So I have both a cautionary tale and a positive story regarding CZ: So I paid the man, waited for it to arrive, took it home and ordered a scope (which will be the topic of another post once it arrives and I’ve mounted and zeroed it).īut in the meantime… Your Humble Narrator is no longer Mauser-less, and a huge gaping hole in his shooting capability and nearly-empty gun cabinet has been filled. ( Cliff Notes: excellent out-of-the-box accuracy, fabled quality and reliability, controlled-feed action and set trigger.) And not everybody happens to love CZ 550 rifles as much as I do, either. It was severely discounted because… it’s chambered in 6.5x55mm Swedish, “And everybody wants to shoot 6.5 Creed nowadays, and not that old bullet.” Were I a paranoid man (I’m not), I might have thought it was a conspiracy.Īnyway, all my human sacrifices to Vulcan (don’t ask) must finally have caught the old man’s attention, because in talking to a distributor’s sales rep at one of our local gun pushers’ establishments, I managed to snag a slightly-used demo CZ 550 American at a price which would make people start sticking pins into my effigy, were I ever to publish it. Free Market and Doc Russia) who seem to have been trying to get rifle manufacturers to go to 24-hour shifts, so much have they been augmenting their own collections. So here I sat, Mauser-less - the first time in ages I’d been in that sad condition - and just snarled at people (such as Mr. It was exacerbated by my inability to bring back the Mauser I had bought in Britishland without having to pay a boatload of money to H.M Government. Loyal Readers will have noted my increasing irritation about not having a Mauser (or at least a Mauser-type bolt action) in my niggardly collection (following the Great Canoeing Disaster On The Brazos or maybe it was the Colorado).
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