Lets see those beautiful slide rimfires

'06 Winchester. Not mine, but one I rebuilt for a buddy. Still shoots pretty good groups considering the sewer-pipe barrel!

My grandfather's Remington model 12 with cut down barrel and oddly a winchester butt plate

Fieldmaster 572

A couple early pumps here, a model 12 Remington and a model 1914 Savage.

only one I have now is a Rossi model 62SA, octagon 24" but barrel is really 2 3" .that was given to me from my dad around 2000, it's was new in the box but now has countless cases off 22 through it. I've owned a few rossi pumps all shot great but this one shoots extremely well, I've had target 22s that did not shoot as well.

apart from target shooting this 62 did a lot of small game hunting, I used to walk a circle around the 100 acre farm just about every weekend in season and a bit in spring and summer looking for woodchuck.

Maybe one day I'll restore it but still works great and shoots even better. The thing will even shoot the 60gr aguila ss into a 1/2" group at 50 yards. Sights are a basic square notch but work well in this gun.

Pumps are great wish more were made and more shooters would try one, I've owned Winchester Remington and savages all shot good and were very fun.

Sorry for the crap photo.

I only have one, a 572 fieldmaster 150th anniversary. It wears an old 3x9 Bushnell Sportview, and its decently accurate. It'll shoot an inch at 50 yards, good enough for squirrel hunting and miscellaneous critters. Got it from a very good friend who has since moved away.




As you can see, its seen its share of use. The wood had been refinished, unfortunately the metal hasn't been. But so far its never failed me and continues to be one of my favorite rimfire rifles.

Mac

Top: an 1890 .22WRF , octagon , Middle an early model 62 , and lower a .22 short 1906 with a later model 62 fore end.






I have shot a bazillion shorts thru the 1906 in 40+ years . It is a "household and barn and garden pest gun" up to 100 feet it all ways hits the target . The middle 62 is early production and pretty cherry, I sold it fo $700 in 2016 , the top 1890 is a tack driver , I also have a G model Colt positive Target in .22 WRF. I have almost 2000 rounds of .22 WRF around, it is a killer on 50 pound and under game = 45 grain flat point at 1400 FPS from the rifle and that one prints a 2" group at 50 yrds !
Unpictured I have a Rossi 62A nickle plate .22LR carbine from the early 80s , imported by interarms. I keep it handy

Howdy

Winchester Model 1906. 22 Short, Long, or Long Rifle.






This little 22 belonged to my Dad. He grew up in Mount Vernon NY, just north of New York City. His dad used to commute into NYC every day for work. One day my Dad mentioned to his dad that he would like a 22 target rifle. So my grandfather went to the Abercrombie and Fitch store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan and bought him this little 22. In those days Abercrombie and Fitch was not the yuppie clothing store it is now, it was a full service sporting goods store and sold every thing imaginable pertaining to sports. There was an entire floor devoted to guns, and a shooting range in the basement. Yes, in New York City. Now my grandfather was a terrific fisherman, but he knew nothing about guns. So he walked out of the store and gave this little pump 22 to my Dad. It was not what he wanted, he wanted a bolt action 22 target rifle, but I don't think he ever had the heart to tell his dad the little 22 was not what he wanted. One day when I was about 15 or so I was poking around in our basement and found a big cardboard box. I reached inside and grasped something and pulled it out. It was the little Winchester. I brought it upstairs and asked my Dad what it was. He said, "Well I guess that's yours now".

Here is a photo of my Dad shooting the little Model '06 on the shore of Katahdin Lake in Maine in 1931. He would have been 15 at the time. Dig the knickers. You can see how it is really too small for him.






Winchester Model 1890, 22 Long Rifle. The Model 1890 could only fire one version of 22 rimfire ammunition, not all three. This one is chambered for 22 LR.






Winchester Model 1890 chambered for 22 Long.






Winchester Model 1890 chambered for 22 Short.






Winchester Model 61 that fires 22 Short, Long, or Long Rifle.

Winchester 1890, 22 Short.
I got this one from my neighbor. Jim is in his late 70’s. He said this was his mother’s gun. It sat between the hot water heater and the washing machine for over 30 years. Jim tried to give it to me but I made him take some money for it.
It was missing the firing pin retaining bar and screws. And the front sight was broken. With a little TLC ad some parts, it’s a shooter again.

I picked up this 1906 for cheap at a pawn shop. They said the barrel was bad, but it was just full of trash.
It was marked as a Model 62. My plan was to make a Trench 22 out of it. I was going to have it parked. Have an aluminum vented hand guard made and fit a bayonet lug to it. More for fun then anything else.
When I saw that it was an 06. I just cleaned the rest of the rust off the outside and all the trash from the inside. It turned out to be a good shooter.
I’m still looking for a Junky Rossi or Winchester 62 to make that Trench 22.

Not beautiful but has character and still shoots fine, sorry, it is raining out, Winchester Model 61, S, L, LR:



It belonged to my uncle who was killed in a military accident in a B17 in WWII. Like all the guns I got from my grandfather and father, especially my grandfather, they were used to put food on the table. They were tools, not toys to hold and pet and wax on about walnut and blue on the www. If my grandfather could have gotten a stainless rifle or a plastic stock, he would have and he would have used it no doubt to paddle his pirogue. This one has taken many a squirrel and rabbit and it was carried in the humid and wet cane breaks and hardwood bottoms of Louisiana and was surely used as a paddle a few times and it shows it.

I will get around to cleaning this rifle up a bit. Not a complete restoration as I do not want to remove the finger prints and wear marks but my grandfather would use spar varnish to provide a weather shield and paint the entire rifle, wood and metal, entirely with several coats. I will remove all of that, clean up some rust and it should continue another lifetime or two.



So a little story on this one, my sister, probably sixth grade, had a little party and her friends were over for a sleep over. That morning they went down to our dock to look pretty and do girl things. I heard a commotion and some screaming and they were all running up the hill to the house. A big alligator had taken to sunbathing on our dock and would not go away. Now, alligators, less than six feet are just big lizards and I just grab them by the tail and toss them in the water and send them on their way but this one was a bit over that magic six foot number and had an attitude so seeing I was not going to grab this one by the tail I yelled for my grandfather! My grandfather came running with the Model 61 and laid down the law. That gator became some wallets and belts and maybe a pair of boots , protected at that time or not.

Remington model 121

One day our neighbor pulled in my driveway and gave me this rifle. He said my grandad loaned it to him about 1955. He hung it on a nail in his barn to shoot skunks. I got it about 2005, so fifty or so years in a barn!
I would like to send it somewhere for a restoration.

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This .22short 1890 belonged to my wife's grandad. He told me that he traded a bottle of whiskey for it.

Armored farmer said:

This .22short 1890 belonged to my wife's grandad. He told me that he traded a bottle of whiskey for it.
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Darn good trade, I'd say.

Two of my favorites. A model 25 in 25-20 and my 121. The 121 has a particularly nice piece of wood. Sorry about the upside down pics My puter' is drunk again.