CIL Anchutz .22 model 780...

Hi,
Any chance that it's actually a 180? If so there's a ton of info available.... if not I'd love to see some pics of the 780 as it would be a brand new one for me...
Thanks!
 
The 180 and 190 were sold as competitive "sporting rifles" and were able to hold their own against Anschutz's and Walthers. It was a big class for recreational shooting but only known in Canada. The ISU Standard Rifle is the closest equivalent.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
The 180 and 190 were sold as competitive "sporting rifles" and were able to hold their own against Anschutz's and Walthers. .
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It's small wonder they could hold their own against Anschutz rifles. They are Anschutz rifles through and through.

Beginning in the 1960s and continuing in to the 1970s, CIL (Canadian Industries Limited) had a partnership with Anschutz, and a number of Anschutz rifles were marketed in Canada under the CIL Anschutz name. Savage had a similar arrangement in the U.S., but it should be confused with the Savage rifles Anschutz imported to Europe for a while under the Anschutz Savage name. Those rifles sometimes make the return trip to North America but are not Anschutz rifles.

The CIL Anschutz 180 is a somewhat unique, having no American equivalent among the Savage Anschutz models. In Europe it was the Model 1402A. The CIL Anschutz 190 is very similar to the Savage Anschutz 64. The CIL Anschutz 310 was the same as the Anschutz 1416 and Savage Anschutz 164. Both CIL and Savage had other models of Anschutz rifles.
 
I've been trying to compile an index of the various CIL "branded" rifles with, in my case, a specific interest in the Anschutz models. My last rendition of it can be found in the sporting rifles forum by searching for "CIL". It's not particularly accurate yet or even complete but I'm interested in getting it as accurate as possible. Thanks to all who have contributed and made it possible to get even this far!
I now have at least one of every model I know of (Anschutz based) and will start posting breakdown pics this spring of some of the variations I've found so far.
 
Grouse Man said:
http://proofhouse.com/cm/house_brand.htm

Here's all you need.
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No, it's not all you need. The CIL Anschutz 125 is the only rimfire model made by Anschutz that is listed in that link. It does not, for example, list the 180, 190, or the 310 -- the three shown in the image above. Nor does it include the CIL Anschutz 111, which was the CIL-imported version of the Anschutz Model 1361, or the CIL Anschutz 167, which was the CIL version of the Model 1386

The CIL Anschutz semi automatic rifles like the 300, which are like the Anschutz 520/525, are not made by Anschutz even though they have Anschutz stamped on them. They were made in Italy by either Sovereign or Marocchi.
 
Wow... learn something new every day...! I didn't know about the Italian connection on the 300/470's at all... If you have anything that I can chase down on that Italian thread I'd love to know about it... Gunnutz is a neat place!
 
Jim, that's a CIL Anschutz 180, a 64 action rifle. It's hard to see, but it looks to be a 1964 vintage. It likely has the 5057 trigger. The stock is beech. These rifles were originally imported for the CIL Dominion Marksman program and the Canadian Civilian Association of Marksmen (later the Shooting Federation of Canada) "Sporting Rifle" competition class.

Edit: the receiver sight does not appear to be original to the rifle.
 
grauhanen said:
OldCERA is likely right. The CIL Anschutz 180 is an often-seen rifle, first available in the 1960's.

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Sigh... $135. for an Anschutz target rifle, new. No HST, no GST, maybe even no PST. No FAC, no PAL... No Toronto psychiatrists assuming that because you owned a .22 you were planning to be a mass-murderer... No police showing up to a school because a little boy drew his stick-figure daddy shooting monsters with a stick-figure ray-gun (Waterloo, some time around 2012)... sigh...
 
Yep, definitely a 180. The rear sight is unusual, most likely someone scavenged the original or lost it.
They're usually a good shooting rifle, on par with the 190, since the barreled action is essentially the same.
Does the 180 and the 190 use the same trigger? I'm under the impression they do, though I've seen both single- and two-stage triggers on the 190. The one I owned was a single-stage, the borrowed one I learned to shoot with was two-stage.
The 190s continue to fetch good prices on the EE, especially with the original sights. Between $400 and $700 depending on how proud the seller is.
When you consider the alternative is a new 64 Anschutz at $1500, that's not surprising.
The older rifles didn't have any of the 64 series' ejection problems, mercifully.
 
The CIL-180 is an Anschutz model 1402-A,,, too bad your stock has been hacked in order to accommodate the rear sight.
There are factory drilled and taped holes on the left side of the receiver, but,the factory sights are the best on this gun
 
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