My favorite and most accurate rifle if my wife is with in ear shot is the Henry lever action 22lr rifle she gave me on our wedding day, 19 year ago this June. It is the entry lvl Henry lever action 22lr they make. My most accurate 22lr platform that I own is my Ruger mark 2 Government Target 6" bull barrel pistol that shots 1/2 at 100 yards in slow fire off hand. My Marline 60's are accurate to 1" at 100 yards in slow fire off hand. Maybe because their is less weight to hold one hand the pistol is more accurate for me.
My wife's CZ 457 premier 22lr rifle that we got her last year (because we found a wood stocked rifle and it came with a steel magazine) which also has steel magazines one can buy as accessories though they do sell the plastic magazines for 6.00 cheaper. Is the Finest to shot and is her most accurate 22lr rifle she owns. She has a Leopold on a Marline 60 and on this CZ 457 since it is bare back.
We own a few of the Ruger 10/22 carbines that our boys have grown up shooting. And while they still shot them the Henry golden boys they won at auction do out shot the 10/22's every day.
We find it aggravating that it is so hard to find a gun made with a wood stock and even harder to find a gun with open sights on it now a days. I seriously doubt the new consumer wants a rifle that they have to turn around and spend another couple hundred bucks putting optics on to be able to shot it. But that is what the industry tells us. I do now it is cheaper to make the guns with plastic toilet paper racks on them and no open sights. But those guns are not for us. But if the option is to have every rifle made cost at least 1000.00 dollars or some starting at 299.99 I would rather there be some GOD ugly guns out their for the new shooters to buy so they get into the sport. Let us with refined taste search the universe for the wood stocked open sight made with quality that will shot 1/2 at 100y .
The spray and pray group do have their use though. When a youngster is watching a group of adults ammo dump a mag and not hit the target. My 6y old son asked me, "why are they wasting their shoots?" I did let him ammo dump his BT 25 magazine out of his 10/22 the day before his biggest challenge in 2013. He dumped one BT 25 and then shot slow fire for the rest of the day shooting the rest of the 4500 ct rounds that day in slow and aimed shots. He only stopped shooting when his finger was to sore to load any more magazines.
GOD, United States of America, US Marine Corps, Family, Self