Your favorite good ole 22 lr

I have a Ruger 77/22 w/ a 4X Leupold Compact that I like a lot... I do wish I still had my Mossberg w/ receiver sights..and tubular feed... held over a dozen
 
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I still have my Remington 550 semi auto 22lr that I got for Christmas when I was 12 years old. That was back in 1953. It still shoots great. I will NEVER sell it.
 
My favorite is my dad's old sears and roebuck 22. It was the rifle that I learned to shoot on. The next on my list is my grandpa's 22 marlin.
 
I have two. My Ruger 77/22 Stainless Synthetic with the green grip panels. I had wanted one and bought the first one I saw. I believe it was about a month before my first child was born, June 1990. It has a very low serial number.
The other one is an old Belgium-made Browning Auto that was my Grandfathers. It is in pretty ugly shape as it saw many miles in the back window of various pickups as he lived on a farm. Didn't get much care, but I'll never change it.
 
Winchester model 62 63 or 67. The 67 being the the least expensive of the bunch but no slouch in accuracy to any .22 mass produced. They don't make steal or wood stocks like they did in the late forties and early fifties.
 
The Marlin 881TS my wife gave me for my birthday about 10 years ago is just right...I have an old steel tube Weaver 6X on it, and it knocks em down...shoots lots of ammo well, and it loves the in-expensive Winchester "Expert" rounds...

I put about 1000 rounds a year through it and its still keeping very stingy groups...
 
I love to shoot .22LR and have enjoyed many different ones, but my favorite is my Ruger MKII pistol. My dad bought it for my college graduation gift and it helped teach me to shoot handguns. Great sights, highly accurate, and a family heirloom to be passed on to my sons some day.
 
Cheap Marlin model 60. I've had 2 and loved them both. The 10/22 has been tons of fun, but the Marlin is my meat getter. Ruger 77/22 is close second and MKII competition hands down for pistols.
 
Ruger 10/22 all the way!! You can't beat it for customize-ability!! They look great, are reliable and accurate, and i have never had a single prob. with mine. My friends savage semi auto's action is getting soft after just a few years, but my ruger is as good as new!!They are alot of fun to customize!!
 
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I love the .22LR cartridge! I've owned a gozillion .22's over the years. I have six of the little rimfires now. Give me a crisp, late fall day, leaves turning colors and some falling to the ground. Squirrels are busy cutting hickories and acorns, scurrying through the tops and bouncing around on the forest floor. Of the rifles and handguns I have my old Marlin M39A with aperture sight will get hauled to the woods more often than any other.
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Guess what I seen today. While at a Gander Mountain they had the high end Marlin lever action 22lr with the gold trigger and very nice /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif black walnut stock. You don't (at least I don't) see many of these and I thought of your photo.
Anyways.....what really surprised me was how well.......how super great! That rifle balanced off hand standing. It was effortless to hold on target. It really balances well. I don't think I would even scope that rifle.

Just wanted to say. I really liked it. Great fit and finish. Others out there if you are lucky enough to see one of these deluxe Marlin lever action 22's try it off hand and see what I am talking about.
I would shoot that in a sporter class any day. It was this one Marlin Golden 39 A
The wood on the one I held was really nice.......great 22 ! Kind of special /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
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Bill, thanks for the good post. I think this rifle is one of the oldest models still in production. It's still here for a reason. Marlin builds these with blued steel and nice walnut. No plastic. They shoot really well and "hang" perfectly for field shooting. While they are accurate enough for a quality scope, the M39 is perfect with a good aperture (peep) sight. I take my limit of squirrels more times than not, many being perfect headshots with my pre-side safety M39A. Last weekend I killed three cottontails behind my house with mine. Two were headshots as I tracked them in the snow. I also was able to pull a spiffy running shot on a bouncing rabbit for the third one. Takes a special rifle for that work... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
My father gave me his father's Remington Mod. 34 in 1972 when I was 7 years old. Somehow he got it back when I went off to college! It is the first gun my father shot. He is 79. It is the first gun I shot. I am 41. All three of my kids ( all under 10) shot this .22 first. Over the years it has defended our home, killed hundreds of squirrels and bullfrogs, and has lots of initials carved into the stock. It shoots like a ray gun and the trigger breaks like glass. Nothing but iron sights. Usually cleaned with a straightened coathanger. It is the most valuable gun in our collective family gun safes.
 
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