The SR1's receiver features a handy Picatinny-type rail with 14 slots. The crossbolt safety is located at the rear of the trigger guard.

One note here: The actual owner's manual booklet is in German, and the English version is provided on 81⁄2x11 sheets of paper. When performing disassembly/ assembly you may find it hard to tell what you're looking at in the photos that accompany the English version because the reproduction isn't great. However, you can refer to the German version for the photos; they're much clearer.

The two-round box magazine that came with the test sample is likewise easy to disassemble. It drops from the rifle courtesy of a somewhat novel arrangement in which pushing forward on a lever contoured to match the trigger guard disengages the magazine's latch. It's kinda cool once you get used to it.

A push-button safety is located at the rear of the trigger guard, and the slide release is found at the lower, forward portion of the receiver on the left side. A round can be chambered by placing a loaded magazine with action open and then tugging on the cocking lever or by pushing the slide release.

Atop the receiver is a handy 14-slot Picatinny-type rail for mounting a scope, and the gun also has a battue rail rear sight and a fiber-optic front sight, the rear sight setup enhancing the rifle's distinct profile.

The rear sight's sloping battue ramp is paired with the highly visible fiber-optic front sight to create one of the fastest, surest setups the author has ever seen.

I ordered a test sample in .308, always a great test platform and one that doesn't beat me up, and I mounted a Nikon Monarch 1.5-4.5x20 on the receiver rail for accuracy testing.

The rifle definitely had ammo preferences, but to be fair, my choice of scope wasn't conducive to pinpoint accuracy. However, I think it's the kind of optic you'd want on a fast-handling, fast-shooting rifle. And the benchrest accuracy results certainly weren't helped by a creepy, spongy trigger that broke somewhere just beyond the eight-pound range of my RCBS spring trigger gauge.

However, groups with 180-grain Black Hills Gold (featuring a Nosler AccuBond bullet) were on par with many off-the-shelf bolt guns, and I even managed to achieve one 0.46-inch group with Hornady Interbonds. It hated Federal 165-grain Trophy Bonded Bear Claws but was okay with Fiocchi 175s.

All in all, it averaged 2.2 inches with the four brands I tested, and further testing would certainly dig up other loads it would like--along with loads it wouldn't.

It was a fairly comfortable rifle to shoot, the recoil tamed by the operating system, but if I were going to buy one in, say, .300 Winchester Magnum, I'd want a cushier, more effective recoil pad.

I did notice when shooting through the chronograph screens, sitting upright at the bench, that if my hand slipped back to the juncture of the receiver and the fore-end I would receive a small but sharp pinch.