Remington 552 Speedmaster Accuracy

[Zulema Estabrooks]

iuse a winchester underlever 15 shot tube feed for rabbits now not to get to complicated there is a thing called lock time when u look through your scope message goes to brain sqeeze trigger now on my winchester the hammer has to fall and strike the round now as u are aware most accurate guns are bolt action where it does away with the falling hammer bit so i am looking for a bolt tube feed why a tube feed well over 50 years i have shot a few rabbits but mainly at night from a toyota hi lux now i also have a krico bolt with sticking down mags and they tear the door top and u just seem to get going wen u run out and if you catch the lever the mag can drop out and get lost on the field so i am after a bolt tube feed but they are about 22 inches before the silencer so wots position about getting a barrel cut down cheers george any body on here do this cutting down work

Sell what you have and buy a Ruger with a rotary magazine. Neat little gun and will do the job. You could have the barrel reduced to make it more usable in a vehicle. Rue the day I sold mine but someone made me an offer I could not refuse. I now use a Marlin 880S with 7 and 10 shot mags and when out of the Landie window the mags are no where near the sill ????

on my winchester i have put a spacer between the tube and the barrel allowing the brass mag rod to travel past the silencer so no need to take of the silencer to refill so can still leave the bolt fed tube on now lets say we take of the lengh of a parker hale silencer of the barrel the tube wood still be the same distance as the end of the total rifle yes if i took the silencer of the tube would be longer but this way i would not shorten the tube they say any barrel longer than 16 inches looses velocity so i was wanting to do away with the 22 inch lengh but then replace with fitted silencer lengh and the tube and silencer wood be same

lock time is better on a bolt as for semi iwould not have any make given free of charge to much going on some work with different ammo jamming feeding and not super accurate i have not seen many 22 rimfire competitions won on a semmi or underlever to much going on in semmis as the slide is coming back round is in barrel next round feeding to much going on to hold the rifle steady sorry no semmi for me

tube feed to me is by far the best 15 to 22 shots available no chance of losing valuable mags have a look now at the 100 plus sppedloader in plastic tube you get empty pull out your tube attach bottle flick botton all rounds go in less than a second replace tube away u go

yes i would say u are right on the underlever first wot rifle and wot make of ammo u are using but on a semi its doing to many things while bullet is going up barrell slide is coming back and then reloading from your mag underlever is in my control none but one is working only bullet going in barrel with bolt and underlever nothing happens till the shooter makes it happen i want good accurate shots and ive tried remmy speedmaster rugers and they are not for me tell me a competion shooter who uses a auto and wins no they are all bolt i just dont like or want autos you have found a good combination if u like it stick with it but its not for me

The Scout is miles ahead of the Winchester in terms of speed of reloading and accuracy. I would go with a mag fed gun before tube fed every time for rabbiting out of a truck and having had a 452 of some sort for the last 35 years have never lost a magazine or torn a door card.

I'm a bit puzzled as to why the OP seems to think that a semi isn't accurate enough as a rabbit gun. We have a Remington Speedmaster in the club which, quite frankly, is one of the most accurate rifles I have fired.

I think the OP is a relatively new shooter who has been sold the myth that a semi-auto is naturally inaccurate. The Ruger 10/22 fires from a closed bolt so I don't really see why it shouldn't be as accurate as a bolt action (excluding some of the really top notch BA rifles) if used with matched ammo'.

I think it's a well established fact that there are a few accurate 10/22's out there, I heard one turned in in Nebraska a few years ago and there's rumoured to be one in New Mexico, although unverified. It's now been established that the one in the Smithsonian museum is a fake but there are still at least five unaccounted for.

Much to the chagrin of the masters at the proof house who, I understand, are now stamping barrels at the muzzle to try to eradicate this insidious and evil practice. This, of course, is purely on the grounds of safety and absolutely nothing to do with empire building, mission creep or to protect their revenue stream.

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