ODDBALL RIMFIRE RIFLES
When the rimfire rifle bug infected my entire life four or five years ago, I couldn’t decide what precision long-gun to buy. So, I bought, begged, borrowed and almost stole nearly all of them.
In my safe right now, there are a few Anschütz rimfires, a pair of Bergaras, a half-dozen CZs, a couple Rugers and enough parts to build a couple more, a Tikka, a Sako, a few Savages, plus a Volquartsen, Zermatt RimX and two (down from four) Vudoo Gun Works custom jobs.
Not a day goes by that I don’t shoot one of these rifles, and it’s why my new Gun Digest book on smallbore rifles, Rimfire Revolution, has chapters on each of them.
Every major precision rimfire rifle system, be it a $300 Savage or a $3,000 Vudoo, has pros and cons. By tracing the history of each company, and rifle action design, the of these rifles became clear to me. Whether it be a lone engineering working long
