I remember your review of that rifle pictured. It is certainly an interesting model.
Here in the midwest or southern U.S. where I grew up, nearly every child was given a .22 as their first rifle (after the red ryder BB gun of course). No kick, cheap to run, and fairly accurate to a certain distance.
The only drawback is that the ammo tends to have failure's to fire more often than centerfire ammunition, just part of the rimfire design or manufacturing process. Good to practice failure to feed, and bad round ejection cycles. Not used as much for self-defense for that reason.
There are so many good rifle choices. For semi-auto, I'm definitely a solid Ruger 10-22 fan. There's just so many options to customize and upgrade, and generally super reliable out of the box. I won't go into that as much here since this is about a bolt action.
I also prefer bolt actions for most of my rifles. Of ones I owned personally, my most accurate was an old Remington I got when I was 9 years old.
For Bolt actions, there are many excellent choices and models even multiple models per manufacturer. Any of these are top picks depending on minor personal preferences for style and feel. On any given day and shooter one could out-perform the other.
CZ - Bolt and semi very popular and accurate
Ruger - most popular semi, bolts also accurate
Savage - Often underrated but great performer. If you like their accu-trigger it adjusts and performs well.
Remington - still popular with many custom options
Sako/Tikka - Solid and accurate, I wonder if the single set trigger is available for .22? I just love that trigger on my 22-250. If so, this would get my vote hands down. It's one of only two rifles I own that I haven't replaced the trigger on.
Bergara - Has risen in popularity over the last 5 years or so, very solid with custom options.
Anshutz - I handled a friend's two decades ago, and I still remember it. Used to dominate the Olympics and still one of my favorites for a target gun, custom target guns may be heavier than desired for general field use.
Will be following to see what you choose, and looking forward to the review.
The ammunition is problematic for sure. I didn't want to get into it as most won't relate, probably just you I suppose; I've explained the difference between centrefire and rimfire before but wasn't inclined to do so in this post. But for sure one needs to practice working around feed and ejection issues. Interestingly though, I can't recall having either with theis CZ 515.
There's a lot of choices and I want to get it right; I only want to do this once. I'm not really into rimfire rifles so it won't be something I'd shoot a lot but I want to be happy that I made the right choice. Thanks for weighing in with some thoughts, I was hoping you would.
Don't know if you've seen it yet, but CCI came out with some new subsonic Hollow Point ammo called "Uppercut" 32 grains hollow point at 950fps. Designed for 2-4 inch barrel Pistol length use, but could also be great subsonic round for rifles (esp. suppressed).
I picked up a few boxes and will be doing a write up soon if I ever get some range time. Also will be testing through the new LabRadar (mini version) Chrony. Stay tuned.
I hadn't heard, sounds interesting and I'll be looking for your review. I find that stuff super I retesting obviously.