First, hello.
New user to the forum, but have known of it for a good while, not new to firearms, prior service, husband and a dad, and friends with an older fellow veteran with a lot of land to practice on
Pretty decent with a pistol, not bad with a rifle, trying to go from decent to quite good.
So I got into a more precision oriented type of shooting a couple years ago with a longer range bolt action .22LR setup. At distance though boy does the wind take it's toll.... And I want to shoot small groups at distance to try to hit small targets. My friend only has MAX 600 yards of range, more realistically 500 is pushing it, but again I want to shoot small targets. I'm also not made of money with a mortgage, 3 kids, etc. My friend lets call him O.D.D (Old Devil Dog) has been building and buying $$$ air rifles, and building Remington 700 clone auctioned rifles as of late and while I thought my .22 was not bad, his well it's not a Vudoo rifle but probably not a real far trip from as nice as one. I don't have that kind of coin but want to put up a challenge and noticed the CZ 600 Range.
Some seem to view the CZ 600 series as a failure it seems due to the recall and dropping the user changeable barrels, but personally that doesn't bother me a bit other than it looks like there's a drop in interest of the rifles which is a concern for longer term support from the aftermarket and CZ themselves. However from what I have seen, what the rifle offers out of the box for the price tag seems pretty incredible frankly. If I could have it my way the barrel would be 2" shorter and a little thicker but other than that I don't know of anything I would want to change. And given to me the purchase cost of $1250 is not a small amount of money though I know for a precision style rifle that's "cheap". I wanted to post somewhere that's more focused on say tight groups at longer ranges with higher marksmanship interest than say, AR15.com and get the collectives opinion before I pull the metaphorical trigger on the purchase, as IF I purchase it, I'll be ordering about 3 loads of match 175gr, rings and a decent piece of higher powered glass for it right away after cleaning....
Thank you for taking the time to read, please respond if you have experience with a CZ 600, especially if it's the Range model. (or just seeing groups from other shooters in person who you feel are capable marksmen)