Weight
must not exceed 9.0 lbs with scope or iron sights attached.
Bi-pod weight is not included in weight of the rifle.
To keep this class affordable; rifle cost must be under
$800 per recognized values. Internet/catalog pricing is
recognized as standard value. Example Champion
Shooter’s Supply advertises the Anschutz 1416 Heavy
Barrel Beavertail on sale for $755. The MRSP (Manufactures
suggested retail price) of this gun is much higher than the
advertised or “street” price.
Below is a highly accurate CZ 452 American. The only
modification is a Rifle Basix trigger.
Many of our shooters do very very well with this rifle. The
452 American features two action screws. The barrel contour
seems to provide a high level of tune. The barrel is hand
lapped. Old world craftsmanship and value at a bargain
price.
Biathlon
Basic
http://www.gunblast.com/RAA-Biathlon.htm
Quoting
from Jeff Quinn at Gunblast .com "The Russian-made Biathlon
basic is, as the name implies, a "basic" or stripped-down
version of the Ishmash Biathlon rifle that is used in
serious small bore rifle competition. The Biathlon rifle
wears special micrometer adjustable target sights and has a
radical target stock, which is perfect for serious
competitors, but a bit out of place for a hunting rifle.
Enter the Basic. It has the action and design of the
competition rifle, but in a style more suited to the woods
or small bore metallic silhouette rifle range. The proper
name for the rifle is Biathlon 7-2-KO Basic. It wears a
wood stock of what appears to be birch, and has cut
checkering on each side of the pistol grip area. The
factory specs calls for birch, beech, or walnut. The sample
rifle weighs in at six pounds and seven ounces, but factory
specs calls for 7.7 pounds, with the weight difference
probably coming from the wood on a particular rifle. The
barrel measures just under nineteen and three-quarters
inches long, and is of a semi-heavy profile, measuring
right at three-quarters of an inch diameter at the muzzle,
which has a radically inset crown. The barrel is
free-floated its entire length forward of the action, and
the barreled action is finished in what appears to be a
black epoxy finish that is both good looking and
functional. The barrel also appears to be hammer forged.
The RAA Basic comes supplied with both a five-round and a
ten-round magazine, and like many Russian made rifles,
comes with a cleaning rod and oil bottle. The trigger guard
and floorplate are made of plastic, as are the magazines.
The safety is a handy little unit that slides forward to
fire, is inset into the front of the trigger guard, and is
in an ideal location for both left-handed and right-handed
shooters. The toggle action is very quick and easy to
operate; much faster than a turn-bolt action. Simply
pull back to eject a fired case and push forward to chamber
a cartridge from the magazine. During testing, the action
functioned perfectly, never failing to feed, fire, extract,
or eject. The Biathlon Basic comes with a Weaver
style scope base atop the receiver for easy scope mounting,
and wears no open sights.
Now we
come to the most impressive part, to me at least, of the
rifle; that wonderful trigger! The trigger pull on the
sample rifle measured just one pound and six ounces on my
digital trigger pull gauge. The pull has about an eighth
inch of take-up and then a perfectly crisp feel as the sear
is released. It is absolutely the best trigger pull that I
have ever found on a rimfire rifle, at any price.
For accuracy testing, I mounted my trusted Leupold 6.5 to
20 power target scope, to try to see just how well the
little rimfire will shoot. As expected, the accuracy
was superb. I tried the rifle with several different types
of ammunition from subsonic heavy bullet loads, to
hyper-velocity varmint ammunition, and most everything in
between. The Biathlon Basic shot well with everything
tried, as the groups shown will attest. At twenty-five
yards, one hole ten-shot groups measuring under one quarter
of an inch were easy to achieve and repeatable using match
ammo from Wolf and PMC. Fifty yard five shot groups were
also very accurate, with any pulled shots being my fault,
every time. The pictures tell the story better than words.
I was very well-pleased with the accuracy and performance
of the Biathlon Basic rifle, and am very glad to see this
rifle once again available on the American market. This is
not a plinking rifle, but one with which a shooter can use
to hunt small game, and then take to a silhouette
competition and be competitive with any rifle on the line.
The Biathlon Basic is, as are all good rimfire rifles, all
about the accuracy. The rifle has the built-in
accuracy, along with a superb trigger that allows the
shooter to take advantage of that accuracy. It is
also a very good value, priced along with rifles of much
inferior quality."
Savage MK II BVTS
Quote:
from Outdoor Life - Gun Test 2008
"For the
first time since we began doing our annual gun test, a
single rifle has won both the Editor's Choice and Great Buy
awards. So how did it do it? With its gleaming
stainless-steel action and barrel and a laminated hardwood
stock that echoes the sculpting of legendary stock-stylist
Reinhart Fajen, the MK II certainly looks considerably more
upscale than its price tag indicates. But good value alone
doesn't win Outdoor Life's top award. To do so, a firearm
must exhibit a level of performance consistently better
than that of other guns in its class. The Savage MK II .22
RF we tested proved to be not just the most accurate
rimfire we tested this year, but the most accurate rimfire
we've ever tested, including some high-dollar rifles of
exalted European origin.
After the gun was
sighted-in at 50 yards in a test tunnel, the first four
5-shot groups measured .191, .202, .263 and .260 inches,
for an average of .229 inches. Yep, that's less than a
quarter-inch! More remarkable is the fact that these tiny
groups were fired with standard Remington/Eley ammo and an
old lot of CCI Green Tag, neither of which are considered
the ne plus ultra by accuracy fanatics. The smallest group
of all was fired by team member Sam Arnett, who
demonstrated his award-winning benchrest technique with a
barely measurable .109 inches. By comparison, an eighth of
an inch equals .125 inches, so go
figure.
Aside from its obviously
super-accurate barrel, much of the MK II's shootability was
credited to its weight and the solid way the contoured
stock rides the bags.
Testers' Comments:
Incredible value; can't beat the price for this kind of
accuracy; Trigger pull could be better; A tack driver;
Savage can be proud of this firearm; Aesthetically very
pleasing overall; a damned fine .22 rifle; I’ll buy
it."
Editor's Choice
Great
Buy
Workmanship:***
Performance:****
Price/Value:****