New (to me) CZ452FS

I've always liked the looks of a Mannlicher stocked rifle, but never owned one until yesterday. Now there's a clean, used .22LR CZ452FS in my collection! This particular rifle has had some trigger work done. I can already hear the cries of "hair trigger!" when I let other shooters try it. After just shy of a hundred rounds downrange, I've decided it's just about right for making good shooting easy.

Today I only tried CCI Standard Velocity and CCI Mini-Mag HPs, mostly at 25 yards but a few at 100 against some standard clay pigeons scrounged from the trap range. This rifle will SHOOT! I was already planning on putting a 4x Leupold rimfire scope on it in the future, and the preliminary groups seem to indicate this will be a good decision. Once I have some glass on top, I'll need to round up some match ammo.

The rifle:


Some quick bench-rested 5-shot groups at 25-yards:


All in all, I'm very pleased. The only thing I wish is that I had taken the plunge on buying one of these sooner. :banghead: I'd forgotten how enjoyable it is to spend some time behind an accurate .22LR bolt gun.

Thanks for the compliments! ifit, that's a very nice looking stock on your FS.

I took my CZ back out today for some work at 50 yards. Three quick 10-round groups with the CCI SV went between 1.25 and 1.5". Not bad for an iron sighted sporter; my scoped 10/22 will barely get to 1" for 10-shots at 50 yards with the same ammo. After that I decided to check the 200 meter/yard (not sure which it is) setting on the rear sight. Laughter ensued as the barely audible "tink" of the little 40gr slug hitting a steel plate returned to the line.

bamajoey, I was already thinking to try some Wolf MT or RWS Target Rifle. I'm open to any other suggestions of practice-quality .22LR match ammo to try out. I've used both the Wolf and RWS shooting 50-foot 4-position in the past. Unfortunately I sold my last 2 bricks of MT during the last Banic.

Wow, those refinished stocks look great! I see some nice striping on a couple of those rifles.

900F, thanks for the tip on the Winchester ammo. I'll find some to try out. I've also been lurking at Rimfire Central the last couple of days, I think I may have a user name registered over there from the past. Not 100% sure, need to find out.

Sadly it appears my 452 needs to see the gun doctor before I can put it to field use. The extra-light trigger doesn't have enough sear engagement to hold the striker when the buttstock is dropped onto a hard surface from 3-4". I was thinking about having the pull weight set to 2.5-lbs or so anyway, which should solve the safety issue. (The sear does hold when working the bolt vigorously at least.)

(For the record, not the first time I've encountered a trigger lightened too much. One would actually drop when the safety was disengaged. THAT was interesting. )