I spoke to the CZ girl at our recent Shot Show and she admitted that the rumour is true. However, she claimed that they are doing this because the tooling for those rifles was very old and needed to be scrapped; but that big-bore production would resume when a new action is got up.
Maybe the 550 mag is going the way of the 550 standard with a push feed replacement. Have to wait and see.
Then I read more:
The production of CZ 550's with new tooling may already be under way ...snip ...
Fit and finish on both rifles is much better than any of the older CZ 550's I have had; these are really nice, good looking, well made rifles
I think, not time to panic. Although anyone that did not have at least one, might want to shop around. Not panic - shop.
