I’ve been told that not only did he use Sauer actions Sauer had him work on some of their higher grade guns. Either it was done as a outside contractor or in stead of paying for the rough actions. A high grade Sauer is a very nice double indeed. I made the mistake of passing on one 30 years ago and still regret my mistake.
Who knows with absolute certainty that any of that is true, but just knowing how ginormous the Sauer works was, the money they had, I tend to think they themselves had all of the talent necessary, to produce every gun marked as a Sauer totally and completely “in house”. They had no need at all to use outworkers, there was plenty of in house talent to rival any gunmaker in Germany at the time. Sauer was Germany’s version of W&C Scott.
