CZ 600+ Trail

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I want a trail in 300blk and 223. Figured I'd buy the gun in one and a replacement barrel in the other depending on availability of either.
Looking at a CZ trail and checking availability of the replacement barrels..... I cannot find replacement barrels even though CZ mentions it a lot.
Are they available in Canada? :unsure:
 
Not yet it seems. The guns just landed in the last couple months up here but looking into it, it seems they aren't available in the US yet either and they've had them since about summer of last year.

Truth be told barrel swapping sounds great, but I found it to be a pain in the ass and was easier to just get another rifle. The price is usually about 50-60% of a complete gun anyways. If you decide to ditch the calibre it will be easier to just sell a complete rifle rather than the barrel.
 
JorkinMyBait said:
Truth be told barrel swapping sounds great, but I found it to be a pain in the ass and was easier to just get another rifle. The price is usually about 50-60% of a complete gun anyways. If you decide to ditch the calibre it will be easier to just sell a complete rifle rather than the barrel.
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I hear ya. I've yet to swap the 22lr barrel into my 457 17hmr yet...but I swap my Glock 40 into 9 and back all the time.....bit easier though...
..and I have other 9's and 40's.

mareshow said:
Any custom shop if you give you the gun should be able to make you one
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Sure...but CZ is marketing it like just go buy one off the shelf and away you go. Also...where I live it is mailing away your gun for anything more custom than a dovetail.
 
Can-down said:
Hopefully the Canadian barrel makers will get on it.... :)
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Ya, you and me both. I'm thinking there will be more aftermarket interest in making non 223 barrels as most people are probably buying the rifle in 223. Although with 1:7 twist I guess it is really just for the heavier boolits.
 
There is a big market for the 600+ series barrels for people that like to customize and chase small groups, the CZ barrels usually shoot pretty nice and I believe they offer a lifetime warranty, but if they are not available or hard to get and expensive people will be happy to buy locally!

Different lengths, contours, twist are also things people might want.
 
ScottB said:
I hear ya. I've yet to swap the 22lr barrel into my 457 17hmr yet...but I swap my Glock 40 into 9 and back all the time.....bit easier though...
..and I have other 9's and 40's.
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Oh for sure I used to have a glock 22 with a 9mm barrel and that was great, took all of a minute to do it. But once you have a rifle with an optic on it, now you gotta zero it every time you swap the barrel. It got old after the second swap and ended up being sold.
 
Can-down said:
There is a big market for the 600+ series barrels for people that like to customize and chase small groups
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Big? would be interesting to see the numbers for Can and then N. Amer., I doubt it goes into the thousands
Its not like CZ has a PRS-ready option in the 600+, the rest are hunters and how many of those really want a switch barrel rifle

The concept sells in countries where firearms ownership has limits that the switch option gives some credence, otherwise its a gimic imho

We have had the Savage for years with easy switch barrels and have never seen anyone take it up as a multi-cartridge platform
again, jimho, ymmv
 
boxhitch said:
Big? would be interesting to see the numbers for Can and then N. Amer., I doubt it goes into the thousands
Its not like CZ has a PRS-ready option in the 600+, the rest are hunters and how many of those really want a switch barrel rifle

The concept sells in countries where firearms ownership has limits that the switch option gives some credence, otherwise its a gimic imho

We have had the Savage for years with easy switch barrels and have never seen anyone take it up as a multi-cartridge platform
again, jimho, ymmv
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Big was a bad qualifier.... there is not much of a big market for anything other then timbits in Canada and even that market is shrinking.... :)
If it's doable for the local barrel makers I think they will do it, they should be able to sell to the larger American market as well.
 
JorkinMyBait said:
Not yet it seems. The guns just landed in the last couple months up here but looking into it, it seems they aren't available in the US yet either and they've had them since about summer of last year.

Truth be told barrel swapping sounds great, but I found it to be a pain in the ass and was easier to just get another rifle. The price is usually about 50-60% of a complete gun anyways. If you decide to ditch the calibre it will be easier to just sell a complete rifle rather than the barrel.
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Well...I went with this. I got the Traill 600 in 300AAC. The original non switchable trail is $400 less than the 600+ 300AAC. The owner of the LGS said he has been given no information on when any spare barrels might be available. Guessing the barrels would be somewhere between $400-$600 bucks but really has no idea at the moment. So to get the + model and eventually get a spare barrel would likely be a $800-$1000 premium.
So I'll take that $800-$1000, add a little more and just buy another gun instead of being able to switch barrels on this 600.
 
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