Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Canada Anyone familiar with North American Arms .22 Grizzly rifle??

I'm putting a scope on one for a friend today and I've never heard of this company, its made in Canada.Was this something marketed thru sears or eatons back in the 50's or 60's??

North Americian Arms shows on some low cost single shot shotguns. Nothing wrong with them, just plainer guns.

I need to correct the last post. With further thought, I was thinking of New England Arms.

I googled them and can't find anything other than guys looking for clips for them

I just came from having lunch with my daughter and sil. While there the sil showed me a 1960-61 Canadian Tire catalogue he purchased off the internet. In it I found an advertisement for both a NAACO shotgune and a .22 LR. The price tag on the latter was $18.95.

Seemed like a coincidence since I had just been reading about these guns on this thread.

Jim

edit - reason - spelling

Right on,thanks Jim

I seem to recall they were a "store brand" made by Cooey but I can't document that. Just an old recollection I read somewhere many moons back.

It looks more like the lakefield mossberg I had when I was in highschool. The little grizly .22 really shoots,I was suprised how good it shot

Can't disagree there either. Sub contracted?

Maby,it does say manufactured in canada.Did lakefield mossberg have a plant in canada?

They were built in Ontario. Kitchener area I think.

Next time I go down to his place I'll ask him if it says where exactly it was made,but I'm pretty sure it was an ontario city

Rog, I have located you here. Tell us about the Kootenay. It sure sounds like a great place.

Its pretty nice here alright,I come over here in 2000.The fishing was incredible I was like a kid in a candy store.Fished a different lake or creek every weekend.The hunting is pretty good too,though I gotta say for a primarily white tail hunter like myself you can't beat saskatchewan (where I grew up)Spent 4 years over in the okanagan boundry area too,its great there as well

NAACO. Or North American Arms Co. was out of Toronto. I have a section of a barrel stamped with the company name and "GRIZZLY". I also have a cracked butt plate and bolt for it. It appears to have been cut up to "get a gun off the street".

I have one that I have had since about 1962...I remember my Dad and I ordering it out of a catalogue, but can't remember which one...also still have the book and the parts list if that would help?

I just noticed in the book that it lists as a feature "dovetail cuts made on receiver for attachment of telescope sights.

The book also lists the address of North American Arms Company Ltd. as 1480 Birchmount Rd., Scarborough.

I just noticed this thread when looking up the history for a NAACO Grizzly single shot .22 rimfire that I was about to sell at a local gun show next weekend. Of course no one there will have heard of NAACO.

I bought this rifle from NAACO directly in 1961 shortly after my militia unit organized a tour of their factory in Scarborough.

There I witnessed these rifles being made and blued and I liked the care they were taking during production.

Mine was a single shot with a Lyman adjustable rear aperture sight and a shrouded front sight that took Lyman inserts. They also made a box magazine version of the Grizzly.

My rifle was used for several years in the 60's for the Dominion Marksman program and I earned some nice patches.

But it is not comparable to modern rimfire target rifle competition where I use Anschutzes today.

Yes at age 74 I am still active in benchrest both rimfire and centerfire, as well as skeet.

The NAACO company had a catalog containing their rifles as well as rifle and pistol imports from Europe. IIRC, their inventory included Beretta and Star models.