SAUER 200 STR BACK HOME AFTER 20 YEARS!

My old competition rifle, The SAUER 200 STR (6.5x55) is finally back home.
Shooting it for the first time in 20 years!

[@perkarlsson5284]

Wow, that Gun looks brand new. Nice shooting.

[@michaelguerin56]

Nice rifle. Good start after 20 years. The 200 STR has interested me for a while and I may ask a man who imports quality second rifles from Sweden to here (NZ) if he can get me a nice example in either 6.5x55 SE or 7.62x51 NATO. I previously purchased a ZG 47 in .30-06 off him. An excellent rifle. Your first shot was (in English) a flyer. I suspect that you left the barrel dry after cleaning. I stopped doing that with centre-fire rifles about twenty years back, if not longer. I put a wet patch through the barrel, if I consider it necessary, then a dry patch and THEN a clean patch with some Ballistol sprayed on it. Shooting over bare rifling makes sense with a .22 Rimfire that has just been cleaned but there is no obvious merit in doing so with a centre-fire unless you are lacking a suitable light oil. I tend to go at least a hundred rounds before I do a full clean of a centre-fire barrel except when (rarely) using corrosive primed surplus ammunition. If you are shooting plenty of full power target ammunition during a centre-fire match, it might make sense to clean the barrel after it has cooled down, if that barrel is prone to fouling with those projectiles.

[@swedeontheground]

A flyer, Yes thats it! You are right, the barrel was dry. How and when to clean the barrel is up for debate...i think some people over-clean their rifles, but Im not staying What Is right and wrong... Thanks for your comments, i can HIGHLY recommend the Sauer. Have ordered a scope, will maka a follow-up video...

[@michaelguerin56]

@@swedeonthegrounds … best way to make shooters raise their voices is to talk about barrel cleaning practices. Julian Hatcher mentions a 1903A1 rifle used at Springfield Armoury, in his Hatcher’s Notebook. The bore was cleaned after each shooting session with an ammonia-based cleaner, dried out and then oiled. No brushes, no cleaning paste; just wet and dry patches. That rifle fired a huge number of rounds without loss of accuracy or appreciable wear. If you do not have a copy of that Julian Hatcher book, I can give you the chapter and page details OR do a scan and email it to you, Great fun when you get sick of someone rabbiting on about the wonders of bore paste. I understand that the current bore paste trend (as opposed to the pre-gilding metal barrel-fouling issues with high velocity ammunition) was created by a former apprentice of Ed Shilen, who wanted his bench-rest customers to wear out their barrels prematurely via excessive cleaning. Nothing changes🙂! Have a good week.

[@johngoodwin2768]

Love the shooting mat too !!!

[@leeadams5941]

All my life, I've heard about Swedish gun laws, as an avid hunter and shooter in the United States I would love it if you on a future video would go over your laws in detail

[@swedeontheground]

Good idea, i will do that!

[@Johan-lx8rl]

Hehe, good music and gunshots, can you ask for more? 😁