Rifle Recommendations [Vanity]

I have a Remington 552 which I don’t think they make anymore. I guess I have had it for maybe 30 years. During that time it has never even thought about jamming and like your 550, it shoots shorts, longs, and long rifle.

It is also way above average in accuracy.

One of those rifles I wish I had back was a Remington Nylon 66, Apache Black with a chrome barrel and receiver. I typically don’t care for flashy rifles but this one just seemed right with the chrome against the black nylon stock.

Probably the consistently most accurate common .22 auto is the Marlin model 60. I have no idea why but every one I have owned or shot has been uncommonly accurate.

The Ruger 10-22 is probably the next .22 I buy. They are only fairly accurate (yes I know many have been made into high quality target rifles but I am talking out of the box accuracy) but they are good enough and all those high capacity mags is a real plus. Now Ruger sells their own brand of 25 round mags for it.

Speaking of accuracy, I have a Marlin bolt action .22 mag which will out shoot most centerfires. It is not particularly well finished and it looks like the mag does not align properly since it just seems to leave the top round sticking out in space but the bolt picks it up every single time. Did I mention it shoots like a house on fire? It does.

What in the heck are you talking about? A propos? Do you mean apropos? The man asked a question for three specific needs that he specifically qualified....

1. I am talking about guns. 2. Please don't lecture me on the subject of French. It's silly on FR and I am fluent. Not "fluent" as in "I am applying to VA Tech and can talk to our maid"

3. Congratulations on having purchased a number of firearms for less than the price of a Wal-Mart TV. I doubt you are fluent, or even proficient, in their use. Yep the word fluent is a propos.

4. Used guns, as you might have inferred, can be dangerous, damaged, have risky serial numbers, be pitted, be warped, or have all sorts of other problems. As do yours, I'd imagine, unless you engaged a qualified and trusty expert to look them over, etc. which was the essence of my "advice."

Now that you've done checking inferred vs implied please note that when you need (when one needs) a firearm, you need it to function properly, and you need to really know it. Yes that was a preposition.

Even someone one who insists on splitting a menial firearms investment on some shoddy grab-bag or explosive crap, if they are a member of this forum, is worthy of good advice. My advice is: spend the grand on ONE weapon and know it well, little Gaffer, unless you're getting the family price. And I sure hope you got it on that Marlin 60 "$160 with Scope!"

Talk about "cryptic!" Good word though. Very cryptic.

***One of those rifles I wish I had back was a Remington Nylon 66,****

I love my Remington Nylon 66! It has NEVER jammed as an old mossberg .22 did. I once had a Colt Stagecoach .22 and it never jammed, but it also was cut for a child and I could not line up the sights.

My other .22 is a Winchester 74 .22. While not so accurate, it also refuses to fully eject the LAST case when it is fired.

Oh, aren’t we a piece of smug Frenchy work. If you bothered to look in the dictionary, the accepted usage of the word is largely with no space, go look it up.

It is true, however, in your Frenchy-fluent dialect that the word’s origins come from the Frenchy A propos.....big frigging deal - I guess you think we all speak proper Frenchy here, huh?

I guess everyone like you who is applying to VA Tech (some of us here, graduated from more prestigious schools - get back to me when you’ve graduated - if you can) and speaks fluent Frenchy has a leg up on guns and gun knowledge because of the valiant Frenchy battle records?

You have no idea about what anyone here knows about guns and how long they’ve been using them. I’m not ‘little’ and I’m not as young as you apparently have proved you are.

The rest of your comments are worthless to respond to because you are just basically a mean person who doesn’t like to be contradicted. I gave you valid reasons why I responded to the questions asked and their conditions. You chose to go pre-college know-it-all on me because I reminded you of that and called some of your comments about gunsmiths, etc. cryptic.....just a nasty person.

Well, I'm not French, I am from the American South, and am not a "dual" citizen. I am an American, only. I too went to fancy schools, and as far as undergrad (long ago) is concerned, it is fair to say "the best," though it was of course in the North. Perhaps we were classmates. We are essentially brothers in our aims on this forum and it is silly to unzip and whip out our diplomas which are ultimately expensive paper in the grand scheme. I am not a mean person, and I am genuinely sorry if I offended you. My quick and aggressive response was insensitive.

I suppose I just have had, and heard of, some VERY bad experiences with used and screwed up guns, including the arrest and endless detention of a friend on a funky serial number, and even had a measly pawnshop .22lr "blow up" in my face, which I never would have believed. I am also extremely biased against big-game hunters who want semi-autos because I feel, in my heart, that if one doesn't have a sure drop shot, one shouldn't take it.

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