338reddog: I have owned several Winchester Model 63's but decades ago I traded them off and turned the funds into pre-64 Model 70's.
The couple I shot used the top of the line (back then) Hunting type hollow-points with no perceived problems!
I am NOT sure about todays "extra high" velocity 22 L.R. munitions.
I also owned a couple of Winchester Model 55's (the 22 L.R. single shots - not the lever guns) - one I owned as a teenager and bonked many a Starling with it.
For those not familiar with the Winchester Model 55 in 22 L.R. it was advertised as a "single-shot automatic" in other words it quickly fired one shot before needing to be reloaded.
My Model 55 was very accurate.
Enjoy those nifty Winchesters.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
55’s tend to be accurate in my small sample of 4.
It was the gun that my Dad had as a kid and adult. My brothers and I all learned to shoot using his 55.
He always had planned on getting each of us boys one although never happened. I have found a few over the years. When Dad passed one brother took Dads and I presented the other brother with one. So all of us boys now have one and I have a couple to pass to my grandkids.
I remember taking the 55 to a turkey shoot. They had clay pigeons set at a 100 yards and required iron sights. They asked what I was shooting and they did not seem interested. I fired my first shot, the spotter says 7 oclock 1/4 “ off the edge. My next shot broke the pigeon, he yelled do it again. 3 more shots, 3 more broken clays. They all gathered around checking out the strange single shot auto.
Not sure how I got that lucky and doubt I could do it again.
I love the 55, strange as it is.