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Originally Posted by Road Rat
My "favorite" .22 rifle has to be my Model 62A. It is just like the one my old man used during the 30's and 40's to feed the family. He would go hunting with it and come home with a trunk full of anything he could get. Mom would figure a way to prepare whatever he had!!
When he died in 1991 I found out he had sold it years before. So I went on a quest to find one just like it. Mine is a 1946 model.
I have many .22 rifles but this is my Favorite one.
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I also have a model 62A, manufactured in March, 1946. Interestingly, the buttplate is grooved steel - it came from an inventory of Model 55 buttplates that Winchester was "cleaning up," as was often their postwar practice, using leftover parts as much as practical.
The current issue (Sept 2016) of the
Blue Press features an article I wrote on the Model 62. I'm pretty sure Dillon would send you a copy and get you on the mailing list if you call them at 1-800-223-4570.
John
