Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires For a very very accurate 22 LR rifle.....

For the 700 range I would build a 10/22. Kidd barrel and trigger kit, CPC bolt in a quality handle, Boyds is alot for the coin. Should run with any bolt gun in that price. Here is one I just did and Im not sure I have 700 in it. Gun shoots 1/2 inch at 50 with all but the worse ammo.

I'm enjoying mine so far. Certain loads have shown to be well under an inch at 50 yards with some approaching 1/2". I think it would do even better with a scope with a 50 yd parallax setting.

Anschutz 54 (Model 1422) on the left

I filled that void in my safe with this Anschutz Savage M184 this spring ($450 for the rifle). It has a Nikon 3-9 EFR scope. Worked the trigger over like the guy and Youtube and wow. I did not know a .22 could be this accurate. I have shot lots of 1/2" or less groups at 50 yards and if they are all not into one hole at 25 then the wind is blowing. Great gun for my needs - accurate as can be and still light enough to use as a hunting gun.



Slightly better than average 50 yard group w/ Thunderbolts.

No one has mentioned Kimber. I have a Kimber (Oregon) that with the right ammo will do 1/2" at 50 yds. And it stays at 3/4" or less with federal or winchester hunting ammo. My CZ is prefers Eley to get near 1/2"

Another one to mention is the Remington 37, however any purchase for less than $700 might lead to theft charges.

Consider buying one of the .22's that have been mentioned as good shooters. As someone mentioned, few are shot out, but the crowns may need touch up. A good cleaning and even some of the bargain basement rifles shoot surprisingly well. So, start looking, and enjoy the hunt!

I agree with forpest, be hard to outrun a Kimber shootin Wolf MT.

Course I dont think you will make the 700 mark with glass

I have a couple of 22 LR's that are respectable with the right ammunition.

Sako P94S Finnfire
CZ M452 "Super Brno 2500"
Kimber "Hunter"

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I have two Kimber Hunters. Ones NIB, but the other will put CCI Mini Mags into a dime at 50 yards.

I have 4 kimber of NY rifles 2 coopers a tricked out 10/22, a 40X, and a 52D, All shoot sub 1 in. groups at 100yds. but 2 of the kimbers are the best of the group.

Kimber Hunter shoots Win PP 40gr. very well and believe or not also shoots the old CCI Blazer 40 gr RN as well.

Fotis:

With a little luck, the Rem. M504 could qualify as a suitable candidate. Their poor reputation means that they are usually available well under your limit. They all MUST be bedded and some will need to be re-barrelled, but you can't beat the excellent trigger and the classic ergonomics. I got lucky and mine shoots .4's (at 50) out of the box w/ bulk Win. HP's.

RAR Predator, Redfield 4-12x40 change the parallax to 50 yds yourself, money left from your $700 for 4 bricks of CCI standard velocity from Palmetto State Armory. Scrub with J&B when you get it and you will be shooting under a half inch at 50 yds within the first two bricks.
Worked for me, YMMV.

It's always interesting to me how wildly .22 rimfire vary with the ammo you feed them. I have fed very high-end rimfires (Cooper and Kimber) with ammo they don't like and low-end rimfires (10/22 and CZ) with they love and the margin of error shrinks a lot.

You feed a high-end rimfire what it likes and it's a pleasure. I recently tried some of the Norma tac-22 through one of my Coopers and it was amazing.

I suppose that's the reason that I must have 20 different 50 round boxes in the drawer for testing!

Pugs, only 20? You're slackin' man.

I'm being conservative. You never know in these days of rimfire shortages who might target me for part of a box of Ecuadorian target rimfire that is only sold in export in lower Elbonia!

I wish I had known you had some of that before I paid a fortune for my last box of 50!

Remington 513 Sporter.

Get a grooved one if you can find it or just buy one that someone has already drilled and tapped. One sold recently on Gun Broker for under $600 that had been drilled and tapped for a Redfield Jr. mount with old square edged Redfield rings. I can't remember what the scope was but it was 1" vintage. It was quite the "bargain" and I have no doubt that it would not "shoot" as well!!!

Like the Browning A-bolt, the 513 Sporter is full-sized and really fills your hands. Add 1940's-1950's Remington American-made quality and you have a nice piece you can pass on to your heirs when you are done enjoying it.

They only made ~13,000 of this variant so they make pretty good investments as well. They just seem to keep going up in value.

Win, win, win!!!

I picked this up for $450, it looked almost unfired. I'm a 'vintage' individual and my eyesight is not what it used to be (amongst other functions). I shoot better groups with the peep sights on this than most of my others with optics.

This is at 25 yards.

And this is at 50 yards.


Rich

I have a 10-22 Target model that I had cut to 16". It is bone stock other than a synthetic recoil buffer.

The gun has always liked CCI Velocitors. I haven't shot it for groups, but on Sunday I was getting 100% hits on a 3" steel gong at 100 yards and routine hits on a 6" gong at 200 yards with a light breeze

Scope is a Leupold 4x33 with heavy duplex reticle and M1 turret, so I'd love to know what it would do with a scope more suited to precision target shooting.

The gun is zeroed at 50 and I dial 4 MOA at 100 and 16 at 200

It was fun

Older, predecessor of the ZKM 452 and CZ 452/453
BRNO Model 1 - very nice sporter from the late '40s and 50's
mine have proven themselves very effective on gophers.