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Rimfire Ammunition - .22 Long Rifle

We wanted to write this article to get people into the game of Smallbore Silhouette shooting quickly when it comes to the selection of ammunition.

While it seems there are reams of .22 Long Rifle to choose from, and no doubt there is, you'll be happy to learn that the field can be narrowed quickly and easily.

CZ-452

Guns

Want a Little More from your CZ 452 ?

There is no denying the appeal of CZ's 452 bolt action line of smallbore rifles. They are considered by some to be _the_ entry level rifle for Smallbore Metallic Silhouette. Our local range even uses them as loaner rifles to get first-timers interested.

Year with Cheap Scope

Optics

One Year With a Cheap Scope

Contributed by Cooter

Not everyone can afford a buy a high quality scope. Not everyone is convinced they need to. I used a Simmons Prohunter variable for a year and here are my observations.

The model was Prohunter by Simmons. It was manufactured in the Philippines and was a variable power from 6 to 18 power and featured an adjustable 40mm objective. It was purchased new in the late 90's for $100. The scope was not new when it was mounted on my Anschutz Hunter Class rifle. It had spent a few years on a heavy barrel .223 target rifle. I don't believe the mild recoil of that rifle had any negative affects on this scope.

Scope Slope

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Scope Slope

Slope, lookdown, whatever you want to call it, in a perfect world the bore of our rifle and center axis of our scope should not be parallel. They should, instead, converge a certain distance downrange. For shorter ranges and flatter shooting cartridges, slope can usually be ignored. But when we shoot slower cartridges or longer ranges we may have to pay attention to scope slope.

Our goal is to keep our scope in the middle of it's elevation adjustments. If there is a 40 click difference between our chicken and ram settings, we want the scope 20 clicks above the middle of the adjustment range when we are on rams, and 20 clicks below when we are on chickens. The question becomes how much slope is required to get our scope positioned so it is working in it's most efficient range; the middle. We will attempt to answer that question here today.

Turrets

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Turrets

smallbore image Not every shooter has a scope with target turrets. Some even have cheap hunting style scopes (See Cooter's article here). If you fall into one of these categories you may be interested in Stoney Point Target Turrets.