What was the favorite bolt-action rifle of American hunters in late 1950s till let´s say 1990s? I don´t know...
But I do know, what was and still is the Czech rifle of choice - ZKK 600.
ZKK 600 was made by Brno Arms Company (Zbrojovka Brno) and It´s Czechoslovakian improvement to timeless Mauser bolt design. Main change is the safety moved from back of the bolt to the right sight, where it doesn´t interfere with scope. Also there is very clever double set trigger designt - you push the trigger forward till you hear and feel "click". Then the small blade on the trigger, which looks like GLOCK safety, engages in to trigger mechanism and you have to push just this small piece to fire the gun. Trigger pull is very fine and light. You can also relase tension in double set trigger and put it in to heavier pull, by engaging safety and pressing the trigger.
I like guns made of wood and steel. And this is a superb piece of best czechoslovakian Poldi Kladno steel and fine piece of walnut wood. Stock is monte-carlo design. Little bit shorter, steep pistol grip, quite "fat" fore end and decent cheek support. I like my stock short, despite being 6ft 3in... Pistol grip and for end are finely checkered. Butplate is some kind of ugly plastic...
Magazine is internal, double stack, which can be emptied from the bottom.
This rifle (and countless of others ZKK 600, 601 and 602) is equiped with Carl Zeiss 4x32 (maybe 30) scope. This scope was made in former Easter Germany (DDR)... Well, communists made crap? In most cases yes, but Carl Zeiss is still Carl Zeiss and even back then they´ve been making some nice scopes. Picture is crystal clear and you can see fairly well even in darkness. Czechosovakian and later Czech hunters were using those scopes for over 50 years in all weather and light conditions. The bes thing is, that it´s made out of steel and it´s indestructible. Only drawback is, that you can do only height correction with one of the turn caps. For side correction you have to use the screws on scope mount. But when it´s set, it stays set... Scope mount can be easy removed with scope when you need the iron sights.
Iron sights are quite common, but there is one interesting thing - you can remove a front sight in a second. You just press small button infront of it and slide the sight away... For me the front sight is little bit to small. Rear sight is adjustable just for windage. In europe we are not using iron sights to much, anything above 50m is scope bussines.
7x64 mm - what a odd caliber right? Does not ring a bell? Well, it´s almost strictly matter of european and african hunters... It was invented by Wilhelm Brenneke in 1917. It was supposed to be a improvement of 7x57 Mauser, which was going strong in South America and Africa. It´s flat trajectory and performance put it into consideration as sniper cartridge for German Wehrmacht in 1930s, but for logistical reasons they went for 8x57. In europe it´s considered all-around cartridge and going very strong from 1920s till now... It´s not as powerfull as 30-06, but not that that much...
ZKK 600 (intermediate action) was made in 7x57, 8x57, 30-06, 7x64, 8x64, and even powerfull 9,3x62. But rifles in 30-06 are not very good, the barrels are bad... ZKK 601 (short action) was made in .222 REM (.223 REM maybe also), .243 WIN and .308 WIN. ZKK 602 was made in I don´t know a lot of powerful calibers .416 Rigby for example, I saw piece in .358 Norma Magnum any SAFARI cartridge you can imagine...
Ok guys, thats about it... If any questions ask ...
But I do know, what was and still is the Czech rifle of choice - ZKK 600.
ZKK 600 was made by Brno Arms Company (Zbrojovka Brno) and It´s Czechoslovakian improvement to timeless Mauser bolt design. Main change is the safety moved from back of the bolt to the right sight, where it doesn´t interfere with scope. Also there is very clever double set trigger designt - you push the trigger forward till you hear and feel "click". Then the small blade on the trigger, which looks like GLOCK safety, engages in to trigger mechanism and you have to push just this small piece to fire the gun. Trigger pull is very fine and light. You can also relase tension in double set trigger and put it in to heavier pull, by engaging safety and pressing the trigger.
I like guns made of wood and steel. And this is a superb piece of best czechoslovakian Poldi Kladno steel and fine piece of walnut wood. Stock is monte-carlo design. Little bit shorter, steep pistol grip, quite "fat" fore end and decent cheek support. I like my stock short, despite being 6ft 3in... Pistol grip and for end are finely checkered. Butplate is some kind of ugly plastic...
Magazine is internal, double stack, which can be emptied from the bottom.
This rifle (and countless of others ZKK 600, 601 and 602) is equiped with Carl Zeiss 4x32 (maybe 30) scope. This scope was made in former Easter Germany (DDR)... Well, communists made crap? In most cases yes, but Carl Zeiss is still Carl Zeiss and even back then they´ve been making some nice scopes. Picture is crystal clear and you can see fairly well even in darkness. Czechosovakian and later Czech hunters were using those scopes for over 50 years in all weather and light conditions. The bes thing is, that it´s made out of steel and it´s indestructible. Only drawback is, that you can do only height correction with one of the turn caps. For side correction you have to use the screws on scope mount. But when it´s set, it stays set... Scope mount can be easy removed with scope when you need the iron sights.
Iron sights are quite common, but there is one interesting thing - you can remove a front sight in a second. You just press small button infront of it and slide the sight away... For me the front sight is little bit to small. Rear sight is adjustable just for windage. In europe we are not using iron sights to much, anything above 50m is scope bussines.
7x64 mm - what a odd caliber right? Does not ring a bell? Well, it´s almost strictly matter of european and african hunters... It was invented by Wilhelm Brenneke in 1917. It was supposed to be a improvement of 7x57 Mauser, which was going strong in South America and Africa. It´s flat trajectory and performance put it into consideration as sniper cartridge for German Wehrmacht in 1930s, but for logistical reasons they went for 8x57. In europe it´s considered all-around cartridge and going very strong from 1920s till now... It´s not as powerfull as 30-06, but not that that much...
ZKK 600 (intermediate action) was made in 7x57, 8x57, 30-06, 7x64, 8x64, and even powerfull 9,3x62. But rifles in 30-06 are not very good, the barrels are bad... ZKK 601 (short action) was made in .222 REM (.223 REM maybe also), .243 WIN and .308 WIN. ZKK 602 was made in I don´t know a lot of powerful calibers .416 Rigby for example, I saw piece in .358 Norma Magnum any SAFARI cartridge you can imagine...
Ok guys, thats about it... If any questions ask ...