If I were in your predicament, I would probably wait for your favourite (or maybe not so favourite) retailer to have a big sale (Easter etc.) and buy another CZ, having said that I have a "cheap" .17hmr that has performed amazing feats of accuracy. I own a Ruger American 16", 9 round rotary mag. I picked mine up on sale, before the bullshit prices of today for around $600 on special. Shoots stupidly small groups, easy to clean and zero issues. So there are budget options. My concern with .17hmr now is the price of ammo. I used buy 50 rounds of CCI TNT 17gr for $28, now it's $44. The calibre is hardly worth it any more. The problem with the price of ammo is, even if the prices drop overseas, retailers in NZ won't drop the prices because we've come to accept the prices as they are now. So in short it won't go back to being cheap again, so considering a different rifle in another calibre as Danny said my be worth your time too.
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