High-end .22LR rifles

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Let's see some pics of your high-end .22LR rifles! Nothing from Wally World or the big box stores, please, just some high-end rimfire goodness. I'll start us off with an Anschutz match 54, fitted with a magazine-fed repeater conversion by Mark Chesebro, a Harrell tuner, and a Leupold BR-24 scope. Post 'em up!
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This is a place holder for my Kimber K22 which is one of the nicest .22LR rifles around. I still haven't got a scope for it yet and we've got a lot of snow so it might be a while before I can take a good photo.

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This ones a little different. Cody, WY Ballard Rifle and Cartridge Winchester 1885 Low-Wall reproduction:

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30" Douglass air-gauged barrel, DSTs, exhibition grade walnut with hand checkering, with Helm "schuetzen" lever. I had it built to replicate a couple of my silhouette rifles for off-hand practice and .22LR BPCS matches.

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Here is my Anschutz 1712 Silhouette rifle with a Leupold FX-3 in 25 power.
Edit to add. Thank you the individuals who like the photo of my rifle. After looking some of the beautiful rifle posted,in this thread makes me wonder if mine belongs. There is high end and then there is high end custom rifles! There are some spectacular rifles here.
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Here is a full custom 54 Anschutz. The action was threaded and fitted with a match-chambered stainless steel barrel, the stock has full wrap checkering on the fore end and an ebony tip, a Wundhammer palm swell at the grip and proper cast-off for a right-handed shooter. The scope is a Leupold 12x.
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Here are my 3... on top is a beautiful BSA martini international mkII topped with a Bausch and Lomb 36x on a scope mount from Australia... second, is a Barnett ten-x topped with a Bausch and Lomb on a custom scope rail... bottom, is my competition rifle. A vostok cm2 with a barrel tuner, shortened and cerakoted barreled action, topped with a weaver 36x with a custom mount produced a few years ago.
 

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Depends what high end means.
In my opinion, although my R55 Benchmark was sold widely at various stores, it has the quality and accuracy to make it a highly desirable gun, especially since they don't make them any longer. But if you go on base price, it's not high end. They were reasonably-priced in fact.
Here's mine:

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Thompson Center R55 Benchmark, Bushnell Elite ET6245F Scope, Harris Bipod and A-TEC CMM6 suppressor. All in, it is then pricey at £1300 or so.
 
541S with Burris 4X,post reticle.Not computer savy enough for pics.

Not that high end,but it's dang pretty and is a tackdriver with decent ammo.
 
Rem 40XB custom Unlimited rimfire benchrest rifle with boosted Weaver T36 (43x), Lilja barrel, McMillan BR stock, Jewell 2 oz trigger, Harrell Tuner.

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Made by gunsmith Butch Hongisto and used by him. I bought it from another shooter and shot it for several years before selling it to a fellow shooter and getting out of the game, after about 16 years. I used it to set a club record, shooting two consecutive 250s and a 249. The present owner is doing well with it at Club, State, and National levels.
 
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@DM~ noticed you have a right and left handed Anschutz, do you shoot both ways? Those are pretty! What would one like your bottom 2 pictures go for in today's market? What are the models?
 
I grew up in a right handed world and even though my dad, brother and me are left handed, it wasn't easy to get LH guns back then, so we all learned to use RH guns...

Anyway, back in the early 70's, I went to a gun shop where I trusted the elderly owners opinion VERY much and I told him I was looking for a 22 rifle that was "accurate" and would last me "the rest of my life". I told him I was moving to Alaska and it had to be totally reliable as I guessed it was going to help keep me fed!

Anyway, he went off in the back room and came out with the RH Anschutz you see in the pict... It was $95.00 and I fell in love with it on the spot, as I had never seen such a fine 22 in my life!

So, I told him the best I could do was give him half the money then and come back with the other half later and he agreed.

SO, when I moved to Alaska, it went with me and it did indeed keep me fed and has been totally reliable!

Some years later, when LH rifles became more the "norm", I learned to use the "proper side" rifles, and started replacing my RH rifles for LH rifles, it was many years later when I bought the LH 1416 and I have enjoyed it very much too...

AND YES, I can shoot RH and LH, but LH is my natural and preferred side...

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@DM~ So what your saying is that you have no need now for that RH Anschutz, I would be willing to pay what you paid for it back then :D.

All kidding aside that's a good story and a good skill to have being able to shoot proficiently with either hand.
 
This is nowhere near the class of rifle as many of the above but I wanted to throw this out for someone that wants a heirloom quality 22 on a blue collar budget. This is my Savage Mk2 American Classic. I don't believe they make these anymore but they are around. At the time I bought this my wife was in grad school and I was working alot of hours with little left over and decided I wanted to get myself a really nice grown up 22 rifle. What I really wanted was a remington 541T but that was not realistic on my budget. I found this mark 2 classic on the Savage website and wanted to take a look at one but never found one locally. I ended up ordering this one sight unseen used on gunbroker for about $300 I think. It is a suburb little rifle with nice wood, nice bluing, and absolutely fantastic accuracy and trigger. I've shot many thousands of rounds through it. Now that I'm able to afford nicer things it will be getting an optics upgrade soon as well. So there ya go, lobster gun at a crab cake price.

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I read through this thread and was disappointed that I didn't see one of those old Browning semi-auto 22's... I know that they weren't exactly "high end" but I always thought that design was a classic small game item.... In the days that I really wanted one I never had the means. These days I seldom ever see an example anywhere....
 
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I read through this thread and was disappointed that I didn't see one of those old Browning semi-auto 22's... I know that they weren't exactly "high end" but I always thought that design was a classic small game item.... In the days that I really wanted one I never had the means. These days I seldom ever see an example anywhere....
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