WELCOME TO OUR NEW WEBSITE!
We hope you like our latest site which allows orders to be placed with us 24/7 Please note this service is an extension to the telephone mail order service we have offered for the past 40 years. So if you have any questions you need to ask you are still welcome to call us on 01226 756332 or e-mail us at enquiries@rimfiremagic.co.uk Our shop opening hours remain unaltered (BUT PLEASE SEE BELOW) and we are available from 09.30 – 17.30 Thursday to Saturday with voicemail available outside these times and e-mails are checked several times each day.
THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED ON 21st MAY 2026
These words are hard for us to write but we are sad to announce that the production of our Rimfire Magic rifles will come to an end in the very near future. Talks have been underway for many months with a colleague who is desperately keen (as we are) to see these rifles continue to be proudly made in the UK. Unfortunately we now have only a small number remaining of the essential receivers and bolts plus several other minor components. The current economic climate together with the ever decreasing number of rifle sales has forced us to think very carefully before we commit the financial resources necessary to have the usual quantity of one hundred of the receivers and bolts manufactured in England and the USA. Regrettably our ongoing old age and health problems don’t exactly help either!
With over one thousand Rimfire Magic rifles sold over the previous 15 years or so we would dearly love to have seen production continue but sadly this will now not happen. Roger still maintains it has been the best idea he ever had to offer these rifles but if you still harbour thoughts of having one built we would suggest you act quickly. We will go through our remaining inventory of parts shortly but we suspect we can only offer around 10 more of the rifles.
After posting the paragraph above we have received several requests for these rifles and w now need to tell you that we may not be able to accept any more orders. W are still happy to place your name on the list but please be aware that it may not now be possible to offer you exactly what you are seeking.
.22 RIMFIRE AMMUNITION IN STOCK
The past couple of years has seen quite an increase in interest in all things rimfire which in no small way is down to the ever increasing costs of centrefire shooting combined with the greater difficulty in finding ranges offering appropriate distances for the larger calibres. We are trying to maintain sufficient stock levels of popular rimfire ammunition brands and types but this has become a little trickier as countrywide demand is so high. To be fair to the wholesalers most of them operate a “fair play” system and when they receive a large shipment they will divide this up so where possible most gun shops receive at least some ammunition. We normally have outstanding back orders so whilst we very rarely receive everything we have on order we do at least receive some ammunition! Here is a list of some of the types of .22LR we currently hold in stock but please remember this applies to callers only as we are unable to ship ammunition anywhere! The prices shown are per 1,000 and smaller amounts are simply pro rata and we do not charge proportionately more for smaller quantities purchased. Naturally stocks change rapidly so please feel free to call us first to check we have available what you are looking for!
Subsonic: CCI hollow point: CCI £140 RWS £150 Norma £90 CCI Segmented £280
Standard velocity: CCI Standard £100 Geco Semi-Auto £100 Geco Rifle £100 SK Sd Plus £140
SK Match £160 SK Long Range £160 SK Semi-Auto £150 RWS Club £125
RWS Target £140 RWS Match £170 RWS R50 £290 RWS R100 £350
Lapua Centre-X £280 Lapua Long Range £320 Lapua Super Long Range £400
High Velocity: CCI MiniMag £140 CCI Blazer £100 Aguila £90
Hypervelocity: CCI Velocitor £250 E&OE!
BEST NEWS EVER ?
We are pleased to confirm that our first order for DPG’s Genesis barrelled actions are currently underway but as we expected the demand in the US has been high and Kenny is struggling to keep up with his orders. We currently have a list of ten interested parties and our first order was for ten barrelled actions so that is promising. We aren’t yet quite able to give you prices as this will be affected by shipping. We are hoping at least a few of the Genesis barrelled actions will be on our next shipment which we have delayed until the 25th May to encourage this but we will need to arrange for this shipment to be forwarded by the end of May as there are many items in this shipment we are keen to get our hands on including Feddersen and Lilja barrels.
We are flattered and honoured that a US company of this stature has chosen such a small UK business like ours to represent them over here. Meanwhile if you need to know more about Kenny and Ashley at Desert Precision Gunworks then here are some links which we recommend you find time to follow up but be prepared to learn a LOT about CZ 457 rifles and many other shooting topics. Make sure you have plenty of sandwiches and coffee to hand and lots of spare time before settling down to take a look though as you may find it all rather addictive …..
Desert Precision Gunworks | dpgunworks eagle eye shooting cz 457 – YouTube desert precision gunworks YouTube – Search Videos
NEW ARRANGEMENTS!
As we start our 41st year in business we feel the need to alter the way we work. This has been forced upon us by old age and poor health but we do feel our new arrangement will prove beneficial to everyone.
So please note that with immediate effect we will be pleased to welcome callers to our shop Thursday to Saturday BY APPOINTMENT ONLY PLEASE! We must stress that we are NOT closing down! Unfortunately when we last posted news on our website many people misread the words and assumed we were closing the shop completely … NOT SO! All we ask is that you let us know when you are looking to call and you are welcome to do this by leaving a message on our voicemail or of course e-mail.
TALON EXTRACTORS FOR CZ RIMFIRE RIFLES
This shipment does contain some exciting new products (more of which below) and naturally we are looking forward to adding many of these products to our website as soon as possible. Many of you who are ardent YouTube viewers, particularly if you shoot CZ rimfire rifles will be aware of Eagle Eye Shooting where Kenny their resident gunsmith has posted a whole load of fascinating videos about these and other rifles Meanwhile we are delighted to announce that we have arranged with Kenny’s company (Desert Precision Gunworks) to offer to the UK market his great new product called Talon extractors. For serious competition shooters one common problem when using a CZ with a quality aftermarket Match barrel is the difficulty of removing an unfired round from the chamber. The new Talon extractor is guaranteed to remove such a cartridge plus of course it should improve the extraction of fired cases too. We are really excited at this opportunity and will post details ASAP! Here is a link to Kenny’s video.
CZ457 DPG Talon Extractors – Avaliable Now!
LILJA CZ 455/457 BARRELS
Over the years we have used many of these fine top quality barrels for both centrefire and rimfire rifles and recently we have received several requests for Lilja’s drop in CZ rimfire barrels. Whilst we do have a batch of barrels coming over soon these will be the normal drop in barrels but we are exploring ways of tuning the CZ rimfire receiver and ways to provide an extremely tight fitting barrel/receiver joint with the view to maximising accuracy.
NEW PRODUCT – TRIGGER SPRING KIT FOR THE CZ 457 RIMFIRE RIFLE
Our original trigger spring kit for the CZ 452 and 455 series of rifles has proved our best selling product for many years. Now we are pleased to announce our latest kit for the CZ 457 series. It comprises two springs, a trigger support block and a slave pin. Please check it out below where you may order it online!
RimX Rifles
At last we have managed to find the time to finish working on a couple of rifles based on this premium rimfire receiver from Zermatt Arms which is based on a Remington 700 footprint meaning of course almost any stock/chassis and trigger may be used to complete a top class rifle. Here are the two we have just completed and the prices and full specifications will be posted on our New Firearms page in a few days time. Keen observers will notice a new stock we haven’t featured before but which has become extremely popular recently! This is an example of the wonderful and innovative stocks from Woox, the US company established under an Italian company started by the Minelli family back in 1937.
Woox stocks are a blend of modern technology utilising a hybrid construction with a strong aluminium core chassis with wood overlays using walnut, Tiger Wood, Midnight Grey or Micarta giving a practical and ergonomic stock combined with striking and innovative good looks.
The picture below shows the well known MDT ACC chassis in Flat Dark Earth
Shown below is a more budget friendly option in the MDT Oryx in Flat Dark Earth
If you liked the look of the Woox Furiosa stock shown above you may also like to know that this company produces a whole variety of stock designs for hunting and target shooting applications with all their stocks showing this hybrid technology of aluminium core with wood overlays. if that weren’t enough they also offer their stocks to fit many popular rifles including Remington 700 and clones, AR-15/AR-10, Bergara B14, CZ 457, Henry lever action, Howa 1500, Ruger 10/22 (this means Rimfire Magic too!) plus Ruger American, Sauer 100, Savage 110, Tikka T3/T3x/T3x CTR and Weatherby Vanguard.
We will be using more Woox stocks in future rifle builds including some of their other styles. Why not check out the Woox website to see more of the fine products they can supply and if you are interested in purchasing a Woox stock we can usually have stocks delivered to us from Italy in 10-14 days.
However we have now managed to place a small order for several of the new Bravado lever action rifle stocks for Henry rifles which we are advised should be with us in June/July.
Unfortunately we won’t be able to keep many of these Marlin and Henry stocks on the shelf as the number of variations covering these makes is simply too large but we are very happy to place orders for you on a special order basis. Please refer to the Woox website to view the many options available to ensure you order the one which is correct for your lever action rifle. Delivery time is usually pretty good at around 3-4 weeks provided of course the stock is available from Woox at the time of ordering!
WOOX: Exceptional Gunstocks & Chassis
The latest CZ 457 rifles are here!
Just last week we were advised of some brand new versions of the popular CZ 457 bolt action rimfire rifles. We are delighted to tell you that we have a small number of them here in stock for immediate delivery. Please take a look at our CZ page elsewhere on this site but to whet your appetite here are some pictures …
The 8.6 Blackout – First Time in the UK!
A brief insight into a novel cartridge and barrel combination.
When a long time friend and shooting colleague asked if he could have a particular rifle prepared for him Roger jumped at the chance to do something that little bit different from his usual line of work. The request was for a short barrelled rifle chambered in an interesting and relatively new cartridge which was becoming popular in the USA namely the 8.6 Blackout. The project was immediately attractive to Roger as to the best of his knowledge nobody had yet produced such a rifle in the UK possibly as very few UK shooters had even heard of it! This of course piqued his interest and some research was clearly necessary to establish how this could be achieved or even if it would be possible. The timing was excellent as Roger has promised himself to reduce his workload due to his ongoing old age and health problems. What we didn’t know at that time is that this would take over a year from inception to completion.
Basically there was a complete dearth of ammunition or even cases or dies available so these were imported from the USA. The bullets themselves offered only a few options as this cartridge is offered in two formats in the US as either traditional supersonic rounds or (and of considerably more interest to us) as a subsonic cartridge utilising .338” calibre bullets more often associated with the well known .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge. The prospective owner of the new rifle was predominantly interested in using the 300gn Sierra MatchKing projectiles in subsonic mode and his interest was using the rifle for target shooting out to around 300 yards. It should be noted that the main use for this type of cartridge would normally be for what we might rather loosely call “vermin shooting” although in this context rather than the more conventional UK target of foxes etc in the US the 8.6 Blackout is widely used for shooting of rather larger targets such as Cape Buffalo! Furthermore this is often carried out at distances of several hundreds of yards! We will be offering monolithic or lathe turned copper projectiles for use in subsonic hunting loads where their ability to give maximum expansion is desired.
It was determined that we could construct our first ammunition samples using 6.5 Creedmoor cases which could be shortened and then necked up to the necessary 8.6MM/.338 size and interestingly we found the Lee were already offering dies for this cartridge. So at first glance it was hoped the ammunition issue wouldn’t be too complicated. However there was one very big complication ….what about the barrel? Luckily a suitable barrel was obtained through Brownells UK from a company named Faxon who had offered the first barrels chambered in 8.6 Blackout. This was fortunate as the chances of obtaining a suitable barrel blank to chamber in the conventional manner would prove impossible at that stage due to the extremely unusual twist rate for the rifling needed to stabilise heavy projectiles at subsonic velocities which is an amazing 1 in 3 ….. yes, that’s not a typo, it really is a one in three rate of twist! Everyone who has looked through a barrel has said the same …. It looks like it’s been threaded internally! This of course explained the difficulty in obtaining suitable bullets for loading ammunition at all velocities as the extremely fast rate of twist in these barrels means there s a real risk of the bullet jacket being stripped from the core as depending on the actual bullet velocity the missile itself may be leaving the muzzle at an amazing 500,000 revolutions per minute ….. now that is FAST!
This is where one of the easiest parts of the project occurred as the barrel Roger obtained was 12” in length although he also acquired a similar barrel at 16” for future velocity tests. Sadly there was very little loading data available and Roger even approached Hornady who at that time had expressed a commercial interest in the cartridge. They weren’t able to offer data as such but were gracious enough to offer useful guidance as to the sort of pressures we would need to use. Now we hit the REAL snag! We could assemble the rifle easily as the barrel used the Ramage system so fitting and headspacing was a doddle BUT what about proof testing? Well, every new project requires a stroke of luck and Roger’s big break came when he spoke with Wayne Massey at the Birmingham Proof Laboratory to ask (or should that be “beg”) for help. Having gathered together some brass cases, a die set and some bullets we made a trip to Birmingham. Interestingly Roger hadn’t been there for around 35 years but the whole place didn’t appear to have altered much at all although this couldn’t be said for other parts of Birmingham! Cutting a long story short the excellent facilities at the Proof Laboratory under Wayne’s supervision allowed the establishment of suitable proof loads and working loads but it must be acknowledged that this whole enterprise would never have been possible without the guidance and support of The Proof Master and Wayne Massey.
So that’s where we are at this moment in time with a happy customer testing his new rifle and Roger trying to find the time to carry out some velocity determinations and accuracy testing with some subsonic loads. We hope to show some of this information in due course, hopefully when we see some warmer weather! Meanwhile here ae a couple of photos of the two 8.6 Blackout rifles built so far showing the 12” and 16” versions. Another 12” barrelled action was returned from the Proof House recently so if you are interested in a rifle in this unusual calibre you may also consider searching on YouTube where you will find a lot more information on this rather intriguing rifle and ammunition combination.
It’s highly unlikely the 8.6 Blackout will become a mainstream cartridge as it clearly does have its limitations BUT there may well be a limited demand for vermin controllers who for example may have a need for a very quiet rifle for shooting wild boar in sensitive areas. Time will tell but in the meantime we will report back in the future when we have carried out more testing.
CZ 457 SCOPE RAIL
We are pleased to add another scope base to our range offered for the CZ rimfire rifles. This one fits the latest CZ457 model
CZ452/455 SPRING KIT
Without a doubt this little kit has been the most successful product we have ever come up with over the past 37 years! Not too surprising considering the immense popularity of these rifles which in their turn are probably the UK’s top selling rimfire rifle. Over 8,000 of our spring kits have been sold but sadly we will not be offering them in the future. It is too late in our career to invest in a further large quantity of the component parts of the kit especially the small brass tubes which need to be manufactured to very fine tolerances. However all is not lost as we do still have a very small quantity of two of the springs. As we are receiving many enquiries for the kit we felt at least we can still offer these two springs without the brass tubes which were seldom needed in the later Model 455 rifles but were often advisable in the Model 452. So we are now offering the two springs for £12 plus £5 carriage if required. Please call us on 01226 756332 or e-mail us at enquiries@rimfiremagic.co.uk if you wish to order or simply ask a question. We have now added this item on the CZ page of our website so you may also order directly online too!
REACH FOR THE SUMMIT!
Brought to you in association with our colleagues at Volquartsen Firearms we are delighted to bring you news of our latest rimfire rifle …… the Summit .22lr is a straight pull bolt action rimfire rifle with a toggle joint action based on the action used successfully in many of the top rifles used in the discipline of Biathlon shooting, a novel event involving a mixture of skiing and shooting. Probably the most commonly used rifle for this branch of the shooting sports is the Anschutz biathlon rifle which uses a similar side operated straight pull Fortner action. The Summit concept uses a similar style of action but its greatest innovation from our point of view is that Volquartsen’s action is designed around the established Ruger® 10/22® footprint and will accept almost any Ruger® 10/22® barrel, trigger unit and stock. What is there not to like here! We believe this new rifle will in time become as popular with UK shooters as our well established Rimfire Magic semi-auto rifles.
This allows us to offer a range of rifles adaptable to many styles of shooting including a sporting rifle which may be operated quickly and quietly or target grade rifle for use in competition shooting where the use of a semi-automatic rifle may not be desired. With a sound moderator fitted you can have a sporting rifle with an action which may be operated with a finger and thumb or in the case of some practised shooters a single digit may be used to cycle the action. Naturally with a closed action this leads to an accurate rifle which is much quieter than a semi auto rifle.
From a target shooters perspective we can offer a lightweight, accurate rifle suitable for many disciplines conducted at a more leisurely pace or alternatively with the use of a longer traditional heavy steel barrel you have a heavier and more stable platform for NRL22 competition or the latest long range precision rimfire shooting. One of the interesting features of the Summit system is that the headspace may be easily established for your specific ammunition choice if you have a particular favourite ammunition you like to use, particularly in long range shooting. An additional feature is the integral picatinny scope base which is machined into the receiver incorporates a cant of 20MOA allowing the shooter more opportunity to reach out and zero the scope at longer distances.
Naturally we will be happy to quote for any reasonable specification you may require but our “standard” specification as seen in the photo immediately below consists of the Summit action with a Volquartsen TG2000 trigger unit with a trigger pull of around 1.75 lbs and a Volquartsen 16″ carbon fibre barrel with a 1/2 x 20 UNF thread at the muzzle. This is installed in a Magpul X-22 Hunter stock. The stock is available in a choice of black, flat dark earth or olive drab green. However as mentioned before don’t forget the Summit action should accept almost any Ruger® 10/22® barrel, trigger unit and stock. This may possibly make the Summit one of the most versatile bolt action rimfire rifles on the market today! The price for the standard rifle shown immediately below is £1,250 If you wish to see a Summit for yourself why not call in and take a “peak” at one!
In addition to the carbon fibre barrels we also have in stock a number of an alternative top class rimfire barrels from the highly respected company run by Dan Lilja in the USA. These are .920″ diameter heavy plain stainless steel barrels which we have used in the past to build our top of the range Ruger 77/22 and CZ455 rifles. Normally offered at a length of 21″ we also offer these fine barrels in shorter lengths eg. 16″ and 18″ with either a plain target crown or with a threaded muzzle at 1/2 x 20 UNF. All the stocks offered with our Rimfire Magic rifles are of course also suitable for the Summit rifles including Boyds Evolution and At-One stocks, Hogue thumbhole, Magpul X-22. We have also just acquired some more of the excellent (but often difficult to find) MDT ORYX chassis systems as shown in the other Summit photograph above. With the choices of parts available we are confident we can build you a rifle to suit your particular requirements so please don’t hesitate to contact us for any further information or to ask any questions you may have concerning our new range of Summit rifles.
RIMFIRE MAGIC RIFLES
Meanwhile we had a pleasant surprise a few months ago when a caller at the shop showed us a video on YouTube which had only been posted the day before and had already received over 1,000 hits (plus one from us later that day!) We knew nothing whatsoever about this review and we have no connection with the reviewer who in turn it appears was offered the rifle to review by a customer. The rifle itself was produced back in 2017 We thought you may like to see this ….
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