With the thoughts and comments from the Hide I bought a CZ455 Tacticool for my son's Xmas present (i have relayed this before but this is his first rifle and I got him started with guns this summer with and M&P CORE .40 cal. I will not go into all the reasons I introduced so late to the sport but he has really taken to it. He will finish/ be a Master's Degree candidate at the University of Kansas in Spring 2014. I wanted to set up something that would be technically interesting for him from a platform standpoint. He impressed the hell out of me shooting a handgun the first time so for Xmas it was CZ "Cool" time.
So we threw on a Simmons 3x9x40mm target scope and DIP aluminum magazine well. We held off on messing with the DIP trigger products for the first shoot.
I recieved fantastic feedback from the Hide on the Tacticool vs. the 455 with the Manners stock. There were no wrong answers in the selection. Frankly, I made the decision because of the 400 dollar price difference for a .22. With that said, I am seriously considering the other option for myself......especially after today. The Boyd's version feels good in hand and you can judge our initial performance below. The Manner's stock is truly awesome in hand for what it is intended to be/do.
So we took the "Cool" to a public outdoor range. Temp rose the couple of hours we were there as did the wind (which remained very light at approximately 0-4mph slight cross/tailwind during our couple of hours at the range. 46-50 degrees bench shooting from a harris bipod on the front and crappy butt rest from a shooting bag.....was not thinking I would really need/want the good rests. Sighting in at 25 then 50 yds I was thinking "damn" in a good way. Went to a 100 yds and got it sighted ...... didn't have a spotting scope so it was difficult to see the holes but with several trips downrange we walked it in.
Just to help with visibility I stuck on a Shoot-N-C target and loaded up 5 round mag of Lapua Midas + .22LR. Being new to precision rimifire (as opposed to shooting varmints and "cans" for fun, what do you guys think? With these kind of targets measuring the spread is not as easy so I got a max of .9182" conservatively for the 5 round group. I didn't have a spotting scope and was travelling light with binocs.....when I started seeing the splashes I was amazed. This was backed up by putting at least 3 of 5 rounds on the little Shoot-N-C dot patch they provide extend target use.
Thanks so much again,
Thanks again my friends but please always be honest with your feedback......should we be as happy as we are with these first results? Personally, this is pretty damn goo
So we threw on a Simmons 3x9x40mm target scope and DIP aluminum magazine well. We held off on messing with the DIP trigger products for the first shoot.
I recieved fantastic feedback from the Hide on the Tacticool vs. the 455 with the Manners stock. There were no wrong answers in the selection. Frankly, I made the decision because of the 400 dollar price difference for a .22. With that said, I am seriously considering the other option for myself......especially after today. The Boyd's version feels good in hand and you can judge our initial performance below. The Manner's stock is truly awesome in hand for what it is intended to be/do.
So we took the "Cool" to a public outdoor range. Temp rose the couple of hours we were there as did the wind (which remained very light at approximately 0-4mph slight cross/tailwind during our couple of hours at the range. 46-50 degrees bench shooting from a harris bipod on the front and crappy butt rest from a shooting bag.....was not thinking I would really need/want the good rests. Sighting in at 25 then 50 yds I was thinking "damn" in a good way. Went to a 100 yds and got it sighted ...... didn't have a spotting scope so it was difficult to see the holes but with several trips downrange we walked it in.
Just to help with visibility I stuck on a Shoot-N-C target and loaded up 5 round mag of Lapua Midas + .22LR. Being new to precision rimifire (as opposed to shooting varmints and "cans" for fun, what do you guys think? With these kind of targets measuring the spread is not as easy so I got a max of .9182" conservatively for the 5 round group. I didn't have a spotting scope and was travelling light with binocs.....when I started seeing the splashes I was amazed. This was backed up by putting at least 3 of 5 rounds on the little Shoot-N-C dot patch they provide extend target use.
Thanks so much again,
Thanks again my friends but please always be honest with your feedback......should we be as happy as we are with these first results? Personally, this is pretty damn goo
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