Unfortunately there's a HUGE gap in the rimfire market that none of the manufacturers are willing to address, and that's making a high quality, target grade precision rimfire rifle with a price in the $700 to $1,000 range. Something equivalent to the old Winchester Model 52 or the BSA Martini or a Remington Model 37 or 540x.

Just look at the prices people are paying for the older target grade rimfires like those mentioned above - most are bringing anywhere from $750 to well over $2,000 on the used market these days and if/when one does come up for sale it's snapped up almost instantly. Clearly there's a market for such guns, but the manufacturers refuse to recognize it claiming, "our market research doesn't' indicate that such a gun would sell well." Maybe that's because nobody has made one in over 60 years and the "market" is limited to the second-hand market which their researchers totally ignore.