Your help on this would be much appreciated. My godson, with whom i]I am very close, is graduaating from college thi spring. He has been acdcepted to a medical school in London, which he will join this falkl. Since he was small child I took it upon myself to teadch hims the rues of firearns safety and handling. Ultimataly that led to other shooting activities with his family but ours was a tim that he akways renenvers. A few trips to the range are mandatory when he visits MT from OR.
The training gun I used most that he was surprised to see in my safe a few years ago is a Brno 2-E (or 472) with the barrel stamped, "Bauska Arm Corp. Kalispell MT." It's in good shape, maybe 95%, as it only received gentle range use. This is the piece that he most remembers shooting on our range trips. It is stock except for having drilled and tapped to its reciver scope mounts and split vertical rings from Maynard Buehler not too long before his passing. They hold some nice optics, the 4X .22 Leupold compact, regulated for parallax at 75 yards. It's no target gunbut off the bench will do 1/2 " groups all day without work using field-grade ammo.
This is the first .22 that i bought for myslf after leaving my paremets' home and in fact I have nothing close toequal it. My 16 year ld so has expressed an interes in having it, but not with same passio as my godson's. so th question ism do I give it to him as a grad gift now, or let the heirs worry ove it when I'm gone? The godson will likey not have much need for it in UK, but could expand its use conideraly when he returns fom abroad.
Is thre a likey rifle with which to repalce it? I have a son just shy of 17 who is no gun nut but is fond fo th oese that we have, Any comparable rifle and glass that you'd recommend for him? Thanks so much.
Ross
The training gun I used most that he was surprised to see in my safe a few years ago is a Brno 2-E (or 472) with the barrel stamped, "Bauska Arm Corp. Kalispell MT." It's in good shape, maybe 95%, as it only received gentle range use. This is the piece that he most remembers shooting on our range trips. It is stock except for having drilled and tapped to its reciver scope mounts and split vertical rings from Maynard Buehler not too long before his passing. They hold some nice optics, the 4X .22 Leupold compact, regulated for parallax at 75 yards. It's no target gunbut off the bench will do 1/2 " groups all day without work using field-grade ammo.
This is the first .22 that i bought for myslf after leaving my paremets' home and in fact I have nothing close toequal it. My 16 year ld so has expressed an interes in having it, but not with same passio as my godson's. so th question ism do I give it to him as a grad gift now, or let the heirs worry ove it when I'm gone? The godson will likey not have much need for it in UK, but could expand its use conideraly when he returns fom abroad.
Is thre a likey rifle with which to repalce it? I have a son just shy of 17 who is no gun nut but is fond fo th oese that we have, Any comparable rifle and glass that you'd recommend for him? Thanks so much.
Ross