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Winchester Model 47 Target. The damned fool idiocy of youth is to be blamed for my trading it off.

Model 67 Winchester, Got it when I was 9. 40 years ago. Still have it.

Glenfield Model 20 w/ Glenfield 4X scope, Christmas 1968?, $31.88 at the KMart in Washington PA. Sighted it in back then and haven't touched the scope since. Don't shoot it much anymore as the trigger is about 15# (or seems to be).

A Savage something or another over-under .22 mag / .20 gauge. I have no idea what happened to it.

Mo gun nut,
I've got a 67 'zactly like that one! The grooved forearm was only made for a cupple of years, don't remember exactly, am thinking 1935-1936. Great little rifles....
Virgil B.

A Remington 521-T that my dad bought new in 1948 for $48. Shot a pile of woodchucks with that gun. Seemed like 16 year old eyes , that Lyman peep sight and the weight and balance of that target style rifle just couldn't miss. Still in my safe.

Winchester 67

JC higgens, I think, that what I learned on. It was dads rifle. My own first 22 was a Ruger 10/22.

JC Higgens (model?)two peice stock, red sling that went into stock, semi auto. Shot shorts(loaded 25) Longs or LR. Man we had fun. Shot so much I could consistantly hit bottles in the air. (Didn't think much wrong about doing that then). Remember peddling my bike some ten miles one way to go squrril hunting. Uncased rifle slung across my handlebars. Try that today!

I don't know what my first rimfire was. It was a bolt action single-shot that my dad bought for me when I was 6 years old. Funny thing about it was that it must have had a bent barrel because every time I fired it the bullet would get stuck in the barrel. Dad finally bought me a Remington Nylon 66 that was a real shooter. That rifle is long gone but a few years ago I bought another one for sentimental reasons and this one is in mint condition.

First was a High Standard Sport King semi auto .22. Truly an awful rifle. Had a trigger like sandpaper. Long since sold................whew!

Remington Model 510 that I bought in 1950 with money saved from mowing grass and shoveling snow.

My first Rimfire was a Savage model 24V 22/20ga. It wasn't the most accurate rimfire, but I still managed to kill many Ptarmagin, Spruce Grouse and Snowshoe Hares with it. Also managed to close the action on my thumb a few times resulting in either a massive blood blister or the removal of the pad on my thumb

Winchester Model 67, single shot, bolt action that my father bought used in the late 1930's with his paper route money. Still got it. Took a lot of 'chucks with it. As long as it's 50 yards or less and you can get a good head shot. Learned a lot about stealthy game stalking that way. Eventually I got into centerfire varmint rifles. But I still enjoy using a rimfire once in a while just for the challenge of gettin' in close.

Marlin Model 39A, got it for X-mas in 1971.

JC Higgens Model 30, complete with red sling that retracted into stock. Held 25 shorts. Shot that thing so much I could regularly hit bottles in the air. (Definitely not a good practice!).

Ithaca Lever action single shot. Paid $15 for it at my first gun show. The extractor was a little soft and sometimes I used my pocketknife to aid in extraction.
Nothing teaches you to make that first shot count like a single shot with a bad extractor.
whelennut

Like Whelennut, my first was a Ithaca leveraction single shot. It must have been an extraction problem with all these rifles, as mine had the same problem as did one of my first cousins. After a couple years my favorite uncle bought me a Remington Nylon 66 that I still have after 40some years. I don't recall what ever happened to the Ithaca.

Tim

Erma Werke lever 22. Still have it! Nice, well made, little rifle.

This golf ball game kind of sounds like rimfire bocce ball! Reading this did remind me of an old episode of the TV show wings where Brian (?) wasn't invited along with Lowell and his buddy on a rat shooting safari because "two's company, three's crossfire..."
My first 22 was a nylon 66 my dad bought for $50 from Kmart when remington dropped the model. Unfortunatley mine had a magazine defect and traded it for something dumb before repairing it (I was young...). Got lucky recently and found an good condition apache black & chrome replacement for $150.

H