CZ rebarrel, anyone???

[dtucker]

I am just curious if anyone here has rebarrled a CZ in the 453 or 452 rimfire. I have seen people do the Sako p94 but was wondering if someone did a CZ? If you have who did it and what was the cost to doing it. Was anything else done also besides replacing the barrel?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[JeffG]

You should head over to Rimfire central. They have a very active CZ forum, and there are several rebarrel experiences to learn from.

If it's a fun project that you can tackle yourself, I'd say go for it. If you're looking to make a competitive bench gun, and you have to pay others for the work? I wouldn't ...CZ's are great but not worth sinking $500 dollars into for accuracy improvement.

Your $500 won't get as much improvement on a CZ platform as you will on a used Anschutz 54 action. CZ's are a great platform to build a silhouette gun on. Where the stock, trigger and shooter matter more than a new barrel.

 

[timbertoes]

Your $500 won't get as much improvement on a CZ platform as you will on a used Anschutz 54 action. CZ's are a great platform to build a silhouette gun on. Where the stock, trigger and shooter matter more than a new barrel.

except we gravitate to a Annie 54 at some point... ;D

 

[dtucker]

^^^^^^ I wish i could afford 1 of those right now. I was just courios if someone may have done this. It for sure does not sound like a wise choice to do so. If you were wanting to change out the barrels to others the new 455 rifles would be the best and cheaper way to go. I would really like to get another rimfire that the barrel can be changed out. I had a Ruger about 7 years ago that i bought comeplete from Clark in 22 mag and then bought a 17hmr light weigth barrel from Volquartsen to change out. It had the laminate stock and was just purely awesome. For the life of me i just don't know what got into me and did some trading with it and let it go. :'( I thought about looking for or buying a new Ruger again but they went the opposite way and the barrels now are threaded onto the receiver. I just do not want something that i can not change out the barrels myself.

 

[stacy]

I'VE used 452 CZ action to build 22 benchgun with great results one w/ LILJA and my buddy's put a HART BARREL

 

[dtucker]

Who did the work and was it a costly job?

 

[stacy]

Any good smith can do it no more than any other rebarrel job $500/$600 /
Just remember that the CZ 452 scout rifles are not threaded action I think I used 452 varmit action

 

[dtucker]

Are'nt all 452 actions threaded. Why would they do it different for just the scout model?

 

[JeffG]

452's have only used threaded actions and barrels for the last couple years. Most 452/3 are straight tenons. I believe all the CZ 455's are threaded (not to be confused with the early Brno 455 ZKM).

Again, I would encourage you to peruse Rimfirecentral, as they have several certified CZ gurus, including the guy responsible for bringing CZ's to market here in the US.