Was looking up some stuff on the Creedmoor Sports website and saw this on the front page. It's an Anschutz high power rifle in 3.08 Winchester.

http://www.creedmoorsports.com/shop/Ans ... Rifle.html



Anyone seen one of these before? It says that it comes with a 5780D single-stage trigger. I wonder how hard it would be to change that to a 5022.

Before I spent $3,500.oo on that I'd build one.

Yeah, but rifles can often be purchased for much less than Creedmoor lists them at.

You can build a damn fine rifle for about 1/2 that cost.

While this rifle seems a bit on the expensive side - It's probably a great rifle.
I'd agree with other responders that if you're looking for a hunter silhouette rifle you'd be better off just building on a Remington action - where you can jack around with stocks/barrels to get max performance for our sport.
Most silhouette rifles - since they get used a lot more - do take a beating and you might be heartbroken the first time you put a nasty scratch on this firearm.

However, if you want to use it for hunting or other things as well or just want it - it'd be a nice piece to own.

I once owned an Anschutz in .222 Remington - built on a 54 action that was extremely accurate.
I used this rifle for years shooting varmints in South Texas and wish that I hadn't traded it off.

Functioning was also great and it looked a lot like the rifle in the pic - detachable mag, stock, etc.

I really just want Anschutz to start making a lot more short action .308 bolt face rifles so that eventually actions with 5022 triggers might be available for purchase. Yeah, I know it's about as likely as me winning the lottery without buying a ticket, but I can still dream.

Another article on this
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2010 ... ries-1780/


Looks like an extra 3 shot magazine will run you around $189.00

Gringo Grizzly wrote:While this rifle seems a bit on the expensive side - It's probably a great rifle.
I'd agree with other responders that if you're looking for a hunter silhouette rifle you'd be better off just building on a Remington action - where you can jack around with stocks/barrels to get max performance for our sport.
Most silhouette rifles - since they get used a lot more - do take a beating and you might be heartbroken the first time you put a nasty scratch on this firearm.

However, if you want to use it for hunting or other things as well or just want it - it'd be a nice piece to own.

I once owned an Anschutz in .222 Remington - built on a 54 action that was extremely accurate.
I used this rifle for years shooting varmints in South Texas and wish that I hadn't traded it off.

Functioning was also great and it looked a lot like the rifle in the pic - detachable mag, stock, etc.

I agree, plus when you shoot out the barrel in silhouette... how do you get another factory barrel installed?

After looking at the earlier posts and following the links, I Googled "Anschutz Armatix" and got into some very disquieting reading.

nomad wrote:After looking at the earlier posts and following the links, I Googled "Anschutz Armatix" and got into some very disquieting reading.

Link to the article I believe your refering to
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2010 ... sells-out/

For years there have been airgunners out there trying to build a "better mousetrap" in the target/match air rifle arena. Most of their efforts have been in the area of converting 10 meter style match air rifles for use in high power applications like Field Target and Silhouette. Some of these efforts were successful while others have had their share of problems.

In the meantime, the airgun community had been lobbying many of the 10 meter airgun manufacturers to design and build a line of higher velocity match rifles. For a long time, most of the prompting was met with an attitude of "there isn't a big enough market to make it profitable".

Things started to change as the popularity of Field Target began to increase both here in the United States and over in Europe. With the market for a high power match rifle starting to grow, many of the major air rifle companies started to take notice. Anschütz was one of those companies.

Anyone who has been involved with any type of competitive rifle shooting knows the name of Anschütz. They are one of the top gun manufacturers in the world producing match air rifles, match firearms and a line of high quality sporting arms. Their products are known for their high quality and suburb accuracy.

The crew at Anschütz started to develop a high power match rifle in 1989 and had the new 2020 and 2025 on display at the 1999 SHOT show. The two rifles are based on the 2002CA 10 meter rifle with some internal designs to accommodate the higher pressures required for 12-16 ft. lbs. energy output. The two guns are identical with the exception that the 2020 is limited to 12 ft. lbs. for the British market while the 2025 power was increased to around 16 ft. lbs. for the power hungry American market.

Starting with the 2002CA as a baseline, Anschütz redesigned the internals of this award winning match rifle for high power shooting. Some of the design changes included modifications to the regulator, springs changes and trigger component alterations. On the exterior, the guns look and feel basically the same with the exception of the air reservoir and sights. The new rifles are sold with no sights and the reservoir has been lengthened to be flush with the end of the barrel.

I had the opportunity to speak with Dieter Anschütz at the 1999 SHOT show about the new rifles and talked with him about getting a rifle to review once they went into production. Seven months later I received an email out of the blue from Dieter asking me if I still wanted a rifle for review. I said, "No, I don't want to shoot a new state of the art air rifle", yea right. I emailed him back immediately with an address where he could ship the rifle.

Two weeks later a brand spanking new 2025 was sitting on my back porch. It came in a wide short box which I thought was rather strange, knowing that the rifle was much longer than the box on my porch. Once the box was opened, I saw that the action was removed from the stock that explained the shorter box. I quickly assembled the rifle, looked over the instruction manual and removed the air reservoir. I took the filling adapter and reservoir over to my air tank to fill it up. It was then that I realized that the filling adapter was a DIN adapter and not an A-frame type adapter that I need to connect to my tank. I needed an A-frame to DIN adapter to be able to fill the reservoir, boy was I disappointed.

You do realize that this post is about a highpower powder burner (ala 308 winchester) and not an airgun, right?