You have $300 to start a new project....what do you do?

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Ok guys, PAL should be here sometime this month (in the next 2 weeks hopefully). Lets say you have $300 to purchase your first rimfire new or used (excluding scope). What do you do? Do you buy the 10/22 for the aftermarket, or the savage for the bang for the buck, or do you go bust and buy your dream rifle (for me the henry goldenboy, admittedly a bit over budget) and get it over with?


I'm looking for suggestions on how to spend a bit of money soon and I'm not sure I want to go with the traditional 10/22 route. I'm not going to make it into an AR styled rifle, and I'm more concerned with accuracy and aesthetics than "mod-ability". I love the FV-SR of certain models, such as this one
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But the Henry is supposed to have a buttery smooth action and has a timeless look. I know I will eventually own one.
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I should mention accuracy for me means close groups at 100-150 yards, no further for now.
Suggestions/opinions?
 
You wont have much luck finding a 10/22 unless its in the ee as ruger is big time back ordered. The savage is getting hard to find right now as well, but thats money well spent in what is one of the most accurate rimfires out of the box today. Ive had a golden boy and while i loved it, it was just a plinker for me and not a hunter. All depends on what you will be using the gun for as well.
 
jlovie said:
You wont have much luck finding a 10/22 unless its in the ee as ruger is big time back ordered. The savage is getting hard to find right now as well, but thats money well spent in what is one of the most accurate rimfires out of the box today. Ive had a golden boy and while i loved it, it was just a plinker for me and not a hunter. All depends on what you will be using the gun for as well.
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Probably won't be hunting, mostly plinking unless I find the scattered rabbit at 80 yards or less. Will be hunting bigger game, and obviously I won't be doing that with a .22 !
 
jlovie said:
You wont have much luck finding a 10/22 unless its in the ee as ruger is big time back ordered. The savage is getting hard to find right now as well, but thats money well spent in what is one of the most accurate rimfires out of the box today. Ive had a golden boy and while i loved it, it was just a plinker for me and not a hunter. All depends on what you will be using the gun for as well.
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Wow I am so lucky! Last month I lost my saftey-plunger-detent-spring from mine, so I figured "why not get a new 10/22 for $220?" so I went to my local shop and got one. Now there's none anywhere and it seems to be the case Canada wide! I ordered a new plunger-spring with not much hope of seeing it soon, but it came in just 2 weeks -straight from ruger! So it must be only guns that are backed up.

Anyway... I think you should just buy the Henry! From what I understand they are accurate as can be. Well made for sure. But most importantly; it's the gun YOU want. For me that gun was a 10/22, and now I own 2 of them and couldn't be happier. And man, the Henry does look good. Nothings more bad-ass than a lever. Just ask John Wayne. Or Clint Eastwood. Or arnie... Ok maybe not so much arnie lol.

Good luck spending your chips!
 
OP , just go and get the Golden Boy to start .
If that's your dream rifle , you won't regret getting it right away .
If you don't , you will keep wanting it .

I'm sure you will have several , or maybe many guns , once you get going . Getting the one you see as the top right away will give you hundreds , maybe thousands of rounds before you want to start looking for something new .

Go for it . Get your fave right out of the box .
 
Dagmaar said:
OP , just go and get the Golden Boy to start .
If that's your dream rifle , you won't regret getting it right away .
If you don't , you will keep wanting it .

I'm sure you will have several , or maybe many guns , once you get going . Getting the one you see as the top right away will give you hundreds , maybe thousands of rounds before you want to start looking for something new .

Go for it . Get your fave right out of the box .
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^Good advice. I'm not a lever fan (had a 9422) nor do I have any experience with Henrys. What I DO have experience with is being impatient and not getting the rifle I really want. Trust me...it's worth the wait. The alternative is always wondering and second-guessing whether or not you should have gotten your dream rifle. If you HAVE to hear something go "bang"...then pick-up a Cooey 75 for $75 off the EE while you save. I'm going through this right now picking-out a centerfire. Better price, and better availability on my SECOND choice...the one I want costs $250 more and might take 3 months to get!

As for what might be the best CHOICE of a gun~I really think you should consider a bolt gun. I think levers are really pissy to clean and in my Winchester experience...don't hold a candle to the accuracy of a bolt-action. I also think those heavy-barrel, thumbhole stock Savages are not great carry/field guns...and forget off-hand shots~just too heavy even without a scope.
 
Money isn't really an issue i guess, I just don't want to blow an unnecessary amount on the beginning of a hobby. I have too many expensive hobbies as it is!

Is the accuracy of the CZ something that someone who's never shot a gun before would notice and appreciate? Because if so, then I guess I'll have a look at them as well!
 
IMHO, you start out with good tools. when you start, being able to hit the end of a 4x4 at 25 feet will be a challenge. But, if you keep at it, you'll get better... For me, I had a number of .22 rifles, and after much prodding to look into CZ from the butcher in town, I bought a CZ 455 supermatch. This was the first new .22 that I held that didn't feel to me that it was stamped out of cheap sheet metal in the under $1000 range. It felt like it was handcrafted by someone who cared about what they were doing. And the gun fit me a lot better than a lot of others I had owned did.
A few days after I bought it, a group of people came out to my family's farm to do some shooting. We shot some skeet, and targets with .22s. There were a number of different .22s there to try. There was my CZ, a savage bolt, 3 10-.22s, a marlin, and an old cooey. Everyone that tried it said that the CZ was by far the best. 3 of the 5 that tried it had sold their other .22s and had bought a CZ within 2 weeks. I myself sold off all my .22s except the ones with sentimental value, and bought 2 more CZ .22s.
As for your question about accuracy, unless you get an iron sight model, you'll need to find someone to help you sight in the scope. Then you'll have to practice. I shot 500 rounds a day for 3 months to practice... Then I shot ground squirrels for the neighbours for 25 cents a tail. I pretty much destroyed the trigger on grandpa's old cooey between the practice and shooting ground squirrels. By the end of that, with iron sights, I could put 9 of 10 shots into a 3x5 recipe card at 150 yards. (Then again, I have better than 20/20 vision, and can read the bottom line of a sight chart with each eye.)
The accuracy of the gun is very good, if you feed it good ammo. My 3 seem to like blazer by cci best.
Just as a side note, I had a few .22s that didn't feel good to hold, weren't comfortable to use for extended periods, or of very good quality, and I began to hate shooting. So, one might want to buy a rifle that feels good to start off with so as not to have a bad association with shooting.
 
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squidjiggin said:
Money isn't really an issue i guess, I just don't want to blow an unnecessary amount on the beginning of a hobby. I have too many expensive hobbies as it is!

Is the accuracy of the CZ something that someone who's never shot a gun before would notice and appreciate? Because if so, then I guess I'll have a look at them as well!
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The fit and finish is what is very nice on them. From what I have read accuracy is pretty close to a savage but the finish on the savage is nowhere close to that of the cz. All of my savages are being sold and replaced with cz as funds permit. The quality is so much better.
 
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