Brno Fox .22 Hornet accuracy

[Hales Smut]

I bought a second hand Brno Fox 22 Hornet, but it shoots bad. 2-3 inch 3 shot groups at 100m with 3 types of ammo.
I noticed that the barrel is touching the wood over the complete lenght. I wonder if this could be the problem?
Any Fox owners on here who could confirm if their Fox is also not free floating?
Thanks.

 

[hammo]

I free floated my CZ 527 (later model but essentially the same I believe) so that was definitely touching, an area of bluing was missing where the barrel touched.
Pretty easy to carefully sand out the barrel channel in the stock.
I wrapped sandpaper around a suitably sized dowel.
Grouped well, but mine was grouping ok before free floating.
POI changed a couple of inches once pressure from touching the stock was removed.

 

[Smellydog]

Had the same when I bought one from new a few decades ago.
Yes, I got the barrel off the wood and things improved..

 

[Heym SR20]

Nowt wrong with full length bedding but it needs to provide positive pressure. Try adding a business card towards the tip off the forend so it has positive pressure on the barrel. It may or may not tighten things up.

Or go full free floating.

Worse situation is when you have barrel touching, but touching with no pressure so that when barrel flexes you have very variable contact.

 

[Hales Smut]

Would it be of any intrest if I would put some small piece of plastic, rubber, business card just in front of the recoil lug and retighten the screws? To see if the rifle would shoot better, with the barrel not touching the wood.

 

[Smellydog]

Try it. Done similar myself in the past.

 

[sir-lamp-alot]

Would it be of any intrest if I would put some small piece of plastic, rubber, business card just in front of the recoil lug and retighten the screws? To see if the rifle would shoot better, with the barrel not touching the wood.

Done this to several cz's/brno's and it works a treat will say though when I had my .22hornet which was a cz527 so the same in essance to your brno it would throw the same 3-4" grouping as your getting with every type of factory ammo I could find so had to go with hone loading where it then threw groups less than 1/2 inch straight off the bat

 

[Klenchblaize]

Does it have a double-set trigger and if so how do you find it?

K

 

[Edinburgh Rifles]

Take the bipod off it…..

Slim wooden fore-ends with pressure points are not designed to be shot with bipod
Rest on bag or hand
Dont muscle the fore-end

BRNO Foxea are famous for their accuracy long after the rifling and bore condition have left the building

 

[Hales Smut]

Take the bipod off it…..

Slim wooden fore-ends with pressure points are not designed to be shot with bipod
Rest on bag or hand
Dont muscle the fore-end

BRNO Foxea are famous for their accuracy long after the rifling and bore condition have left the building

I didn't use a bipod. In the front a large frontbag and in the rear a small bag.
No pressure on fore-end. Just lying in the bag, not even touching it.

Ammo was 45/46 grain Remington, S&B, RWS Jagdlatch + 35 grain Hornady V-Max

I heard they are good, so I took the risk buying it.

 

[Hales Smut]

Does it have a double-set trigger and if so how do you find it?

K

It has the double-set trigger. It's O.K. but a bit it rattles a bit. Release is O.K.

I do like set triggers a lot, but this one is not great.
I have a single set trigger on a Browning European and used one on a Tikka.
Both are higher quality. For shooting with a good rest from highseat, bipod prone or from pick up roof , it's hard to get anything better.