jonnynitro said:
I am with Jonny on Remington 597.
I bought my 597 brand new for $160.00 from LeBaron when they had a no tax sale event last year. The first time I brought it at the range I had a lot of disppointing jams with the first 300 round of my 597. I thought I bought a crappy cheap rifle, but as the round count goes higher... the rifle got better and better after a thousand round break in.... Since then, did not have jams as often in the last 3-bricks of Thunderbolts that went thru her. YES.... my 597 love to shoot the cheap $11.95 a brick thunderbolt 22 LR. I have gone thru the Yellow Jackets, Targets, CCI Stingers, Win Super Xs and Wildcats, but nothing compares to the tight grouping (1/2" small hole) using Thunderbolt from 50-yrds (Not bad for a semi-auto rifle).
YES, the 597 trigger is heavy, but for $32.00 US you can replace it with an after market trigger from Volquartsen, which should bring down the the 597 factory trigger pull from 8-9 lbs to a crispy 2.5-4 lbs. Also, if you want to customize the rifle using neat after market parts like R10/22, there's a lot of available after market makers south of the border like Volquartsen that makes custom parts for 597. YOu got more flexibility in customizing your rifle just like R10/22, which right now is not available for other rimfire rifle brands.
For the looks, price, quality, accuracy and performance and availability of custom parts...... I'd stick to my 597.
just my 2-cents
