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I just go weak in the knees for a Winchester pump .22



1 - Winchester 1890 .22 Short. This was the first rifle for everyone in my family going back to 1920. I got it at age 12.
2 - 1919 Winchester 62A gallery from the "5 Spot" shooting gallery company
3 - 1979 Rossi 62
4 - Winchester 61

When pump .22's are so cool, why use anything else?

pump it, baby...

Tough to argue with that logic....

Nice collection Geek'

3rd generation owner. Win. 1906.

They are still out there, saw three at different LGS in last couple years.

Truth, nice ones are still out there to be found. There was a Win 1906 locally and this Remington 121 Special. I had to bring the special Remmy home.

Just looked today, Remington 121's ain't gettin any cheaper & the numbers for sale are lower.

But dang it I like those things. The last one I owned had some extra holes in the receiver & a crooked rear sight. So I sold it with intentions of getting a nicer one. Put it off & now a really nice one might be $700.

For that money I'd have to view in person. Kinda feel of it ya know. Not buy half blind on GB.

At a gunshow earlier this year I bought a 121 in really great shape, especially so for a rifle made in December, 1939. It had been d&t with two holes on the receiver but that turned out to be somewhat of a good thing since the holes were exactly .860" on centers so a Skinner sight fit perfectly. The alternative would have been to search for an old Lyman tang sight which is fairly scarce and expensive and isn't windage adjustable.







The epilogue to this story is that I had cataract surgery recently and can now see open sights almost as good as I could decades ago. Turns out that the factory rear sight (taken off for these pictures with the peep sight) allows a perfect sight in at 75 yards. A tap of the front sight centered windage and I was ringing a 4" steel target at 75 yards darn near every shot so the Skinner was put away for another day or another rifle.



Yes, I know this has little to do with the OP but it is an opportunity for me to talk about me, so...

I think I posted this pic before.. but yeah old pumps are allright

My vote is to pick up a quality vintage version.
I lean toward Winchester but most other older pumps will do.

I'm not sure why, but when I see 1906's they tend to be rode hard and put away wet. Yours is FANTASTIC!!!

My stepbrother has one and there's absolutely zero finish left on it, and the bore is ancient history. It DOES function, and I attribute that to JMB's superior design and Winchester's quality construction, but that can't fix the bore and the old ammo useage.

I messed up and sold my 121, that being said I got 650 for it. Had some freckling on the receiver but was a really solid gun.

Good looking group there - nice and clean!

[quote=Jim in Idaho]At a gunshow earlier this year I bought a 121 in really great shape, especially so for a rifle made in December, 1939. It had been d&t with two holes on the receiver but that turned out to be somewhat of a good thing since the holes were exactly .860" on centers so a Skinner sight fit perfectly. The alternative would have been to search for an old Lyman tang sight which is fairly scarce and expensive and isn't windage adjustable.






I bet thats a quick, slick shooting rimfire pump!

[quote=GunGeek]I just go weak in the knees for a Winchester pump .22



I've been on the hunt for a 5 Spot for a long while. Just missed a few over the years. Nice looking group of guns!

Mine is a little rough around the edges...seems it had a hard life as a full time "working" gallery gun. The reciever is painted black, and the barrel...well, it's not the original barrel. The barrel is a round barrel .22LR marked Winchester Model 1890. I assume the original barrel got shot out, and this is what they could get from Winchester. I intend to leave it in precisely the condition in which I found it. Mechanically the rifle is completely sound, functions perfectly, and shoots lights out.

I think that makes it that much more appealing. It sounds authentic. I’ve seen a few that were drippy mint and that screamed fake to me. They should’ve been road hard and put away wet, then road hard again!

I have one. Would not sell it for $300 or $375. Not sure what they are going for, but that seems like a good/great deal.

I could never warm up to any of the new stuff and since my first .22 was a Winchester M62A, I've always had a soft spot from those old Winchesters. I've got a M61 with a Leupold 2-7x28 RF on it now for a walking around .22, but I like the lighter trigger pull on the 10/22 Sporter and 77/22 RSI better.

I pick up a Rossi today (275).