GRF;
Top of the morning to you my friend, I hope that the day in your section of the world is breaking bright and fair and that you're all well.
As I believe you know about me, I'm prone to dive down rabbit holes somewhat, though I must admit that when I go to the rimfire section here I see I'm not alone in that regard.
This was a couple years back so some have since been traded off and there are different scopes, rings and bases on at least two.
Again I'm cognizant that selection shows I'm a mere piker for a few here, but it illustrates a bit of a baseline.
A shooting and hunting friend just picked up a CZ 457 that looks like this, but that's not his and he's running a Vortex if I'm not wrong.
Another buddy picked up a single shot Anschutz 54 single shot with a heavy barrel about the same diameter of the one on the 10/22 with the thumbhole stock and I want to say he's running an Athlon.
Lastly another buddy has a Winchester 69 along with a couple of older Remington bolt actions, a family member has a Ruger American Compact and another good friend has a new Browning T Bolt, CZ and Tikka T1X but with the longer barrel than mine.
All that then is the basis for the following thoughts.
They are all very much ammo dependent as far as what they like to eat. Even the CZ's and Tikka will show preferences.
Here's my Brno No 5 and the Tikka T1X test groups which are 10 shots at 25yds.
We do our best work with scopes which have adjustable objectives so we can dial out the parallax. Surely we can work around it to a certain degree, but it requires more effort and is more hit and miss - literally.
If one can't get the trigger below about 3lbs and fairly crisp, it's a struggle to be consistent.
Good front rests and rear rabbit ear bags accompanied by good technique and habits can make or break the testing session.
We're early days testing them against each other, mostly for now we're each trying to get our own techniques down first, but it looks like the heavy Anschutz will perform best, though the single shot part of it would eliminate it for me personally.
Anyways as always there's a whole bunch of roads to Mecca, but this is where I'm at so far on the journey.
All the best.
Dwayne