Thread: CZ 455 - barrel interchange

Originally Posted by Tentman

Did you mean to be intentionally rude? - unless you have something useful based on experience to add your opinion doesn't go very far in answering my question. I don't "dick around" doing anything but from your reply I'd have to assume you do it quite a bit because you seem to know what it involves.

Sorry you took my posting as being rude. Wasn't intentional. My reference to 'dicking around' was process related not person related.

That said, every part of my "opinion" detailed in my posting is from personal experience. In my experience, changing out barrels is a lot of 'dicking around' [as defined by the urban dictionary - "To waste time on an unproductive activity"] when you take into account the time and cost required to get to the range and re-sight in your rifle each time, when that time could be better spent out in the field hunting. I personally found the whole process to be a 'dick around'. Due to the fact that my time is too precious to waste 'dicking around', I bought a complete new gun(s) and sold the spare barrel.

If you want to test my "opinion", when your new rifle arrives, sight it in as per normal. Then, have someone change the scope settings without you seeing the change values [to simulate the change of impact cause by the barrel change], strip your gun, take the barrel out, clean the action, refit the barrel, reassemble your gun, take it to the range and re-sight it in again. Then go home, and do the same process all over again. That is the real world requirement of changing from one caliber to another and then back again. Obviously if you have the ability to sight in on you own property etc then this process will be less time consuming. If not, the time and cost soon adds up.

So, take or leave my opinion for what it is, my opinion, based on real world experience. However, that's what you asked for in your original posting.
Hopefully this information is useful to you as you consider you options and make your final decision, and I haven't unproductively wasted my time sharing my experience, otherwise I've dicked around yet again.