CZ 455 Canadian Bedding Report *Update w/bore scope pics*

On another note, accuracy is a hideously addictive game.. what's good enough??
Will true match grade ammo make it better? Should I fork out money for a high end barrel? A thousand dollar scope? Maybe a custom BR stock?
My answer?
"Get a grip, Chilly! Shoot your CZ to the best of it's (and your) ability and enjoy it!"
It's why I've passed on several "better" rifles on the EE lately, including an uber nice Anschutz 54 MS rifle. I'm having a lot of fun with the tweaked 455, and that, my friends, is good enough for me..
 
Chilly807 said:
On another note, accuracy is a hideously addictive game.. what's good enough??
Will true match grade ammo make it better? Should I fork out money for a high end barrel? A thousand dollar scope? Maybe a custom BR stock?
My answer?
"Get a grip, Chilly! Shoot your CZ to the best of it's (and your) ability and enjoy it!"
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See my Savage thread for the results of match grade ammo. No, it won't make the rifle better it'll just show you what it is truly capable of. My savage is a 0.3-0.6" gun occasionally doing better or worse, and I really enjoyed shooting it today. I got my old remington 597 cleaned up and shooting better than I've seen in a long time mostly under an inch with two groups breaking 1/2" !!!! That's with a 5# trigger and 9x scope. I was petting the rifle telling it "good girl" lol. I have realistic expectations of my equipment and clearly some of my rifles just aren't making the grade and it's not my fault or anything I can fix.
 
RabidM4U5 said:
See my Savage thread for the results of match grade ammo. No, it won't make the rifle better it'll just show you what it is truly capable of. My savage is a 0.3-0.6" gun occasionally doing better or worse, and I really enjoyed shooting it today. I got my old remington 597 cleaned up and shooting better than I've seen in a long time mostly under an inch with two groups breaking 1/2" !!!! That's with a 5# trigger and 9x scope. I was petting the rifle telling it "good girl" lol. I have realistic expectations of my equipment and clearly some of my rifles just aren't making the grade and it's not my fault or anything I can fix.
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Rabid from your posts you have a decent amount of match 22lr ammo as do I.Since my initial investment some rifles prefer certain types and plain won't work in others. I have about a 750 rounds of rifle match that doesn't work well in my rimfires. I was pleased to find that my latest rimfire purchase an old mossberg likes the rifle match. The best group so far was a .357 and a couple of. 7 groups. I have since made a flat block and mounted it to the front of the stock to ride the bag better. Not sure what to expect out of it but it's fun to try. My point is its nice to have a lot of ammo already paid for to experiment with. Glad you had a good day with the savage, I got rained out today after an hour.
 
What gets me about the CZ rifles is the cheap sheet metal trigger guard on them. For a quality rifle, they look much like a Norinco. I bought a pair of milled trigger guards from a chap on the EE and had them blued. My CZ Varmint looks more elegant now.
IIRC, British armoured were required to use milled, not stamped, trigger guards when making up their sniper rifles.
The fellow running Lead Bullet Technology suggests using his firelapping compound on rimfires. Rub some on, wipe off the excess and shoot. It might help remove the tiny burrs. It has helped accuracy in some of my CF rifles.
 
slug said:
What gets me about the CZ rifles is the cheap sheet metal trigger guard on them. For a quality rifle, they look much like a Norinco. I bought a pair of milled trigger guards from a chap on the EE and had them blued.
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The Swiss G and K 7.5mm military rifles have had a stamped trigger guard for well over a hundred years. I certianly wouldn't call them cheap. As well as being the most accurate service rifle produced for their time, I believe the K31 in paticular is one of the most costly military rifles ever fielded.
 
Atlasworxs Trigger Guard - CZ455 Aluminium

$80 + $21.20 shipping. Ordering two . . . shipping remains the same.

Australian I believe.

They are cheaper than a DIP which is about $140 USD
 
grauhanen said:
Please let us know how they fit. Recently some posters on RFC indicated that there is an issue with the Atlasworx screw hole countersink. Others report satisfaction.

Another alternative is the Edgar Brothers CZ trigger guard, sold on E bay (search the site) which sells for $38.62 USD. You'd have to enquire from the seller about shipping to Canada, but since they ship to Australia (as noted on RFC by an Australian dissatisfied with his Australian-made Atlasworx trigger guard) they should also ship to Canada.
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I will not be ordering one (or two) as there might be an issue since both my 455's have been pillar bedded.
 
After reading between the lines, I'm thinking the problem might be that the countersunk screws hit the inside diameter of the pillars too soon and don't hold the bottom metal securely.
If that's the case, I had the same problem with my 455 when I pillar bedded it. The bottom of the taper seated on the pillars before the screw heads touched the bottom metal.
Luckily (and believe me, it WAS luck), my pillars were large enough diameter on the bottom flange (1/2") that I was able to simply run a countersink into the bottom of the pillars to provide clearance and still leave plenty of metal for the trigger guard to rest against.
First I considered using Allen head cap screws and washers to hold it together, but didn't want the heads sticking proud from the stock. Then I came to the conclusion that since the pillars were epoxied solidly in the stock, as long as the bottom metal was compressed against them all would be good. It was.
Other than a thin grey line of bedding material visible around the action, there's no external indication that my rifle is anything but OEM original. It shoots a bit better than stock, but doesn't scream "MODIFIED!!" until you look closely.
 
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