CZ Adds Four 457 Rimfire Rifles, the Maple, Hunter Strata, LRP Black and ERGO, From $729

CZ-USA put four new CZ 457 bolt-action rimfire rifles on sale in the United States on November 10: the American Maple, the Hunter Strata, the LRP Black and the ERGO. The maker’s 457 Maple page lists that rifle from $729 and its 457 ERGO page lists the ERGO from $799. The LRP Black and Hunter Strata pages carried no U.S. price as of November 14. CZ’s release reached the desk inside a Shooting News Weekly piece published that day.

All four rifles carry 20-inch cold-hammer-forged barrels with threaded muzzles, and all four share the 457 platform’s adjustable trigger, 60-degree bolt throw and push-to-fire safety. The 457 is CZ’s rimfire bolt-action line, and its barrels and calibers are user-swappable. Fourteen 457 rifles were already in the series when the release went out.

The American Maple is a .22 LR with a stock cut from American maple that is sourced and machined in the United States. CZ’s variant table gives it a light-profile barrel of 20.7 inches, an overall length of 38.2 inches and a weight of 5.8 pounds. The page’s description still carries the walnut stock and 24-inch barrel of the standard 457 American, which does not match the release or the variant table.

The Hunter Strata pairs a TrueTimber Strata camouflage polymer stock with bronze PVD-coated metal and a factory compensator. CZ lists it in .22 LR and .17 HMR at 5.51 pounds, and its page copy names a Veil Big Sky pattern where the release says TrueTimber Strata.

The LRP Black is the precision model. Its heavy, fluted barrel has a match chamber and a compensator, the beech target stock has an adjustable cheekpiece and length of pull, and a Picatinny rail with a built-in incline of 25 MOA (minutes of angle, an angular measure) carries the optic. That incline leaves more scope elevation for long rimfire shots. It weighs 8.49 pounds and runs 39.76 inches overall.

The ERGO has a fiberglass-reinforced polymer thumbhole stock inspired by the CZ 600 ERGO, with a detachable cheekpiece. It weighs 5.1 pounds and measures 38.4 inches overall.

“The CZ 457 has always been a platform that can serve a lot of different recreational shooters exceptionally well,” said John Dain, president of CZ-USA, in the release. The four rifles have been available in the U.S. since November 10, and CZ’s product pages point buyers to its dealer locator.