A few nights ago I was playing with a Steel Action rifle and was talking with a friend about guns that are not Blaser, Krieghoff, Mauser, Sauer and Steyr-Mannlicher.

There are actually quite a few companies here in Germany and Austria that make production rifles.

Heym makes bolt rifles in the SR21 and SR30.
https://heym-fabrik.de/ Is the German site. Click on prices to see an overview of what is available. You can build a rifle much like you can on the Blaser pages.


Steel Action is a similar system to the Heym SR30. www.steel-action.de

Krico
Still makes rifles, the 902 is not very popular but moderarely interesting rifle made in Bavaria.

Rossler Titan
The basic Titan model is very similar to the rifle that both Mauser and Voere produced up until the 1990s. The Kleingunther rifles were on this system, though the new rifles are marked Titan 6 and Titan 3 and have slightly different parts.
https://www.titan6.com/en/

Voere makes a variety of their own designed rifles and they upgrade military Mauser 98s into current production rifles. They are best known for military sniper rifles like the LBW X3 and LBW M2.
www.voere.com A Swiss company in Graubünden has a partnership with Voere, and they produce Keltica rifles. These are based on the LBW system, but with Swiss styling. www.birkenast.ch

Haenel is a subsidiary of Steyr-Mannlicher and Merkel. They produce bolt action hunting rifles, single shots and double rifles that are at a much lower price point than anything produced by Steyr or Merkel. They are also known for producing military grade sniper rifles. www.cg-haenel.de

Anschutz
Anschutz has either stopped producing the 1791 rifle, or they have stopped their advertisement campaigns for it. It also doesn't exist on their website. Only the 223 based rifles are available or 1770. www.anschuetz-sport.com

Very true.

But non even come close to matching the quality and practicality of Sako!

In fact, Sako is the only gun maker making practical rifles.

The Germans and Austrians have gone nuts with all sort of contraptions added to rifles.

I would a Sako over anything made in Germany right now.

The Heyms are as straight as the Sakos.

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Originally posted by jaegerfrank:
The Heyms are as straight as the Sakos.

+1 and I find Heym is higher quality than Sako.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Very true.

But non even come close to matching the quality and practicality of Sako!

In fact, Sako is the only gun maker making practical rifles.

The Germans and Austrians have gone nuts with all sort of contraptions added to rifles.

I would a Sako over anything made in Germany right now.

My Sakos are gd rifles but pale in comparison to my blasers.

Mike

Yes until you are trying to quietly close the action pull the trigger on a big buck and hear only a click.

Speaking of production rifles, Schultz & Larsen rifles, made in Denmark, are second to none in terms of quality, IMHO.

http://www.greatdanerifles.com/models.html

Best-
Locksley,R

The Steel appears to be a further evolution of the Mauser 1996.

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Looks like an interesting rifle. Do you have one?

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
Yes until you are trying to quietly close the action pull the trigger on a big buck and hear only a click.

Surely if your hunting a rifle would be loaded anyway. I can push my R8 bolt shut quietly and it goes bang every time.

Back in '72 I bought a Sako .222mag. CO let me take it on a roe buck hunt with some Germans we knew. I had strict orders NOT to shoot anything myself, just let them use the rifle. They killed 3 bucks with it one evening.
When time to leave I just about had a bloody fight on my hands when they insisted I sell them my rifle. They refused to accept the fact I'd go to prison over it. Seems they sure liked Sako's even back then.

George