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Im set on getting a CZ bolt action .17 hmr/.22 rifle. I saw one recently at a gun show, and was really impressed by the quality.

Most of the noise comes from it resetting the hammer, and slamming against the steel bumper. Maybe changing the steel bumper out to nylon or hard silicone would get rid of some of the noise, but i dont know how it will affect cycling...especially suppressed. Heavier recoil spring might work too. The suppressor feeds more backpressure to the bolt for sure. These two options might get rid of the noise created when the bolt slams into the rear of the reciever. In all reality....how quiet do you want it. If bolt noise is that big of a deal, perhaps you should modify it to fire from a locked bolt, and manually cycle it for each round. (e.g. Turn it into a bolt action rifle)

I havent heard anything else about it...but they did bring a integral m&p 15-22 to the shot show. Might want to call them if youre interested.

Check the ejector...if it gets bent it will cause the slide to drag too.

Got a chance to check out the scar 5.56 yesterday. To me it felt like a feather-weight. It seemed really light.

Ive never seen a clean rifle not shoot good because it was clean. I have however seen dirty rifles not shoot good specifically because they were dirty. :thumb: Also....there are some competition long range shooters that will run a patch down the bore after every 5 shots or so. I never took it to that extreme, but i do clean them after every shooting session, or when performance starts to suffer from a long day of shooting. Aside from all the lead in the barrel, many powder/primer residues are corrosive, and i sure dont want to leave that in my barrel.

Ive seen them in the $350-$400 range here. They really would be worth every cent. I was shocked at how well they were put together. Id seen their website because im a Dan Wesson fan, and never gave them much thought because the small pics on the internet made me think they would be similar in build and quality to a marlin. Oh no....no... The reciever and barrel was blued perfectly. Even, and the perfect color and depth. The tolerances were tight, and there was no machining marks or burrs. Lets put it this way....it was to .22 rifles what the Aston Martin DB9 is to automobiles. The stock was walnut, high gloss, and checkered with crisp even checkering. Ive only seen stocks like it on anschultz, weatherby, and maybe a few rare winchesters. It will probably be the next gun i purchase.

I saw a CZ .22 bolt action rifle recently, and while its not "tacticool", it was by far the finest, most well made bolt action .22 rifle Ive seen in over a decade. It was Anschultz quality with Weatherby looks. Absolutely flawless perfection. Ive got to add one to the collection.....and the price on them is pretty good.

Aguila is good ammo for sure. Ive been using the Colibri rounds for a long time against the rodent population because they are really quiet and dont gather unneeded attention. And their SSS "Sniper" (lol) rounds are really accurate. I havent tried the HV stuff yet, sounds like I need to.

Mine was hard to clip closed about the first 20 times or so, its still tight, but not as much as it was. Id rather it be tight and stay locked, then loose and flop around.

The garand is nice.....but Ive always wanted a match-grade M14...

There are two options regarding ammo....either jacketed or lead. Jacketed ammo, leaves traces of copper in the barrel. Copper can be removed from the bore with a solvent....Copper can be dissolved by ammonia, , ferric chloride, ferric citrate, the ferric chelate of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, water soluble ferric salts, ammonium persulfate and ammonium borate among many others. Lead ammo, leaves smears of molten lead in the bore. Lead cannot be removed from the bore with a solvent, as lead is insoluable. So the only way to get it out is to scrub it out with a brass brush or by using something like Kleen-Bore Lead Removing patches (which is a patch coated with something). Nobody really knows what Kleen-Bore has coated the patches with. My guess is that its some sort of oxidizer like a nitrate, but I dont know, all I know is that it works. The kicker is lead rounds expand to fill the bore better than jacketed rounds, and because of their tendancy to grab the rifling better.....tend to be more accurate. You will find a few shooters that claim they never clean their barrels because the lead in the barrel makes it more accurate. This is a false thought however, its not the lead in the barrel that makes it more accurate, but the lead round itself. A lot of the lead ammo, is coated in waxes and/or lubes that are "claimed" to reduce lead fouling of the bore. Most lead comes from friction in the bore, but some of it is layed down by the tail end of the round during the high temperture it sustains from the propellant. Depending on what kind of ammo you use, should determine what cleaning method you choose. If its copper rounds, clean the carbon out first....then dissolve the copper fouling., then protect it with lube. If its lead rounds, clean the carbon out first, then scrub the lead out, then protect it with lube.

The 522 is kinda a pain to clean. Its mostly the reciever, because there isnt much room to get tools in there. If you can find a 12 guage nylon bristle brush, it works good for cleaning in the reciever. DONT use a 12 guage swab though....it will get caught on the ejector. Im picky about cleaning my guns, so I use a bent pipe cleaner to get in the tough to reach spots.

Academy here is selling the sig 2022 in 9mm for 399

Oddly enough, it might be a good training issue with the weight, because they probably more closely resemble the weight of a fully loaded mag of .223

.223 - Your best bet as far as mass produced is probably going to be the Federal Gold Medal Match rounds loaded with the Sierra 69g rounds. You should really consider doing your own reloads here, because there are some superb loadings that you can only get if you do it yourself. Like a Sierra Matchking 77g round loaded to 2.264 with some R15. Why no manufacturers have done this, I dont know. 9mm - CorBon 147g Match FMJ is the best stuff out there in my opinion. and its super clean ammo. I dont recommend attempting reloads on 9mm, until you have some reloading experience. These little rounds can be tricky to reload for a beginner. The brass has to be flawless. The tendancy of the round to wobble as it presses in the case, the brass tends to be loaded chock full of powder, and it doesnt leave much room for the bullet. Its hard to get good consistancy with home produced loads. Honestly, I hate reloading 9mm. Its easier, and usually much more accurate to just buy some factory rounds. 40 S&W - Dont know....I dont use .40 for punching paper. .45acp - Good luck finding any Federal GMM rounds..Corbon or Black Hills are good alternatives. Again, reloading is still the best option here. I like the Federal 230g round. There are so many options with .45, you really have to experiment to find the rounds that work best with your perticular pistol. Id buy a bunch of different types, shoot them all, and find what works best for you. Some guns like a slow moving heavy round, Some can feed flatnose lead rounds, some like a hot and light round. Do some online searching regarding your .45 pistol and find out what other people are using specifically in that gun.

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Your best option... http://cz-usa.com/products/view/dan-wesson-guardian/ True 9mm single stack 1911, and its match grade. Expensive, but worth every cent. Barrel is a bit longer than you wanted though. Honestly, anything less than 4" in 9mm wont be anything more than a plinker. The 9mm is a fast round, you really need some barrel length to get any accuracy out of it.

If faced with a charging grizzly bear, or a raging bull moose, which would you rather have? A .22 or a .44 mag? Nuff said. Why would a drugged up criminal be any different?

Nikon d60 with a nikkor 55-300VR ED I think it was around 1/500at f/4 ISO 400 if i remember correctly. Ill have to check. It was trying for the shot, but really, it was a just a fluke that i actually got it.

Where are you stationed? Im in warner robins.

Last two episodes were awesome. Rebuilt a WWII flame thrower. I agree with the shop owner. I have no desire to strap that deathtrap to my back. Those guys are nuts for even attempting it. That takes some major cahones to pull the trigger on a stone-age overpressurized tank of napalm strapped to your back. I was kinda taken back that the Medal of Honor recipient would want to relive that experience. You know he fried up some crispy japs back in the day with that thing. The Browning M2 build was awesome. Im totally impressed that they actually got that thing together and firing. Its not a easy gun to assemble, and there are only a few armorers in the US that have been mil-spec trained to do it. They didnt show it in the show, but that was a flat reciever kit...which means that someone in that shop had to use a metal brake to form the bottom half of the reciever. Props to whoever pulled that off to spec on the first attempt. It appears their shop favors the AK's, so I can only assume that their experience forming AK recievers helped out quite a bit. All in all, I think they are about to ramp this thing up...and it looks exciting. Interesting to see their suppressed SBR breakdown 10/22 rifle. Wonder if they could do that with a Mini 14 ranch rifle. It would be sick.

I dont sell guns either....I still have pellet rifles from when I was a kid. Ive only sold one gun....a Makarov 9x18. Traded it in on a Walther PPK, which is what I wanted the first time.

Its not just the gsg, the m&p 15-22 suffers from the same problem. Looking forward to seeing the modification pics and info. GSG and S&W should take note....as well as the other manufacturers before somebody gets seriously hurt and a lawsuit that ends up negatively affecting the entire .22 community results.

I was hoping to see some "innovative" stuff on the show.....so far...nope. A suppressed shotgun. Been done before. Anyone can suppress a shotgun that fires a slug. Its when you go to actual shot that you cant suppress it, and their approach wont either. Fire a shell with shot instead of a slug, and that suppressor wont do squat. Then the master key project. Nothing new their either. They were mounting Rem 870's under M-16s back in Vietnam. Also, there is a picatinny rail mounted M203, that they should have pulled the mount off of to make their version. Would have been easier, and it would have snugged the shotgun closer under the rail, instead of having it hanging off the front end like a wayward dingleberry. Im thinking some of that stuff was staged too. Why would a guy that didnt own a M203 have boxes of 37mm shells laying around waiting for a grenade launcher that he had never seen. As far as entertainment value...it fun to watch, has that mythbusters blowing stuff up feel.