My advice...avoid the shotgun or learn to put outlaw names on the targets and you will shoot well.

Innocent

Could the Silhouette stock be considered flimsy or floppy? Is there any way you could add weight, eg, hollow out under the barrel channel and fill with lead shot? I would want to keep it eligible for hunter class @ 8.5 lbs. Thanks.

Bob

The CZ Silhouette is floppy & flimsy, and actually works best without floating the barrel. Try to float the barrel and the forearm will twist around and rub, so just leave it. Better yet, get a Varmint or American and avoid the problem.

Agreed - the CZ Silhouette/Style stocks are flimsy and floppy, and in my opinion make the rifles seem "cheaper" than their American or Varmint equivalents.

I have a 452 Varmint which I like very much, even though the stock isn't perfectly suited for silhouette shooting.

SteveM.

I have had my CZ Silo now for 4 years and love it. It is a great shooter and I have not reached the level of shooting the gun can produce. For the money its a good deal. I shoot wolf and eley in mine and have a Weaver T-24 on it. Great gun.

Tulsatime

Shot my CZ at the last local match for fun....still a great shooter.
Tuslatime, how are the boys?
Innocent

Well Hello and Merry Christmas and I hope you have a Happy New Year! The boys are doing great. They are growing way to fast...already 9 years old. BUT, that means they have been shooting with me at the matches here in Tulsa 3 years now and for their age they do well. How is your not so little boy anymore doing? Did you all have a great Christmas?

I have been using a CZ 452 silhouette model since I started shooting silhouette. I love my rifle and wish I could shoot as well as it is capable of doing. While my son's 452 American will shoot virtually any ammo with decent to very good results my silhouette has a bit of champagne taste. The one cheap ammo it loved you can't get anymore. It is however extremely fond of Eley. It could be my inexperience but I don't know what constitutes a flimsy or floppy stock. The silhouettes are very light even with the scope on ... that was one thing hard for me to adjust to (still working on it) as I was used to shooting much heavier rifles before I got into silhouette. I haven't done anything to my CZ as far as a new trigger (guess I got lucky on that one) or adding weight. The one thing I did do was put the rifle on the bench and tried various ammos to find the ones that did best, IF I could shoot as well as the rifle does I would be a master shooter by now.

The Silhouette stock forearm will easily deflect into the barrel, so free-floating the barrel is a lost cause.