Monday I picked up a real nice 550-1.it has almost no blue wear on it. It was made aug 1950. cant wait to fire it and see how it does.

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One of the great regrets of my life was when I sold my 550-1 back in the early 1990s. I got it as a Christmas present back around 1955, and used it a great deal for about 10 years, but it gradually fell into disuse, so I foolishly sold it - I think for around $100. I remember what it cost new - $40.50. I fired mostly .22 Shorts in it because .22 LRs were too expensive. I consider it the finest and most reliable .22 autoloader ever made, and I loved it. You see very few for sale these days. I had understood that they were very popular in Mexico, and Remington sold a lot of them there. We'll never see the likes of it again.

Never had a brand new 550, but have owned a few of them. It
was the best auto-loader for the use of S-L-LR ammo. Even with
a mix of ammo they functioned. Never scoped one but they shot
as good as I could, but most 22s of this era shot well. They are
a well made classic design, especially the feed mechanism, which
is the major bug a boo on a lot of the later tube fed auto loaders.
It's blued steel & walnut, what's not to like.

One of differences between the 550 and the 550-1 is that the latter had the "tip-off" scope mount grooves, and also the fired shell deflector. I had a cheap Sears J. C. Higgins scope on mine, but it was plenty good enough for me at the time. Once I got some mud in the muzzle without noticing it, and that resulted in a slight barrel bulge a couple of inches behind the muzzle. It wasn't too noticeable, but it was still there. It didn't seem to affect how well it shot, at least for me. I killed lots of squirrel and birds with that rifle, even some rabbits and ducks.

I bought mine with the deflector about 40 years ago & sighted it in & aint shot it since. Just a little cleaning every 10 years or so. Still have it. It has a zz date code for 53.

I have always thought they were the best .22 auto rifle ever made. Larry

The 550 and nylon 66 are my dads two favorite 22's. He still has a couple of each.


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They also made a 550-2g Gallery Special chambered in .22 short only. It has a a circular addition on the bottom of the end of the magazine tube that was used to attach the gun to the keeper chains in the shooting galleries.

remington 550-2g gallery special - Bing images

Still have the one dad bought on the farm about '59 and its always worked. Simple to take apart to clean and accurate enough for my purposes.

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I have one that I inherited from my father. It was mfg'd in July of 1966 and was purchased new by my grandfather. Just had it completely disassembled and cleaned by a gunsmith friend of mine. Great old rifles

I have a 550 That I have had since I was a kid. It has always been the perfect rabbit gun.

Another 1953 model, just got this last night:

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I inherited my fathers 550-1 that was mfg in July 1966 about two years ago. Still has where to hold at distances carefully taped on R side of stock from where he estimated and used a type-writer to document it in 10th grade.

Had a friend of mine who is a gunsmith disassemble and clean after 50 years of honest use (was regularly cleaned and maintained but 50 years of .22 crud in the bolt/system called for a deep clean). I'm very happy to have it. It shoots like a dream.

That's interesting! I knew a guy whose father I suspect was an illegal, and he had one of these guns from back in the day that was still a regular shooter. He said after a few years of using it under supervision, when he was 10 his dad turned him loose with it and told him to go get dinner. I can't imagine hauling that thing around as a 10 year old, I mean this guy was full grown when I met him and he was maybe 5'5". Coincidentally (or maybe not), that was the same year he started running a tractor on his own.

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Picked up one used about 20 years ago. Refinished stock, which turned out nice. Did use the grooved receiver for putting on a cheap 3-9x scope.
Amazing shooter. And it must have a pretty weak recoil spring, because it'll feed and shoot .22 CB caps as fast as you can pull the trigger, along with any other .22 variant if kept clean.

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