pump .22 rifle

You don't say how long ago the was. Could be a Model 121 if older or a Model 572 Field Master. Those were the 2 most popular I think...or maybe it was called the Speed-Master. I owned the 121 for awhile, but prefer my Marlin 39A lever gun.

Did it look like this?

If so, it was a Winchester, or a Rossi copy of the Winchester.

Or a Remington model 12, their first hammerless I believe.

Both Remington and Winchester made a nice pump. My dad has a Remington Model 12 but there is also the 572. They are out there. Might cost you some.

My brother had the 592 Fieldmaster. It was a very nice shooting rifle. That was in the early 70's. I now have a Henry pump. Not smooth by any stretch of the imagination but It none-the-less.

What year were you a kid?

The first firearm that I ever shot was a 1924 vintage Winchester Model '06 in .22 S-L-LR. I was eight years old. It had been given to my Dad in 1940, when he was eight.

About 25 years ago, Dad gave me a choice. Either the '06 in original condition, or my great-grandfather's 1897 16 ga take down that had been refinished. I chose the '06, and it is the queen of my gun safes. It gets taken out every so often, and still functions like new. It is a bit rough around the edges, with more patina than bluing and the wood a bit banged up from Dad taking it to school on his bicycle, but it is still my favorite of everything that I own.

The first /fully-functional/ .22 I ever owned was a rather hard-rode Fieldmaster, and after "refurbing" (it's nice but the receiver is just basically painted now) I still have it. Some dumb bits like the rattly forearm, but it's dead reliable, takes no effort to make it do it's work, is laser beam accurate (bagged, at the 50 ft range at least, beats the Martini action .22 single shots), and you can just change out the spring up top on the trigger group, make the trigger pull anything you want. 25 years ago or so when I was much stupider about guns I had it at 4.5 oz for a while.

I also always liked how much NOT like a .22 it was. I mean how the controls and the way the trigger group pins in are like the 760/7600 and the 870, instead of how most .22s are tedious or full of screws to take them apart.

I pick up a nice used Remington 572 years ago and still enjoy it to this day. They came with a Monte Carlo or straight stock. I wanted a straight because I had no intention of putting a scope on it and it fit just right. Like shoobe01 said, it’s kinda built like a big little gun.

I have always loved the pump action .22. Another incredible design by John Moses Browning.

The Remington pumpmaster and speedmaster .22s are rough loading of the tube with shorts. I don’t know why.

TByrd, You may be remembering a Winchester Model 62A. Did it have grooves in the wooden foregrip?
Here is a site with a little history and lots of detail pics.
https://www.alloutdoor.com/2017/07/17/classic-rimfire-winchester-62a-22-pump-13-photos/

Henry's catalog has a pump .22 LR/S and .22 WMR listed in current production:

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Gunbroker has a whole bunch of 'em listed:

https://www.gunbroker.com/Pump-Action-Rifles/search?PageSize=96&Sort=13&View=2&Ch-Caliber=.22 LR

I bought one of the Henry's pumps. Wanted an octagon barrel gallery type rifle and also wanted one in .22 WMR. I am happy with it, but it is not a newly designed gun, but a modification to their lever action. Not very smooth the way the action bars (singular) is.

Bob

rkittine said:

... Not very smooth the way the action bars (singular) is.

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Ya ... that's a drawback. Both the new and used various makes & models I've looked at all had single action bars. Do you happen to know if any of the .22 pumps out there have dual action bars?

Uffdaphil said:

TByrd, You may be remembering a Winchester Model 62A. Did it have grooves in the wooden foregrip?
Here is a site with a little history and lots of detail pics.
https://www.alloutdoor.com/2017/07/17/classic-rimfire-winchester-62a-22-pump-13-photos/

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My father had a very similar rifle although his would only shoot shorts. I am pretty sure it was older than the one you linked because he said he bought it from a general store when he was 15 which would have been 1949. It was very accurate.

JCooperfan1911 said:

The Remington pumpmaster and speedmaster .22s are rough loading of the tube with shorts. I don’t know why.

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I can’t tell any difference with the one I have. I bought it for my Father as he was trying to save my Mother’s flowers from rabbits. I sighted it in for CB shorts back then. I still use it on armadillos in our yard from time to time with standard 22 LR.

I got my 62A on Gunbroker for about half the going price. Seller got no other bids because the photos were black blobs and he had no history. But he lived an hour away so I asked for better lit close up pics and it looked good.

Reminds me of my 1950’s carnival fun times when I shoot shorts in it. Bring a .22LR round to the hardware store to find the right size clear plastic flex tubing. Cut to length, cap one end and cork the other for quick loading.

My father has a Winchester 62A. Love that gun. He's almost 92 but sadly most likely won't be shooting it again. I need to hit the gym because I'll probably have to arm-wrestle my older brother for it.

I traded a POS Charter Arms AR-7 jam-o-matic for an old Stevens Visible Loader pump .22.

Very interesting mechanical piece, but I could never get it to reliably feed ammo, so down the road it went.

Replaced it with a stainless Marlin Papoose, still very happy with that one.

If the Stevens pump had been reliable would have been a cool rifle.

John Pedersen (of the '03 Pedersen Device and Remington 51 .380 fame) designed Remington's early pump .22:

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/the-...ersen-the-greatest-gun-designer-in-the-world/

The .22 was soon followed with centerfire versions. The latter are easy to spot due to the loading gate in the spiral magazine tube. Pedersen was well-thought-of by John Moses Browning and his designs were unique -- and often bizarrely interesting:

I cut my shooting teeth with my dad's Model 12 Remington. There may be a slicker, smoother pump 22 rifle made but I have never encountered one. I still have the rifle and it's just as good as it was when I was a kid except for some reason the sights aren't as easy to see as they were when I was a kid.

Howdy

Here are a few possibilities from Winchester. At the top of this photo is a Winchester Model 1890. Designed by John M Browning, these could only feed 22 Short, 22 Long, or 22 Long Rifle. Only one, not all three. These were very popular 'gallery rifles', used in shooting galleries all over the country. Below it is a Model '06. This model could feed all three, 22 Short, 22 Long, and 22 Long Rifle interchangeably. The easy way to tell them apart is the Model 1890 had a 24" octagonal barrel, the Model '06 had a 20" round barrel. Notice too the crescent shaped butt plate on the Model 1890. This particular Model '06 was my Dad's. His Dad bought it for him in 1931. It was handed down to me when I was about 15 (about 55 years ago.)






Later on Winchester got rid of the external hammer with their Model 61 to mimic the appearance of their classic Model 12 Shotgun. This one left the factory in 1959.