That would be my Anschutz 141 M .22 WMR that I got for Christmas in 1964. With a Weaver B4 rimfire scope I could nail woodchucks out past 150 yards. In my teenage hands that .22 mag was a serious killer. Over the years it's accounted for about every kind of varmint available to me as well as a ton of squirrels and at least one deer that I can recall. Today it's got a much better scope but is still accurate and still gets out once in a while. When I kick the bucket, it will stay in the family.

My hand me down model 37 Ithaca 16 gauge would be another, but it was lost in a duck hunting mishap right before I went in the Navy. I killed my first grouse, first duck, first deer with that gun as well as a multitude of snowshoe and cottontail rabbits. I don't think there's a better, more elegant repeater than a 16 gauge model 37.


Mathew 22: 37-39