.22 Rimfire Shooting

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pat i posted this 25 September 2024

I recently posted about shooting my CZ 452 to my 30/06 plain base thread. This will pertain to repeating the ammo test with my 10/22. When I picked up the rifle it was pretty beat up so I figured it'd be a good project. I replaced the barrel with a 16 inch Green Mountain fluted barrel. Sanded down the stock and painted it with truck bed liner after losing the barrel band and angling the front end. Also sanded the action down to bare aluminum. Pillar bedded it and glassed the first inch of barrel and rear of the action. Added an auto bolt release, aftermarket magazine release and Ruger BX trigger. Scope is a 4x14 Mueller set at14x. In hindsight I wish I would have gone with an 18 inch or so heavier barrel.

Ammo is an assortment of Eley along with CCI SV. Obviously the gun doesn't like the CCI but I guess that's par for the course with .22s. My CZ liked the CCI the best. Eley Match isnt included because I ran out. Below is the gun and target from today. Thanks once again to George Damron for donating the Eley ammo.

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linoww posted this 25 September 2024

do i need to send another care package?

the Eley Contact is good for the money I think.

"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!

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pat i posted this 25 September 2024

I really appreciate the offer George but I think I'll stick with my CZ and put this one away for the time being. This thing felt like a toy compared to the CZ.

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delmarskid posted this 25 September 2024

I sprung for the Green Mountain 28” bull barrel. The extra length seems to even out bunk ammo a little bit. I put a Weaver T16, Boyds pro-varmint, and Kidd trigger in a bag kit on it along with all the hand fitting I could think of. It’s impossible to shoot off hand but it’s a great bench plinker at 175 yards.

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pat i posted this 25 September 2024

Dane is the Kidd trigger as good as they say? My BX is about 2 1/2 pounds out of the box but has some creep. Over travel is ok but the creep is a bit of a distraction.

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delmarskid posted this 25 September 2024

Hi Pat, worth every dime to me. Mine breaks at about 1.75 with the barest amount of creep and no over travel along with a shorter reset. When I say barest I mean that I can rarely even detect it. If I build another 10/22 I will use the stock trigger housing and the Kidd parts.

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Glenn R. Latham posted this 25 September 2024

Thanks for starting this thread Pat. I got into 22 benchrest about 5 years ago and really enjoy it. First started at 25 yards indoors (still shoot that) and soon decided I "needed" a quality 22. Bought a CZ 457 MTR. After a few years I noticed the first shot from a cold barrel (clean or fouled) was WAY off, before it settled down. Read an in depth article on cleaning, got out the bore scope and found the dreaded carbon ring at the front of the chamber. Scrubbed that out with JB Bore Compound and no more first shot flyers!

After I retired I was able to shoot the 2 50-yard outdoor matches that are near here, but on Tuesdays and Fridays. For this I broke out my 10-22 T. Funny thing, the more I spent on ammo, the higher my scores! The appx $8 a box stuff varied 1 grain in weight; I thought I could sort it and get better scores. Jury still out on that. I took 2 cartridges apart that were 1 full grain different. The heavy one had a bullet that was 2/3 of a grain heavier than the light one, and a case that was 1/3 grain heavier than the light one. Powder charge was the same. $15 dollar a box stuff varied only 1/4 grain. You get what you pay for...

Glenn

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pat i posted this 25 September 2024

That's cool Glenn but please don't lead me down the 20 dollar a box path! Funny but Tenex didn't do that God awful great in either of my guns. In fact using big buck Eley Match I got 2 shots out of 15 that ran under 1000 fps. One was 889 and the other 915 fps. There's a 22 BR match on Weds. at the range I go to. Those guys use some fancy guns and scopes. It does look like fun and I can see doing it but I dont really want to build an expensive rifle just for that. They are really accurate though. My CZ varmint is enough to fill in the times when I don't feel like casting. Plus it's fun. That CZ MTR you're shooting is really a nice gun. How does it do at 50?

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 26 September 2024

for Economic fun with a 22rf and high quality rifles ... try position shooting ... a CZ or fine old Win. 52 or Rem. 40x will do just fine and medium good ... $10 a box stuff ... will get you in the top half at local shoots ...

you can even set your own classes ... for us old arthritic types, maybe standing only ... or heck, prone only ... combine some shootin and a nap at the same time ...

that is the good news ...

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ok, the bad news ...

when I was shooting ARA bench, and everyone was complaining about the cost of winning ammo ... I brought up the less stressful position shooting sport several times ... not one of about 200 bench shooters took the bait ...

gotta have 5 or 10 shooters to make competition fun ...

just sayin ... ken

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Dukem posted this 26 September 2024

Pat, I have the Kidd two stage trigger and I picked it up used. It is wonderful and even better after I sent it to Kidd for a cleaning and adjustment. There was a bit of miscommunication. I asked for 1 lb. thinking I'd get 1 lb. first stage, 1 lb. second stage. What they sent me was 8 oz. and 8 oz. The cleaning and adjusting is free I needed to pay shipping.

I am pleased to say 8/8 is very very shootable even off hand. Oh and the rifle is a full blown Kidd in a Victor-Titan stock. The only Ruger parts are the magazines

Duke

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Glenn R. Latham posted this 26 September 2024

Pat, I haven't shot the MTR in the 50 yard matches. I would have to shoot it in Limited class against the $$ custom guns. The indoor 25 yard matches don't worry too much about classes, just shoot for fun.

The 50 yard matches are a little more structured. I shoot the 10-22T in Squirrel Rifle (no bolt guns) and Sporter class. Limited class about anything goes except you have to use a 2-piece rest, and Unlimited allows a 1-piece rest. At 50 yards we shoot the IBS 50-yard rimfire 25-bull target with a 0.500" 10-ring. The 25 yard matches use the USBR 25-bull target with a 0.100" 10-ring. That's challenging with factory rifles. You have to obliterate the 10-ring to get an X.

Glenn

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pat i posted this 26 September 2024

That sounds like a lot of fun Glenn and the ease of the whole thing has to be fantastic. Like I said before I've looked at your CZ online and really like it.

Duke I'd love to have a 2 stage Kidd trigger breaking at 8 oz. But putting it on the thing I have would be a waste of good money. In your case with the gun you described it makes perfect sense. If you ever think of it could you post a picture? Who made all the parts? I never thought I'd say it but I can now understand people getting into building high dollar super accurate .22s. Probably because I never had what could be considered anywhere near an accurate .22 rifle. Shooting at a .100 ten ring would be a lot of fun.

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 27 September 2024

pat i ... yep, everybody should drive a Ferrari ... or shoot a 1-holer rifle ... once in their life ...

I remember the first time I shot my tuned 40X with Midas at 50 yards ... something that I didn't know I had been missing suddenly revealed itself ...

proceed with caution ... heh ...

ken

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Oquawka posted this 27 September 2024

Last few years I've been having fun shooting the Davenport Winter Postal Match, it's 50 feet, 500 shots and Offhand. Also I choose to use Iron Sights.

Stan

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Tom Acheson posted this 27 September 2024

So I’m fooling around getting up the courage to order a CPA Stevens 44 1/2, for use in CBA BR CENTERFIRE matches. And then along comes these .22 rimfire crazies!

I have (2) .22 rimfires. One is an old Winchester bolt action single shot, a Christmas gift from my dad when I was 12. The other is an Anschutz 14” Exemplar, bolt action handgun silhouette “pistol”. I do have a Neil Jones .22 rim thickness gauge…. but…..

These two can’t come close to the guns, etc. that are being kicked around here…..wow, another whole new world..,.but extremely interesting!

Tom

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pat i posted this 27 September 2024

500 shots Stan?? Unless the gun was made out of styrofoam I'd be pointing the thing at my toes by about the 150th round. Lol

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delmarskid posted this 27 September 2024

Tom you can get a second 22 barrel for the 44 1/2.

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pat i posted this 27 September 2024

Tom I think Stan shoots a 44 1/2 that has a 25-20 barrel and a .22 barrel if I remember right.

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Tom Acheson posted this 27 September 2024

Looked in my loading room and there is a brick of CCI along with maybe (150) random Winch, Rem, Wolf, etc. No Ely or any other fancy brands. But if I got drug into this, my stash would need to change. There are a few CBA BR shooters up here who have a .22 barrel for their CPA rifle. The sticker shock of getting the CPA is still present, so no .22 barrel today, but maybe......

Tom