Well, it was good enough for the Olympics...
How willing are you in trying a lot of different 22 ammo and how good are you at judging wind?

I’ve Seen several 414’s on the 22BPCR lines. My spotter has one he setup for his wife to shoot. I personally have seen it clean all the rams off the rail several times. It doesn’t seem too particular on ammo either, lapua, eley, gemtech, and federal all seem to work well.

They are nice rifles for certain, as mentioned earlier, the American Olympic team used them in the games.

Moose

Looks much better with those stocks...



JMH

Dr.J wrote on Jun 7^th, 2025 at 1:02pm:


You accuracy will depend on the barrel & chamber.  As a long-time .22PBCR shooting I use a Stevens 44.  The original barrel bore & chamber were fine but the chamber had some freebore & a bit loose (typical of "sporting" chambers).  It shot fine & I shot some pretty good score, but not as consistent as I would like at the 150yd turkeys & 200yd rams.  All the .22BPCR shooters I shoot with have CPAs, rolling blocks, C. Sharps, Stevens, Low Walls & Hepburns.  The newer rifle have match chambers.  Most of the older rifles were rebarreled or setback with new match chambers.  

So, not desiring to setback the barrel, I had my Stevens 44 rebarreled with a Shilen ratchet barrel & chamber cut with a match reamer.  The result was a measurable increase in accuracy.

The above is a long-winded way to say that if the bore & chamber are in good shape, it may shoot OK for BPCR (assuming you find the ammo it likes), but likely not a great BPCR rifle.  It would certainly be a good rifle to get started & find out if you like the sport.

Of course, if it was setup for the olympics with a match chamber then you are good to go with the right ammo.  I understand that in the hands of an experienced shooter the 414 was extremely accurate out to 200 yds & more.

Wayne