If You Could Own Only Three .22 Rimfire Rifles - What Would You Choose?

Anshutz 54 HB Sporter , Marlin 39 , and Ruger 10-22 TD with a couple different barrels . Hard to give up my Winchester 61 magnum Pump tho ! Also hard to sell my cased complete set of Browning .22 semi auto from Belgium with factory scope grade II .

chicharrones said:

https://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=344852

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Sorry, my goof. I don't have the 452. Mine is a 455. I also have a heavy, fluted .17 HMR barrel for it. It's a really great rifle. Also, have the .22 WMR barrel it came with when I bought it (used).

I couldn't do just three.

I love 22 rifles of all styles.

That being said the Ruger 10/22 is very hard to beat. You can build one and not have a single Ruger part in it. Most of them are accurate enough, some are very accurate. They're easier to modify than an AR. To me they are just plain fun.

I will admit that the Ruger PCC is kind of like a grown up 10/22.

@Rembrandt

That Winchester is awesome. Nice photography skills there, too.

Hate being limited but the 3 rifles would have to my Anschutz 54 sporter, 1890 in 22 wrf, and the Browning trombone

Three pretty nice .22 Autoloaders: Ruger 10/22 with Shilen match barrel and Fajen stock, Winchester M-63 and Grade II Belgian Browning.

Offfhand said:

Three pretty nice .22 Autoloaders: Ruger 10/22 with Shilen match barrel and Fajen stock, Winchester M-63 and Grade II Belgian Browning. View attachment 937579

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The neighbor at camp when I was a kid had a Winchester 63 and I was amazed that it shot so nicely. I never saw a failure to feed/eject!!! I lusted after that rifle, but never owned one.

HEY!!!!
CHICHARRONES!

Take them pretty .22s and what ever else you got and SEEK HIGH GROUND!

Good luck with the weather this week.

Back on topic....

These things always make me think " ARRGGH! Choose which of yer chillin's goes over the rail to the sharks"

I would say my little Anshutz 1441/xx would be one. I bought it across the river from where it was born in 1974 at the AFEES Rod & Gun Club in Neu Ulm on Nelson Kasserne FRG.

Most likely I would keep a 10/22 as they are so handy, fun, and flexible. I like the TechSites for a carbine look and for that great peep that matches all my US GI type centerfires.

Then things get very hard.....

Sentimentality shows up strong and so my last pick might be my old Click Clack I added an adult stock to.

having issues trying to post from "your attachments" so no pictures

-kBob

CZ 452 American
Ruger 10/22 w/Bull barrel
Winchester 74 that was my dad's built in 1942.
Debating my 540 XR

Offfhand said:

Three pretty nice .22 Autoloaders: Ruger 10/22 with Shilen match barrel and Fajen stock, Winchester M-63 and Grade II Belgian Browning. View attachment 937579

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Replace the 10/22 with a Remington 121 and you would have the trio of resto-repairs I did for a fellow this spring. It was my first time with the 63, what a neat little action - it is as if they had a nice little slide action design and someone decided to convert it to semiauto, and someone else decided it should look like a leverless-levergun... Super cool little rifle.

My personal Trio, if I were only allowed 3:

1) Ruger 10/22 to build and rebuild as pertinent for hunting, steel challenge, or pleasure plinking.

2) Vudoo, or MAYBE more preferably a RimX precision rimfire build meant for target shooting, some longer range hunting, and competition (the RimX is convertible between 22LR and 17HMR).

3) 17 WSM Savage B-mag (maybe the new stainless Ruger 77/17). Trash talk aside, my B-mag has shot very well, and the increase in power is hard to ignore. It is not competitive with a centerfire, but it stands in the gap between the other rimfires like 22LR and 17HMR and small centerfires like 204 Ruger and 223rem such it has my attention, and I’m glad to keep one around.

If You Could Own Only Three .22 Rimfire Rifles - What Would You Choose?

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Ruger 1022 match grade with a bull barrel and a laminated stock.

Ruger 1022 Pistol with a binary trigger and a suppressor

Savage Mark II Bolt action

@ 50Yds benchrest CZ452-2E

Only have two in mind. Kidd 10/22 and a Vudoo!

hso said:

Got a couple of Calico .22 M100 wood stock rifles so one of them stays (hey, they're crazy looking and people look on in amazement).

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No photo for us to ogle over? You're cruel.

Marlin 39
CZ 455
And I saw a little 22 Gatling gun once. I’d have to have that.

I own 2 Browning SA 22, Rem 572, and Marlin XT22 (both 22LR and 22Mag.) I have a pile of 22s, cant have too many!!

My hands down favorite is the SA 22! RC Model turned me on to them about 6 years ago!!

Bull

I love nice rimfire anything. I am thinking on buying a Kimber of Oregon model 82. What do any that have them think about them. I am surprised they have not been mentioned here more often.

Hey everybody new guy hear... anyhow

out of my collection I’d go with
#1 T-Bolt Sporter 22 WMR
#2 CZ 457 22LR
#3 pro my 39a

Gary W. Strange said:

I love nice rimfire anything. I am thinking on buying a Kimber of Oregon model 82. What do any that have them think about them. I am surprised they have not been mentioned here more often.

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It was one of my 3 on the 3rd page of this thread. I've heard great things about them, and they are very well machined.

Remington's M-121 and Winchester's M-62 were made back when American gunmakers were serious about making good 22's and rifles like these were in every gun shop and hardware store. But alas, Winchester is gone now and Remington may soon follow..

I keep going by this thread as I don’t think I could narrow it down that small. So I started thinking about what one would you not get rid of. That would be the pre WWII single shot Walther, my wife calls “the cheater gun”.

Marlin 39
Browning Auto
Browning auto