Best compromise 22lr between benchrest target + hunting?

[Fridge]

I don't hunt but my CZ455 varmint would be a good choice. £15 trigger kit and it's pretty good on the bench.

Better than lugging a Match 54 round the woods anyway!

[TattooedGun]

Sako Finnfire P94s

[Dellboy]

We'd suggest taking a look at an Izhmash Biathlon .22

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/sh ... p?t=156929

We have one and find it extremely accurate when shot from a rest, well up to club competition standard, and light enough to carry round the field in case you need to pop off Farmer Giles' waistcoat buttons. They can be obtained in fancy stocks too but the basic stock is quite good enough. It has a heavy, hammer forged barrel with an excellent, deep crown cut for a moderator (threaded muzzle protector supplied) and the toggle lock action is pretty awesome. It can be manipukated very quickly without disturbing the point of aim.




who sells them in the UK ?

[Ballistol]

How about a CZ VPT

[Adamdavi3s]

Sorry I am a bit late to the party here.
I hadn't the same quandary a while back, ended up with a bog standard CZ455 with factory profile barrel in a standard 'american' stock.
Ok so I treated it to a sightron 36x scope but anything that can do this out the box for £300 odd quid is fine by me!
I tried about 8different kinds of ammo and it just loves eley club.

This isn't even the best card I've shot, just one I happened to have a photo of

[dodgyrog]

Sorry I am a bit late to the party here.
I hadn't the same quandary a while back, ended up with a bog standard CZ455 with factory profile barrel in a standard 'american' stock.
Ok so I treated it to a sightron 36x scope but anything that can do this out the box for £300 odd quid is fine by me!
I tried about 8different kinds of ammo and it just loves eley club.

This isn't even the best card I've shot, just one I happened to have a photo of

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246 with 5 well off centre! My Finnfire does 250 straight using a Weaver 12 power scope for UKBR22 sporter class.
The difference between good and excellent!

[1066]

That's not bad for a sporting rifle - looks to be about a 96 at a guess.

What I find is a little disappointing is that a score of 96 on those exact same targets would have been pretty average 30/40 years ago when almost every town in the country had at least one rifle club shooting .22 prone comps.

That would, of course, been not rested and only iron sights.

[Adamdavi3s]

I don't shoot scored, just for fun :-) I suspect that anything off centre would be down to me and not the rifle.
I suppose my point was that you don't necessarily need to spend a huge amount to get decent results, but yes there is a point between decent and excellent, it's if the extra ££ are worth it to you or not

[Adamdavi3s]

I think these are prone 25m targets rather than BR ones? :-)

Also just to qualify this, I've checked my logs and I've shot this style of target at 25m indoors a grand total of 4 times. I had intended to get into benchrest via the 22br site but kids happened!

[bradaz11]

Sorry I am a bit late to the party here.
I hadn't the same quandary a while back, ended up with a bog standard CZ455 with factory profile barrel in a standard 'american' stock.
Ok so I treated it to a sightron 36x scope but anything that can do this out the box for £300 odd quid is fine by me!
I tried about 8different kinds of ammo and it just loves eley club.

This isn't even the best card I've shot, just one I happened to have a photo of

IMG_5049.JPG

256? How does br targets score then? I had that as a 95/96 as a standard 25yrd prone target