My new rig

25 April 2003, 22:32

HerrBerg

My new rig

Just ordered a new gun:

Sauer 202, with the light alloy mechanism, hair trigger, and adjustable cheek support piece.This little beauty weights about 2,8kg.

On this I put a Leupold QR with two scopes, one Carl Zeiss 3-12x56 and one Aimpoint red-dot 7000S with zero magnification.

And an extra detachable mag. This is in 308win, and I plan to get a 9,3x62 barrel for moose and boar hunt too.

The hair trigger required a special order from the importer, it may take a couple of extra days but I plan to hunt roebuck with it in may and june. [Razz]

25 April 2003, 22:53

<350RM>

The leupold quick release must be adapted to the receiver, at least that's what we've had to do on a friend's 202 stutzen.
Another thing: you might reconsider putting a heavy scope on you alloy receiver, as recoil will make sausage of it. my gunshop sells a lot of 202s, and they have to fix the front mount on the barrel. They tested epoxy, cyano acrylate, and so on, nothing heavy stayed very long on the rifle.
Sorry for you. But I can attest a leupie 1.75-6X32 stays put...

25 April 2003, 23:59

HerrBerg

quote:
Originally posted by 350RM:
They tested epoxy, cyano acrylate, and so on, nothing heavy stayed very long on the rifle.
Sorry for you. But I can attest a leupie 1.75-6X32 stays put...

Maybe the trick is to do it right from the start. I would say a lightweight receiver would not like repeated tries of this and that, combined with ever-increasing torque forces to make it stay put. A drop of cyanaoacrylate from the very start might do the trick.

But if it doesn't work, I'll switch to a steel receiver. No big deal, and the swedish consumer laws allow for two years warranty in these cases... I will give the gun some tough two years and if it fails I will go for the steel reciever. What do you think?

Regards,
/HerrBerg

27 April 2003, 13:25

sakofan

Post a pic when it comes in...congrats, sounds really nice....sakofan.. [Smile]

29 April 2003, 04:47

HerrBerg

I will post a picture, no problem!!

And I was caught up with some afterthought and changed my order to a steel receiver... I might just need that excercise generated by that extra weight [Big Grin]

The Sauer 202 is getting extremely popular in Sweden now, I heard from the importer that Sweden takes 3,5 months of Sauer's yearly production alone. Not too bad for a country of only some 9 million inhabitants (but with 400000 hunters, I might add).

regrads,
/HerrBerg

29 April 2003, 05:03

<350RM>

The steel 202 is a great rifle. Would it exist in short action, I would own one in stutzen configuration.
You 'll be very pleased, I am sure.
olivier

29 April 2003, 05:42

Savage99

From what I have seen of the Sauer 202's I would own them if I had the slightest reason. In some countries they are limited by the number of recievers they can own.

I have so many 70's now etc that I am not going to get into 202's. Well maybe not. You know what happens at gunshows when you pick some gun up and your hands get sweaty.

It did not occur to me that a 9.3X62 and say a .243 might go in the same gun!