Most you'd spend on a rimfire.

Depends on what it is.
I just bought a martini Mk11 off slug that I consider a real deal for well under $1,000.
I have spent more than that for a 54 Anschutz supermatch, and my Model 37 Remington that was owned by the Boa family is NOT for sale at ANY price!:cool:
Cat
 
Now that I've read through the posts, I can see the reason why one would spend so much for a rimfire. I certainly shoot my rimfires more than other gun. Hell, probably more than them all combined. However, they all are more than accurate enough for me, and well under 2000. If I could afford it, I probably would. But I can't. And I'm more than happy with my Savages, Ruger, Cooey and my one hand me down Anschutz.
 
Galazan makes a Winchester model 21 SxS in .22LR which sells for $25 - 30K. Peter Hofer makes a .17 HMR double rifle which (with engraving) is well over $100,000 :eek: (http://www.hoferwaffen.com/hofer_52g.php?prodid=14&id=257&lang=en).

Both makers seem to have a market for their wares. A small market, to be sure, but a market nonetheless.

There is no reason why a rim fire cannot be built to the same standard and quality as any other rifle. As everyone here has stated, they are fun to shoot. Why would a good quality rim fire be any less desirable than a good quality centre fire?

I keep imagining a Dangerous Gopher Hunt with that Hofer .17 HMR, backed by my PH / guide who would be armed with a CZ in .22 WMR.

Sharptail
 
Thanks Eagleye. I'm really looking forward to this rifle.


Dryfire,
I'm not sure what year it is. I have very little details about it. I just bought it on the EE so I don't have it in my hands yet.

dryfire said:
Epoxy7
That's a very nice Walther. It's a KKM action - what year of production is it?
The stock looks aftermarket but still very nice. You should have a lot of fun shooting that. Subsonic hollowpoints will make one mean 100m gopher
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Probably going to actual shoot a rimfire a lot more than a centrefire, which is mostly to carry and look at.

If you have the money why not build a top notch custom rig. Why should such be any cheaper than a CF?
 
I think the problem the manufacturors have is that the public in general is used to the low priced rimfire rifle (fair to say $140-$250 avg?) and the considerably higher priced centrefires ($400 and up, but average say $700). The low buck rimfires deliver a lot for the dollar, but they sure look like Saturday Night Specials compared to a Browning, CZ, Ruger 77/22, Anchutz. But you look at the kind of groups some of these guys are shooting with their rimfires, and there's some serious marksmenship going on. Part of it has to be attibutable to the amount of actual shooting you can afford to do with a rimfire.
 
Most I have spent on a .22 is a about $4200 (Feinwerkbau 2700 alu with Gehmann 595 sights, gehmann 215 iris, front gehmann iris, gehmann riser blocks, gehmann foresight level, and anti glare tubes). A little more than what I am used to pay for a .22 but it is a nice little gun ;)
 
Don't even know if I want to go there :eek:

Spent $800 on my jacket alone :redface: - throw the cost of pants, boots, glove, sling, hand-stop, stands, scope, matt, and all those silly little things and it sure adds up ;)
 
Conceptually, I'd never have spent more than $200 for a .22 rifle, but then I got a 10/22...;)

While I still can't see myself sinking in more than $300 more into that 10/22 (past the purchase price), I still will try to stay under $250 for my next rimfires...if possible! :)
 
Right now my best rifle/scope combo is worth about $1000.

I shoot a .22 rifle far more in one year than I will ever fire a center fire over my lifetime. However, I'm cheap by nature, and although I like good quality there is a limit. I will not spend $100,000 on an English side by side shotgun when a Remington pump has the same range and 'accuracy' at a mere percentage point of the double. And my .22 will shoot as good as any it's shot with and it will shoot far better than I can shoot it. So that's about my limit.
 
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