CZ-USA RECENTLY DISCONTINUED ALL OF its centerfire rifle models—yep, all —and replaced them with a versatile action engineered to be better. It’s one of the most dramatic shifts I’ve seen a firearms company make.
Fans of the classic claw-extractor Model 550 (and all the similar BRNO derivatives) wailed in anguish. My heart sank right along with theirs. Another great, historic, controlled-feed rifle gone.
Thankfully, CZ’s new Model 600 is innovative, well thought out, and beautifully built. If the company was discontinuing the Model 527 mini-Mauser action, the accurate Model 557 push-feed action, and the Model 550, it at least did so with a very interesting rifle.
The Epitome of Modern Bolt Guns
The Model 600 is interesting in diverse ways. Col. Townsend Whelen, famous for stating, “Only accurate rifles are…