Thread: Scoping a CZ 452 Varmint .17 HMR

If you dont mind me asking how much did the rifle cost you? I have heard Oles are good people to deal with. Also it would save a trip to PDX.

Mine was $430 I think, I bought a few other things along with the rifle but I know it was close to that.. He had a thumb hole stocked CZ 452 in .17 HMR there and a sweet CZ 527 in 7.63x39 that I was very tempted on..

Nice, thanks for the info

I have a Leupold VX3 3.5-10x40 Boone and Crockett on my CZ 452 Varmint. Had a good time last July in Prosser WA. Check out the pic's below. Longest shoot 180 YDS. I bought the rifle used. I think I paid close to 700 for it and all the accessories to include a very nice trigger job. I normally wouldn't pay that much for an ugly used rifle but the little thing can shoot.

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Took mine to the range yesterday and it sure is a tack driver. I am however going to do a trigger job on it as I felt it was a little heavy and might fit a Boyd's stock on it also.

No opinion on the Mueller, but do have an opinion on power. I wouldn't go any higher than 14x on a .17HMR. These light bullets are next to impossible to shoot accurately at sage rat sized targets out past about 150 yards, so more power really isn't needed. We used to laugh about long distant sage rats costing $3 to kill because it took so many 17 HMR shots to figure out the windage.

My best .17 HMR sage rat scope is a 4.5-14X50mm SII Sightron. It does not have an adjustable objective or side focus. It has a little parallax at 150 plus yards, but not enough to be a factor in sage rat accuracy. The wind has 10 times the effect. I like the non-adjustable objective cause I can quickly shoot rats at 125 yards and then 20 yards without having to mess with the AO.

After much thought and looking at way to many scopes I've decided to go with a Vortex Crossfire 6-24x50 for $99 bucks. This is a rat gun after all and I figure I will not be shooting competitions or bad guys with it, so it I reckon there is no real need to drop a $500-900 scope on something that would never/ could ever take advantage of the higher end stuff features. If it turns out that its a POS then I am out a hundo so no big.

If I was going to spend the money my list after much research is as follows:

1. Falcon Menece
2. Vortex Viper
3. Mullers
4. Millet