Tikka vs CZ - 22LR

[BLJ]

Interesting. I’ve seen a plenty of .22 LR’s that will keep up with centerfire rifles.

What ammo do you shoot in your CZ’s?

 

[thinhorn_AK]

No offense taken, and I am not a Ruger fan boy by any stretch, but they got the American rimfires 'right' (I do disable the trigger blade thingy). It's ever bit as solid as the CZ and feeds better from the vastly superior magazine. The CZ mag is kind of a S-show and rather expensive IF you can find them in stock. My 5 rounders all have a habit of occasionally jamming on the last round. Both are good guns.

Another dandy, if you can find one, is the old Remington 581 for a light squirrel rifle.

The Ruger American rimfire rifles are surprisingly good. Not even close to a Cz in terms of craftsmanship but they are impressive anyways. I got one of the exclusive American rimfire mini-ranch rifles for dirt cheap a while back. It came with a 16” threaded barrel and a pic rail installed from the factory. I threw a banish 22 that wasn’t getting much use on it as well as a cheap vortex scope using some warne vapor rings that I had in a box. The thing will shoot as many bullets as I can fire into a 1” group, pretty much any ammo. It’s more than accurate enough for shooting ptarmigan, grouse, rabbits and squirrels.

I’ve come to really like that little rifle, I don’t have to baby it, it’s got great accuracy for small game hunting and it’s extremely quiet with the suppressor on it, great little gun. I also like that it uses standard 10/22 magazines like my other rifles.

I still plan to add a CZ to my lineup at some point though. Anothernrifle I have that I really like is an older 77/22, that’s been a great gun as well, my particular one didn’t need any bolt shimming or anything. When I get around to it, I need to send it off to get threaded and cut back a bit, unfortunately it isn’t a v-block model so I can’t just swap barrels myself.

 

[Dan Carey]

Realistically the CZ is a 600 dollar gun and the Ruger is a 300 dollar gun. CZ is not twice as good as a Ruger. I own more CZ's than Ruger's, because I can not because they are that much if any better. Its about the wood.