I'll answer here as well!

Lapua,

Welcome to the forum.........

There's no doubt they're superbly made and very accurate - but for me, they're far too shiny, the barrel is too long, the removeable magazine is a real bloody nuisance and the safety catch located inside the trigger guard is not only a bad idea, it's a bloody dangerous idea. - One needs to think about the lowest (or dumbest) common denominator with these kind of things. Not everyone knows what they're doing with a rifle and not everyone has perfectly safe gun handling techniques. A safety catch so close to the trigger is sooner or later going to mean that someone, somewhere will have an A/D....... Possibly with disasterous consequences. I'd rather spend money on a good quality rifle of traditional design....... But of course, that's just my personal opinion - everyone is free to make their own individual decisions.........

There's plenty of good riflemakers out there - but I'm a big fan or Sabi Rifles in Nelspruit RSA. They make good quality rifles at what I consider a very good price. I don't know the cost of a Sauer nowadays but FWIW, you can buy a Mauser actioned, custom made to your own measurements, Sabi Rifle for something like R25000/ US$4K. compare the two and (IMO) the Sabi will win hands down.