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most avid .22 guys fall in one of two camps ,10/22 guy or model 60 guy , im all about the model 60
have a gen 2 and a stainless gen 3 , a few years ago the stock on my gen 3 split at the wrist , i found a old Gen 1 Squirrel stock , it took some inletting , and a gentel refinish but i put the gen 3 in the old gen 1 stock
Guess i'm the odd-ball. I fall into the Remington Model 12 and 51X series .22 rifles. Have four 10/22 but they are not my favoritesQuote:
Originally Posted by micmacman
I've been all of them. I had to try everyone's offering once. I started with Remington 34 at 15 years old and then went through the Remington pumps, Winchester pumps, Browning and FN pumps, the Remington semi autos, the Lee Enfield training rifles and several of the Remington Nylons and the CBC variant. I had most of the common .22 semis including the Savage 87a and the nice Remington 550. I've had several Ruger 10/22 and a couple of the Browning Buckmark rifles...have one presently. I've been through the lever .22s like the 94/22 and the little Henry H001. The Henry was amongst the MOST accurate little rifles...the 94/22 was SO FAST I had to sell it or go broke. I now mostly shoot my CZ457 varmint with Turkish walnut stock and the Browning Buckmark rifle. Both have optics and my little Remington is iron sights. I have to scop it so it can play again. The CZ457 is about as accurate as you could want. I just shoot a 2" gong now at 100m for entertainment...bench rest of course.
I've got a 10-22 but can't pry it out of the niece's hands. I wind up with the 62A, and am happy as a clam.
I guess I'm an oddball too. My favorite .22 is a Lee Enfield No.2 MkIV* made in 1915. I love accurate rifles and this is the most accurate RF rifle I've ever owned. The 50 yd target picture I've posted is living proof.
We have 3 10/22's and 1 60 in the family. Nobody likes the 60, it seems cheap and low quality compared to the 10/22's. Flimsy mags that seldom empty without help, a thin cheap stock with useless and ugly pressed in checkering and no screws stay tight in use. It may just be that one made in the early 80's but because of all these reasons it hasn't been out of the safe since the 90's.
Of course I'm not one to talk because as a teen I had a Squires-Bingham AK22. All the inaccuracy built into an AK in a 22lr. It did have 32 round mags and was lots of fun while it was alive but it literally shot itself to pieces in roughly 10 years. There are still pieces of it on the range somewhere never to be found. The 10/22's that were older than the AK22 are still working fine.
yu are clearly thinking of a different rifle , the Marlin Model 60 is a tube fed and is arguably one of the most reliable semi auto .22 rifles ever , i owned 10/22 , i kept it for like a year and gave it to my nephew , it just wasnt for me , 10/22 is great if you want to play Barbi dress up with it because they of all the available after market parts , but for the extra money that a pain jane standard 10/22 costs , it makes me yawnQuote:
Originally Posted by oldfoneguy
I was wrong it is an older Marlin model 70 which is the same basic rifle with flimsy detachable magazines and it is still a piece of crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by micmacman
Obviously Barbie doll dress up is high on your list of daily activities but I have no need for it as I own all the real firearms the dress up kits are designed to mimic. All 3 10/22's are as they came out of the box with the exception of one having Weaver base and rings with a Barska 3x9 scope as a nod to age. 17 new shooters have learned the basics on one of the 3 of these rifles and all are avid and excellent shooters today each with their own 10/22's as part of their collections.
What could be more boring, slow and inefficient than a tube magazine 22? I can't stop yawning thinking about them.
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Originally Posted by oldfoneguy
I had a Squires Bingham model16, sort of looked like an AR...for a minute. Same thing happened to it. I thought I was alone in that way. It never worked right for the original owner and when it failed me I removed the mag for resale and tossed it downrange, shot it to bits with an L1A1. I had forgotten that.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldfoneguy
Jim I didn't realize at the time but the receiver was cast pot metal with a sheet metal cover. Lived and learned since then. After about 8 years the barrel could visibility move up and down. With the last shot the barrel fell out, the receiver cover flew off and the top of the block that held the barrel went flying in multiple directions. Back in the late 70's I paid $86 plus tax for it. I sold all the parts except the receiver individually on gunbroker roughly 20 years afterward and netted $486, the 32 rounders brought the most money. Who knew these things had such a following.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
I had one of the small mags, the whole thing didn't cost me much if anything. I tried to silk purse it to no avail. I saved nothing else from it, I probably got a $20 for the mag.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldfoneguy
The first rifle I bought my 8/9 year old daughter, who is now 37, was a Ruger 10/22 international w/ black laminate mannlicher stock. She still has that rifle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Low & Slow
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I'm not sure where I fit. I don't own either a Model 60 or a 10-22.
My favorite walking around rifle is a Remington Model 12C. Just an elegant gun for hunting squirrels.
A Remington 550-1 lives by the kitchen door to dispatch garden pests. The floating chamber allows it to cycle shorts, longs and long rifle interchangeably. CCI CB shorts function perfectly, are exceptionally quiet, and do not alarm the neighbors.
When it's time to put bullets into very neat and tidy clusters a quite servicable BSA Martini from just before the War makes me look better than I am.
I had one of those too, what a nice rifle. I had the later Remingtons, Nylons of every type and the 552. The new 552 wasn't as nice as the old 550-1. Close but didn't fit me as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by old tanker
I have a Ruger 10/22 and a JC Higgens bolt action 22
The JC is way more accurate than the Ruger
Marlin Mod 60 gen 3 in a gen 1 stock, walmart gun ,think i bought it in 93ish? stock split at the wrist ,not the best of stocks so i didnt even attempt repair , still have but hunted down a gen 1 Squirrel stock and inlet it to accept the gen s , gen 1 had no bolt release at the trig guard , i can shoot water snakes in the head at 20 feet away with this rifle
Marlin Mod 60 gen 2 ,bought used at a yardsale $100 , cleaned up , gentle stock redo , tried to duplicate the look of the stock on my M1a
Vintage Mossberg Mod 400 lever vintage Oigee , bought this as a resto project , gave $50 , was not functioning , complete redo , blue had rust and light pitting patches , tore it completely down , took the metal to white , buffed the pitting out and did a back yard reblue , Brownells Oxphoblue , parts from gunparts corp got it running , believe the gun is from late 40's early 50's, vintage Oigee with German 3 post commercial small caliber optic , pre WW1 , maybe ww1 era , this rifle i can hit 1 1/2 steel spinners at 30 yards , fun stuff
Springfield 84C , vintage Oigee , this was a tent peg with a questionable bore , another yardsale find $35 , rusty metal throughout , stock had layers of what was porch paint , non functioning , again Gunparts corp parts got it running , tack driver , bore cleaned up amazing after a few passes , total disassemble , took all metal to the white to eradicate the rust , polished out the pitting , one or two spots the pitting i could just ease over as it was bad , new blue hides well , been about 7 years and rust has not reappeared so i got it all , did not take befores because honestly did not think it was coming back from the dead , the stock i used a heat gun and 0000 wool , heat the paint and wipe off paint wihile its hot the wool collects the paint with out removing any wood , this method also works on varnish , shellac and poly , gun is early 1940's , another vintage period Oigee 3 post
Rossi RSM22 Semi Auto .22 mag , always wanted a WMR SA ,so when Rossi came out with it i grabbed it and the .22 LR same day , first outing i already had a SIG 3-12x44 Buckmaster , sighting in the scope with 3 shots , finished the mag , reloaded went to charge a round , charging handle was gone , must have went flying during previous mag , Rossi sent me a new one after but made me invoke the nuclear option to do so ,rifle is Free Float barrel , very accurate , have maybe 300 rds since the new handle so far the rifle runs like a clock and no more magic trick charging handles , i have my own range on my farm so i looked but no way i was finding it in field grass
Marlin 783 .22 mag , ive had this bolt gun for decades , it was my tractor/field gun for many years , i got into AR's and switched to an AR for a farm gun due to the increase in Coyote population , did a face lift on my old friend for a life of service performed very well , many fox , and other vermin including a few fisher cats and mink ,pretty much a safe queen these days only getting play on 22 day
Rossi Rs22 , bought this .22LR same day as the Magnum , billed as a elcheapo , figured it would make a good beater i could leave in the barn in case i forget to bring the AR with me , for a elcheapo this gun performs extremely well , i have at least a brick through this one and i can recall a failure to feed maybe 3 times , which more than likely means ammo , free float barrel , came with very nice fiber optic sights from the factory , very light if you want a carry around gun for the farm
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those are finger prints on the reblues they have a deep black in person , i apply oxpho blu in many stages , wipe the metal with alcohol , then apply the blue , wait 3 minutes , wipe with alcohol , 0000 steel wool , and repeated about 10 times , you end up with a deep high polish dark finish
Mk2 Target 1982
Mk1 Target with original Ruger comp 1960
Ruger Standard 1980
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Mk. I 5 1/2" Bull barrel 1965
I had a Squires Bingham Model 20 once. We called it the 'Mystery rifle' because it was always a mystery how many rounds it would shoot with one depression of the trigger before jamming. My personal best was 7.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
I like .22 handguns. My 2 favorites are a couple of High Standards. One is an Olympic .22 short with the original box, paperwork and barrel weights. The other is a Model B U. S. in very nice condition.
I prefer the Model 60, just wish they had a more robust stock, like for example, a 10/22 stock :D
My first .22 was a Winchester 72 and that spoiled me. Still have and cherish it.
But my newest favorite is this ol' guy. I've shot more .22s in the last two months than the previous two decades. This thing is just too much fun.
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A part of The Great Sell-Off of 2001 was a Winchester Model 270 that was used by the last legal pigeon control officer in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. I bought the rifle from his son which came in a custom made box and had a special compartment with a letter from the Chief of Police authorizing the named bearer of the letter to shoot any and all pigeons. The first of these rifles were made in 1963 so apparently shooting rifles in the city limits of Vancouver was still legal, at least for some quite late in the modern era. Apparently, as I was told the Pigeon Control officer did most of his 'culling of the herd' near the wheat pools but was authorized to shoot pigeons anywhere.
I like .22 caliber pistols also. Beyond all doubt, the most accurate handgun I own is a High Standard Citation. While I bought it primarily to be my serious small-bore Bullseye pistol, on a lark I tired it in IHMSA small bore silhouette during the Eighties. Using run of the mill T22 ammo it would clean the course in every class except revolver. A Colt Officers Model Match was the killer of 100 meter rams in the Revolver category.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimb16
Now there is an informal old geezers "match" for beer and bragging rights at the local indoor range. On a good night, a 1938 model Iver Johnson Supershot, will hold it's own against the Rugers and Smiths.