Thread: The best "new generation" 22 RF

Well I don’t know about new generation but I spent yesterday playing with my new-to-me toy, a CZ 455 Varmint .22 LR acquired from @jim160 and now much improved after some excellent work by @Wingman while I was chilling out and mending... pillar and epoxy bedding, trigger, shortened barrel, Funworks suppressor. The stock is excellent and now the barrel is free floating she’s making iddy biddy wee holes.

It is as quiet as an air rifle with CCI Standard Velocity and as accurate as I have ever seen a rimfire in any form and wow what a bloody great load of fun it is too. Can’t wait for the 4.5-18x50 to arrive, for now I have a loan scope that works very well and we spent yesterday smacking gongs in the wind and rain from the comfort of the porch, sorry @Max Headroom the pics of me in my pants will have to wait, not the weather for it.

So whilst I hear some bemoan the switch barrel, to me the design is hard to imagine improving. Sure its a semi-custom now I ‘spose but its cheap and cheerful and shoots like a rifle in a totally different price bracket.

I had lost the faith a bit, in rimfire, but now I am totally glad I got back into it. There are some great old designs out there, and a bit of well considered TLC can turn a good rifle into an excellent rifle.