My first .22 rifle was a birthday present for my 13th birthday in 1949. It was a Marlin bolt action .22 tubular feed. short, long and long rifle. It had and still has a peep sight with two aperatures, one with a small aperature and one large. It has a real walnut stock and is blued with all metal parts with the exception of a plastic trigger guard. It has been exceptionally accurate for a 1948
retail priced rimfire ($21.95) rifle. Our farm on the edge of the Willamette valley was inundated by greydigger squirrels. Took me about a year to thin out the "herd". That was in the days of being able to buy a brick of .22 LR hollow points for less than what a box of 50 goes for now. I still have it.
