Posted on 03/10/2020 7:02:00 AM PDT by w1n1
I’d give anything to have my first rifle - a single shot .22. I went off to college without it and years later I found that it had been given away.
Sigh.....
Remington Nylon 66. Really nice.
I still have my first .22 rifle, a Sears branded Winchester 141 repeater.
Yup! And mine has the original cracked stock! But I still cherish that rifle!
Ruger 10/22LR, 10 shots, semi-auto.
Every kid's first rifle.
Glenfield model 60 my Dad bought me was my first non BB gun!
Still a tack driver to this day, roughly 43 years later!
An all around great rifle! Poison to squirrels!!
I still have my Mossberg 144LS .22cal LR, with a Weaver Scope, given to me in 1958 by Dad, bought at Sears for $39.95, to shoot NRA competition at BSA Summer Camp, in Illinois and Wisconsin.
It’s in pristine condition, and Dad, a highly-decorated WWII Battle of The Bulge Vet, used it to shoot groundhog, from his office window, until he passed last year, at 94.
Different one each month.
Remington Nylon 66.
Excellent rifle!
Bought a Mannlicher stocked 10-22 when I came back from Vietnam in 67. I’ve probably put 20k rounds through it and it’s still going strong. Have promised it to a grandson. Ruger recently started making it again. Found another one on line and picked it up. That one can go to the other grandson. Great gun.
Bought my Model 60 in 81. Havent shot it in years, but I did recently take it down and replace some springs and such. Also just started hand loading .22lr, using brand new primed brass, Vitavhouri 3n37 and cast bullets from a mold from Old West Bullet Moulds, coated with Hi-Tek Supercoat. Cant wait to give em a try.
I second that. I still have mine....with the original Weaver V-22a scope. Light, accurate, easy to break down and clean with a 19 round tubular magazine. Ah...that's some fun.
My Dad gave me a single shot .22 as my first rifle. Our land was infested with ground squirrels and I was given the go-ahead on no limit hunting. This is where he re-re-reinforced the basics of gun safety, such as know what’s behind your target. Like our house. I think I was 11.
Hard to clean. Need a gunsmith to take it apart.
My gramps still has a .22 from Sears, auto-loader with a Ted Williams scope.
When Daddy died, my older Brother got his old Remington 513 targetmaster. That is one great .22 rifle. I can recall back in the 1950s, Daddy would tap a nail into a tree then get back around 30 feet and drive it in with that Remington.
I don’t remember his ever missing.
Same here. My grandpa gave me his .22 pea shooter which I had learned on. We used to sit on the hill above his farm pond shooting snapping turtles.
It was an unbelievably simple no-name rifle made in 1906. It had the skinniest bolt you ever saw and the ejector clip was worn so it often wouldn’t extract the spent cartridge. I sharpened the extractor clip many times, but it was never reliable. I blind-drilled and tapped the barrel to add a scope (which probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do). I tried my hand at re-bluing it (with a cold-bluing chemical), but that didn’t turn out real well. It went with me to college where I also bought a modern Marlin single-shot bolt action rifle that was a lot more reliable, but not as much fun as shooting that bit of history.
I left the rifles with Dad in Pennsylvania when I graduated from college and moved west. When Dad downsized the old homestead in retirement, he sold my two guns at a garage sale without even telling me he was doing it. That really hurt. He also sold the Nazi ceremonial dagger he had given me (he had gotten from a friend) and that really hurt, too. I still can’t believe he did that 35 years ago!
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