Here's something to start up some conversation.
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I've got a BL-22 that I've owned since sometime in the 70's. It was my trappin' gun that went with me when running lines, and I thoroughly abused this little rifle. Dropped many a time, in mud, snow, gravel roads, pavement, and even a creek one time. It road most of the time up on the dashboard of my '64 Ford pickup, sometimes in the bed. I'm not sure I even cleaned it for the first 15 years of it's life, do remember hosing it off at the carwash once. And after all this plus thousands of rounds run through it, I'm still waiting for it's first malfunction.
I've refinished it since then, given it a proper cleaning, and will give it to my son when he's old enough. I feel like the BL-22, and Browning's Auto 22, are kind of 'tweener' guns. A little too big for really small kids, but a little too small for a full grown one like myself.
Bottom line....From my experience, the BL-22 is an accurate little 22 that'll handle just about any kind of abuse you can sling at it and keep right on doing it's job.
