Help Identifying 22 Rifle

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I know this a long shot, but I'm trying to find the type of 22 rifle I learned to shoot on at Boy Scout camp in the early 90's.

All I know is that it was 22LR, and I found this picture from the camp I went to from the same time frame. The rifles in the photo are what I remember using.
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Hard to see but looks a little like a Winchester or Remington pump. Do you remember if it wasa pump, bolt, or lever?
 
Not enough picture there to tell imo. Do you remember anything about the safety position or action?
 
Are you sure that pic is when you were shooting a .22LR? THe profile on a couple of them look like a Crosman 2100 pump air rifle. There was a .22 and .177 model. Thats what they look like. None of those guns look like a tube feed and thats what a Remington or other pumps would have.
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Scooter22 said:
Are you sure that pic is when you were shooting a .22LR? THe profile on a couple of them look like a Crosman 2100 pump air rifle. There was a .22 and .177 model. Thats what they look like. None of those guns look like a tube feed and thats what a Remington or other pumps would have.
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Ha your right! I shoulda spotted that since I have a 2100, lol!
 
The op never mentioned a pump action. He just said that this picture was the era and same place, possibly same rifle. But I think your correct that those may be 2100s. The boy on the right setting upright appears to be pumping his up. He wouldn't be in that position with any 22 I don't think. The only odd thing is the smoke but that could also be glare . They definitely aren't tube fed though. I'm only seeing one picture.
I thought that most scouts used a single shot to learn on. I have an early Remington falling block (no. 4 perhaps? ) that was the "official rifle of the boyscouts".

Dont feel bad nightlord....I have a few 2100s as well and didn't notice. Ive had tennis elbow and rotator cuff issues many times as a kid from pumping those "10 pumps". Yeah right. The picture is so busy that the rifles are pretty obscure
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
At least a few of those little guys, including the kid sitting up in the blue shirt appear to be using front break air rifles similiar to a Diana 23 or BSA Meteor-
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The kid in the white shirt has what might be a Winchester 190-
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RWS imported a Diana Model 34 that had the same profile as the 23, and was in 22 caliber pellet. It was fairly loud for an air rifle, but not enough to necessitate hearing protection.
 
To me they look like a crossman a buddy had back in the late 90s, not long after these pics. Definitely a forearm pump air rifle. All appear to have a black reciever with seperate butt and fore stocks, unlike the diana 23/34
 
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Looks like Cub Scouts so air rifles.

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I never thought about it until you wrote that, but in my case I didn't get to shoot firearms in Scouting until Boy Scouts and there was a merit badge for that.

The rifle we were handed to use in summer camp for merit badge practice was a single shot bolt action .22 LR of some unremarkable brand with a notch rear sight. No "fancy" aperture sights for us at the ol' El Rancho Cima, no sir. :D

That was probably 1977, so things have possibly changed.
 
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I remember shooting single shot .22 at boy scout camp. They were the type you had to manually cock before each shot, and a plain Birch stock. I have a Stevens Springfield model 14 that is very similar.
 
Since no one in the picture is wearing ear protection, which really didn't become all that popular until later on I know, and the two boys have their guns up and behind the others who are still shooting, I'll agree with the pneumatic pump Crosman air rifles as the guns being used in the picture.

Stay safe!
 
I know that at least into the 60s the Remington 4 falling block i mentioned above was used often by the scouts. Enough that they made "official rifle of the boy scouts" editions and claims in their literature.
I was never a scout but I'd assume that unless the organization provided the rifles that some places might use other 22 rifles?
 
I learned at a YMCA camp in the late 1950s. At that time they were using 22 bolt action single shot rifles equipped with receiver aperture sights. I think they were Remington 514, but not sure. I do know they were single shot.
Ten shooters on the line at a time. Each issued 10 .22 bullets in a wooden block. Start off in prone position for NRA Pro marksman, marksman, and Marksman 1st Class. Follow range masters commands. All rifles left on mats and always aimed down range. Shooter policed their spent cases, put back in block and returned to range master. Targets graded and applied to shooter permanent record. Shooters allowed only one time on range per day.
Camp had about 400 campers. Not all cared to shoot as there was archery also. But if 400 shot 10 rounds that’s 4000 rounds per day- amazing!
All rules followed to the letter!
Thanks for jogging my old tired mind!
 
Thanks for all the responses!

This isn't my picture, but it's from around the same time and the rifles look like what I remember.

I honestly can't remember if they were bolt or pump-action, but they were definitely 22LR.

The safety was the Remington 870 type button on the trigger guard.

Catpop said:
I learned at a YMCA camp in the late 1950s. At that time they were using 22 bolt action single shot rifles equipped with receiver aperture sights. I think they were Remington 514, but not sure. I do know they were single shot.
Ten shooters on the line at a time. Each issued 10 .22 bullets in a wooden block. Start off in prone position for NRA Pro marksman, marksman, and Marksman 1st Class. Follow range masters commands. All rifles left on mats and always aimed down range. Shooter policed their spent cases, put back in block and returned to range master. Targets graded and applied to shooter permanent record. Shooters allowed only one time on range per day.
Camp had about 400 campers. Not all cared to shoot as there was archery also. But if 400 shot 10 rounds that’s 4000 rounds per day- amazing!
All rules followed to the letter!
Thanks for jogging my old tired mind!
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This was about my experience!
 
At Camp Wallwood on Lake Talquin in North Florida in 1967 someone stole the firearms there for Merit Badge Qualifying. The instructor brought in some of his own firearms and some of his brother's. So although BSA called for single shots several of us shot repeaters. In my case a VERY nice Browning T-bolt with an adjustable peep. Boy was it hard going back to the old Winchester M67 after that week.

Oh and my instructor and owner of the T Bolt was John Malloy which might mean something to long time Gun Digest readers.

Oh yeah and I missed the '67 war on Uncle Walter's eyeball news show that week.

Fast forward a bunch of decades and when I was a Cub Leader I took my boys to Day camp where they shot the modern equivillant of a red ryder and got to shoot on a graded paper target.

Boy scouts got to shoot .22 Rifles and venture scouts got to shoot BP and .22 pistols. I got to make a fool of myself at scout camp shooting the new stolen name S&W Victory model in front of the boys, who expected me to shoot as well one handed with a too light pistol I never handled before as they did from a rest with Anshutz Achievers!

-kBob
 
Sorry, I can't help with identifying which rifles you may have had at Scout camp in the 90s.

However, I can say I distinctly remember the rifles we had at Hidden Valley Scout Reservation in the 90s: Thompson Center Contenders! Simple break action single shots. I remember some of them requires all of my strength to break open. We had to shoot them off of a bench rest at 50-feet and supervision was very close and strict. And yes, I did get my Rifle Shooting merit badge.

Ah, good times and fun memories! :thumbup:
 
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