24" or longer barrel lengths .22lr

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I am in the market for a 22lr with barrel length of 24" or more, lever, bolt action repeater or single shot. I may have to find something used like a cooey 75 but was wondering how many are still being made aside from the CZ 452 lux and Henry frontier. Not interested in anything semi auto.
 
Most .22lr ammo ceases to accelerate after 16" of barrel. Anything longer MAY cause the round to slow down due to friction, giving your High velocity ammo a standard velocity signature. This is not a rule, but a generalization.
 
Oldie but Goodie

Picked this up a while ago.
Has a 24.5" octagon barrel, single shot, bolt.
Man this rifle is such a treat!!!!
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CZ 455 Jaguar has a long barrel 28 1/2” Wolverine has them in stock........... I might just order one!
 
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Any rifle can have whatever length barrel you want on it... like a CZ 455 with a custom Lilja straight 0.850" 24" barrel... :d

 
452 Ultra Lux. Not a regular in the gopher patch but has done it's share. Shoots pretty quiet with std vel ammo. Like a pellet gun with CCI Quiet, but need to pay close attention to make sure the round exits the bbl. Right with the friction losses, quiets drop quarter inch at 20 yrds.
 
Some of the old school target rifles have pretty long barrels. I have a Schultz and Larsen that's got a 28" barrel. It's a bit heavy for packing around though at 16 lbs. The 1.5 oz trigger is a treat though.
Kristian
 
The 452 Ultra Lux is your best bet... I am not a fan of the beech stock, but you can always swap that out later if you so choose.
 
sgt.rock said:
Most .22lr ammo ceases to accelerate after 16" of barrel. Anything longer MAY cause the round to slow down due to friction, giving your High velocity ammo a standard velocity signature. This is not a rule, but a generalization.
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From the firing line...
We conducted our barrel length vs velocity test on March 21st at the North Alabama Shooting Association range in Sheffield, Alabama. I am still awaiting a more detailed analysis (standard deviations, etc) but here are the results that I found most relevant.

We used five CZ 452 .22 rifles with different barrel lengths and fired six rounds each of six different cartridge types. The chart below reflects the average velocity of the six rounds.

The rifles were:
CZ 452 Ultra Lux with a 28.6” barrel
CZ 452 Special with a 24.8” barrel
CZ 452 American with a 22.5” barrel
CZ 452 FS with a 20.7” barrel
CZ 452 Classic with a 16.5” barrel (Fuzzy the Limey’s old CMP Sporter rifle)

The cartridges were:
CB Longs = CB
RWS Subsonic Hollow Points = SSHP
Wolf Match Target = Standard Velocity or SV
American Eagle Solids = Lead High Velocity or LHV
CCI Mini Mag Solids = Plated High Velocity or PHV
CCI Stingers = Hyper Velocity or HypVel

-----CB SSHP SV --LHV -PHV HypVel
28.6 652 968 1037 1206 1188 1660

24.8 676 997 1062 1219 1217 1660

22.5 653 998 1069 1229 1213 1708

20.7 701 957 1062 1224 1190 1661

16.5 685 949 1057 1205 1208 1666

My conclusions:

Relative to the .22 long rifle cartridge, the barrel length does not make enough difference to fuss over. Use the barrel length that you like and don’t fret over any loss or gain of velocity.

If I had to say any length was faster, I would give it to the 22.5" length by a hair. But, there are so many variables like smoothness of bore or tightness of bore this test is at best just a conversation piece. It was fun though.
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I just bought a CZ 455 trainer with a 24.8" barrel. Now discontinued.

My reasons:
Longer barrel = longer sight radius; and I want the rifle for our fun shoot competitions with open sight.
Bavarian style stock -- these just fit me perfectly!
Accuracy -- CZ are noted for it.
Tangent sight -- easy to see with my old eye.
Shares mags with my scope rifle; a Norinco JW15 with a 24" barrel; also very accurate.
 
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