How do you recock a Sauer 100 bolt?

[DWH2]

I've just collected an almost new Sauer 100 from the receiving RFD, however the bolt seems to have become decocked in its journey, so the bolt can't close as the pin in the picture is at 4 'o'clock, rather than at 6 o'clock, as it should be. The RFD put it in a leather vice and tried to turn it. It rotated towards 'cocked', but wouldn't stay there. As he wasn't familiar with Sauer bolts and only involved in the transfer, he obviously didn't want to force it.
Is there a step missing, a special tool etc or does it just need to be forced just that bit further? Keen to get the new toy working!

thanks

 

[Stalker62]

1) Place the bolt on the floor (flat even surface) apply downwards pressure and then try and manipulate the lever.

or

2) Place the claw of the bolt in the laces of your (worn and laced up boot) to secure the bolt, then manipulate the lever.

Forgive me, I do not have the IT skills to upload YouTube videos but plenty on there to show what I am trying to explain.

 

[oxfordshirestalker]

This may have just been the RFD trying to make sure I didn’t accidentally de cock it out of the rifle, or it may be because it’s an absolute pig (Braces of Bristol - well respected sauer/blaser dealer), but when I bought my sauer 100 they said it’s a gunsmith thing to sort out.
hopefully for your sake it’s not but it might be worth giving them a ring and asking? They’re decent chaps 0117 300 9956
Hoping I’m wrong on this one! Surely if you can get enough grip on one and and purchase on the other you’d do it but there will be other people who will know more about it than me on here. Good luck!

 

[spannulman]

I’d take it to a gunsmith ( perhaps not the original one if he’s unsure). A friend of mine was looking at my SM pro hunter and then he said ‘the bolt has come apart’ and , sure enough, he had somehow unintentionally managed to strip the bolt!

i couldn‘t decock it or cock it- whatever was needed to make it go back in the action. steyr mannlicher manuals have instructions for how to do it but I didn’t feel confident. They used a loop of string to pull on part of it and pushed/ twisted and it went back in ( probably as per stalker1962 bootlace suggestion) Took a few seconds by someone who knew what to do.

 

[DWH2]

I called Blackwall's as they obviously do a lot of Sauers. Rupert Blackwall there very kindly whatsapped videoed me and showed me what to do - he used a lead-lined vice around the cocking piece and pressed down firmly on the bolt handle to cock it. Seemed straight forward....
I've tried that in the cr@p rubber-lined Lidl vice available to me and it starts to cock, but the force required to counter the firing pin spring tension then seems to exceed the friction in the vice and the bl@@dy bolt rotates (or something is blocking it!) ..... hopefully its just needs better grip in a better vice and is not a mechanical issue. Headed to a gunsmith this afternoon. Unfortunately I'm some way from Blackwalls - but excellent service from them anyway.

 

[DWH2]

Thanks for everyone's input. It is sorted - I didn't interpret the various suggestions correctly. Pulling the bolt towards you with a bootlace, secured from the rear, looped around the small peg protruding from firing pin (ie in the picture above, pulling the bolt to left whilst lace is secured to the right) releases the spring pressure, allowing the bolt handle to be rotated.