22LR bolt action, magazine fed rifle-recommendations

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wiscoaster said:
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The grain pattern is really quite nice, but the color is kind of dark. I think it was a mistake to include the white test target paper in the shot as it probably threw off the camera's color reproduction. It looks nicer in person. Maybe I'll take another pic tomorrow in natural light. The two Training models they had there at Scheel's, with the Beechwood stocks, had the nicest Beechwood I've ever seen on a rifle. My walnut stock, above, is probably not quite as nice as a typical Henry rifle stock, but I wanted the Monte Carlo buttstock, and I wanted checkering, which the Training model doesn't have either, so that's why I got the Lux model instead.
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Very nice. We need a range report.
 
wiscoaster said:
OK, fair enough. I got the sights zeroed at 25 yds today at my indoor range, so next I'll take it out for its first 100 yd trial run, but that's going to have to wait for a break in the weather.
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Interested in 50 yard but this isn't very serious.
 
BCR#1 said:
Someone once said I should go buy a lottery ticket after posting a pic of my CZ 457 American two - tone stainless stubby with the unseen by me prior to receiving it tiger stripe black walnut stock. I rather like the wood on my 455 FS in blonde birch.

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Wow that wood is incredible.. I have a few CZ 452’s but none that look like that unfortunately but they all shoot better than I can and I highly recommend them..
 
Pete D. said:
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This was my retirement present to myself 18 years ago. I can't really recommend it because it was a serious investment on my part and is now nearly double what I paid for it. Worth every penny. The Fortner bolt makes it nearly as fast as a semi.
Made a harness so i could ski with it and hunt small game in the snowy back country.
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It'd make for a great squirrel rifle too. Might want to add a bi-pod though.
 
If you can find one, I'd recommend a Remington Model 504, except that, like many of the otherwise fine recommendations in this thread, it doesn't come with the iron sights listed in the op's "requirements".
 
d2wing said:
...Interested in 50 yard but this isn't very serious.
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OK, CZ 457 50 yd report:

5 shots to warm up barrel, then 5 shots Federal Hunter Match 40 gr*

zero wind, forearm bag rest, iron sights:

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Not spectacular impressive, but with iron sights, barrel barely broken in, and zero experience with make and model, not bad. I could do better with several other rimfire rifles I have but they all have scopes and a whole lot more practice.

*this is the ammo I've used with rimfire pistol league competition.
 
wiscoaster said:
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The grain pattern is really quite nice, but the color is kind of dark. I think it was a mistake to include the white test target paper in the shot as it probably threw off the camera's color reproduction. It looks nicer in person. Maybe I'll take another pic tomorrow in natural light. The two Training models they had there at Scheel's, with the Beechwood stocks, had the nicest Beechwood I've ever seen on a rifle. My walnut stock, above, is probably not quite as nice as a typical Henry rifle stock, but I wanted the Monte Carlo buttstock, and I wanted checkering, which the Training model doesn't have either, so that's why I got the Lux model instead.
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Here's the photo lightened up a lot. You can see it's got some character in the grain. (I like the vintage Ben Franklin ruler, BTW. :) )
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CZ's factory finish shows up better on most cameras when photographed on a dark background, IME. Here's my 2007 model 452 on a mostly black background. I have another shot on light gray carpet where the finish looks darker and more brown.
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glockgod said:
Ruger American Rimfire. Can use the 10-22 mags you already have
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This one’s my wife’s. I bought it for her birthday last October - she’d been wanting one like it since last spring when she and I had been the acting “ground squirrel exterminators” over at some friend’s ranch.
It’s convenient that it takes the same magazines as my 10-22, but one of its best features (as far as my wife is concerned) is that we were able to buy a “Modular Stock System Bundle” ($34.95) for it from Ruger before we mounted the scope. You see, my wife is only 5’1”, and the lengths of her arms match her height. Consequently, except for her “youth model” 20ga, my wife has had to have the stock shortened on every long gun she’s ever owned. With her American Rimfire 22LR though, all she had to do was change out the stock components until it “felt” right. She ended up with the short buttstock and low comb.
We haven’t shot it much yet, but it seems pretty accurate. I’m sure my wife is going to kill a bunch of ground squirrels with it come spring.;)
 
FFGColorado said:
Since we all(me and 2 sons) have 10/22s..think I'll look for an 'alternative' rim fire 22LR rifle. Only 'requirements' are bolt action, box type magazine and iron sights.
Mossberg 802 Plinkster
Marlin XT-22
Savage MKII
Are some my google foo have found..Recommendations??

Thanks
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The Rock Island m14y is a great budget gun. It’s very plain looking so it may not be the eye catcher that some others are. It has a plain wood stock, parkerized metal bits, and the thing that got me interested was the 1/2-28 threaded barrel on the $100 gun. Their “adult” guns look a lot nicer than the very basic youth gun I bought for my kids.
 
wiscoaster said:
Thanks for that. You're better at that than I am. :thumbup:
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No problem. CZ uses some very nice Turkish Walnut on their rifles, but the heavy factory finish obscures most of the grain feature. If you really want to see the feature in the wood, refinish them. Here's a before and after (well, before and during) of the same stock. In person, there is a huge difference and the refinished stock has awesome feature. From the photos you can kind of see how much of the nuance of the woodgrain the factory finish hides.

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The rich kids on my ROTC high school rifle team had their own Winchester 52s. I always lusted for one, could not justify the expense.

Deep pockets? How about a Winchester 52 sporter? Dripping with class.
 
wiscoaster said:
OK, CZ 457 50 yd report:

5 shots to warm up barrel, then 5 shots Federal Hunter Match 40 gr*

zero wind, forearm bag rest, iron sights:

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Not spectacular impressive, but with iron sights, barrel barely broken in, and zero experience with make and model, not bad. I could do better with several other rimfire rifles I have but they all have scopes and a whole lot more practice.

*this is the ammo I've used with rimfire pistol league competition.
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So is this a postal match now? I am thinking it might be!
 
You probably already found something, but, here is my contribution.

RPR in .22 rimfire

https://www.rifleshootermag.com/editorial/review-ruger-precision-rimfire/357357

I have seen these for $400, I got the 22 mag version, because I already had a target 22. Fun toy, no iron sights, but you could throw a red dot or rimfire scope on it for not too much $$

And they use 10/22 mags

these were readily available prior to the "COOV"

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I6turbo said:
....CZ uses some very nice Turkish Walnut on their rifles, but the heavy factory finish obscures most of the grain feature. If you really want to see the feature in the wood, refinish them.
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Ya know, I might have to consider that. I do like to refinish rifle stocks. Got a couple other projects underway or lined up now, then we'll see once if I get motivated.
 
wiscoaster said:
OK, CZ 457 50 yd report:

5 shots to warm up barrel, then 5 shots Federal Hunter Match 40 gr*

zero wind, forearm bag rest, iron sights:

View attachment 974874

Not spectacular impressive, but with iron sights, barrel barely broken in, and zero experience with make and model, not bad. I could do better with several other rimfire rifles I have but they all have scopes and a whole lot more practice.

*this is the ammo I've used with rimfire pistol league competition.
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For some reason my 457s stock barrel really didn't like Hunter match. It was literally the worst ammo I could find for that gun. granted the other ammo I could find were CCI mini mags and armscor solids, which weren't spectacular either.

On the flip side the lothar Walter barrel I now have on mine shoots it quite well. So much so I'm tempted to go buy another brick or two but it's also some of the more expensive ammo to get here 60 something bucks a brick.
 
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