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 35 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 and we are available from 09.30 – 17.30 Thursday to Saturday with voicemail available outside these times and e-mails are checked every day.
We look forward to serving new customers together with our regular customers! Please note that we have many more products to be listed on the new site and expect to be adding more items at regular intervals so please feel free to check back frequently to see our most recent additions!
This is a good moment to remind everyone that we are not just a mail order business, and our shop may be small but still offers a fair assortment of items which may be of interest to all Section One shooters. For example we stock rimfire and centrefire ammunition for sporting and target shooters together with reloading components such as brass cases, primers, expanding and Match projectiles, powders from Vihtavuori, Alliant and Hodgdon. We stock cleaning products and chemicals, reloading equipment from Lee Precision and many more related bits and pieces. We stock many Magpul items and of course many Ruger© 10/22© related factory replacement and aftermarket accessories and parts from Power Custom, Volquartsen Custom and lots more…..
RECENT COMPUTER GLITCH!
We apologise to anyone who has experienced difficulty in contacting our website over the past few days. Our first thought due to the timing was that we were suffering from the global situation which has recently hit so many financial and business activities although we were surprised that such a small enterprise like ours was affected! Fortunately we always call on the services of two local computer gurus and as usual they have come up trumps and hopefully the system has been repaired. It transpires our problem was not connected at all to the global problem but had been caused by the Microsoft updates automatically applied by the computer.
So we are now hoping everything is back to normal BUT unfortunately several updated pages have now lost information recently uploaded. This applies particularly to our new and second-hand firearms pages and also the CZ page where we had just posted some interesting news on some of the new rimfire rifles on offer. Please bear with us as we try to update these pages over the next few days.
UPDATE 27TH JULY
Sheila is taking a well deserved break for one week as from today so Roger will be on his own so please make the usual allowance for his general incompetence plus his difficulty with some phone calls due to his poor hearing! Regular callers will also know that Sheila looks after the shop so Roger rarely knows where anything is …. !
UPDATED 20th June 2024
Available to callers from our shop right now …….
Following some recent deliveries we thought you may like to know we are currently well stocked with several items which have been rather difficult to get hold of recently, so we have good stocks of reloading powders in particular our favourite Vihtavouri powders and we try to carry as many varieties as possible especially the popular N140 The really good news is that primers are also back in stock and we have a good choice of large and small pistol primers plus large and small rifle primers. There is a bit of bad news though which is the price of primers which as you may know has recently risen quite dramatically. We can assure you there is no question of rampant profiteering as we too have been force to pay for them or go without!
We are particularly pleased to report good stocks of rimfire ammunition including CCI Standard, Subsonic, Blazer and MiniMag and SK Standard Plus, Long Range Match, and Rifle Match. Many of these have proved excellent in our Rimfire Magic rifles and are amongst our firm favourites.
Several shipments have been received over the past two weeks or so and we currently hold around 100,000 rounds of .22 rimfire ammunition! Current prices (per 1,000) for our most popular types are CCI Standard £100, Blazer £100, subsonic £140 and Mini-Mag £130. Aguila High Velocity copper plated £80, SK Standard Plus £120, Norma subsonic £90
For those shooters who don’t reload their ammunition we carry several types of sporting and target centrefire ammunition in many calibres from .17HMR, .223, .22-250, .243, 6.5 Creedmoor, 6.5×55, .308. etc
SALE NOW ON!
Wow …. there’s a word you haven’t seen here in the past 38 years or so! Sadly we are now in the twilight of our career and our age and health issues dictate a change in work pattern. We are immensely proud to be regarded by many shooters as the producers of some of the best rimfire rifles in the UK and certainly when considering Ruger® 10/22® style semi-auto rifles. Our Rimfire Magic rifles have now been in production for almost fifteen years and continue to be sought after and our plans for the foreseeable future will be concentrated on rimfire rifles but we are extending our developments into bolt action rimfire rifles as there are certain situations where rifles with this type of action may be more suitable. This applies particularly to the newer styles of competition shooting such as NRL22 and PRS22 for which disciplines we feel our latest Summit based rifles are ideal. We are in the process of developing one or two assembly protocols which we are hoping will allow us to offer some extremely accurate rimfire rifles based on the well established CZ 457 rifles and one of the more recent innovative rimfire actions from Zermatt Arms which is the RimX action. With increasing interest in long range rimfire shooting in the UK this is an area we are keen to investigate.
In order to utilise our resources of both time and effort we will be offering a number of centrefire rifles for sale at very keen prices! We are currently working through our inventory of new and used centrefire rifles and if you are to take a look at both our new and secondhand rifles pages you will see some particularly good offers on current rifles in stock. Hopefully we will also be able to build many more rifles over the forthcoming months as we also still have to hand quite a few brand new Remington 700 actions and of course suitable barrel blanks and stocks too all of which we wish to se used in due course. So even if you can’t see anything of interest at this time then please check back over the next few months but bear in mind there will be a lapse whilst we not only try to build the rifles but of course also submit them for proof testing!
All the “on offer” rifles will be shown on our website for a period of approximately three months after which they will be sent to auction and replaced with further offers.
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 modelCZ452/455 SPRING KITS
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 £10 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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