BSA CF2

[NickJ]

Because here in the UK it rains ALL of the time so wood and blue is not practical!!

 

[Kersnow]

Because here in the UK it rains ALL of the time so wood and blue is not practical!!

Am after my first rifle and want stainless and synthetic as much easier to keep clean and doesn't really matter if it gets scratched etc.

My game guns have bonny wood but a nightmare on the shore

 

[hybridfiat]

Not to turn this into a "most underrated rifle" companion to another thread, I do have to ask,
why is the BSA CF2 so well thought of here in the states and the British all but use them for fence posts?
Seriously, I've seen prices as low as £75 for a viable .270.
Here in the states prices start at $500 USD and go up from there.
I find them to be quite accurate, well made, not at all bad looking, and lend themselves easily to modification.

So, please tell me what's up...

I've just sold my much loved CF2 BSA for $1000.
I just didn't use it enough and I want to by another electric guitar.
Very, very good rifles, easily the equal or better of any rifle made at the time.

 

[6.5a square]

Because everyone knows you need a massively marketed plastic pig of a gun with a silly recoil lug and the hubble space telescope to snot a roe at 100yd.

I've got a BSA (Monarch rather than CF2) and love it to bits. Was my first centrefire as a .243 and is now a 6br. Superb little rifle. Have a few other BSAs as well, I'm a bit of a fan!

I have had 2 cf2s sporter in 243, my first cf and a stutzen in 270. Still have the stutzen.Good rifles accurate with a slick bolt action
I also have a supersport5 22 and love it .v v accurate and also a 1920s side cause 12 3”chamber model
Love em

 

[User00035]

A good CF2 will still make a surprising amount here in the UK

Ed (Edinburgh rifles) restored one in .222 years ago and I bought it unseen. I worked away so he dropped it into a prestigious Edinburgh gun shop.
When I went to collect it they told me they had a customer who loved it and let me take my pick of there .222 stock if I let them keep it.
The knew what I payed Ed for it but I walked out with a Tika M595 in stainless laminate with optilocks and a Predator moderator.

So yes, good ones are very much appreciated.

I bought my CF2 .222 for £150 and sold about five years later for £250, having done nothing to it at all except shoot it and clean it.

Chap who bought it wanted it for bench rest shooting and he emailed me later to say how pleased he was with it and how well it shot.
He also told me all his plans for renovating and tuning it which made me feel a bit sick that I hadn't done that myself.
I felt a bit better when I got my pristine Sako 75 .243 from Neil Sutherland which replaced the triple, but I've never gelled with it in quite the same way as I did with that old Beeza.

 

[KimE]

My father has a BSA in .308w it was a cheap rifle then he bought it in the 1980s and its still a cheap rifle maybee you can get 3000sek/300$, it has a monte carlo stock, he is left handed he still bought a rh rifle and does not want to try my LH Tikka. It shoots great but its heavy has hinged floorplate mag.

All the rifles I wanted then I were 18 are now cheap, older Tikka, Sako, Husqvarna even Mannlicher. But you dont want to fill the cabinet with rifles you dont use so much, 6 long guns/rifles are max for hunting in Sweden.