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Old 11-26-2021, 02:57 PM
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I believe 1930s Winchester Model 67 I think...

Fun and useful on the farm...

What was your first 22............?
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My very first. A Colt Frontier Scout just like this one. Like lots of guns, I wish I'd kept it.



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I have my grandfather’s model 67. Recently took it out to the range and let bark again. I killed my first jack rabbit with that rifle. My grandfather was very happy as jack rabbits were quite the pests on his farm.

My first 22 is my Remington 582 received on Christmas 1966.
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My first 22 LR rifle was given to me by my Grandfather He gave me a Savage Model 7, that he had purchased new in 1939 He gave it to me the summer of 1962, I was 10 The rifle still sits in one of my gun safes However, it no longer belongs to me I gave it to my Grandson when he turned 10.
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In 1958 when I was thirteen years old I got my first real gun for Christmas. A Stevens model 15 bolt action single shot .22 rifle. I still have it along with half a dozen other 15s that I have picked up over the years
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I can't say it was actually mine, but the first gun I ever shot was the "family gun" which was a single shot Mossberg bolt action .22 that was stamped with the Western Field (Montgomery Ward) house brand name on the barrel. The other family gun was an ancient H&R 12 gauge break open single shot. As cheap as it was, that Mossburg .22 came with an adjustable peep sight. My father used the .22 mainly for killing chickens. At the time, we had a flock of chickens which freely roamed the yard. When my mother wanted chicken for dinner, my father would go out on the back porch and shoot one in the head. He didn't miss often, but the distance wasn't usually more than 10-15 yards or so. I wish I would have kept at least one of those two.

The first gun that was actually mine was a Remington 550-1 .22 semiauto I got for my birthday when I turned 13. I still have it.

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My first 22 was a hand me down from my older brother. I was 10 years old at the time. It was a unique Winchester automatic single shot model 55. The first I bought myself was a Ruger Mark 1 with a 6" barrel. I bought it when I was 14 using money I had earned pulling sage brush and saved lunch money. I bought it during my lunch hour and brought it back to school. The principal saw me walk in with it and made me leave it in his office till school was out. The school bus driver harshly asked me to hand it over, but only admired it and said he always wanted one, then gave it back to me with orders not to load it on the bus. Different times for sure.
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My late father gave me a Stevens Favorite when I was 6 or 7 for Christmas. I still have it.
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My first .22 when I was 15 in 1956 was a Win. M67 that I paid for. My parents would only let me shoot shorts but I acquired a box of Longs and thought I had hit the big time. I would like to have it now just because it was my first rifle but I traded it for something better. Larry
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The first gun that was actually mine was a Remington 550-1 .22 semiauto I got for my birthday when I turned 13. I still have it.
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The local gun shop had 2 about the time they quit making them and I bought one. Several years later I was talking to fellow worker and he told me about buying the last one the local gun shop sold. I told him I bought next to the last one. I gave mine to my son and I think they are the best auto loading .22s ever made. Larry
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My first, and only .22LR rifle was acquired 7 years ago, and still sits a few feet away from me. A Ruger American Rimfire. Not beautiful, but MOA accurate in my novice old hands.
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For my 8th grade graduation at age 13 I got a Crossman .22 air rifle. That served me well until I was a junior in High School and needed a "real" gun because I wanted to go deer hunting.

The summer job that year earned me about $50 after taxes and I bought a Mossberg 12 ga. bolt shotgun. Hunted with my Dad for many years with that gun.

Just after graduating from College I decided to go for a handgun and I bought a Ruger Super single Six.

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Many years later I stumbled upon an unfired Pre 27 for almost nothing. Posted about it on this forum and you guys got me started on a lifelong obsession with S&Ws.

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I think it was a Springfield (cheap model, not Springfield Armory) single shot cock it by hand. Got it for Christmas. Before that, my brother's Winchester 74, semi and an accurate rifle and I toted that gun for miles...but it wasn't mine. I have one now for nostalgia.

The first .22 I bought was a Model 250 lever action rifle. I still have it.
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The local gun shop had 2 about the time they quit making them and I bought one. Several years later I was talking to fellow worker and he told me about buying the last one the local gun shop sold. I told him I bought next to the last one. I gave mine to my son and I think they are the best auto loading .22s ever made. Larry
I agree 100%. I do not believe there was ever a better .22 semiauto made than the Model 550. But I am a little prejudiced. There was also a shooting gallery model made which used .22 Short only. The regular 550 (or 550-1, there are a few slight differences) will handle .22 Shorts, Longs, and Long Rifles interchangeably. I mainly use .22 Standard Velocity Shorts in mine, and they function fine in it. Hardly any noise.

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Savage Model 1904 Bolt Action .22 RF Single Shot (1949/1950 ?)
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I was 12 and saved up $20.00, My Dad went to Donahours sporting goods and bought it and a brick of 22 long rifle cartridges. Remington 511, I still have it in the safe, Probably haven't shot it in 50 years.
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1917 Stevens Favorite in 22 long rifle. In 1962 my Dad got transferred and my folks bought a house as an estate with everything in it. The 22 was nailed up in the rafters of the garage with a box of corrosive 22 shorts. Dad said I could have it…as a twelve year old I was in Heaven. Cleaned it all up and took it out to the woods for a try. Shorts worked fine, but Long rifles wouldn’t eject after firing, had to pry them out with my pocket knife. Chamber was eroded from the corrosive shorts. I didn’t mind, you could buy 3 boxes of shorts for the price of one box of long rifles. This was my squirrel rifle until I moved up to a Winchester bolt 22 w/scope when I was in college. Still have them both, grandsons love that old Favorite. Both have taken squirrels with it. I know it will be in good hands when I’m gone.
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I didn't grow up in an area where you got to go shooting as a kid. My first .22 rifle was when I was in my 30's. I got a bolt action Mossberg. I wound up buying about 7 other different versions of Mossberg's .22 rifles. I burned up alot of bricks of Win. Wildcat in those guns.
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A nice thing about those old time single shot 22s is that a box of 50 rounds would last a whole afternoon of shooting cans out behind the barn. Mine was a Remington rolling block. I forget the model number but I do know it was "improved" . It said so right on the receiver.
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STILL have my Nylon Model 66 in the safe. Looks as good as new
at about 52-53 years old and still a treat to shoot. I've used it to
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Remington 572 Fieldmaster. It was kept in a case and as I recall, it was in excellent condition when I stupidly sold it many years ago.
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The first 22 I shot was a K-22 dad bought new in '55 or '56. It came to me when he passed and, of course, I still have it. Pretty sure it was the first gun my boy shot and it'll be his one day.

The first gun that was MINE was an old Remington 22 bolt gun. I broke the firing pin dry firing it. Can't remember where or when it went, but it's very long gone.

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My first two. A Marlin Model 60 that I don't think I ever shot, and a Remington 341P, the gun I bought for $60 when I was looking for some peep sights to toss on the Marlin. I've since parted with the 341 but I'd love another sometime. Really neat action, but I parted from tube fed when I started doing most of my shooting at real ranges.
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Stevens Favorite (take down) from the late 1890s was my introduction to .22s ...... my 11th Christmas Dad got me a Remington 511-X Scoremaster with a 4x scope. The rest is history!!!


The Stevens now about 95% in the white; has refinished wood and rehabbed action ( all new springs) and hangs on my home office/den wall. Both boys fired their first shots with it !!!!!

Remington has a new(er) scope and is in the safe....... tend to breakout a CZ 452 for my bolt action .22 needs these days.
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The 22 I first shot was a Winchester (a 1906 iirc) but the first one that was actually mine was a Nylon 66. It was the Mohawk Brown like a couple other posters mentioned having. It was soon joined by a Ruger Standard Model 22 pistol for which I payed the enormous (to me at the time) sum of $59. The Nylon 66 was $30 at a local farm auction and I think a couple of the older guys who knew my dad made sure I got it.

I already owned a couple center fire guns and muzzle loaders but since I had regular access to the old Winchester I had never bothered to get a 22 of my own before. My uncle later reclaimed the old Winchester that had been loaned to us (I believe his oldest son has it now) but I did eventually get one just like it. My original Nylon 66 and the Ruger both went in foolish trades some years later but I have identical replacements for both now that I plan on keeping until my time to go comes along.
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Hello everyone, how timely this is,as I just tracked down a Winchester cooey 600,.22 that my dad gave me on my 14th birthday. Shot many a gopher with it and a few other varmints. No assembly required. A trip back in time....my first 22

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Sure brings back fond memories. Graduated from a Sheridan 5MM Blue Streak pellet gun to the Ruger 10/22. Bought it used for $46 and made in 1966 according to serial no. Walnut back then! Missed that 18 1/2 inch barrel for handling so 6 years back bought the Ruger American Compact in 22 magnum. Satisfied for now.
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My old man bought me a Marlin 1897 carbine for my 5th birthday in 55’. Still have it. He paid $8 for it and was proud of himself for dealing from $10. At 5 I had to have Buffalo sticks to hold it up. Was about 8 before I could freehand it.
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My first rifle was a JC Higgins 22 auto that my Uncle gave me for painting all of the fence posts around my grandparent's home. When I reached 13YO, I saved enough money from pop bottle deposit returns and acquired a brand new Remington Fieldmaster pump 22. Still have it!
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My first gun was this Winchester Model 69A .22 rifle. My dad and I split the $24 it cost when I was 11. Here I am doing some plinking on the desert near Phoenix when I was about 15.



Here is that same rifle as it appears today, replete with my early "customizing" efforts as a teenager.



I wrote an article about me and this gun which was copied for inclusion in my book 101 Classic Firearms. I sent a copy of that article to Jeff Cooper for evaluation as a beginning effort, and he wrote back that it reminded him of his first gun, and that I should continue to write. I did, and appreciated his feedback.

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My first .22 was a Stevens Favorite that went through a flood and was left there in the mud for a while. It had belonged to a great uncle and he wouldn't go get it. I was twelve and couldn't stand it, so I sort of liberated it.
It was pitted, rusted and shaky, but it was mine. I had the wiggle and shaky pretty well figured out and I could hit with it. I once broke the firing pin dry firing it and an uncle made me one out of welding rod. I still have it seventy years later.

I always wanted a Winchester pump .22 and it has led me into collecting them and every other .22 made. Over the years I have accumulated at least one of every single shot .22 Winchester that they produced. I'm not sure, but I know I have at least sixty or more ,22s

Here are two of Winchester's first .22 single shots, a model 99 and a model 58.


Here a couple of their later Model 47s, one a standard and the other a target. The 47's reset the safety on every round chambered making them an excellent beginner rifle.

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My 1st .22 and my 1st real gun.

Marlin 781 that my late brother gave me for Christmas 1979.

It started me down the road of gun ownership and appreciation. Shot lots and lots of Federal Lighting rounds out of this in the early 80's.

42 years later it still looks and shoots good.
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I believe 1930s Winchester Model 67 I think...

Fun and useful on the farm...

What was your first 22............?
When I turned 12 in 1978, my parents gifted me a new Savage M24 with .22 lr for top bbl and 20 gauge on bottom…it was $78.95 as I saw the tag on them at Scheels hardware in Great Falls, Mt. where I grew up.
Shot my first duck, 1st hun, 1st coyote, and 1st badger with it…a great beginner’s gun and a great firearm in general, very useful. Still have it in my safe, and in my heart.
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"wundudnee" featured the Winchester Model 47 .22 single shot rifle here. This is probably one of the least known Winny single shots.

It was basically a single shot variant of the Winchester Model 69A, and featured an automatic engagement of the manual safety between shots as an extra precaution for younger shooters. These rifles were made only from 1948 to 1954. None were serial numbered and all had chromed bolts, bolt handles, safety levers and triggers.

Here is mine; I estimate that it was manufactured circa 1954.

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My first .22 rifle was the Remington 513T that I was assigned on my high school rifle team in 1957. The team would travel on the subways carrying our cased rifles and ammo cans to the other high schools in New York City to shoot matches..........imagine that today! First .22 pistol was a S&W Model 53 .22 Jet bought while in the Army in Germany in 1963.

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Jammomatic Winchester 190 .22 semi auto.
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My first was a lowly RG (66?) that I bought from a friend for $25 including a Hunter snap on holster.
Somehow I found walnut stocks in those pre internet days.
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We had a Winchester Single Shot.
My Bro had it for years and I don’t recall what he did with it.
But I do have a Remington Model 34 in my Safe.
A Friend gave it to my Son, he got a 10-22 and passed it back to me.
It’s a Tack Driver!
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While it wasn't my first .22 rifle, my parents bought both my brother and I a pair of the Sears Roebuck house brand Winchester 190s for Christmas one year in the mid-1960s. I think Sears had them on sale at the time. Jam-a-Matic is right. I couldn't go through a magazine without having at least one malfunction, often more. I have no idea what happened to mine, same for my brother's 190. Maybe lost in moves, maybe stolen. I do not remember selling or giving mine away.
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Mine was a Winchester 67 too! I still have it.
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Remington 572. FUN. I wore out some of the internals...TWICE!

I sold it for a Marlin 39a. Cooler, better, but not as fun.
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A nice thing about those old time single shot 22s is that a box of 50 rounds would last a whole afternoon of shooting cans out behind the barn. Mine was a Remington rolling block. I forget the model number but I do know it was "improved" . It said so right on the receiver.
My Grandfather gave me a Savage Model 7. When he showed me how to operate it he showed me as a single shot. The bolt has a knob in it and if you pull it out and slide the bolt back and let it go home it chambers a round, he then told me to push the knob back in. This way the rifle operated as a single shot. I was shooting with a cousin and operating the rifle as instructed. Then I forgot to push the knob back in. When I fired the bolt cycled, I wondered what was that. When I pulled the bolt back out popped a live round. I tried it again and again the bolt cycled. So then I was off to the races, burning up ammo. My Grandfather came back out of the house and looked at me and said "I hear you have figured out it is an automatic" and went back into the house. My cousin and I burnt up a brick that afternoon. That night we scrounged up about $11.00 and the next morning went to the General Store and bought .22 LR at $0.45 a box (24 boxes) and shot those up too! It resides in my safe, but I have given it to my oldest Grandson.
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My first rifle was a Winchester model 67 single shot. I can't remember exactly how old I was, probably around 12 or 13 when it was given to me. My brother, who was a few years older, had a Remington 512 and I loved that rifle. I spent many a summer evening bushwhacking rabbits that were moving into the alfalfa fields from the brush. Farmers kept a lane cleared along the fence lines and they made a perfect shooting lane as the rabbits went into the fields around sundown. I think that instilled the interest I have today for small bore rifles. I built a precision .223 rifle that I like. I also have a CZ 455 American.
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