find this bolt to barrel mating system in rifles that thread the barrel into the receiver.

I work on a lot of my guns on my reloading bench, which I keep sockets, wrenches, and many different screwdrivers in just for it. I think the thought process behind the socket head screws is there is more surface area and less of a chance of it rounding out. Also I don’t get the idea of the slim ejection port, maybe people like it cause it’s slicker, but I prefer the access of a more open ejection port. As always thank you for another good video

Great video. I’m now sold on this rifle. Thank you

I really like the channel. I recently worked on a Sauer 100 in 7mm08. Stock needed replaced second to fall damage. Let’s just say I miss the recoil lug on receiver. Sauer would not sell independent aluminum inlet so I removed from original stock and inlet in net stock with epoxy. Specific torque spec for long “nut” and bolt into long “nut” for trigger guard group. In end I feel barrel needs fire lapped.

Thank you for all your vids taking firearms apart, if you want to change stocks, bed actions, put new barrels on... a traditional recoil lug and a screw in barrel is a must especially in barrel burner calibers......like your xbolt vid too 👍

Great knowledge thanks

I have entered the collector firearm world with a Marlin model 97. It was made around 1912. Before this rifle, I had no idea the fantastic quality of manufacture that these old firearms had.

Really got my curiosity going with that Franchi 🤔 Looking forward to your review on that 👍

Informative and funny stuff here, Loved the maybe its the laser guided machines that cant use a slotted screwdriver and going to my collector car for a socket wrench and remembered I don't have a collector car. LOL :)

Being heavily involved in the automotive and heavy truck world, down in the Detroit area. I greatly prefer torx or hex screws. They can handle more torque, and are less likely to get deformed. I was frustrated when I needed to go find my torx set, when I had to just swap out air filters on my benz. That being said, I still do prefer them. We've even spec'ed our gps trackers with the "tamper resistant" torx.

I like the aluminium bedding. It's an upgrade on the (equivalent) Mauser M18 - which are done under the same "roof" so to speak. I'm looking for a modern 8x57IS rifle and this looks nice. Thanks.

I have found that people tend to not use the appropriate slotted screwdriver when it comes to slotted screws, and that often results in screws being damaged. In my experience screws that either require an allen wrench or a torx bit tend to do better as they usually force a person to use the appropriately sized tool. With that being said the best way to not damage a screw is to avoid having to remove it. The thing that I notice more is if the slotted screws have been timed/clocked. This is something that isn't common to see on guns today, and is one of those small details I really enjoy seeing. For myself I make sure the screws on my 1911 grips are clocked at the angle of the grip, and it really does elevate an already beautiful firearm to another level. Anyhow, thank you for sharing your thoughts on such interesting firearms.

I truly enjoy learning from you, How long have you been in the design side of gun manufacturing?

The long allen wrench which should be included with any new 202 is indeed quite long, but the true takedown 202 rifles are priced on an entirely different scale, starting at $5,500.00 including tax and other handling fees. I recall 'Hatari' series // that would be the Safari grade rifle in large chamberings (i.e. 458 LOTT) was significantly higher in cost.

Everything I’ve read about the Sauer 100 states that the barrel is threaded into the receiver. I can’t confirm that, as I’ve never removed the barrel from mine, but multiple sources seem to indicate that is how it is made.

Since I Am New To Your Channel; I Thought I Would Bring Up The Fact That In The 70's I Worked For William Ruger And By That I Mean Wherever Mr. Ruger Went I Went. He Was Easily The Most Insanely Brilliant Man I Have Ever Known And Because Of Your Obvious Love Of ALL Firearms And Not Mainly Because Of Their Monetary Value; I'm Sure You Would Have Got A Kick Out Of Meeting Him. I Am Hoping Before I Leave This Earth; That I Meet Someone Who New Mr. Ruger As Well As I Did.

The Sauer 101 barrel is press fit, the Sauer 100 and Mauser M18 are not. To be more precise, they call it "heat lock". The reciever is heated up and then the cold barrel is then moved in. While cooling down, the receiver shrinks and holds the barrel. As the lugs interface directly with the barrel, there is no concern about that. It is the same for following rifles: Sauer 101 Mauser M12 They are all manufactured in the same shop like Sauer 100 and Mauser M18. The heat lock is not necessarily a bad thing, no. It works well. In their own manufacturing shop, they are able to take it apart again, but that's not possible for a normal gunsmith. By the way, CNC machining tools are widely being clamped into their tool holder the same way today. I guess that they took this idea from there... Regards from Germany (I have updated this text because originally I thought, the Mauser M18 and Sauer 100 were press fit as well, but that was wrong).

Sweet gun collection in the background!

Hello Sir! During a visit in my local gun shop (in Germany), I found out, that the Sauer and Mauser brands belong now to the same bigger company. Hence the Sauer 100 and the Mauser 18 have many features in common: 3 lug bold head, 2 plunger ejectors and a press fitted barrel instead of screwed-in - just to mention a few. These rifles are clearly designed for the US market and are priced around the half price in the US compared to Germany (ca. 1100 Euro here). While American-made guns double the MRSP here... Speake of being "screwed" as an European customer! Thank you very much for your excellent contents and please keep running your channel! Best regards!

Thank you. I'm amused at your reference to cost saving measures; screw driver, Allen head, sockets. Maybe manufacturers are trying to drive you to purchase Wheeler gunsmithing driver sets.

I only wish to own threaded into the receiver barrels. Good advice.

The barrel is a press fit. I have had my Sauer 100 for almost 2 years now in 30-06 and it is a great gun. Shoots .75 moa 5 shot groups with Hornady ELDx and Federal Fusions. The barrel is excellent. I can put 10 rounds down range and it's still not hot or throwing shots. Nothing bad I can say about this gun. Trigger breaks like glass. Only smoother bolt I have tried is a Tikka or Sako. Good gun for the money.

I have inherited a Sauer 200. Acquired by my friend back in the 60's by selling magazine subscriptions......amazing for such a quality firearm. It has a unique (to me) in-the-trigger-guard safety and is a "switch-barrel" rifle. All steel with walnut stock. It was originally in a green color which made me think it was birch, but evidently not. If you have any information on these rifles being acquired by selling magazine subscriptions, please let me know.

I must say I love your work! I’m looking at my first hunting rifle and am hung up between a bergara wilderness ridge and a sauer 100 classic… the bergara being a ameliorated rem.700 footprint/copy. Both rifles have screwed in barrels, checked with Sauer… do you have any opinion on the ruggedness by any chance? Both are the same price here, both should be great sub moa rifles, but as you had models of both apart and are far more knowledgable, I’d love to hear your opinion… kind regards, A.

Timely video as I was at my dealer comparing a new S100 FieldShoot (the Varmint/Target version) against a used Sako A7 roughtech range the other day. The S100 impressed me in so many areas. The action was smooth, the trigger was exceptional. I liked the double stack magazine and the stock was very comfortable. I would have preferred a 26" barrel like the Sako had but i could live with the 24". The one drawback i have with it is that the barrels are a shrink fit into the receiver and non-replaceable. On a hunting rifle i would not care as it's unlikely you''ll ever wear out a barrel, but this was for target use in 6.5 Creedmoor and i hope to shoot 1000's of rounds over the ensuing years.

The quality of the Saeur has won me over compared to the m18. And the m18 trigger is polymer and trigger guard is part of the stock. I’ll get over the socket wrench.

As usual - highly valuable content. Thank you. Would love to hear your thoughts about Mauser M18. Is it really the same rifle as Sauer 100?

I am no fan of cost reduction by the makers while still charging an arm and a leg for their rifles. .I'll take controlled feed and a big honking extractor every time. If those rifles didn't have prestige Germanic names on them they would be less "impressive".

Thx for a great video. What's the barrel lifetime (number of shots before replacement) for different popular calibres like .308, 30.06, 6,5 CM etc? Not unimportant if switching barrels is an issue (costly). [EDIT] I just found a review which says the 100 is not press-fitted. Google' "The Sauer 100 steps away from the traditional European model in favor of the American method. Its barrel is screwed and torqued into the receiver just like we prefer" and you'll find it.

Great review., keep them coming! I just happen to be considering the purchase of a Model 101 Classic .243 in walnut right at this moment. It is a new retail display model that has a few small marks on the stock being sold on-line so I am relying on pics.. I'm looking for a keeper to shoot and enjoy , not to flip for profit. It is priced at $300 off retail which is ok but the stock is a very light walnut that looks more like birch or beech to my eye. Are these worth the $1400 asking price and do you think I'll be sufficiently impressed with the quality to look past the color of the stock? They really do seem like fine rifles with interesting features and heritage. Speaking of coincidences, I m also considering a Franchi Momentum/Burris 3-9 Scope combo in .243 also. Same seller new display model.. As far as plastic stocked rifles, my son likes them and that seems like a really well-made MOA rifle/scope combo that I can pickup for under $600. Would you proceed with all due haste at that price? Looking forward to your review of the Franchi also.

I have 2 Sauer 200's 308 and 30-06 Purchased in 1986 best Rifles I own. Still as accurate now as they were then and super reliable. Beautiful Guns. Would you happen to know where I can locate spate Magazines?

Much happier with allen screws than slotted screws. My savage Axis II has allen screws and I was happy about it.

Take a look at the Mauser M18 and underneath the cosmetic differences with the Sauer you basically have the same rifle. Same bolt apart from the shroud, same magazine and release, same trigger, same safety, same barrel, etc. and all at a lower price.

There are more rifles I have never worked on than ones I have. The Sauer 100 happens to be one that I know nothing about. I asked other people and the cosensus was they are pressed fitted. Nice video!

Good reviews. More detail of the extractor would make your reviews excellent.

Not related to the saur but I was wondering if you have done a review of the browning mara?

The sauer 100 is very similar to the Mauser M12. I have one in 300 win mag and been thinking that “recoil lug” is a bit weak. If not weak then at least not sturdy enough for good accuracy. They share a lot of parts, at least the bolts and the magazines look exactly the same. Same company, so it makes sense, but something sad about it too. It’s like buying groceries, it looks like you have hundreds of choices but once you scratch the surface they’re all from the same company.

Hello Mike. I read somewhere that the 100 is press fit barrel. Something I've been reading is that the bolt locks into the barrel " breech ring" is what they called it. They advertise this improves accuracy and strength? What is your opinion on this? Also I prefer wood and was looking at the classic with beech wood . What is your opinion on beech wood? Seems like a great rifle for the money how do you think it compares to New model 70? Thanks Mike hope you are healthy and well

Leaving aside the advantages to the manufacturer, hex headed screws have the advantage of a much greater surface area compared to a slotted screw, Philips head or any of the various PZ heads. 99/100 people don't have the knowledge or experience to appreciate just how many different iterations of screw heads there are out there. Which is predominantly an issue or education

The Sauer is in effect pillar bedded where the stock will always return to the same position relative to the action by virtue of the incompressible tube/pillar which will hold the two parts the same distance apart regardless of torque applied to the fastener (within reason). Many benchrest and precision rifles are built to this principle but with the pillar secured within the stock ensuring the action and stock will always be the predetermined distance apart as no compression or bending of synthetic or wood can occur that may create differences in 'whole of rifle harmonics' that may affect accuracy. This may be of little consequence to a hunting rifle used at short range but can be disastrous in rifles where groups are measured in thousandths of an an inch and a 5 shot group may well measure less than one tenth of an inch over calibre diameter at 100 yards. This is simply Sauer going the extra mile to increase repeatable accuracy.

love the channel

Hello sir I am new to gunsmithing and curious what the stack of washers is for on the Sauer 100?

On your Titan 6 that won't take down anymore, the front scope base most likely has a screw to long, acting as an unintentional set screw, preventing the barrel separation from the action...most likely one of those pesky Allen or Torx heads you mentioned. :)

The Souer 100 uses a common manufacturing process to heat the receiver and press-fit the barrel in place according to google..!

IMHO - Press fit barrels are another "design to cost" sin in the firearms industry. The Rossler is an excellent rifle. Thank you for sharing the Sauer 100, interesting design to be kind. Likely a very capable rifle, however given the rather odd recoil lug assembly and the possibly press fit barrel I would have to pass. Another very entertaining and informative presentation sir, many thanks.

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The 100 is a press fit, not threaded. This was an issue on mine when I tried to have the muzzle threaded for a brake - my gunsmith couldn't get the barrel out because he didn't have a Sauer proprietary tool. I should have had the threading done when I ordered it - my bad.

Just bought one for 400 bucks new with a wood stock in 6.5 Creedmoor.

On both 100 and 101 models the barrel is press-fit into the heated receiver.

The 100 (the newest one) is definitely press fit. They call it "heat lock technology" or something fancy, which probably means they used thermal expansion to open up the receiver diameter, while shrinking the OD of the barrel with cooling, then mating the two together. When the receiver shrinks and the barrel expands, they lock together permanently as it would be impossible now to get one or the other a different temperature again to release the lock. Its clever, incredibly strong, but also cheap. That's the one thing that turned me away from their new rifle, especially in hotter calibers like 6.5CM. Maybe a gunsmith could lop a burnt out barrel off and machine the inside of the receiver to have threads, but I don't know how possible that would be.

I dont know this for certain but it seems to me there are potentially two very obvious answers to the confusion around the barrel being press fit or not. 1, a change in manufacturing technique ( even over the so far limited time span of production ) or 2, rifles for the american market are tailored to that market ie threaded. Given that i have seen videos and read commentary clearly identifying both press fit and threaded rifles, one of these two scenarios must be correct. I intended to purchase a XT 100 in 6.5 x 55 to do some modern load development ie higher pressures and velocities than my old sporterised military Husqvarna will allow. Why not 6.5 CM, because i already have loading dies and plenty of brass in 6.5 x 55 ( and a certain degree of budgetary constraint ). A press fit barrel into which the bolt locks is no issue, i will never put enough rounds through it to be a problem and i end up questioning how many people are really in any danger of doing so? Surely if there is reasonable expectation of that kind of round count this is not the type of rifle you would be purchasing anyway.

Now when you probably are or will be quarantined, you have all the time in the world to clean ALL of your guns ;) I'm naturally doing it too but i'm not a gun collector...

GOOD HEAVENS! I'm looking at buying the Sauer in 9.3x62 but am concerned about the "press in" barrel issue. You folks are NO HELP! Lol! One half of the comments says press fit, the other half says screwed in. Therefore, half the people in the comments section don't know what they are talking about.

I have a close relative that has non-essential tremors in his hands and is legally blind with out his glasses. He is a very very good shot! In fact better than most.

Interesting that the Sauer 101 is no longer listed on the Sauer USA website? Is it discontinued?

If the barrel is pressed into the receiver wouldn't it require a pin to lock it to the receiver? As duggydo and Robert Underdunk Terwilliger alluded to, the only way it could be an interference fit (heated/pressed) would be if the bolt lugs locked into the barrel or a barrel extension a la the AR-15, but it seems to me there would still be required a pin or bolt to maintain the clocking (or timing) of the barrel. Do you see any sort of way they've locked the barrels and receivers together? If not I'd say it has to be a threaded barrel. Now I'm no gunsmith but this is the way I've understood these systems to work, but most of my experience comes from studying military weapons so I may be off base. Any riflesmiths please jump in. Thanks USOG ! Just subscribed after watching and learning so much in the last couple of weeks since I discovered your channel !

I promised myself not to post negative comments anymore, so I wont. It seems a good rifle. Thanks.

Will the Sauer 100 stock fit a Mauser m18? I know it will need a trigger guard as the Mauser is built in.

Not many people have good quality screw drivers. Not many older rifles I personally have seen don't have slogged out screws. So yay for the hex and torque screws.

I think both Sauer 101 and 100 are press fit, mauser M12 is press fit too, same as M18

Good video about the Sauer 100 .. out of the Tikka t3x and the Sauer 100 witch one would you go for?

seems you may need a torque wrench to put it back together to the correct specifications.

Ever Done a review of the Swedish Carl Gustaf 4000?

I have a Sauer S100 Pantera, the barrel is not threaded in, my gunsmith confirmed this and same for the 101.

S100 has press fitted barrel, and I believe it's the same with the S101.

Threading the barrel would be pointless, since they have aluminum actions, bolt locks in the barrel. The lugs are cold hammer forged most likely.

I am at wokbox they are busy. Leaving🤠

Though I own a fair number of modern firearms, as long as there are firearms available that were made between the latter half of the 1800's and 1960, I will always shop there first. The historical firearms tend to be works of mechanical art and pure human skill.

I have a question sir. I’m stuck between the Ruger 77 Hawkeye and the Sauer 100 Classic XT, both in .308. Do you believe sir that the Sauer 100 is a good rifle that will last as a long term use rifle, or would you recommend the Ruger 77 Hawkeye? I’m torn between both. Any input would be appreciated.

I like the old jp saur and sohn

Sir! Tell me please how to disassemble the Sauer 100 bolt for cleaning!

More wood less aluminum ,one tool disassembly. Saving money is not for rifles !

Doesn't the Sauer 100 use a breech ring? between the threaded barrel. Pretty sure you can thread the barrel in and the breech ring sets headspace.

Your guide wasn't harsh, he was German. My cousin is married to one and she now lives in Munich. She reports that they are a brusk people.

Supposedly Mauser M18s are rebranded Sauer 100s.

Both the 100 and M18 are pressed fit. Mauser has a video on it. You cannot replace barrels on either of them. There was a problem with the double extractors on the magnum calibers on both models. There were reports on KZfaq of people having problems with the bolts closing, but supposedly customer service was very good.

I have always wondered, if you had to Choose one Rifle , out of your massive Collection, which One would you pick.