Originally Posted By: bill schodlatz
If you ever look inside a J P Sauer you will discover what is well finished. Anything American made is finished for function ( highest grades excluded). The Germans look like they were making fancy watches not guns. Fanstic metal finish!
bill


Well said, Bill! My very first classic double was a pretty basic pre-WWII Sauer 16ga. When it developed a problem--the only issue it ever had in a couple decades' worth of pretty hard use, during which time it digested a few flats worth of high brass pheasant loads--I took it to my friend the local gunsmith to see if he could fix it (which he did). When he took it apart, he told me that it looked as if the makers expected someone to look inside and inspect their work.