Interesting. I knew CZ/BRNO does a lot of bolt action .22 rifles, but I didn’t know about this one.
You might be thinking of a CZ-511, which was discontinued circa 2006, or the CZ-512 introduced circa 2010, neither of which are Brno proper, different factories in the case of the 511, and Brno essentially gone/absorbed by early 2000s, the cheaper made 611A actually dates from that time, a CZ effort on a cheaper version and only lasting a few years with sleeved rear sight/forearm-hangar/recoil-spring seat, and where trigger was moved fwd (with perhaps more standard trigger sear/hammer notches)...the 611A stuff was sold off to another company who did a really crude and even cheaper version.
All of which why in my original post I advised folk stick with the original 611.
This semi-auto gun predates the CZ takeover in original 611 version, the 611A a post-takeover version, I believe the old 511 made from (maybe) circa 1964 to 2006 was originally a Brno design by the same brothers, but was produced at what became the CZ factory (with likely changes)....the 611 was the last Brno/brothers effort at a .22WMR semi-auto. If there seems a lot of crossover and confusion in names, it is because both were originally state arms factories of circa half a dozen, only what became CZ surviving to modern times.
It was probably closer to the time Ruger came out with the jam-0-matic 10/22magnum. It was a long time ago.
The 10/22M is recent history to me, was made from circa 1998 to circa 2006(?), which time period encompasses the CZ 511 and brief cheapened 611A, and neither a proper Brno gun. When trashing things, it helps to be specific rather than painting with a mystery brush of unrecalled model or apparently even maker.
Who said it was a new brno. It was a brno and the trigger was crap and I got rid of it. I don't care what you think.
Just like the 10/22M you trash where there actually are many happy owners. You'd better care what I think as this thread was started by me regarding a specific rifle where you have used it purely to make snide comments about a mystery gun by mystery maker (where you may as well have said, "I had a czechoslovakia") and by association casting doubt on the subject of this thread.
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And you trashed everything I had to say about my experience . It was labeled a brno, not a mystery gun.
You just do not seem to get the fact that many guns are marked Brno because Brno is a city....there were CZs (Cheska Zbrojovka) marked Brno, for instance, with even a company mark on the guns similar to the mark applied to Zbrojovka Brno guns, which latter are the true Brno-brand guns sold in the US, where I can assure you, no gun by them ever had a trigger like an SKS.
When you are trashing something, it would help if you knew what you are trashing, and thanks for trashing this thread.
One mark is CZ and the other is Brno. And as CZ took over the Brno company and designs (and often changed them), they also continued to use same or similar model names including ZKM prefixes, including the ZKM-611A which was a CZ attempt at cost cutting which did not sell and was dropped/sold off and produced even cheaper by another company who may have even been in Brno as well.
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