Yesteryears .22 Rifles

[southpaw]

Dad has a win 69a that I really like. His brother got it to thin out some of the stray cats on the farm. Not really sure how accurate it is since I haven't really shot many groups with it other than to make sure it is sighted in but there are many many tree rats that will atest that it is accurate enough. Dad is a pretty good shot with it too, not a beer can safe within 100 yards of him.

I doubt that it will be mine tho since my soon to be 4 year old has taken a fond liking to it. Hopefully he will let me shoot it.

Jerry Jr.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Moss 42b with Lyman peep and globe front site.
Jon

[gmsharps]

Started out with a Winchester 62a and put many a 22 shell through it. Picked up a Model 52 heavy barrel as a teenager and carried it a lot prior to going in the military. Good training to prepare for carrying the M14. I picked up a Winchester 9422 the first year they came out and it shoots pretty well. Still grab the 62a if I have to do much walking though.

[txbirdman]

My son is a collector of .22's. He has all the old Winchester pumps starting with the 1890 up through the 61's. He also has an 03 and 63. Awhile back a friend of mine offered to sell his old Remington Model 12 so I picked it up for his collection also. I figure every Winchester collector ought to have at least 1 Remington. The way that Model 12 functions is really unique and well ahead of it's time in my opinion. I have always been partial to Winchester 74's. The one I have now is a nice specimen from the early production "small feed hole" era.

[RP]

I love the old 22s I try to pick them up when ever I can just cant find the nice ones I would be willing to pay as much as they are asking yet.

[TCFAN]

This is my favorite old 22. A model 62 winchester made in 1937.Given to me by a good friend 30 yrs ago who bought it new. It has a old Lyman tang sight and I put a lyman 17-A on the front. It is a good shooter

[10 ga]

Being from a shotgun sorta family didn't have any rifles in the house except great grandads 73 win in 38-70. I was the first to bring a rifle home. Remington 581, sorta a mini 788. Took the "22" scope off and put a full size 1" tube 4X on it when I got it in "68" and it still shoots clover leafs today. Next was a black nylon 66, it was my trapline gun and I still carry it in the truck and boat even now. No sights left on it but she still dispatches critters with the best of them. Wish I had a complete collection of them "Nylon" guns. The different colors and types, it'd be a neat display. 10

[abunaitoo]

I just got a H&R "Leatherneck", finally.
Been looking for years.
I was looking for a Mod 165, but got this Mod 150 insted.

Have a love of old .22's.
A few of those I have:
Win 63
Win 61
Rem 513 US
Moss 44 US
MAS
and a bunch of others.

[Dollar Bill]

I've had a Mossberg 341 for........ever, it seems. 35 years, probably.
Then, this year, my youngest daughter wanted to go shooting. So I drug the old Mossy out, cleaned it up, worked on the trigger and got the pull weight down to reasonable 3#, and off we went. Had so much fun, I got a CZ 452 Varmint. Next came a Winchester 52C Heavy with Redfield sights and a Lyman STS. Right now, I'm trying to win a bid on a Mossberg 144LS.

I think some kind of bug has bit me.

[Char-Gar]

A Winchester 75 like your got me into four postion rifle shooting in 1955. I was 13 years old. A few years later as my skills increased I went to a Winchester 52D Bull Gun to stay in the hunt with the rest of the shooters. Alas, both are now long gone.

About three years ago I picked up a Mossberg 146B at a pawn shop for $80.00. It has the nice peep and multi-front sight. The trigger pull leaves a little to be desired, but I adjusted it down to a decent level. That rifle will shoot with the best of them.

There are some very good old rifles gathering dust on the gunshop racks, because folks have no idea what they are.

[Frank46]

I'm looking for either a good scope reccomendation 4x or a good red dot site for my ruger #3. So if anyone has been down this road I'd br glad to hear from you. This will not be used for hunting. Mostly paper punching. Thanks, Frank

[WILCO]

There are some very good old rifles gathering dust on the gunshop racks, because folks have no idea what they are.

Indeed. I've often looked through the old gun books and wondered where these old timers have gotten off to.

[smokinfeathers]

i swapped into 3 22's yesterday, 1 a smith ar15 22 , but the other 2 were older 1 a rem nylon 66 that shoots pretty good so far. But the best of the 3 is a painted up win 121 single shot with a weaver k4 on it. I went out back and put 50rds of rem gameload and anthor 50 of win cb long match and this is a great shooting little gun! I am also partial to my old marlin 39 as well.

[NoZombies]

I got the old Mossberg 35 out shooting today. I've really got to get a better front sight, but for now, I suppose it'll do.

The target was shot at 50 yds. 5 rounds of federal auto-match ammo (cheap and consistent, who can ask for more from plinking ammo?) This is my 3rd most accurate .22 rifle.

My eyes are getting older, and I can't see the sights as well as I could when I was 15, but the peep sure is better than a notch sight.

I've got more .22's than I could name, and I love 'em all... well, almost all of 'em.

[gnoahhh]

My all time favorite is my M1922M2 Springfield, followed closely by an early Winchester M52A (which was the first rifle I bought with my own money- $35) and a BSA Martini 12/15 that I restocked. All of them shoot far better than I can.

Other more pedestrian .22's I have include a Marlin 81DL that my Dad won buy selling greeting cards and salve door-to-door soon after the war. Then there's the Savage Model 4 with Tenite stock that Grampaw bought at a country auction for $2. A Remington 12C that I fed with ammo bought with the bounty my uncle paid me for shooting vermin around his farm and a New Haven (Mossberg) 250 autoloader that was my Christmas present in 1965.

A lot of other .22's have come and gone over the years but this group has been a constant. A couple were of the "kick me in the ass for getting rid of" category (a Marlin 39 , MAS 45, and a sweet little Low Wall come to mind) but we won't go there.

So many .22's, so little time!

[bob208]

still have my first rifle a remington 514 got my bsa marksmanship badge with it. i used it fore 40 years as my only .22 rifle. then i got a brno #1 and a year later a brno #4 used them both for .22 sil. matches.