No I don't mean a true precision rig, but very accurate? It's a possibility
I know some of you guys love these too, Since you hardly see them come up in the EE.
I've had this one for 10 years or so, Bought from the now extinct Badger arms for $160 I believe. Its seen its share of use on gophers and partridge, But I never considered it accurate.
Its been sitting idle in the safe for about 6 years, But recently became interested in the precision rimfire side of things.(picking up an MTR) I figured hey why not see what we can do with this little guy.
Its been messed around with for sure, Its currently sporting its 3rd stock, 2nd was a thumbhole stock of a regular jw15, But my finger can barely reach the trigger, so decided it had to go.
Picked up a CZ 452 stock off the EE, and to my surprise the are not just a drop in, took about 1.5 hours with the dremel to make everything fit pretty.
I took it out to sight in the other day, and after a real quick attempt at a zero, I ran into a badger, 2 rounds of CCI SV and he was down.
Took it out to the range with a few different brands of ammo the other day, Wanted to see what I could do at 50 yards. But the benches were a little too full so I had to resort to the 25 yard.
Fired 2 10 shot groups with CCI SV and the grouping were terrible! My suspicions seemed to be right about the accuracy of this rifle, switched to CCI mini mags and fired a 10 shot group and to my surprise it was actually pretty good!(I Know its only 25 yards)
Decided I would try another type of standard velocity ammo to see if the groups opened back up. So shot a 5 round group of Eley Action. and was blown away!
By this time the range was getting even busier and my hands even colder. so decided to call it a day.
The rifle was only sporting a cheap typical 3-9x40 Bushnell, Not sure it would have done any good for me at 50 yards anyways since the crosshairs are quite large.
Tonight I ended up putting on a 4.5-18x44 Simmons(still a cheap scope but not looking to spend much of this rig and light years ahead of the Bushnell) and some new rings. Hoping the weather cooperates tomorrow and I can do some further testing with different types of ammo out to 50 yards.
I know the groups here aren't an accurate representation of how you should test groups, There was no cleaning or seasoning of the barrel other than with the CCI SV's.
One surprising thing about this rifle it came with a trigger pull of only 1.5 lbs, I used to find it too light, But now for what I'm going for I liked it, After some tweaking tonight I was able to get it down to a constant .75 lbs pull, A little lighter than I was going for at 1 pound but it'll do!
Here are the different groups. No I didn't measure anything and probably wont until I take it to 50
First is the CCI SV both 10 shot groups looked similar.
Here is the CCI Mini Mag,(10 shot) as you can see a vast improvement
And finally here is the Eley Action (5 shot)
Excited to see what different types of higher end ammo might accomplish. All shots taken with a front support back and rear support pad.
Here is the history of the rifle in photos!
Here was the rifle in 2011 with a fixed 4 power, Badger didn't send me the mag until a month later.
Here it is in 2012 with with the thumbhole stock and another cheapo fixed 4 power
Here it is in 2013 with a 3-9 power and the stock kryloned to tan.
Fast forward to 2021 here it is in its new used CZ 452 stock still sporting a 3-9
and tonight with a more powerful 4.5-18
I know some of you guys love these too, Since you hardly see them come up in the EE.
I've had this one for 10 years or so, Bought from the now extinct Badger arms for $160 I believe. Its seen its share of use on gophers and partridge, But I never considered it accurate.
Its been sitting idle in the safe for about 6 years, But recently became interested in the precision rimfire side of things.(picking up an MTR) I figured hey why not see what we can do with this little guy.
Its been messed around with for sure, Its currently sporting its 3rd stock, 2nd was a thumbhole stock of a regular jw15, But my finger can barely reach the trigger, so decided it had to go.
Picked up a CZ 452 stock off the EE, and to my surprise the are not just a drop in, took about 1.5 hours with the dremel to make everything fit pretty.
I took it out to sight in the other day, and after a real quick attempt at a zero, I ran into a badger, 2 rounds of CCI SV and he was down.
Took it out to the range with a few different brands of ammo the other day, Wanted to see what I could do at 50 yards. But the benches were a little too full so I had to resort to the 25 yard.
Fired 2 10 shot groups with CCI SV and the grouping were terrible! My suspicions seemed to be right about the accuracy of this rifle, switched to CCI mini mags and fired a 10 shot group and to my surprise it was actually pretty good!(I Know its only 25 yards)
Decided I would try another type of standard velocity ammo to see if the groups opened back up. So shot a 5 round group of Eley Action. and was blown away!
By this time the range was getting even busier and my hands even colder. so decided to call it a day.
The rifle was only sporting a cheap typical 3-9x40 Bushnell, Not sure it would have done any good for me at 50 yards anyways since the crosshairs are quite large.
Tonight I ended up putting on a 4.5-18x44 Simmons(still a cheap scope but not looking to spend much of this rig and light years ahead of the Bushnell) and some new rings. Hoping the weather cooperates tomorrow and I can do some further testing with different types of ammo out to 50 yards.
I know the groups here aren't an accurate representation of how you should test groups, There was no cleaning or seasoning of the barrel other than with the CCI SV's.
One surprising thing about this rifle it came with a trigger pull of only 1.5 lbs, I used to find it too light, But now for what I'm going for I liked it, After some tweaking tonight I was able to get it down to a constant .75 lbs pull, A little lighter than I was going for at 1 pound but it'll do!
Here are the different groups. No I didn't measure anything and probably wont until I take it to 50
First is the CCI SV both 10 shot groups looked similar.
Here is the CCI Mini Mag,(10 shot) as you can see a vast improvement
And finally here is the Eley Action (5 shot)
Excited to see what different types of higher end ammo might accomplish. All shots taken with a front support back and rear support pad.
Here is the history of the rifle in photos!
Here was the rifle in 2011 with a fixed 4 power, Badger didn't send me the mag until a month later.
Here it is in 2012 with with the thumbhole stock and another cheapo fixed 4 power
Here it is in 2013 with a 3-9 power and the stock kryloned to tan.
Fast forward to 2021 here it is in its new used CZ 452 stock still sporting a 3-9
and tonight with a more powerful 4.5-18
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