My first 22 was a Stevens model 35 rifle. It costs around $60 in 1980. My brother and I picked up aluminum cans and worked for farmers and payed his and mine off on the lay away plan at the local gun shop. I dug it out of the safe the night before Christmas and gave it to my son on Christmas Day. We put a scope on it and sighted it in and it still shoots minute of squirrel at 30 yards!! My brother and I used to buy 22 shells a brick at a time and I recall they were a penny apiece or 1.5 cents each back then. We shot a lot of shells and took lots of squirrels and a few rabbits with them guns.