Thread: Sauier 100 Bolt Disassembly

I have a Sauer 100 rifle in 308, every so often I get a misfire, light primer strike on factory ammunition, which I only use. I thought I might disassemble the bolt to see if the firing pin spring is gummed up with grease from the factory.
I can't work out how to unscrew the shroud/firing pin assembly from the bolt body, only 2 notches/positions, cocked and uncocked, similar setup to the Mauser M18, there is a youtube video on it's disassembly but not for the Sauer 100...I thought as both rifles are made in the same company they would be similar but I'm hesitant to try in case I stuff the job.

Has anyone been down this road before? Might have to bite the bullet and take it to a gunsmith otherwise.

https://forum.nosler.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=40210

some info in here that might be pertinent

before going down that route...try CRC 5.56 type spray inside the bolt body as much as you can get ...or soak it overnight in 2stroke petrol..... any grease will disolve.

Have you ever had a pierced primer at any stage?

Originally Posted by Jaco Goosen

Have you ever had a pierced primer at any stage?

No, thankfully. I have another Sauer 100 in 270, never had a problem.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

before going down that route...try CRC 5.56 type spray inside the bolt body as much as you can get ...or soak it overnight in 2stroke petrol..... any grease will disolve.

Good idea, I’m onto it.

Originally Posted by ilikepie

https://forum.nosler.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=40210

some info in here that might be pertinent

Interesting, I’ll try soaking the bolt as suggested and try the method shown if the problem persists.

The bolts of first gen Sauer 100's have a really great party trick, you can install the bolt with the handle facing the opposite side of the action & then if you'll real lucky it will get stuck & you have to pull the rifle apart to remove it.

I had some photo's of this but can't find em as did a magazine review on a Sauer 100 7rm few years back when they were Imported by a NZ company ( can't recall who ) it was their demo gun & a complete Dog that shot like shit ( apparently unknown to me someone had removed all the bedding washers, which didn't help ) By the time the review was to be printed a new Australian distributer had taken over & all the early issues had been sorted so I pulled the article.

They're not a bad budget rifle especially if you like to be different & not into Tikka's.

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....problem-66465/
Not that long ago

Sauer 100s were invented by Satan himself and all the machine work was carried out by Michael J Fox

the mind boggles that something in 2021 can leave shop floor like that...SURELY the yanks have sued by now and they have been recalled??

This is the Sauer rifle in question, with a Pard 008 NV scope alongside a lone boar I shot the other night. Thankfully, I've had no misfires hunting, only sighting in on the bench.

I am dealing with this same issue on a new Sauer 100XT Classic in 6.5SE.
I discovered that it you can put the bolt into something that holds the bottom (bolt ring) stationary and turn it opposite the direction it moves to fire, the bolt assembly disconnects from the bolt shroud. In the image I attached, the bolt is held vertically with the bottom wedged into a groove in a piece of plywood. The bolt would be turned clockwise to unlock it.

Sauer told me that there are two styles of spring, the original with fewer coarse coils and a newer version. My original looks like this (see attachment) and is an original.
As you can see, it is liberally slathered in thick grease--I've removed much of it and am hopefully that will help a bit. Sauer is supposed to send me the new version of the spring, and I hope it will fix my light strike problems. My problems likely are because I am shooting exclusively military primers in Swedish Army brass (wooden practice rounds-- you pull the bullet, dump the powder, and you've got once used pre-primed brass!), and Sauer has said the rifle is designed for softer commercial primers. Wish I'd known that before purchasing, but it's not exacly a common issue.

Hopefully the two attachments are visible, since I joined the Forum simply to provide this reply.

Nice pix and reply.
Is there a way to remove the cheezy bolt ball and install a good looking ball?