Not your every day rifle

Thanks Dennis. Got a magazine and trigger blade on the way. Probably won't shoot it for awhile though.

Good day at the range shooting my CZ 457 Varmint MTR with new Lilja barrel.
Continued from above.....along the way acquired a Rem. 541-T and another Remington in .22 mag. Then a slightly used 10/22 from a friend who needed some money. That rifle subsequently got a Green River barrel from Midway, then an after market trigger from Ruger. Not liking the stock I totally modified the original birch stock and molded in a 2 1/4" flat forend to match one of my front bags. That stock was painted a slick red. However, I never was really comfortable with the way the pistol grip fit. I subsequently added one of those swoopy laminate stocks from Boyd's and also added a fluted barrel. It shot pretty darn good and I won a few club matches against some higher end .22's but then the Voodo's and CZ's and Annie's came along to nose me out.
This past summer, one of our members, who had the CZ mentioned above and who won some matches with, decided he needed an Annie (Anshutz) and sold me the CZ to get some money towards his newer toy. That is how I got hooked! Since that time I now own a barrel tuner and just got a custom Lilja match barrel for it. Along with the new rifle came a whole lot of quality ammunition (EXPENSIVE) The thing is, these quality rifles also need to be fed quality ammo. I have played with many versions of SK ammo along with Eley match and Eley Tennex plus Lapua Center-X and others. Its a matter of finding which ammo your rifle likes and then buying a quantity of the same lot #. .22 ammo can vary from lot to lot. You have to buy ammo from dealers that cater to competitive shooters. They list the ammo by lot numbers and how much of it they have in stock. You generally want to buy a couple of boxes (50/box) of various lots and then test them as soon as you can. When you find the one that shoots the best, go back to that dealer and check and see if he has more of that lot number and buy what you need or can afford.
The .22 game is shot in a number of different formats from steel targets in various positions to tiny bullseye targets as in true benchrest fashion.
Most all these benchrest matches are shot at small bullseyes with one shot per bull. A lot of the matches are shot at 50 yards.
So, Smokelessk saw I had some interest in .22's and asked if I could get a section of the forum going utilizing these rifles. I asked Hank and he delivered. I how others who have an interest in .22's will join in. Its nice to get into these LESS recoiling rifles which do present a challenge.

I have been buying cheap ammo for awhile now, don't have a real high end gun for the good stuff. I have 4 .22's, mostly old family stuff. The best one is a Rem 513T purchased from a closing military installation in Maine. The aperture sights were probably worth more then the gun....But I intend to introduce the grandchildren to rimfire as they get old enough. Starting soon with the oldest. I will be dropping in occasionally. I am a member in the rimfire forum online, not active, just read about ammo and the guns...