Old Remington .22s 510, 512, 514

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I have had an early '50s Remington 514 around for a while (gotta get that butt plate!) and I picked up a 510 Targemaster and a 512 Sportmaster made in '42 and '43 this weekend at the funshow. My buddy as the predecessor to the 500 series Remingtons, the 341.

We took my three .22 rifles out today and shot them off my shooting porch and the all went BANG! nicely. I need to get some work done on the little 514 to it ejects properly. Below if the "family photo" of the 3.

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My first rifle was a Remington 510P given to me in 1958. I still have it. I also have two 511s and a 512. I really like those fine old Remington bolt guns. So where is the photo? :)

<EDIT> Edited to say I have two Model 512s and not 511s as I originally posted. </EDIT> :)

Here is my little 500 series family:
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Ron
 
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I like the clever peep sight design on those old 5XXP rifles.

Is that the factory scope?
 
My first rifle was a 514. It never missed as it was a single shot, the sights were dead on and ammo was hard to come by. I had it in my 65 Scout and someone stole it. Dad bought me a new Remington repeater, but I asked him if he could take it back and get me another 514. He did, but the gun wasn't the same.
 
My first rifle was the Remington Model 510 Targetmaster. It was a wonderful gun that never failed ,and always shot straight. What more could anyone want - a repeater ? Didn't need a second round if you did your part with the single shot.

Good choice !
 
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I like the clever peep sight design on those old 5XXP rifles.

Is that the factory scope?
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The 511 is actually a 511P with the scope added at some later time. Nice job on it. That being my guess anyway.

While I was in Vietnam my younger brother took apart the Model 510P and lost the original peep sight. Sooner or later I figure I'll find the correct peep, till then it has a replacement on it. A few years ago while visiting friends in NC went to a good gun show. A guy walking the show had a nice 510P and I still regret passing on that gun. He was asking $250 and came down to $225, I am guessing I could have bought the gun for $200.

Twenty years ago these were $35 to $50 guns so go figure huh? :)

Ron
 
I always recommend them and similar Winchester's over anything offered new.
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Yep, so do I. Even the cheapest of the lot (for example, a Winchester Model 67 costing under twenty bucks new when my dad gave me one for Christmas in 1956) came with genuine walnut stocks and all steel construction. Great little rifles indeed.
 
My first gun was a 511 Scoremaster, gave it to my brother, wish I'd kept it. Been looking for another lately, but no luck finding one at a "decent" price.:eek: My Dad gave it to me when I was 12 or 13 around 1960 or so, he got it from my Grampa.
 
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I have a 511P but with a globe front sight and is grooved for scope rings that was my first rifle. Shot it for the first time in 1961. It is the first rifle my girls shot and still looks good today.
 
My first rifle was a 514. There were background checks even back then. I can remember the sport store owner calling my dad to be sure it was okay for me to spend $22 on a rifle. A few minutes later I was pedaling my bike home with a rifle and a free box of ammo.
 
Nice group to have, all fine 22s.

My favorite .22 is the Remington 513T Military trainer(bottom).
Train the young folks with this one, the peep sights and bench rest really help them get good results first time out.
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The 510(middle) is my $25.00 find, great truck gun.
Even with a cracked stock & butt plate, bulged barrel and poor extraction I can't get rid of it because it shoots so dang straight.

Please ignore the 1915 Enfield .22 trainer.
 
I have my grandfather's Rem 510. It will not win a beauty contest...but she does shoot straight. I got it in the late '60s. We like to set up an array of good plinkin' targets and take turns shooting. Tin cans, walnuts, spinners, whatever small target we can set up. (no glass) Challenge each other...make fun of a miss (I do my share). Even the grand children get in on it.

Just gotta' love those .22 single shot rifles.

Mark
 
My first rifle is a Rem 510. My father used it for grouse in his teens, then gave it to me on my 10th Bday (about 18 years ago, I'm not old or crusty yet). It was rusty, the blue was worn everywhere, the wood had little finish left on it and the buttplate was broken. I used it for a couple years that way, then when I turned twelve, I read a book (yes, a real honest book, I didnt have dial up or a computer) about how to refinish steel and wood. After a new repro buttplate from Numrich, a reblue with 44/40, sanding/finishing the stock with Tru-Oil, the rifle looked new again. I still have it and its my rifle of choice for dispatching small varmints and head shotting grouse with the excellent, plain open sights. Just something about using the same rifle your father did when he was your age and using it for the same purpose.... Hard to imagine many new .22's being able to make it this long. One of the best rifles ever made. Period.
 
Lots of old heavy metal out there getting some new found respect by the market. A few of my nothing fancy old timers from Mossberg and Savage.

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I wouldn't mind adding a few of those Remington 5xxs to the collection if money and local availability weren't an issue. Unfortunately inflation is swiftly catching up to us all.
 
I picked up two 510 target masters from an estate sale last year for $90. One of them will be the first shooter for my girl.
 
Just came upon this thread upon joining today.I searshed it out afterseeing a referal to it on another site. Like many have stated the 510 and i got introduced when i was a lad back in 1962 while livinfg in the Catskill Mts. I it was a used modelmy grand father gifted me. He and a small one pump gasstation country store ,compleate with a real pot belly stove as a centerpiece and long glass cases displaying candy,ammo ,tabbaco and other necessary items . He had me over a barrel for paying for ammo. He sold nightcrawlers and woud give me and my brother a penny a worm for those wee plucked (un broken!) from wet grass on warm summer nights when there had been a recent rain. Other than muy meager .25 cent pay for house and law chores it was my sole source of income.All or most of it went to the .22 ammo or candy displayed in those glass cases

This past SatIi went to a local gun action.It was a fairly largre one .Lots of long guns, pistols,reloading gear,and ammo.They had it all out and available for inspection prior to the bidding. Amoung all the high pedagre iron wrapped with fine furniture therre as a sweet 501.Wood plain but fine ,all the bluing damn near perfect. No glass or fancy sights.
It came up very late in the day.I guess most of the big money had been spent and the "clasics" all scoped up and hauled off. I got it for 3100 bucks.Wel had to pay the 13% buyers premium to the auction (3% discount for cash) pluss the tax of 7%. So overall I picked up that sweet old gun for under $
120
Had no one to brag it up to or any one that knew the firearm from a can of house paint. Thought I'd post on this old thread and perhaps a few lovers of the Rem 500 line would know what I was so happy about.
 
I shot a lot of tax payers' .22LR through 513T rifles in high school.

In the mid 90's my gun show bud and I left a show hours away and started hitting local gun stores. We had lunch a tank of gas, a bunch of stuff and not much money at that point. Third place we went into had a 510 with globe and aperature.....for $100. He only had $60 and I had about $50 he talked me into loaning him the fifty and walked out the door with it with the standard buddy loan....cash back by the middle of next month and first refusal on te gun at the price paid. I figured as he was an SKS and 10-22 kind of guy that I did not have long to wait.......still waiting!

He was thrilled to have a rifle that at least came close to my little Anshutz and has his girls shooting it on occasion now that they are about big enough for the adult sized stock. He considered cutting off the butt for them earlier.....I threatened to cut parts off of him.

-kBob
 
I have a 510 target master circa 1940s. Love that gun. Inherited it. Its as accurate as they come if I do my part. Love the full size of it too.
 
I have my Great Grandfather's Targetmaster 510 from 1940. It shoots straight, I only wish the trigger wasn't so awful. I found a lighter spring for it online & put it in, helped a little but it made the trigger loose.
 
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