That’s exactly what I was hoping to hear.
Looks like a very solid start. I’m planning on an Area419 rail myself.
CZ 457
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That’s exactly what I was hoping to hear.
Looks like a very solid start. I’m planning on an Area419 rail myself.
JAS-SH - I'd say you won the wood lottery with your 457 American. I've seen several photos of CZ RF stocks over on RFC that were very attractive, and I have to say yours is about as good as any 457 I've seen so far. I've ordered in two Americans, a Varmint, Varmint MTR to date, and the American I decided to keep (mostly because the stock was more attractive than the other American's) shot like crap. It was so bad that I bought a Shilen bbl blank, did some contour work on it, then chambered & glued it into my action. Hope you appreciate how lucky you were to get a stock like yours....enjoy!
Indeed! And a very pleasant surprise at that....kind of like getting a really nice and perhaps unexpected Christmas gift...
Bought my first cz. Took it till the range a few times so far. Haven't shoot groups yet mostly steel plates. I was pleasantly surprised I can hit the plate at 100yrds with just a red dot. Obviously it's not "mine". It's my 5 y/o daughter's.
A slight hijack...I have a new 457 chassis. How do you insert the bolt? I see the button that you depress to remove. Not my first bolt gun but not sure how this one works. Any assistance appreciated. TY.
Spending Father’s Day at the range with my father and testing ammo at 50 yds. Bibop and rear bag I really like this CZ 457 every group but 2 I could cover with a dime even with me pulling my share. Hoping as I run thru lots of Ammo I can fine even better. It’s set up with a viper gen 2 FFP, area 419 30 moa rail and a converted badger knob and I added a Picatinny front rail for a bipob
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Had a few minutes before the rains came this morning and shot (Only) 2 bulls each on 3 targets trying out test lots of SK Standard Plus. One lot was not good - one was fair and one shot the two groups I am posting. Still trying to figure out how to use Range Buddy (without reading the directions) and so far only know how to post a picture at a time. My 2 groups from the first lot I tried - the best of the three. 100 yards with virtually perfect conditions here South of Houston. Didn't try to get the groups centered up just put it on paper.. This is from my 457 in a KRG chassis with a take off old Anschutz barrel cut down (from the chamber end) by Evelio McDonald to ~24 and rechambered with a Win 52 reamer. I'm very satisfied with this accuracy using ~5.00 ammo.
I sometimes had to "look the magazine into the opening" but after few days it is pretty much an automatic. The Mag Release, once your are familiar with it, is not bad. I don't have any extension on mine and am fine with it.
Don't have an MPA - I am satisfied with the Bravo....
Don't have an MPA - I am satisfied with the Bravo....
Question - I have looked and read everywhere that I can find but still haven't found what match chamber CZ uses on their 457 MTR and 457 LRP. Is it a proprietary chamber? Is it one of the ~30 known 22LR match chambers? All I have ever seen is " Match chamber is cut to the tightest specification that CIP will allow" - whatever that means. Does anyone have the dimensions of it?
This might be a dumb question but here goes. I am left handed and am very happy with my Tikka Tac A1. I would like a .22 LR for training purposes and believe I have narrowed it down to either the Tikka T1 or CZ 45?. Need any right minded shooters who have been down this road and what LH after market stocks are available for either.
I don't see any holes in the rubber buttpad that would allow me to remove screws - might be glued onto the black plastic plate under the rubber pad for all I know. But as near as I can tell, the buttstock is solid w/o any large holes bored out underneath the plate. Curious as to why you'd ask about this in the first place?
If the stock is solid, I can send it out to a guy I know that works on stocks. He can cut the stock and make it into an adjustable comb/cheek pad and adjustable buttstock. Thanks for checking!
That's one thing I really liked about the MTR's stock - with a low/thin 25MOA rail like the BScar, and a scope in low rings, I found I don't need any higher comb than the MTR's.
I’m in the market for a new .22RF the MTR is one of the finalist on my list. Unfortunately none of the gun stores in a 100 mile radius has one for me to hold.
Sent the owner a note and a request for more info....
Try "adjustable butt plate" on ebay. Some really cool stuff....
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Sent the owner a note and a request for more info....
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You are correct! I’d like to know there’s options for the facto stock.
I have a MTR that I removed the recoil pad an added a 3/4 inch aluminum spacer. It was solid wood on mine. I also drilled a hole and filled it with lead pellets and epoxy. Recoil pad is glued on and also has 2 screws. Sorry about not having a picture
Those carbon fiber prefit for the cz 457 look so dam sexy. I want them so bad but their performance seem subpar to just straight stainless while also cost a lot more.
Yep that would be a long road trip
I think a lady that just shot her 1st match today an finished 4th overall
Is going to buy it
She beat out some very season shooters
She drove the cz457 mtr very well
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Acquired a 457 Synthetic recently, it's a very light and balanced rifle. It's not a tack driver with CCI SV, but its consistent enough for a base class rifle and did pretty well out to 340 yards in the last match. I'm sure with some actual match ammo it would be even better. At 430 yards it (or i) fall apart.
Some negatives:
1) (seems to be common), every last round out of the 10 round mag fails to eject, it just kinda falls out of the extractor and sits in the action. You can replicate this with empty shell casings (Only happens with the 10 rounders). Might call CZ about this, as sometimes it happens halfway through a mag which is not fun during a match.
2) Barrel is canted in the stock channel, no matter how much you try to correct it while torquing screws in. Still free floated though.
With the cost of swapping in a stock, the area 419 rail and maybe a barrel you're well on your way to having a Bergara..
Some negatives:
1) (seems to be common), every last round out of the 10 round mag fails to eject, it just kinda falls out of the extractor and sits in the action. You can replicate this with empty shell casings (Only happens with the 10 rounders). Might call CZ about this, as sometimes it happens halfway through a mag which is not fun during a match.
2) Barrel is canted in the stock channel, no matter how much you try to correct it while torquing screws in. Still free floated though.
With the cost of swapping in a stock, the area 419 rail and maybe a barrel you're well on your way to having a Bergara..
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Never had the ejection issue with mine however my buddy was having a lot of ejection issues in general with his. Most of the time, the round would be stuck in the chamber when he pulled the bolt back. We don't know if it was the round getting stuck in the chamber after being shot or something to do with the extractor. He sent it to CZ, they had it for around 2 or 3 weeks I believe, claimed they couldn't replicate the issue however they said they replaced the extractor and spring anyway. Shot his first match with it this past Saturday and didn't have any issues what so ever so that's good.
Interesting, Mine is extracting the round out of the chamber just fine, it just doesn't kick out the last round on the 10 RD mags. The position in which the follower rests seems to be different on the 10 round VS 5 round mags as well.
Hmm that is strange. I pretty much solely shoot the 10rd magazines too. I'm interested to see what's causing this or how you're able to fix it. Keep me updated.
Odd - I've got three 457s - all 22LR - American, MTR, VPT - and have had only a very few ejection issues with any of them, usually while shooting off the bench while testing ammo. I always figured it was a case of inconsistent bolt operation, as opposed to shooting in the field. Though I did some initial shooting with the 5rd mags when I first received the American & MTR rifles, since then, 100% of my shooting (even when lot testing off the bench) has been with a couple of 10rd mags.
