I'm not sure where to begin, but I think I'll start with my bargain basement really accurate .22 LR rifles.

1. My CZ 513 Farmer is a $200 rifle with a $125 Cabelas scope and it'll shoot 1 MOA at 100 yards with $2.50 per box CCI SV. It's not the prettiest rifle and you'll need to master the heavy trigger, but it's a shooter based on the CZ 452 action with a high quality barrel:



2. My M1969 Romanian trainer also isn't much of a looker but it's also a $200 rifle that will shoot 1.5 MOA at 100 yards with CCI SV:


3. I have two CZ 99 Precision rifles, made by the "other" CZ, Cervena Zastav, and more recently sold as the Zastava MP 22. They are sub $300 rifles. They have very heavy receivers reminiscent of the WInchester Model 43. One of them will shoot every bit as well as any of my Czechoslovakian CZs with 1 MOA groups at 100 yards with SK Std Plus. The other one is a 1.75 MOA rifle at that range, so there's arguably a bit more variation in them than there is in the Czech CZ 452, 453, and 455 where the variation is on the order of 1.0 to 1.5 MOA at 100 yards. The CZ 99 Precision's weak points are a less than inspiring stock (mine have been replaced with Remington Model 5 stocks (imported by Remington for several years), and a magazine that it is a bit rough around the edges and VERY hard to find.

One of my CZ 99s (the accurate one) is seen here (bottom) with my CZ 453 American (middle) and my first year of production Ruger 77/22 (top).



4. My Ruger 77/22 (above) started out with very lackluster accuracy around 2.5 MOA at 100 yards, but after bedding the stock, free floating the barrel, and shimming the bolt, it's a solid 1.25 MOA rifle. I also added a trigger kit to make the trigger a bit less friendly, although that really doesn't improve accuracy unless you've got a skills deficiency.


5. My CZ 453 American (above) is a solid 1 MOA at 100 yards rifle using SK Std Plus, and will do so consistently. It's the first consistent 5 shot, 1 MOA at 100 yards .22LR I bought.


6. In comparison, my CZ 453 Varmint will give me 1/2 MOA groups and 1.5 MOA groups in pretty much equal measure, with the average being 1.0 MOA. But my CZ 453 Varmint also won the wood lottery relative to the otherwise normally plain, but still nice, CZ wood. Ironically it's also one of the less common CZ 453s with a matte finished receiver:



7. My CZ 455 Varmint Heavy is also a solid 1 MOA rifle, and it's by far the best suited for sub caliber "long range" practice with .22 LR, as a stand in for my long range centerfire rifles. Not pretty, but very, very practical for long range .22 LR shooting.



8. I have two Winchester Model 52Rs, one with exceptional wood and the other with the plain walnut usually associated with Winchester rifles. These are bar none my favorite .22 LR sporters. They are very well made, well balanced, accurate (1.25 MOA 5 shot groups at 100 yards with SK Std Plus), and perfectly sized and proportioned for an adult .22 LR rifle. They also have well made magazines, like the Czech CZ rifles. These are Winchester branded, Miroku made reproductions of the Winchester Model 52 Sporters and are commonly referred to as the "R" model. They are however arguably the best mass produced (around 10,000 of them) .22 LR sporter ever made.



9. My Remington 540S is another higher end sporter, and it looks nice but is a bit of a disappointment as a shooter, with 1.75 MOA accuracy. I never found any .22 LR ammo that shot better than that, and most of the 540S and 540T rifles are regarded as better shooters than that. The major negative however is the cheap plastic magazine that frequently splits and pukes all the rounds out. Horrible, cheap, magazine design on an otherwise nice rifle.



10. I found this very nice but refinished Winchester 1890 in a small gun shop where it was mostly reviled as a refinished piece, in large part because it was in the rare .22 LR cartridge and probably hadn't looked all that bad before it was restored. And I use the word restored as it is very well done with no rounded edges and sharp roll marks. However, it was probably a $2000 rifle before it was restored and now it's maybe a $600 rifle. It's not horribly accurate, but it is great fun to shoot and is an excellent example of a gallery rifle and well suited to offhand shooting at 25 yard beverage cans, golf balls, etc.



11. I own three 9422s. I found the plain wood 1978 XTR in a large local gun shop and found the 16" trapper in the same shop about 6 months later mis-racked and mis-priced in a rack of Henry .22 LRs. The owner was not aware he had a 9422, and when I said I wanted to buy it, he started walking toward the room with the collectible guns. I said "no it's over here" and led him to the Henry rack. He looked at it and said "If you buy it right now, I'll honor that price, but if you don't I'm going to put it where it belongs and re-price it." I bought it.

I found the 9422 Legacy several years later in the same shop. The Legacy is (IMHO) the only 9422 that looks good with a scope. ALl three of my 9422s are 2 MOA to 3 MOA capable rifles at 100 yards. Not stellar accuracy by bolt action standards, but very good by lever action standards and excellent by .22 LR lever action standards.




12. Remington 540XR
I bought this as an inexpensive match rifle. It's a bit underweight in its stock condition that also makes it well suited to young shooters. It'll hold the 10 ring on an A-23 target consistently at 50 yards with mid range SK Rifle Match ammo.



13. My Anschutz Match 64 is another inexpensive match rifle. I never could get it to fit me quite right, so I restocked with with a Master class prone stock. It'll also hold the 10 ring consistently at 50 yards, but with a scope it also does a nice job on long range steel plates.



14. I wanted one of these as a youth and eventually got one when I turned 18, but I bough this 1976 edition about 30 years later as I preferred the walnut stock and the overall higher quality of the earlier Ruger 10/22s:



15. I've had a Springfield M6 Survival rifle for a couple decades and it gets used as such as it fits nicely in pretty much any aircraft baggage compartment. I use a ball detent pin to allow it to be easily separate into two pieces for a bit more compact stowage. It is surprisingly accurate (1" at 50 yards) given it's construction. I had a later CZ made version in .22 Hornet and accuracy was horrible, so it got turned back into money and I stayed with this one.



16. I also have a Charter Arms made AR7 and it's functional but not terribly accurate or reliable. It was however free (a gift) so I've kept it.



17. I was an early adopter of the love it or hate it Umarex made Colt M4 Tactical .22 LR. It has a Zamak bolt carrier that purists love to hate, most AR-15 accessories won't fit, the bolt release is not operational, and the first thing most new owner did was take it apart and thus fail to realize that recoil spring adjustment mattered a lot when it came to reliability.

In my experience it is very reliable when the recoil spring is properly adjusted and that adjustability makes it very tunable to high velocity or standard velocity .22 LR. The magazine design is excellent and easy to load.

The sleeved barrel is also tunable as the muzzle device can be tightened to increase tension on the barrel. That combined with the 1-16" barrel makes it more accurate than my dedicated CMMG .22LR AR-15 build and substantially more accurate than my 1-12 twist .22 LR conversions.



18. I bought this Rossi Matched pair (.22LR and .410) for $75. I think I paid about $50 too much. It's the least accurate .22 LR I have ever owned. I'm not sure why I still own it. I'll probably give it to a kid someday - an annoying one that I don't like.

All of these wonderful posts and not one Remington 541/581?

Randy

Lots of nice 22s in this thread. I’ve accumulated a handful over the years-
Winchester 67A Youth (my dad gave me on my 6th bday)
Winchester 62A Gallery in 22 Short
Remington 572 Fieldmaster (gets the most use these days)
Remington 550-1 Speedmaster
Savage Mark II

One of these days I’d like to add a Marlin Model 50, the open-bolt 22 they mfg’d in the 1930s.

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Very impressive and well written post BB57. Your rifles get shot a whole lot more than mine. Nice catch on that hard to find 1890.

I have a 541 in my post.

Missed photo #9...sorry

My 541 shoots nearly as well as my 54MS Anschutz that I used in smallbore silhouette.

A machinist friend of mine made a brass single shot adapter for me when I use the 541 on a match.

Randy

I am partial to this one, a Remington 541-S. This one is the second model variation, I believe. Previously, I owned a 541-S with an engraved receiver and a gloss finished stock with a contrasting forend tip and grip cap made from fiberglass/plastic that was medium brown in color. This one has the same contrasting items made from black fiberglass/plastic.

It shoots Ely 10X and CCI Standard velocity to the same point of impact. The scope is a Leupold 2x7.

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I have the earlier engraved model 541-S with the brown faux rosewood plastic tip.

I put a Redfield fixed 8x power target scope on it from more or less the same era.



It's interesting to compare the match versions - the 540 and 540XR - to the sporter model 541-S and 541-T, as well as to the Remington 788 that they share many common features with.

I put a center fire grade 4X Leupold on a 1022 in the '80's. Leupold adjusted it parallax free to 75 yds free of charge and free return shipping. That's what I call over-the-top custoer service. My friend and I were shooting grasshoppers 50 yds with regularity, and I'm not an expert shot.

My current collection is a Marlin Bolt/tube, forget the model, and a pre-S&W Thompson/Center R55 22lr, not to be confused with their recent piece of junk, the R22.

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Anschütz called their sporters the hunting line of rifles and they were for a long time targeting German hunters as their customers. The 54 action was developed out of the reduced size Mauser action that was used also in the Deutsches Sportmodell, the DSM. It was developed by the German champion shooter Walther Gehmann and shares its provenance with the Walther KKM/KKJ and Suhl 150.
The preferred trigger option of German hunters had for centuries been the DST that was used since the times of the muzzleloaders and can be also found in the old Pennsylvania and Kentucky rifles. Anschutz has discontinued the DST over a decade ago but I still find a properly adjusted DST, that gives me two trigger pulls in one rifle, a great feature.

This is a 1422 rifle with an adjustable Zeiss that is one of my preferred and most accurate .22 l.r. rifles, even though they were not designed as benchrest guns.

I have a bunch of .22’s. For some reason I really like the springfield/Stevens model 87’s...the click clack typewriter sounding rifles ...the ability to make it a bolt action...just an odd yet cool design

from spare parts + broken junk pieces

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from junk broken rifles

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My miscellaneous 22 rifles:

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Winchester 52 "B"model made in 1946,BSA martini and another BSA with a shorter heavier barrel.It's built as a solid frame rifle.But sometime in the past it was made and sold as a take down rifle still have to fit the buttstock on this one.Case hardened finger lever that most likely came from one of the International BSA match rifles. Took the barreled action out back of the house to check if the firing pin strike needed after swapping out finger levers. Firing pin strike was where it's supposed to be. And pull weight is down around 2.5 pounds. The other is a Remington 513T shoots very well. Frank

A bit of a reboot for this thread. Had my 22s out yesterday so decided to take a pic of them...
Savage model 14
Remington model 12
Winchester model 63
Remington Nylon 66
Glenfield 60
Another Glenfield 60
Savage Springfield 187
Marlin 780
10-22 with Shaw barrel, Hogue overmold, BSA scope, volquartsen trigger
10-22 carbine stock except BX trigger

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I do have a Remington Model 34 in my closet.
My old Buddy Milt gave it to my Son, he got a 10-22,
So I got a Rem 34.
It’s a Tack Driving old gun!

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and I got bored again. ACOG on a Nylon 66

ACOG weighs more than the gun.

Ned

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A few .22's in the safe.

A Savage MkII


My Rossi Gallery gun is a hoot too shoot with a Skinner peep sight


The Ruger 10/22 I made up for my little guy who is no longer a little guy. Still fun for killing golf balls and soda cans.


And the Ruger 10/22 for my wife who likes green.

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You guys have some really nice .22's. I only have one - a Ted Williams Model 3T semi-auto I bought new in 1969 when I worked part-time at Sears as a teenager. It was made by Winchester, and is basically the same as their Model 190, although the Sears version is rated for .22 Short, Long, and Long Rifle. If memory serves, the Winchester was not rated for Shorts.

In the picture, the shoulder stock appears to be cracked, but it's just the grain of the walnut. The scope is a Nikon 3-9 power Prostaff Rimfire model.

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A French Unique X 51 (semi auto) from 1965 with a WWII German scope







FN / Browning Tombone (pump action)





Ruger 10/22 shorty





AMT small game hunter II

Some impressive collections and singles here.

I'm down to one 22 rifle these days, a 1973 Marlin 39a. Very accurate shooter and I love plinking with 22 shorts through it. A think it holds 11 billion of them.

Quiet with those little buggers too.

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Some nice collections here ! BB57, those are some nice .22's !
My LH CZ 452

1906 Winchester, made in 1911, and refinished/relined/reblued/restocked.

My two Browning SA-22s. Both Belgians, one made in 1964 and the other a 1969. The '69 was treated rough, broken stock and rusty, but I fixed it up, and it is by far the better shooter of the two.

CZ 452 Scout, with a Redfield revolution 2-7x that I reset the parallax on.

Nylon 66 with Williams sights and grey Cerakote

Winchester 9422 with Skinner peep

First year production (1958) Remington 552 Speedmaster

Browning BL-22 with Skinner peep

And my latest .22, a 1950 Winchester Model 75

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Growing up, one of my friend's had the Winchester Model 1899 "thumb trigger" that belonged to his great uncle. IIRC, it was chambered in .22 Short and Long only. We used to buy our .22s at the local gas station.

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I found the plain wood 1978 XTR in a large local gun shop and found the 16" trapper in the same shop about 6 months later mis-racked and mis

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yes, the 1st yr XTRs ('78) are not checkered .. heres a fresh one w/orig box n paperwork

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OK, I'm going out on a limb.

Remington Nylon 66.
IMHO, the most innovative .22 rifle and what a utility .22 should be. Light, accurate, almost indestructible fast shooting. If they had parkerized it (or today nitrided it) or made it in stainless for rust resistance would be perfection.

Mine are, 2 Remington Nylon 66s, I had one and then inherited my Dad's, also an H&R 760, an interesting single shot that ejects the fired casing and stays open for a reload. Between them they have "done in" a bunch of snakes and other critters over the years!
Steve W

Like this one ? It had some light rust on the barrel when I got it, so since I do Cerakote, the barrel and receiver shell got done in Sniper Grey Cerakote.
Much more corrosion resistant than Parkerized or bare stainless.

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I love .22's

Just gotta love .22's, be it revolvers, pistols, rifles. My only 22 rifle is the last one left...the others have gone to kids and other homes that would actually use them.

Last one in the safe: A Remington Nylon 66, barrel date coded June 1960, serial number before the 68 GCA requiring serial numbers on receivers. Being in Seneca Green is a tiny plus as less were made than Mohawk Brown...unbelievable that Remington cranked out more than 1,000,000 of these innovative rifles before discontinuing in 1991.

Fast, Accurate, Fun...fun...fun with almost any ammo we have ever fed this guy, including some el cheapo, stinky stuff. The only hint I ever took seriously was to "NOT try and detail strip..just clean completely assembled". They meant it!

Thanks for reviving this old thread....it seems everyone enjoys 22's and their associated old memories.

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Since the original post April 2020, I added a Win 63 , a 39 Mountie, and a LIKE NEW marlin 39A from 1952, ballard rifling. I gotta get some pics. Then last weekend, got a grail gun, a win 61 octagon bbl. Been looking for one in Octagon for a LONG time. And its a first yr Short. Oh, forgot, I got a 52C winchester that has been converted to sporter configuration coming in next week from Rock Island Auction.

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How bout a good ol Mossberg

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Reising 65, 1962 ArmaLite AR-7 T-62 Tommy

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I have from late 1800’s to present time 22’s from single shot, to pumps to a few semi autos. I think I have early 1900 pump actions. My oldest is a 1894 Hopkins & Allen single shot 22. I’m sure it fed the family back then.
There’s a few different name pump rifles but they look the same like western field, Savage and Remington. The port on the receivers look alike.

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A few Stutzen that all need the wood cleaned up. Top is a Krico 300 series, in the middle an early Walther KKJ and below an Anschütz 1418 with the rarely seen optional tangent rear sight.

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A few more of the little .22s

Some Winchester 1906 and 1890s


Some Stevens, a couple visible loaders, a Favorite and a crackshot.


Winchester Winder musket in .22 Short.


Remington "4 and "6


Remington "6 and 027 Hamilton. The Hamilton is all sheet metal including the receiver and the metal wrapped brass barrel.


All rifles look alike.

Here is a comparison of two Walther KKJ Stutzen, both in .22 l.r. but with different barrel lengths.

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