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I think it’s about time I bought a “good” .22 RF rifle. I have a good .17 HMR; a 10+ year old CZ but I’d like a .22.

I have not looked at “good” .22s in over 30 years so I’m really out of touch.

No interest in the 10/22.

Thanks in advance.

I would start with a Tikka T1x or another CZ. check out the 457. There are others, depends on how much you want to spend. If your into older guns a Win. mod 75 would be a good one also. Jmo.

Used could get you a Anshultz or Savage Anshultz. Edk

The Winchester 69A….had on few years now and very few rounds down it. The 75 is a well made one too.

CZ s are are hard to beat. Or, look around for a cherry Marlin M39. Bergara makes a couple nice ones. Lots of choices out there.

Have owned several really accurate .22s, including a New York Kimber sporter and an Anschutz Model 54. But my present one is a heavy-barrel CZ 457.

T1x

Find a nice used Rem 541T.

I saw a CZ457 the other day that I almost bought. It had one of the nicest stocks I've seen on a 22lr in a long time. If you like CZ's, that's what I'd suggest.

Very accurate and exude the classic charm.

If you don’t mind plastic, I like my Tikka very well so far. She do need some accessorizing.

CZ hands down. Love my 455s.

Great choice. I've had one since they were first introduced.

Bolt action.22's bore the hell out of me. So does the thought of punching endless holes in paper shooting for groups from a bench. I'll take my BL-22 over any bolt action .22. It's slim, light, handy and works great for hunting cottontails and squirrels and shooting steel spinners in the back yard.

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

My all time favorite might be the 513s by Remington. I had a 39 Marlin and I have a 61 Winchester, both nice rifles. If I wanted a fairly inexpensive paper puncher it might be another 513T, yet I have one and it doesn’t get shot a lot.
If I were to buy another 22, it would probably be a CZ 527 or a different CZ not sure.

Another vote for a Remington 541T.

Mostly maligned but if you can pickup a Ruger 77/22 reasonably priced go for it. Some dozen years ago I ordered 5 consecutively numbered specimens with wood stocks and Nikon rf 4x scopes. Gave each of my grandkids one and set them up using CCI minimag ammo. Some of the trigger pulls were heavy but that was fixed with aftermarket springs. All of the rifles will shoot 1/2 in groups or better provided they are single loaded and not from the magazine which will expand the group somewhat. Liked them so much I bought me a used 77/22 RS and it shoots just as well


For fun and great accuracy I sure like the Marlin 39. Even more fun is a Winchester 1890 pump.

CZ 457 Premium...SUPERB shooter!

Well, whatever you pick up, and there are some good suggestions here, don't buy one of these dang things. They don't shoot worth a damn.



Pathetic they are.


These things suck too.


I've seen shotguns that pattern better than this.