High End .22s

[Iceberg]

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[Medic!]

Not really a target .22 guy here.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Are there any other guys out the that collect & shoot high end Rimfire? I have the fever and now have five Anschutz rifles, 1977 Model 54 prone NM, Model 54 Match Model 1709, Model 54 sporter 1710, Model 64 sporter Heavy barrel & Model 64 sporter HB in .17HM2. Still looking for a M54 sporter with dual triggers.

I think @tac may well..

 

[Argonaut]

I have a Walter sportmodel single shot rifle. It is a sporting version of the great Walter Olympic rifle. You have great stuff. I am a huge Anshutz fan particularly after visiting the master at his factory in the late 70's.

 

[tac]

I shudder to think how much $$$$$$$$$$$$ Mr Iceberg has invested in 'high end' .22 rifles. Being a poor old veteran with a war injury pension, too, I have to count the pennies with most everything, including the things I shoot.

I have been very lucky with my cache of .22RF calibre target rifles, but find that I have no need to spend vast amounts of $$$ I don't have, figuring that if it can do this at 50m with five shots, I'm justified in being a tightwad.



This is a box of 50 at 100m, BTW.



It's a bit spread out, but then it was blowing a bit, and I was shooting between the gusts.

This is what I used to do both targets -



It's a mde in 1963 Anschutz Model 1409 - all original, bought from the club scrapheap for £25 [then around $40]. It looked a good deal sadder than that, though. having been in a corner gunsafe in the damp for around 20+ years. I refurbished it with a lot of love and hard work, and it repays me every time I get it out and shoot it. The scope was another blessing from an older guy in Montana. He had advertised it on GB, and I bought it off him. When it arrove, the package was way bigger than I'd imagined, and the reason was that there were TWO of them.

This is the other one - a x16 - on my old BSA Martini MkII with its one-off plywood stock -



That baby cost me a lot more - almost $100, I recall.

And lastly, the other MkII, this time a true leftie, with a x18 Unertl Supertarget 2" scope and old-style mounts - parked alongside -



I paid almost $80 for that, but in mitigations, it DID cme with a complete set of Al Freeland micrometer tube sights and the newer POSA mounts - seen here -




Of course, I have a bunch of other .22RF rifles, but they are all pretty boring by your standards.

And listen up, now, don't be telling all your pals that those poor folks over in yUK don't have any guns - it just ain't so.

tac

 

[tac]

tac

 

[jsparks747]

One word "Volquartsen". Don't own one because I have no desire to spend that much money on a .22 but they are apparently super nice.

 

[Kruel J]

My most expensive and ONLY rimfire gun:

 

[41mag]

My buddy lent me his Anschutz for a summer. The fancy sight alone cost more than most of my rifles.

I was surprised how soon precision can become relatively unexciting, as in myself coming to actually expect to put 5 shots into nearly the same POI.....time after boring time.....

not at all what I've been used to before, and since then, when he took it away from me....

 

[Iceberg]

One of the fellow members of the Paralyzed Vets of America has a 400 yard reactive target range on his 300 acres. Fun to see how far out you can hit targets with rimfire rifles.

 

[Kruel J]

One of the fellow members of the Paralyzed Vets of America has a 400 yard reactive target range on his 300 acres. Fun to see how far out you can hit targets with rimfire rifles.

That would be fun to stretch the legs of my .22 WMR.

 

[Iceberg]

I use my .17HMR, smoking little round.

 

[41mag]

I use my .17HMR, smoking little round.

it's been too long since mine has been out for a little exercise as well

 

[tac]

Don't just stand there/sit there, time's a'wastin'.

Get out and shoot, dammit.

tac

 

[tac]

Just come back from the range session, seeing as there is a maintenance day tomorrow with the usual workers, and got to shoot one of our serious 'squint & squeezers' getting rid of a couple of hundred rounds from this year's batch of 5000 that he gets to shoot comps.

His rifle is a Bleiker - THE top of the line in the top of the line. Just this year new, it cost him a tad under $10000 by the time he had new sights on it. Seems that the old ones were not compatible, somehow - don't ask me.


I got down behind it and loosed off a set of five at fifty - all were in a nice group, but left of centre - we ARE different people, after all.

It was hard to get my head around the fact that it had cost 500 times what I'd paid for my old Anschutz...

tac

 

[MountainBear]

Rather have the old Anschutz. The Bleiker just isn't my style. Your .22's are beautiful Tac, just like all of your collection.

 

[Jeedia]

I finished my custom kidd build last spring. Shoots amazing groups at 50 yards. (Sub 1/4") also made a custom case for it. Now just waiting for a can to add to it.

 

[tac]

Rather have the old Anschutz. The Bleiker just isn't my style. Your .22's are beautiful Tac, just like all of your collection.

V. kind of you to say so, Sir.

You shoulda seen what I USED to have...oh my...

tac

 

[MountainBear]

V. kind of you to say so, Sir.

You shoulda seen what I USED to have...oh my...

tac

Makes me sad every time I think about it. Honestly, if I was asked to pair down my collection like you had to, it would be hard to decide which to get rid of. They are all like children, you don't want to get rid of any.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

Not a high end rifle, but this is a heck of a good deal for a high end 22 pistol!
WTS OR - 22 short pistol