do ya think ya can do enough mods to a cz american sporter to make it shoot with a box stock 54 action annie sporter, ya gotta keep the factory barrels and stocks..do ya think huh ???
I ran my Anschutz 1710 head to head against my CZ American about half a dozen years ago. In those days, I only had a little Midway aluminum rest and leather rabbit ear rear bag filled with sand. I had no wind flags. But, I did have two Swift 6-18X44 scopes made back when they had some quality control. So, I packed up and headed to the range with all the different makes of ammo I had on hand. I shot from 50 yards using a concrete benchrest. Both the rifles had been cleaned the day before the test with the homemade "Red's" bore cleaner (recipe picked up at Camp Perry one year by a friend), a bronze brush, and cotton patches.
I did not clean the bores throughout the test and I did not touch the scope turrets after the test started. The letter Fs on the left of the target paper indicated the fouling group fired each time I changed ammo makes. Those are BC 1" flame dots.
The test is not worth much really but one must admit it was the same shooter in the same conditions fired in an hour with the same optics.
The 1710 turned in more one holers but I believe the little Czech rifle made it nervous. The CZ had the factory trigger simply adjusted to its lightest setting resulting in a 3 lb 2 oz creepy pull. The Anschutz was stock as well with its factory trigger set as low as it would go to 2.2 lbs (just as the owners manual stated its floor was).
Our local club shoots the USBR game and my friend Willie Rhodes still holds the club's Sporter Class record with a 236-5X fired with his left handed CZ American.
A few yeas ago, my box stock CZ American's accuracy and reliability convinced me to make it my CZ Sporter T Class 3P rifle. I mounted one of the now discontinued Sightron 6X42 HBR II scopes on it. A heavy sling hold seems to have no effect on its POI. It did well at the 2008 National Sporter Match held at Camp Perry, Ohio. We finished 8th out over 180 T Class shooters. I wish I could repeat my club record score of 595-35X (August 09 out of a possible 600-60X) at Camp Perry but the Lake Erie winds and the big game pressure usually get to me in the rapid fire strings:
The trigger creep has improved some with thousands of rounds of use and the action keeps getting slicker. The rifle comes in under the 7.5 lb overall weight ceiling and its trigger lifts the three pound weight at the registration table every time when raised gently.
CZ sends a good rifle out the door and some CZ Americans are better than others as noted in this thread. I have two Americans and the rifle described here groups half the size of the second one I acquired. Here are a couple of the best 50 yard groups I have ever shot with the more accurate CZ American (the bottom two on the single bull):
I really enjoyed reading this thread. I am not much of a gun tweaker but it is fascinating to check out all the mods folks can make to a CZ American.
Thanks,
Danny
with this little gun, it stills shoots great.
