Thread: Interesting rimfire models: your reviews, pics, comments

Very nice Muzza - surprised the thumb triggers still being made that late (1914) but I know little about them.

Gadgetman and I range testing a little Marlin stainless heavy barrel 22WMR last week. Amazed at the accuracy of this basic rifle with the Hornady V-Max 30gr ballistic tip ammo. Groups down to 0.3" and even a tad less at 50m - bloody good for an old magnum. Rifle's better than me these days... Wears a Tasco 4-16 which is doing the rimfire job well - as they generally do. A good value unit at just $500 all up scoped:

Izhmash Bi 7-2KO Biathlon rifle. Straight pull now wearing a 6-24 FC targetmaster scope...Not the one made of chinesium that is pictured...



Also looking after one of these for a while...Though I dont appear to have a photo of it yet...(Maybe next few days.. Marlin Model 56 similar to the 57 but with a box magazine that 'look' very much like a normal Marlin magazine but with enough differences that a new one will not fit....

I like this thread and I like shooting.22RFs. However I really like accurate .22 LR rifles.

It’s taken some time and a few false starts but now have a few good and some interesting rifles.


From the top a new to me Anschutz 1710 silhouette, M78 Sako Finnfire, 1958 Brno model 2.


Centre cz 452 American , BSA sportsman 15 for open sighted plinking.

My first rifle was purchased just on 50 years ago from Cromb & Merrit in Christchurch. It was a TOZ 17 .22LR with open sights (which could be adjusted up to 300yds!!)
I had the barrel threaded to fit a can and also forked out for a 4 x 32 scope - It cost a few bucks back then.
I still have it and it still shoots true.
The heavy barrel is the key. I understood that it was originally used by the Russian Army for use by the young recruits - so was designed to take the knocks.
To check out the accuracy of the open sights I ended up shooting pipi shells hung on a stick at 100yards.
With the suppressor fitted and using subsonic ammo all you could hear was the bolt closing when the trigger was pulled.
An awful lot of bunnies in the SI high country didn't make it home.
It has always been an issue getting spare or replacement magazines [5 round] for this model for some reason.
When they are available - they are hellishly expensive for what they are so have stuck with the original and learnt how to reload fast.

I’m liking this one at the moment....




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A fair bit of doc in that pasture TH. You need to showcase your sweet spots!

Just wanted to revive this older thread for people who like the rimfires. I think Muzza has just bought a couple and will post some info soon.

Any pics, comments on your 22s/WMR/17s - new or old is welcome. Always interesting

Some really good info in these pages - well worth a read. And there's alot more pics/comments you can all add on classic rifles, unusual 22s, super modded Rugers, modern PRS rifles etc that it would be great to hear about.

Cheers Mike

The team's arsenal.. these 22s proved extremely effective for Canterbury high volume bunny shooting - 1000+ in an evening shoots etc.

Top one is a Marlin biathlon rifle - very heavy but cobber (current NZ team member) loved carting this thing around the farms! Next is @gadgetman's Marlin 980 bolt, then CZ452, and finally my wee 15" barrel JW15 shortie. Nothing flash about the bottom three, but all of these rifles very accurate on the bench and deadly at 100m on bunnies. By heavens they bowled some rabbits, cats and possums:

Thread seems stuck on page 6 at the moment?

I have a few oddball rimfires but my favourites are a 1909 Bayard auto ejector and a Heckler & Koch model 270

The Nylon 66

That's a nice little Remmy Nylon 66. Remember that model from the 60s but wasn't aware they made them until 1989. Remington made some interesting 22s. Really like their early 510/511/512/341 models - lovely old rifles. And more recently the Speedmaster 552 semiauto and Fieldmaster 572 pump. A Speedmaster I would like.

Had a Toz 17 go through the gun closet recently. Very simple rifle, durable and reliable. It shot pretty well - sub 1" groups at 50m with hunting ammos and that's dead bunnies at 100. Good old worker. Here's an excellent Toz 17 deal currently on trademe - ideal for field rifle. Super tidy, Bushnell Banner 3-9x, looks like steel rings, suppressor and two magazines - all for $300. Helluva deal...alot for your money.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketpl...7?bof=pQYLnWOi

There's a bloke up in Akld looking to get into bunny shooting - another thread. @Tall kiwi This Toz is well set up and would be a perfect learner/hunter.

Originally Posted by mudgripz

That's a nice little Remmy Nylon 66. Remember that model from the 60s but wasn't aware they made them until 1989. Remington made some interesting 22s. Really like their early 510/511/512/341 models - lovely old rifles. And more recently the Speedmaster 552 semiauto and Fieldmaster 572 pump. A Speedmaster I would like.

Had a Toz 17 go through the gun closet recently. Very simple rifle, durable and reliable. It shot pretty well - sub 1" groups at 50m with hunting ammos and that's dead bunnies at 100. Good old worker. Here's an excellent Toz 17 deal currently on trademe - ideal for field rifle. Super tidy, Bushnell Banner 3-9x, looks like steel rings, suppressor and two magazines - all for $300. Helluva deal...alot for your money.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketpl...7?bof=pQYLnWOi

There's a bloke up in Akld looking to get into bunny shooting - another thread. @Tall kiwi This Toz is well set up and would be a perfect learner/hunter.

Cheers. Still waiting for my license which may be a while away so obviously unable to buy anything yet.

Over the weekend I had in my hands a Brno mk4, heavy barrel, flat target stock. Unfortunately it had been lopped to 21 inches ( down from the original 27 1/2)

I had a Savage Stevens many moons ago that was semi auto or push in the cocking piece and it made it a single shot. 9 round curved mag.

Nice Gevarm and Mossie - remember looking at one of those 377s. The early Savage/Stevens semis included what was sometimes called a 'click-clack' action - the bolt remained open until trigger pulled, then returned to open position. I could be corrected on this.

I did not know the Remington Nylon came out in the model 12 bolt action - just for couple of years it seems. Nylon 66 was very early for polymer stocks - 1959. I did have an early Remington 600 - the 18" barrel shortie in 243 that immediately preceded the Mohawk and 660. That was a pioneer too with plastic polymer trigger guard, plastic vent rib etc. Loved it. Very accurate and superb for northern bush. Wish I'd never sold it - be nice to have one now in 222.