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Am I the only one who likes to shoot 22 rimfires made of wood and metal? MB

I don't think you are, unless you're talking about some special kind of "metal".

Well DS I am talking old rimfires like th 1906 Winchester,M341 Remington Scoremaster, M55 Win semi auto single shot, M9422, Browning BLR etc....

I only have two. My favorite is the one I received from Dad upon his passing, a Mod. 74 Winchester. I like my CZ 455-FS but compared to my Mannlicher/Schoenauers it's a club of a full stock rifle, way too much wood in the forestock.

Well I do have a rimfire with an aluminum receiver, a Glenfield 60 with the birchwood squirrel stock, and a Ruger Mark II Target with plastic grips, and a Taurus 94 stainless with rubber grips. But my two main rifles, a Marlin 39M and a Marlin 883 are blued steel and walnut.

I let my oldie, a Remington 121, get away a few years ago. That was a great one, with a 25" lightweight barrel, handled like a wand and was an ideal open sights rifle.

94 rimfires.

57 have blued CM and 37 have stainless metal.

71 have wood stocks/grips and 23 have synthetic stocks/grips.

All of my rimfires are blued steel / walnut - 2 CZ 452's and 2 Rem 541's.

You bet !

You bet I do, mine are an early Winchester pre A custom sporter and a similarly sporterized Springfield 1922 M2.

1947 Marlin 39.

Would a 1968 Ruger 10/22 with walnut stock and metal trigger group count?

Yup if your good with it, heck a lot of old wood and metal Winchesters and Remingtons had plastic buttplates which of course were the first parts to crap out. From the replies I guess I'm not the only one who likes shooting vintage 22's on here. Damn they are fun. MB

I gotcha beat by a year.

1946 M39.....she's lived a hard life but she'll still put a hole in a Squirrels noggin.



The K22 was also made in 1946



Not as old but my 452 also fills the classic wood and blue steel bill IMO.





BTW......the M39 has a plastic butt plate

My Glenfield model 60. .22lr semiauto. 17 shot tubular magazine.

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That looks just like mine!

All of mine are wood and metal: a Ruger 10/22 purchased in the early 1980s, a Winchester 9422 from the early 1990s, a CZ 455 acquired a few years ago and a new Browning SA-22 that a hunting buddy gave me last fall.

There were more than 12 million sold, so I'm not that surprised. My coworker has one to match as well. There are variations though, in the action screws, the magazine capacity. Ect.

99.9%

I'm working on changing that.


I have 2 beautifully blued Ruger Americans in Tupperware.

That's not right.

Looking to change that


2 beautifully blued Ruger Americans in Birch

2 old Cooeys

One old 39M Marlin

10 Ruger 1022's in Walnut

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Yep,

57M
580
39M

Yep. I was out shooting my recently acquired Browning BL22 today. Others include a 1936 vintage Rem M34 and a 1927 vintage 22/32 Hand Ejector.

Here is a Ruger No. 1AB in a 22 Mag.

Shoots little clover leafs!

All of mine are wood and metal.. The only plastic rifle I have is an ar.. Will try for pictures later.... Cool thread..

I used to shoot wood and metal ones. But wood is so 20th century, so I upgraded to make it a classic, post Y2K.....

Of all the .22s I owe (over 100).....I can only think of 2 rifles and five pistols/revolvers that aren’t blued steel and wood.....and 260Rem I didn’t know they made that many stainless/synthetic .22s😄.

PennDog

The stainless rifles are all Marlin, Ruger, and Savage products.

The stainless handguns are all Rossi, Ruger, S&W, and Taurus products.

Stag out-classes wood.....

Truth^^^^^^^

Don't look at me he started it.

i have kind of a squirrel rifle fetish, which for me is mostly various bolt action sporters, of various make. Some are relatively inexpensive commonly found rifles, up though assorted Kimbers, Coopers, Anschutz, etc....have some stainless/synthetic guns too, which i do hunt with, but blue & wood is my first preference.

No, I mean that looks "just like" mine😂😂 with the long mag tube, and brown squirrel stock ....except the old scope and the sling.

I do have a 3/4" scope like that in a drawer somewhere. Well not just like that. But it's a little black scope. Except it's got some brass ring on the objective end with a couple of slots I guess to adjust the parallax, I don't know.

Man I wish photobucket still worked for me (too cheap to “upgrade”)!! Nice rifles and pistols/revolvers men!

FyrepowerX you weren’t kidding when you told me you liked to squirrel hunt and nice .22s😄! That’s quite a collection - one question where did you get that squirrel “carrier” - I like it. I used a 1949 custom Mauser mm410b this year for squirrel along with - Mauser 201 Deluxe with DST and a percussion .32 cal. (It’s close to a .22 😄) Didn’t get out as much as I wanted to though and the extended season here in PA has been too cold!!

PennDog

Does this count??




If not... maybe this one....



Or this...

Eh. I can't find a picture. But I have a remington 514 that's pretty old.

-Jake

The only 22s I have are a Rem 581, a token 10-22 and a Very old but in excellent shape Win 75 for when I want to get serious about hitting what I'm aiming at.

That's all I have. I like to look at my guns. Hate plastic.

More alike than you think, I changed that original scope for a 30mm.

Thanks guys!. I knew I couldn't be the only retro 22 shooter out there. Just love looking at and shooting the quality of those guns. Field Grade, nice K-22 just picked one of those up made in 1948, Lots of good looking Single Six's and older bolt and lever guns too. Keep the pics coming. MB

Nice Mossberg 346K. My first .22 was the Montgomery Ward version (M842) of this. Mine has no checkering and a birch stock. I later added a receiver sight and the OEM hooded aperture front sight. I still have it and just shot a squirrel with it last week. First time I shot it in years. I also have a wood (walnut) and metal 10/22 and Cooper 57M. My .22 benchrest sporter is wood (laminated maple) and metal, as is required by the rules. (The stock has to be made of wood and the grain needs to be visible for proof.)

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FyrepowerX you weren’t kidding when you told me you liked to squirrel hunt and nice .22s😄! That’s quite a collection - one question where did you get that squirrel “carrier” - I like it.
PennDog[/quote]

Eric..a few yeas ago my brother in law met a guy at a gunshow who was making paracord lanyards for duck calls, slings, etc.......the guy was also making a similar carrier for duck hunters, so he had the fellow make me up a squirrel carrier...very handy!

FyrepowrX,

Great looking fiddleback on the CZ 452.

What is the rifle just under the CZ pic, the one with the nice fiddleback and fluted stainless barrel. It is very nice looking also, although I bet it cost a few dollars more than the CZ.

drover

I grew up with a 514, and it was my first rifle, killed my first "big game" with it.....fox squirrel....guess it got me hooked.

i always watch for those old 5oo series remingtons when nosing around at the gunshows & pawn shops, have a few of them now including 510's, 512's, 513's 514's, and newer variants including 581's, 582's, 541's, and 592's...

bought a 510 last weekend at a local gunshow that someones had refinished & checkered, date stamp says it was born September of 1945, doesnt seem to be much collector interest in them around here, so they're usually very reasonable in price.

Eric..a few yeas ago my brother in law met a guy at a gunshow who was making paracord lanyards for duck calls, slings, etc.......the guy was also making a similar carrier for duck hunters, so he had the fellow make me up a squirrel carrier...very handy!

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Interesting idea. Might have to make one of those.

You have a lot of nice rifles!

In the 27 years that I've lived in Nebraska, I have yet to encounter another tree squirrel hunter in either Kansas or Nebraska, but have run into a couple in northwestern Missouri. Among the things that I like about tree squirrel hunting is that the seasons tend to be very long, in Nebraska it runs for six months, from August 1st thru January 31st, and tree squirrel hunting is typically done in a spot and stalk mode in, or on the edge, of timber, so it is good practice for still-hunting whitetails.

Since 2007, I have done the majority of my tree squirrel hunting with a couple of 17HM2s, Marlin 917M2/917M2S and Savage MarkIIBVSS. I recently bought an Anschutz 1502 and am hoping to take it out once before the tree squirrel season ends.

I was surprised to see pictures of grey squirrels, as I don't recall seeing any species except for fox squirrels in Kansas, Nebraska, and northwestern Missouri.

Nice pussy!

(Sorry, been watching Are You Being Served a lot lately.)

He is right though, and I am unanimous in that.

I am so envious of you guys in the mid-west when it comes to squirrel season. Ours in PA starts mid-October and runs to Deer Season (Late November/early December) then opens again after Christmas and runs through February (this second season is typically very cold and squirrels are not terribly active though).....so in actuality we typically get about three weeks of prime weather for them and of course with work one is limited on the days you can actually hunt. Oh well when I get a chance I take it! I started my squirrel hunting in the mid-late seventies with a Remington 572 and a Bushnell 3-7X scope......it didn't take long until I got a Remington 541s and a Leupold 6X Compact. Since then I have amassed a plethora of very accurate sporters including 541s, Remington 40X sporter, the 510 series (including the Nylon 11 and 12 - they don't count ), Remington 12 and 34s, Winchester 52 sporters (original and Japanese copies), Mausers (350s, Mm410s and 201s), Coopers. Anschutz, CZs, Kleinguenthers, Mossbergs (140K, 42, 46, 51, 151, etc...), Marlins (especially 1897 and 39s), Winchester 9422 & 1885, Stevens 44s, etc...... It just would seem right if it wasn't blued steel and wood . I do have a Ruger 77/22 stainless/synthetic (with maple inserts though!!) and a Marlin 882s for my foul weather squirrel rifles. Keep the pictures coming they are great to see!

PennDog

Gerald I'll have to get one of those lanyards made!!

All of my rimfires are walnut stocked blued or SS rifles. Marlin 39A 's, Ruger M77/22's, Ruger 10/22's

I'd love to hear about the build on that one!

Only have two, CZ 452 and Win M69 A . Winchester is my favorite.

Nope. Don’t even own a plastic rifle. And certainly not on my small bores.

nice looking CZ, and i'm digging that knife in the pic; whats are the particulars on that blade?

Best-

G~

Thanks buddy

That is a Charlie May Bobwhite. Polished red micarta, white liners, stainless pins. In d2

That one is a Kimber Classic Varmint, in .17Mach2...

Thanks. From the stock styling I thought it was a Kimber but wasn't sure. It is really nice looking.

drover

Nothing but.

Fox squirrels like open country, like a few trees out in a pasture, or alongside a creek. Greys tend to stay in larger patches of timber, or big patches of woods, at least, that's how it is in N/C Missouri, where I grew up. If I wanted a few fox squirrels, I had to run down to the timber along the creek, or hit up that big oak tree up on top of the hill. If I wanted greys, I just hopped the fence to the woodlot just north of the house. N/W Missouri is really open country, so it doesn't surprise me that you've seen mostly fox squirrels there. Here in Kentucky, you rarely see a fox squirrel at all, same with Indiana, fox squirrels are downright rare.

Same way here....my favorite squirrel woods happens to be a an area that is around a thousand acres of big mature oak/pecan timber with varying levels of undergrowth; however it sits right alongside some open meadows with scattered timber...as such, we get quite a few of both foxes & greys, and now and then we see one of the small red squirrels (about half the size of a big grey), but the reds tend to stay way back in the thick stuff.

on warm sunny days in the winter, we'll spend most of the time sneaking around the open edges & doing a spot & stalk to catch them soaking up the sun....when doing so, i try to pack around one of the mach2's or one of the HMR's, as shots are longer...

I have had several walnut/steel .22 rifles.
Have grown to like plastic when bumps come along.

This thread is full of beautiful rimfires. Thanks to all for sharing.

I didn't realize that there were any grays west of the Mississippi. I though the Mississippi was too wide a barrier for them to cross, but I'd never seen the Mississippi iced over until I crossed over it on I-80 on 01/04/18.

thinking back, as a kid here in NE Okla, almost never saw any grays, but then again i hunted around the house and a few miles was all we ever traveled to go hunt, if even that far.......a lot of squirrels bit the dust in the pecan grove behind the house, as i tried my hardest to wear out a tired and somewhat homely old Remmy 514 single shot...

For the most part, now grays count for somewhere between 1/2 to 2/3 of our kills.

I've been hunting the Missouri Ozark timber for nearly fifty years. We have always had grey squirrels, they probably made up 70% of our big timber squirrel population. Fox squirrels were in the big timber, but were more numerous around farms and wood lots. Interesting that the fox squirrel population in the big blocks of public land timber have steadily declined. It's rare to see a fox squirrel nowadays.

Just got this one yesterday, thanks to another member here on the fire.....Anschutz Model 54.
Mark, if you see this, those Conetrol rings & bases that were on there allowed the 4-12x to clear the barrel by about
the thickness of a piece of paper, and comb height is perfect for that combo.

All of mine are currently blue/wood. Rem 12c, Rem 582, Win77, Browning SA, Win 9422M, Rossi 62, S&W 41, Single Six.

I believe the grays are more aggressive than the fox squirrels and will displace them. We have them both in my area. Used to be almost all fox squirrels except in really large pieces of timber. Fox squirrels do seem to prefer edges and open woods more but the grays are now very common even in yards.

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.

Old .22s are cool. Most of the new stuff doesn't catch my interest. Which is probably a good thing!

Wood and steel 22 LR rifles? Youbetcha.

Loved reading about Don Lewis articles in Gun Digest and Penn Game News / The Shooter’s Corner about his love of squirrel hunting with accurate 22 LR rifles in the 1970’s. That’s what got me started.

Have had several...

Current inventory:

CZ 452 American
Winchester 310 ( single shot)
Rem 540x. (single shot)
Anschutz 1411 match rifle ( 1970’s era with dual extractors)
Marlin model 60

And... a Marlin 880 squirrel gun 7 rd mag, ( ok , it has a black composite stock - not wood, but it is a heavy barreled bolt action 22LR, and a heck of a shooter, once you stone down the sear engagement to 3 lbs). I’m sure Don Lewis would’ve approved of it, and liked shooting it. 1/2” groups at 50 yards with CCI standard velocity would’ve made him smile.



Have had ( past tense):

Marlin 39a Article II ( gave it to my niece)
Rem 581 (single shot)
Rem 510 (single shot)
Rem 511 ( 5 round mag)
Rem 521
Ruger 10/22 carbine ( w/ barrel band)
Mossberg 144 heavy barrel (7 rd mag)
Winchester model 75 Target w/ grooved receiver (5 rd mag)
Winchester model 69a w/ grooved receiver (5 rd mag). ( gave it to my other niece)
Marlin 783 22 mag , 7 rd mag, ( great 100 -125 yard woodchuck gun)

Hard to imagine finding something to do which is more fun than spending a few hours plinking / hunting with a nice 22 rimfire rifle.

Hey SCgunnut,

Like the picture of your Savage 24 o/u. What kind of accuracy do you get with it? We grew up with. Savage 22/410. Never really shot groups with it, but don’t remember missing a lot with it during plinking sessions. It did not have a grooved barrel for scope mounting. My brother has it now. Your picture brought back some very nice memories.

That one is a .22 Mag/20ga, also have a .22LR/.410. Anyway, the one in the pic will shoot one hole @ 25 yards with Winchester FMJ, which is about all I shoot in it.

Most of mine are wood and blued steel, which like others on here, is my favorite.

SCGunNut...is that a fairly common color phase for squirrels in your area?...really cool looking....

There goes the neighborhood......

Up until a few years ago, I hunted a piece of land that was full of Fox Squirrels. Saw all sorts of color combinations. I killed two of the blacks, this one with the .22LR/.410.





My favorite was this one, also with the same .22 Mag/20ga.







Unfortunately, I lost that lease 5 years ago and don't see the Foxes where I hunt now, which isn't that far from the old property.

Same where I do most of my squirrel hunting in the panhandle of WV. I kill perhaps one or two fox squirrels a year and they are invariably along a creek bottom through a field.

I tried to post a pic but the file is to big my favorite right now is a marlin xt 22 mag tube fed with a fluir de lis(sp?) Stock

All of mine are either blued steel/walnut furniture or blued steel hardwood furniture, no stainless and no Tupperware.

2 Savage 24J-DL's - 22 Mag over 20 gauge walnut
1 Savage 24 Series S 22 mag over 20 gauge walnut
2 Savage 24 Series S 22 Mag over 20 gauge hardwood(birch I think, I refinished)
1 Savage 24C Camper 22 rimfire over 20 gauge hardwood
1 Marlin Papoose 22 Rimfire hardwood
1 Stevens Favorite model 30 22 mag walnut (reproduction)
1 Remington model 580 bolt action 22 rimfire hardwood
1 Remington model 552 Speedmaster semi 22 rimfire walnut
1 Marlin MN 25 bolt action 22 mag hardwood.

Don't have pics of all of them but here's a few pics.

Them are some fancy squirrels

All of my rimfires are wood and metal.. Have to get some photos..

Got a couple left.
Stock for my in work 40X


Another in progress Rolling Block

One of 3 Mod37 Remingtons I have left

One of my 40XB

Stevens Favorite takedown

Springfield 1922 M2
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Another Mod37 Remington
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Old Brno #1
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Mod37 that I got from Mike Walker
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What is that beautiful lever rifle of fireball2`s

That's a Marlin, I'm sure.

Wow , there have some real beauties posted . Impressive. Walnut and blued are my pick too, but I got a Remington Nylon 66 for Christmas in 1973 , It came with a round Remington tin of 650 rounds of long rifle. They were long gone by next Christmas . It was/ is very accurate. Someday I’ll have my Dads Stevens Favorite that he got in 1942.

I’ve have a few but not enough yet
Winchester 62
Winchester 9422
Winchester 9422m (2)
Savage 24
CZ 452
TC Contender carbine
TC G2 10”
Marlin 39 Century Ltd
Model C Olympic
Rossi carbine
Ruger Bisley
Kinda partial to Winchesters but Contender carbine is the most accurate on the list

CZ 452 American
CZ 455 Scout
Ruger 10/22 DSP
Marlin 60
Remington M24 (short-only)
Marlin 17V (.17HMR)
Stevens 86D, a tube-fed boltgun that belonged to my father, it works when it wants to, which isn't often,

and a couple Ruger Americans, with awful plastic furniture, in .22LR and .22WMR. and some plastic pistols, two SR-22s and an S&W M&P Compact.

I have a lot of both types, wood and steel, and plastic monstrosities, too. They all work well enough, except that old Marlin 60, and Dad's old Stevens. both of those SHOOT well, but don't work so well.

Dang Butch, I still start drooling every time I think about that 40X. I wish you would hurry and get it done and shipped this way.

You sir have a great collection.


Great thread.

My own collection includes a Cooper JSR, a 94/22 XTR Classic, a CZ 452, Rem 504, CZ99 and a few others some of which are project guns that are still in need of projection. There are also a few handguns lying around but the only one actually wood and metal is the Ruger Single six.

Dave, you and fryepowrX have some nice rifles!

Really enjoying looking at every ones quality 22 rimfires ,thanks for posting them . Magnum Bob

I have an outrageous small collection of walnut and steel rimfires, but the ones I foolishly let go are even more outrageous. The ones I am sick about losing are a minty Mauser 350ES, a pre-A slow lock 52, also minty, which I still have in my files less than an inch 100 yard groups, a brand new Remington 34 target that I never got around to firing, a high condition grooved 61, a one holer Anschutz 54 Sporter, a wonderful Lefever restored 121 Remington, a Deluxe Savage 29, and a Griffin and Howe 52 sporter that I foolishly did not buy at a ridiculously low price a few years ago. It was probably the best .22 rifle in the country at the time I did not buy it. I can't believe how we serious rifle collectors give the .22 such a low level of attention today. I will change my attitude about these guns in future collecting decisions.

I do, 1960 vintage Remington Model 552, and 1954 vintage Remington Model 513T,
Both are great rifles. The 552 is amazingly accurate for an autloader, and the 513 is a tack driver., Routinely places all shots in a single ragged hole at 50 yards, using the original Redfield peep sights.

I also have a Ruger 10-22 takedown model stainless with synthetic stock. Got it and a bunch of accessories as a gift. Have never fired it.

Don't think I own a rimfire in synthetic.. all wood and metal. Mostly from the 20's thru 40's.

Savage 19 in 22 Hornet and 23AA in 22LR here.



Savage 29



Savage 19 in 22LR

How's about a Winchester Model 61 & 63? Does that qualify?

only if you have a 62-A between them......

Couple more, my Remington 552 and 580

One thing about this thread, there are some dam fine looking guns posted here, all of them look great.....good job everyone