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H & R 32 ga Special, It's actually a dart "projector". Place an adapter in the bore behind the dart that uses .22 blank to launch it. Shotshells are available for it, probably mirrors a .410.

Jap Arisaka 7.7 rechambered to .308 fitted with a beautiful sporter walnut stock, just original open sights. A cousin (and close friend of my father) had obtained it during his service in the Korean War, and had the work done. He passed away way too young at age 39 and I bought it for $60.00 at his farm auction in 1969. Good shooter, killed my first deer with it at age 13.

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My IHC M1 that I paid the old DCM $165 shipped to my door is my cheap gun I use a lot. I don't think I have any real odd guns. I do have a Arisaka 38 that was rebarreled to .257 Roberts, cut down stock, bent bolt and Lyman peep added. It is a remarkably accurate rifle. Makes a solid whack on steel at 100 yds.

My Glenfield model 60 in .22lr is nothing special except to me. It's seen a lot of miles and a lot of years, and still works every time I pull the trigger. The mossberg 3 shot bolt action shotgun has killed everything from birds and rabbits to deer. The only repair ever needed has been the extractors were replaced due to becoming weak. I have more expensive, newer guns, but these two old timers will always get the job done.

Last year or so I've been getting my dad's old Iver Johnson Champion 16 ga. single shot out more often. Saw someone else mention one earlier in the thread. It's light and fast pointing and doesn't pound the snot out of you like some of those old single shot 12 ga. guns will. That's the odd one. For the cheap one does 302 bucks qualify as cheap? That's what a brand new base model Henry .22 lever gun cost me with tax when it was on sale back in October. The action is very smooth, it's got a great trigger and I'm having a ball with that one all out of proportion to what it cost me.

Doesn't really qualify as cheap, so I guess I'll go for the unusual angle. I've got a Hi Standard Sport King pistol that's a smoothbore. Not really, but there' s not a hint of rifling left in the old girl. Dad bought it new at KMart back in the 60's. I'm guessing it's got several hundred thousand rounds down the pipe. I should try to find a barrel and a mainspring for it. It's a nice little plinker. Lots of sparrows, chipmunks and squirrels met their demise in front of this little shooter.

I have a ca.1912 single shot 16 gauge Springfield shotgun that was my Great Uncle's. He bought it new and my Dad hunted with it when he visited him in Alabama in the 1940s. I got it when he died. It just feels better than any other shotgun I've had, and I hunted with it a lot in my younger days.

10-22 and rem 870 20 gauge.

A Mossberg 500 20 ga purchased new for $70 at Kmart in 1975. Still functions flawlessly and has accounted for countless, pats, woodcock, rabbits, squirrels, clay pigeons, and a few of deer.

$80 for an H&R 20 gauge
$90 for an H&R 410 and it came with an extra youth stock
$150 for an H&R 30/30 that is way more accurate than I ever figured it would be


I also have an H&R 12 gauge but it's rather punishing. I had a mixed bag of 12 gauge ammo when I first got it and thought that the 2 3/4" high brass 6's were stout. I wasn't paying attention when I dropped a 3" Winchester HV turkey load in it, holy F balls.

I bought a Savage break action single shot 20 gauge when I was a sophomore in High School. Killed vast numbers of varmints and small game - rabbits, squirrel, coon, possum, a fox or two, probably some nutria. Also bagged some deer and a few feral hogs with it. Later in life I cut the barrel down and made the neatest night-time swamp rabbit gun I've ever had out of it!

Closest thing I have now that gives me similar feelings are two Herter's revolvers - a .44magnum and another in .401 Herter's.

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OMG I miss my little Savage Model 24 "Camper's Companion" 20" .22/20 ga every time I think of it, I loved that gun.

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Single shot, short stock, perfect for teaching a kid to shoot. Taught my son and a few of his friends.

Good times too sitting out, idly passing the Mod 24 back and forth, one shot each, plinking at cans more'n 100 yards out.

Wanna feel like a stud? Load a slug in that little gun and let her rip, I dunno if they're all that way, but the open choke on mine would fire slugs in the same vertical plane as the .22. Sight the .22 in at 50 and then use the base of the front sight as the post and it was also on at that range with slugs.

Shooting at clays I could easily reload it fast enough to miss twice

Popped apart in just seconds, went back together almost as fast. It became my go-to gun in handgun-unfriendly New York State, numerous times leaning in a motel room or laying in a tent. One time in New Hampshire I was really glad to have it at hand when we encountered some druggie low lifes in the woods up by the Seven (??) Lakes.

Damn I miss it

I gave it to my son and his little daughter shoots it. I guess we don't get to keep 'em forever.

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I don't remember seeing the Marlin 60 .22 LR mentioned.

Those are really cheap and shoot great.

The biggest issue is ejection and that's an easy fix. The ejector is the end of a spring, which must be bent in enough and up enough to fully engage the groove in the bolt body. There are videos on line how to accomplish this.

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H&R 20 ga (first gun). Still use it a ton.
Marlin 25MN 22WMR...I have killed more with this rifle than probably all my other rifles combined.
Ruger P95 my Dad gave me. Didn't think I'd care for it much, ended up liking it more than my Glock 19. Accurate, never an issue with it.