Once in a while there's something I NEED at a pawnshop, the latest is a Ruger 77-22, 22LR boatpaddle, blued with rings. Not perfect but not abused.
The shop listed it at $625 back in November and has been marking it down bit by bit ever since.
This weekend was a Managers sale, everything previously marked down is 50% off the lowest price.
At $225 it had to come home,
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The scope is a 3-9 with holdover dots from Cameraland a couple months ago..
Sighted in at 100yds with Norma Tac22 because I had some on hand, it grouped ~4.5", I'll try a variety to see if it has a preference.
I like a bolt action 22!

"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them.
You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
Isak Dinesen