CZ 457 Stainless barrel?

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One of these just showed up at my LGS and after looking it over I had to ask myself why would anyone choose a stainless barrel over the standard factory BobOx/Nitride finished barrels?
I have owned and fielded a total of three 457's now and the nitride finish on both the bore and surface of the barrel and action is amazingly tough and wear/weather resistant. In the case of nitrided steel vs bare Stainless I'd choose the nitride finish every time.
Always nice to have options I suppose but this one has me scratching my head.
 
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My 455 stainless is one of my favorite guns. It looks great and shoots even better. It can do under an inch at 100 yards which is excellent for a stock rimfire in my books.
 
Are the 457 'stainless' true stainless, or stainless colored nitride? I haven't held one, thought from pics they were just a diff color of nitride.
 
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Are the 457 'stainless' true stainless, or stainless colored nitride? I haven't held one, thought from pics they were just a diff color of nitride.
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Action is Nitrided steel and the barrel is some type of ordnance grade SS I believe. Only thing I'm unsure of is the bolt.

I know my T1X bolt is stainless, now Tikka just needs to go SS on the action and barrel and finish the job!
 
Sun_and_Steel_77 said:
Action is Nitrided steel and the barrel is some type of ordnance grade SS I believe. Only thing I'm unsure of is the bolt.

I know my T1X bolt is stainless, now Tikka just needs to go SS on the action and barrel and finish the job!
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Thank you Sir, good to know.
 
I saw the 457 with stainless barrel. The stainless barrel looks exactly like my 455 stainless, same matte finish. I suspect the 457 model with stainless barrel is just the standard 457 blued receiver fitted with older barrels made specifically for the 455 stainless models. This is sort of a transitional model. I hope CZ is coming up with fully stainless 457 model. I love my stainless 455.
 
I got a 452 style and its my favorite rimfire, so when the 455 came out I bought the first 455 ss with green speckled black stock I could find and sure like it, have the 455 cad one too but prefer the shiney ones, some just look fancier in stainless :cool:

I haven't handles these 457s though, the kinda look funny but also scared one might come home with me.
 
Sun_and_Steel_77 said:
Action is Nitrided steel and the barrel is some type of ordnance grade SS I believe. Only thing I'm unsure of is the bolt.

I know my T1X bolt is stainless, now Tikka just needs to go SS on the action and barrel and finish the job!
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OP - you should grab it just to be a little different.

I have an in-the-box (old blue and white box) stainless (more accurately, Nitrided?) 452-2E ZKM American with beautiful Tiger-striped wood (Walnut?) stock in .22WMR.

I've seen 'stainless' CZ .22's before, but only with synthetic stock (Style). Has anyone ever seen a wood-stocked stainless CZ .22??
 
I've got one of the SS/Lux models and there are a few left on Vendor's websites. I haven't seen mention of them on US forums so maybe not as popular down there. I like the contrast of the black bolt in SS receiver and the wood seems to stand out better than with black barrel.
Wearing just a Covenant-4 in 6-24x50 FFP-SF on CZ 0*MOA rail with Vortex Low rings, about 1/4" clearance of scope to barrel and same for the bolt handle/scope.
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