Recent content by FlorianGeyer

I know you'll buy one of your choices, but I have some more general advice in regard to caliber. If you truly want a centerfire varmint caliber that is relatively quiet, you can't do better than the .221 Rem Fireball. Yes, it was developed as a specialty pistol round, but rifles have been built...

Thanks for the feedback guys. The consensus seems to be that the 1:16 twist is not necessarily unfit for the .221 loads using light bullets, so I'm going to get a good scope, and mount it properly on the rifle. Then I'm going to stop worrying and just shoot it for a while, with a variety of...

scottishkat wrote: ...I have difficulty seeing a smith rebarreling a 22 hornet to 221 fire ball. The bolt face would require modification. Yeah, that's another mystery to me. The rifle functions OK, but extraction appears to be a bit iffy. I'm not familiar enough with how the bolt face is...

Did I verify the twist rate? REWTEX Wrote: Did you verify the twist rate? I had a CZ 527 in .223 that had a different twist than the website's specs. I looked at a rifle exactly like yours in a gun store in Plano TX and the original .22 Hornet marking was obvious along with the .221 Fireball. I...

I recently bought a used CZ 527 American that had been re-chambered to .221 Remington Fireball. I paid $450. The salesman told me that the rifle had been re-chambered "probably from .222 or .223" by a local gunsmith who had a reputation for competence. My big mistake was not paying attention to...

I recently acquired a very old Thompson-Center Contender. The serial number is 894XX. I am very much regretting the impulse that caused me to take this thing apart to see what makes it tick. (Disassemble in haste, repent at leisure, as they say.) This thing is like no gun I've seen before. I've...