I’ve got a line on one without front or rear sights. Crappy optic and rings mounted now. 28xx serial. The rear face of the barrel seems a bit beat with dings. It has been tested for function but not accuracy. What are the odds it is a tack driver with top end ammunition?
Brno Model 3 experience?
- Thread starter emerson
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It’s a bit strange, like the extractors were not in their cuts, or someone regularly used a screwdriver to pry brass out of the chamber. Maybe stingers? I think I’ll let it go unless I can test fire before paying.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
One would think that was a decent brand of utility rimfire rifle - I doubt it is to "modern" tack-driver (benchrest) level, though? As I have found, the barrel, the bore condition, the bedding, the trigger, the mounts and the shooter have way more to do with the results, than does the brand name, or perhaps the age of the rifle. You even might want to consider the condition of the firing pin tip?
Within the past year, I made the mistake to run a bore scope up the barrel on a Schultz and Larson Model 61 - I should not have done that - I saw pits and scratches on that rifling from chamber to muzzle - but the rifle will likely still shoot multiple sub-1/2 inch 5 shot groups at 50 meters - with the aperture sights, not with a scope - on demand, not just that it did that once. I understand from the fellow that acquired it, that he has ordered a replacement barrel for it. His comment was that it no longer shot groups any better than his S&L Model 70.
By the way, his "standard" for evaluating the accuracy of a particular lot of .22 ammo is 5 targets, each with a 10 shot group - and that is AFTER 10 shots of foulers to replace the lube from the previous batch. You may have different standards as for what is a "tack driver". That guy has "lost" a bench rest competition because he feels that he got "sloppy" and ignored some basic statistical principles when he chose the ammo lot that he used for that one.
Within the past year, I made the mistake to run a bore scope up the barrel on a Schultz and Larson Model 61 - I should not have done that - I saw pits and scratches on that rifling from chamber to muzzle - but the rifle will likely still shoot multiple sub-1/2 inch 5 shot groups at 50 meters - with the aperture sights, not with a scope - on demand, not just that it did that once. I understand from the fellow that acquired it, that he has ordered a replacement barrel for it. His comment was that it no longer shot groups any better than his S&L Model 70.
By the way, his "standard" for evaluating the accuracy of a particular lot of .22 ammo is 5 targets, each with a 10 shot group - and that is AFTER 10 shots of foulers to replace the lube from the previous batch. You may have different standards as for what is a "tack driver". That guy has "lost" a bench rest competition because he feels that he got "sloppy" and ignored some basic statistical principles when he chose the ammo lot that he used for that one.
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sillymike
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While they are nice rifles, they are not exactly rare. So unless it's stupid-cheap, I'd pass... and wait for a nice example to come along.
A lot of the vintage Brno rifles imported were training rifles. Some were great, some were hurting. Bulged barrels, etc. Cheap enough, rebarreling isn't out of the question - but rebarreling a Brno .22 is more complicated than most centerfire rifles.
If you can't shoot it, and because it is showing signs of problems, I think you are correct in passing on it. Unless it is really cheap, and you are prepared to rebarrel.
If you can't shoot it, and because it is showing signs of problems, I think you are correct in passing on it. Unless it is really cheap, and you are prepared to rebarrel.
