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  • jyo
    Calguns Addict
    • Sep 2008
    • 5319

    Soft spot for older 22s...

    I find myself developing a soft spot for older 22s---over the years, I have bought a small but useful collection of elderly 22s.
    A pre-warning Ruger 10-22 Deluxe Sporter---a very nice rifle---had Dean Wikerson perform a trigger job as the orig trigger was VERY stiff---added a Volquartsen auto bolt release and an 60s olive green canvas sling (from a UZI Model A---bought a bunch of these for $1.50 each back in the 80s). This rifle shoots way good and also accepts the Bulter Creek 25 rd mags I bought before the ban kicked-in.
    A old Browning take-down 22 auto---Belgium made with whats called a "Wheel sight" rear sight. Another real good shooter---very slim and lightweight.
    I picked up a Remington Nylon 66 in used but excellent shape---looked almost new to replace my earlier 66 that I had traded a pocketknife for way back when. I must have shot a couple of hundred thousand rounds thru that little dog, but one of my shooting buddies had to have it when he moved to Texas a few years back---his wife could shoot nothing else so I had to let him have it. The "new" one shoots even better---its my wife's favorite gun.
    My older handguns include a 1969 Walther PP 22 that thinks it is a target pistol and a little Colt "Peacemaker" 22lr/22Mag that is just so much fun to shoot.
    My go to 22 pistol is a mid 80s SIG P210-2 9mm that is fitted with their factory 22 conversion kit---I like this so much that it hasn't worn the 9mm top-end in decades---superb shooter!
    I find myself shooting a lot more 22lr these last few years---cheap and relaxing.
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    DannyInSoCal
    Calguns Addict
    • Aug 2010
    • 8271

    Yeah - I picked up a mag fed Winchester 77 - Great old shooter....
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    • #3
      jyo
      Calguns Addict
      • Sep 2008
      • 5319

      Yeah, I would buy a nice Colt Officers Model Match 22 if I find the right one---or a nice older S&W K-22. Another older revolver I have fond memories about is a H&R 999 9 shot 22 my neighbor had when I was a kid---not a high quality gun, but fun.

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      • #4
        John Browning
        Calguns Addict
        • May 2006
        • 8089

        It isn't a soft spot, it is superior taste!

        I have had a lot of nice .22s come and go as I collect them. I had a NIB Winchester Model 62A that I sold because, well, it was NIB and I didn't have the haert to shoot it. I had a Remington N.R.A. 34 Target that was LNIB with the correct 1930s Unertl. GREAT trigger. Hell, even my WWII CMP Mossberg 44US will cut a ragged hole at 50 yards with open sights. Did you know that the 44US has a lead lapped barrel? To get that anymore, you have to go to a custom shop grade rifle from Remington.

        Sadly I sold off a lot of my .22s to pay for other stuff. I still have a 1950 Marlin 39A Mountie, a first year 10/22, a 44US, and some others. The only modern .22s I like as much are the offerings from CZ and Anschutz. They don't make em like they used to!
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        Originally posted by KWalkerM
        eh why bring logic into this, that makes too much sense... besides when you have bested a fool, you have accomplished nothing and he is a fool.

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        • #5
          jyo
          Calguns Addict
          • Sep 2008
          • 5319

          Yeah, there is a group of guys in my shooting club that gather and shoot Mossberg CMP 22 target bolt rifles and occasionally you'll see an old Remington 22 bolt gun---they seem to have a lot of fun with these old relics---relics that still work as well as the day they were made...

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          • #6
            89 Vision
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2010
            • 1356

            I've got a Stevens/Springfield .22lr made in the late 30's or early 40's. Super smooth and super accurate it is very dependable. I hope it's a gun I can pass through the generations cuz I ain't selling it!

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            • #7
              redcliff
              Calguns Addict
              • Feb 2008
              • 5676

              I like my old .22 rifles a lot also; with the Winchester 63 perhaps being my favorite. They remind me of when I was 9 years old and shooting with my uncle and cousins out at their camp in upstate New York.
              "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
              "What we get away with isn't usually the same as what's good for us"
              "An extended slide stop is the second most useless part you can put on a 1911"

              "While Ruger DA revolvers may be built like a tank, they have the aesthetics of one also,
              although I suppose there are a few tanks which I owe an apology to for that remark"

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              • #8
                jyo
                Calguns Addict
                • Sep 2008
                • 5319

                The older 22s just seem to have more "Soul" if you know what I mean---the modern tactical 22s are fun as well, but the old wood and steel guns still hold my attention. They don't/won't make 'em like that anymore...

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                • #9
                  Tank 57
                  Veteran Member
                  • Jul 2009
                  • 4153

                  I have more "old" .22s than anything else.If it's a nice one,I usually buy it.

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                  • #10
                    Eat Dirt
                    Calguns Addict
                    • Nov 2007
                    • 9645

                    For me it's the Old Mossbergs


                    M42 U S Property / M44 U S property
                    --------------------------------------------------------------

                    I miss the Good 'ol days of Cal -Guns

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                    • #11
                      JTecalo
                      Veteran Member
                      • Sep 2008
                      • 3619

                      check out http://www.rimfirecentral.com for info on some of these older rimfires. Here's mine 1939-42 Sears Ranger 101.16


                      Jim

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                      • #12
                        Lifeon2whls
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 1751

                        I have a really nice Western Field .22
                        A Marlin something or other lever action from the 50's with a scope a bull barrel
                        and a High Standard Supermatic Trophy

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                        • #13
                          phish
                          Veteran Member
                          • Jan 2006
                          • 3089

                          52D and a 722 based 40X

                          I like the older stuff too

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                          • #14
                            bobgengeskahn
                            Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 386

                            I love my 1938 Remington 341P, www.rimfireshooting.com and www.rimfirecentral.com have been invaluable in helping me get it shooting clean and straight again.
                            Once more into the fray,
                            Into the last good fight I'll ever know,
                            Live and die on this day,
                            Live and die on this day.

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                            • #15
                              jyo
                              Calguns Addict
                              • Sep 2008
                              • 5319

                              You know, its not just the guns themselves, but a lot of older items such as leather slings, finely machined receiver sights (Lyman, Williams and others) that make older 22s so interesting. I also collect and trade 22 and other rimfire ammo boxes of all eras---colorful and fun.

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