Old School .22 Target Rifles
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AJ
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Good rifles. A friend has two, one is the normal .22 LR. The other someone rechambered to .22 magnum. Both shot well.
Ivan the Butcher
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AJ
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Have seen 200 yard .22LR matches. A 5 inch group there is good. I too, have a Savage M11 in .223 and have shot one hole groups at 100 yards with it.
AJ
It is amazing how many good, even great .22 rifles there are on the market or have been produced. Even run of the mill Savages and Winchesters and Remingtons, I have a Savage m-6a Semi-auto that shoots better than I can (or ever could) according to some of my "friends". I laugh it off because I know it shoots better then he can any day of the week.
One of my favorites. The butt stock of the NRA stock was slightly but tastefully modified generations ago. It wears an 8x Lyman Junior Target Spot. It still shoots great. Groups shown are 5-shot groups at 50 yards.
A great thread. I love old .22 target rifles. The only one I have is a U.S. marked Remington 40-XB that I put a Tasco 10-40X on, and I love it.
Thread brings back memories of 8 years on High School and College Rifle Teams...... one WPIAL Championship and a Second in State ..... lost State by one point shooting at Penn State.
Winchester 52s...... then an Anschutz (?) in College
Winchester 52s...... then an Anschutz (?) in College
Ivan the Butcher
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What year?
Champion Shooter Supply (used to be in New Albany, Ohio is now outside Utica, Ohio) would take on trade H.S. team rifles. Karl Joss and his son Perry, both shot on the OSU teams. Karl had been an original AMU member. Until a serious injury a couple of years ago, Karl was a serious Dewer team shooter. All my good target 22's came from Champion along with all my good ammo!
Ivan
WPIAL AAAA and State in 1971
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AJ
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My Savage M11 with a Nikon Prostaff 3-9X scope at 100 yards. This the group that convinced me to buy it.
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Here are couple that haven't been mentioned but were great rifles for competition in their prime - BSA Internationals. I love the Martini action and even though I am nowhere near as good with an international rifle as I used to be, I still enjoy taking these out occasionally. The scoped rifle is a Mk I and the one with iron sights is a Mk II.
Beautiful rifles you have there.
StrawHat
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AJ
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Unless they're started back up, I believe they went out of business a year or so ago.
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bmcgilvray
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I traded up to this Springfield Model 1922AII from a Remington 513T when I was young and continuing to dabble in small bore competition.
Savage Model 1919 NRA. A dead end design that was soundly whipped by the Winchester Model 52 in the marketplace, but was an early effort to provide for a target grade .22 rifle for the budding interest in small bore match shooting just after World War I.
Savage Model 1919 NRA. A dead end design that was soundly whipped by the Winchester Model 52 in the marketplace, but was an early effort to provide for a target grade .22 rifle for the budding interest in small bore match shooting just after World War I.
Used to shoot on the university team in the UK back in the early 1960s. BSA International Mk 2 at 100 yds. Excellent training, though like LVSteve, I was used to SMLEs and 0.303 ammo in the High School's Army Cadet team in the early 1950s, (though LVS was much later than that!!). Dave_n
bmcgilvray
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Junior league stuff
Remington Model 34 NRA Target. This one now wears a tube magazine that better matches the rifle's finish condition. Quite accurate and the interestingly designed repeating action is fun to operate.
Winchester offerings
Model 57. Uncommonly found, this one's a sad looking example, but shoots better than most .22 rifles here. Found 40 years ago in pile of junk long guns that a pawn shop was throwing out. Both sons later used it in early small bore competition to occasionally beat out competitors with much better looking equipment.
Winchester Model 68, the seldom seen target variant of the ubiquitous Model 67. The ones found almost never have their front sight ramp and hood intact.
Model 69As, a target and a sporter with Unertl Condor 6X scope.
Remington Model 34 NRA Target. This one now wears a tube magazine that better matches the rifle's finish condition. Quite accurate and the interestingly designed repeating action is fun to operate.
Winchester offerings
Model 57. Uncommonly found, this one's a sad looking example, but shoots better than most .22 rifles here. Found 40 years ago in pile of junk long guns that a pawn shop was throwing out. Both sons later used it in early small bore competition to occasionally beat out competitors with much better looking equipment.
Winchester Model 68, the seldom seen target variant of the ubiquitous Model 67. The ones found almost never have their front sight ramp and hood intact.
Model 69As, a target and a sporter with Unertl Condor 6X scope.
I shared this with AJ and decided I would put this up on this thread.
My most prized rifle is my 1813 Anschutz, SN 001 with a USAMU barrel on it that I bought from Lones Wigger Sr.
I shot on his smallbore team in Carter Montana and with his coaching was able to shoot my first 100 in standing. Still have that target as he scored it, and signed it.
Randy
My most prized rifle is my 1813 Anschutz, SN 001 with a USAMU barrel on it that I bought from Lones Wigger Sr.
I shot on his smallbore team in Carter Montana and with his coaching was able to shoot my first 100 in standing. Still have that target as he scored it, and signed it.
Randy
