Strasser

The new retailer I talked to was a fellow from Edmonton, a very helpful guy. He showed me a complete take-down and reassembly of the rifle listed on the website as the RS 14 EVOLUTION TAHR (gray laminated stock). As I recall the price he quoted me on that rifle was roughly $5700 with each extra barrel set another $1200. Something like that. Its not cheap, but his prices didn't seem out of line for such an innovative high-quality Austrian made rifle. The Strasser scope mount was interesting as well. I like this rifle. https://www.hms-strasser.com

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As is usual from that part of Europe, overengineered, thus overpriced.
These are undoubtedly nice handling and accurate rifles, but likely prone to
have issues when in really ugly weather conditions. I put them in company
with Blaser of Germany. Dave.
 
Eagleye said:
As is usual from that part of Europe, overengineered, thus overpriced.
These are undoubtedly nice handling and accurate rifles, but likely prone to
have issues when in really ugly weather conditions. I put them in company
with Blaser of Germany. Dave.
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In the end, most of us regard a rifle as a tool, not a work of art. Sissies pack fancy, expensive rifles. :)

Grizz
 
Eagleye said:
As is usual from that part of Europe, overengineered, thus overpriced.
These are undoubtedly nice handling and accurate rifles, but likely prone to
have issues when in really ugly weather conditions. I put them in company
with Blaser of Germany. Dave.
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Funny fact, Horst Blaser who started and then sold Blaser company, designed Strasser RS05 rifle with Herbert Strasser. Although Horst Blaser himself has no relation to Blaser R93 or R8 design.

Strasser RS05 by the way has hydraulic system with oil to tension barrel to receiver, supposedly for automatically evening the pressure all around the barrel.

PS

Meinhard Zeh designed Blaser R93 under heavy influence of Mauser M66. Meanwhile, peace broke in Europe after Soviet Union collapse and big Mauser went bankrupt. Blaser then buys small part of it - "Mauser Hunting Rifles" to park the brand so no one could compete on old name with Blaser hunting rifles, but had no plans to actually make any rifles as Mauser.

At the same time, broken and jobless Sergey Popikov who was a military firearms engineer in Soviet Union, made his way from Poland to Germany and got employed by Blaser through a series of coincidences. He will later design Mauser M03 and Mauser brand will go back to life. He would also lead the change of Blaser R93 to R8 among other things.

So if there was no Mauser M66, Blaser as company would not make R93, and Horst Blaser would not chase his former company big success with straight pull Strasser designs.
 
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