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Always wanted one of these, but never got around to getting one. This has got to be the all-time classic .22LR rifle. JMB himself designed it, and they've been making them since at least early in the last century. Since I waited so long, I decided to go "whole hog", and get a grade 6 with the silver-greyed receiver and the 24K gold accents. Nice wood, too. The receiver will sort of match a BAR in .308 and a 12-gauge Browning Silver I have. So now I for sure have something my kids (at least my sons) will fight over when I'm dead. Now ain't THAT a comfort?

That's beautiful.

I remember my best childhood friend, whose dad taught me how to shoot, had a breakdown set that included a .22LR front end and a .410 shotgun. I wonder if it was the same model (although a lower grade) as yours.

A .22 is my favorite. I wasn't familiar with this gun, but Googled it after reading this post. I have some newer .22 rifles and a couple older ones. The long barreled, old guys with iron sights are pretty accurate.
Wow!! I guess I didn't realize that there were .22 grail guns. I should get out more. Very cool.
I sorta figured that I was alone in my being a .22 fan-boy in this world of "big bore" guns, etc. Glad I'm not.

A while back some of us had discussion here that was sort of a stroll down memory lane about "classic" .22 rifles.

Best I recollect, everybody agreed the Marlin Glenfield mod 60 semiauto was one such. I happen to have one of those. Another such .22 rifle by mutual assent was the Ruger 10-22 carbine, one of which I also happen to have. I felt like another such was the Remington Nylon 66. They made two versions of that; the black stock with white accents and a chrome barrel that had a magazine tube in the stock, and the "Mowhawk", which was brown with a bannana clip. I had a Mowhawk, but I never got around to (that means I never had an opportunity and the money at the same time) getting the black/chrome one one I really wanted before they quit making them. I've had all those guns longer than some of the posters here have been alive, I'm sure.

I allowed then (at the time of the discussion) that the grandaddy of 'em all was the Browning SA-22, and that I meant to have one some day. When I was a pup, most folks would have said you had to be really shot in the @ss with money or over-the-hill gun crazy to put that much money into a .22. I'd sort of forgotten how bad I wanted one. That sort of reminded me to tend to that item of unfinished business. The day it came in, I told my firearms guy to find me a black & chrome nylon 66 somewhere (it'll have to be used). Then I can go back to the long-range/big bore rifles I've become fond of in my old age.

Much as I love lobbing sizeable chunks of lead several hundreds of yards with the .30-06s, .308s, .338 Lapua, M1a, .325 WinMags, 7mm-.08, .50BMG and other big rifles (and lobbing a big slug a mere 1 or 2 hundred yards with a .50 Beowulf, .44 magnum, or .444), there is still nothing quite like plinking around with a good .22; especially with a grandchild. Everybody ought to have at least one per grandchild. My young'uns are gonna have to get busy, or I'll continue to be overstocked by that standard. So be it. I'm keeping them all.

I agree completely!

I'm one behind. 8 grandchildren and only 7 22's.

That ones been on my list for a long time. A john Moses Browning work of art.

Congrats!

ratherfish wrote:I agree completely!

I'm one behind. 8 grandchildren and only 7 22's.

That ones been on my list for a long time. A john Moses Browning work of art.

Congrats!

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Well, anybody that's got more copies of a given caliber than I do has more guns than he needs. Just ask my wife (SWMBO).

When I bought my first gun after marrying my lovely wife,
she asked,"don't you have enough guns?"

I replied," don't you have enough jewelry?"

Since then when I bring a new gun home she smiles and goes shopping...

Whatever works.....