Thread: Sauer 100 problem

A sauer bolt has had the shroud rotated and now the bolt is locked solid. Any ideas of how to fix this?

@Ryan_Songhurst? - sounds like the reason Ryan described for not wanting another Sauer.....

@garyp Photo?

Did ya put the bolt upside down ish

It’s in the rifle?

The bolt is in the rifle and I do not know how the owner did this.

@garyp if the issue is what I think it is. Then it is a simple fix.
There is a slot that runs down the side of the bolt, this is what the release sits in.
https://www.rifleshootermagazine.co...._630/image.jpg

Instead of sitting at the 9oclock mark, the bolt has been inserted and this slot is now at the 12oclock mark?

If this is the case, you can slide something like a small flat head screw driver down the slot (from the rear toward the front), this will unlatch the mechanism that is holding it 'stuck in'.

Muppeted the bolt in one of mine a couple of months back, I had to remove the stock and drop the trigger mech off the action and bolt slid straight out.

Yep that’s the answer that kiwi Adam gave - short of a photo sounds like it is

What a bloody stupid design. Hope you get it sorted mate

They're such a retarded sloppy piece of junk, happened to mine when trying to take a quick follow up shot, bolt rotated right round and jammed in the action. They have that stupid design where the bolt has a race cut out of it to align the bolt rather than the lugs running down a race in the action. The problem is the bolt stop is way smaller than that race and makes for a super sloppy fit and at times the bolt will jump right off the bolt stop and end up facing the wrong way. Thought to myself surely they didn't make it past the design phase like this and went and had a look at a few more in store and yeap, they're all the same. The mind boggles

The desgners of the earlier Sauer models will be turning in their graves by the sound of it. Interesting how it’s not only the Yanks compromising with entry level/budget models....maybe they’re doing better, our ‘cheap as chips’ Ruger American 270 outshoots just about anything in the cabinet..

Some cylindrical actions are similar I had same issue with a Mark5 Weatherby where a fast reload and bolt on hand not in action.
But I am a rough b lol

Worked a treat thanks. All sorted