have seen some neg posts here re cz 457. anyone have experience with the above MRT? about 1/3 price of the newest anshutz and 1/4 price of a voodo. that matters a bunch. my skill level,age and eyes just can't justify a fun/play rifle at >1K. tx for input.
cz 457 MTR
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I've been shooting a CZ 457 MTR in ARA factory bench rest for the past year and have been doing pretty well.
Just a guess on my part, but I think the MTR is overwhelmingly the preferred CZ for this type of shooting, so CZ did something right.
But just like any other rifle, particularly a factory rifle, you pay your money and take your chances when it comes to accuracy.
I purchased another factory barrel at a decent price just to see if there was an improvement in accuracy and found they were about the same, so I put that barrel on a CZ 455. Now, that was an improvement over the 455 factory barrel.
I'm shooting Eley Tenex in mine because with the current ammo shortage, I can still buy bricks of it with the same lot number. If I could do the same with Lapua, I'd try it. It did take about 500 rounds through it before the barrel showed it's accuracy potential, but it shot pretty well right out of the box.
I don't pay that much attention to what I read off the internet. You don't know how good of a shooter the posters are, nor the conditions they are shooting in. By shooting the rifle in bench rest, I've learned it doesn't take much wind at all to open groups. Shooting off of a front and rear rest will show you how the rifle wants to be held. Wind flags are your friend. I look for a dead calm day to try out a new lot of ammo. I look for a day where there's wind to practice my target shooting.
Just a guess on my part, but I think the MTR is overwhelmingly the preferred CZ for this type of shooting, so CZ did something right.
But just like any other rifle, particularly a factory rifle, you pay your money and take your chances when it comes to accuracy.
I purchased another factory barrel at a decent price just to see if there was an improvement in accuracy and found they were about the same, so I put that barrel on a CZ 455. Now, that was an improvement over the 455 factory barrel.
I'm shooting Eley Tenex in mine because with the current ammo shortage, I can still buy bricks of it with the same lot number. If I could do the same with Lapua, I'd try it. It did take about 500 rounds through it before the barrel showed it's accuracy potential, but it shot pretty well right out of the box.
I don't pay that much attention to what I read off the internet. You don't know how good of a shooter the posters are, nor the conditions they are shooting in. By shooting the rifle in bench rest, I've learned it doesn't take much wind at all to open groups. Shooting off of a front and rear rest will show you how the rifle wants to be held. Wind flags are your friend. I look for a dead calm day to try out a new lot of ammo. I look for a day where there's wind to practice my target shooting.
thanks. kinda where i am at. traditional front rest,eared rear bags,scoped but not sure which will be the final one. shooting decent ammo wolf ME,rws match,sk hi vel match. seen any of the higher end savage rifles on your match circuit. $ matter and an anshutz or vudoo just can't happen.
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There may be a very few of the Savages out there, but I haven't seen any in the matches I've been in. With the exception of one RPRF, I think all of the rifles have been CZ's.
The ARA rules are such that the factory rifles have to have a MSRP of less than $1,000.00, with the exception of the CZ varmint precision chassis MTR, which had a msrp below $1000 when the rules were made, so it gets a pass.
Thanks to one of the Covid relief checks, I scoped my rifle with a Vortex Golden Eagle; I like that 60 power magnification, but then I'm kind of a high magnification whore anyway.
have one and have had zero problems with it no malfunctions nor anything else I still wish I would have saved the video I saw where someone took the mtr stock and made an at one out of it withe the adjustable cheek and adjustable but , I was impressed how nice it turned out rather just buying the laminated at one, still a nice gun the only thing I have done is add a flat spot to mount an arca rail to it and the occasional bit of wood wax and cleaning the stock furthest I have shot it out to 400 yards and it shot extreamly nice . yea I am a mag whore or just a whore I love having 50x mag when using the 22lr 40 is my preferred setting so far .
