Today I returned to my roots... sort of.

[Kp321]

Those pump rifles, 1890, 1906, 62’s are the ideal candidate for tang sights. My 70+ year old eyes don’t do well with open sights but tang sights work very well. Lyman and Marbles still make quality tang sights for a reasonable price.

 

[BRatigan]

That gun is beautiful, enjoy the heck out of it. My tack driver is a Win model 52b. The 22 caliber is a gun that ties so much of our traditional times together when we were young. I relive them and never let them fade.

 

[JCooperfan1911]

There’s something about romping with a classic wood and steel .22 rifle.

Fun.

 

[jar]

From my WayBack Machine comes one that definitely takes me back to the field at a friends house, in the back fields shortly after haying with the great rolls scattered about stretching all the way to the edge of the woods and the smell of new straw and fresh grasses and that just after a rain storm air. I must have been in the fourth grade or so and we were out with my best friend and a Big Kid, his brother or uncle or friend who was teaching us how to shoot and really watching us like the hawk that was patrolling the far end of the field.

But the rifle on that day was so much bigger and heavier and louder and harder to aim than it is today.

JC Higgins model 28 that was only sold for about six months in 1951 and made by High Standard:

 

[film495]

Just had my Dad's 1949 62a out for a spin a few weekends ago. We gave it a general accuracy test off hand, but mostly enjoyed hitting some tin cans and a few of those orange sphere action targets I found on Amazon cheap.

 

[Thunderchicken]

Wow, I took one look at that and realized it was exactly my mother’s old gun. I haven’t seen it in 40-some years and had kind of given up on ever knowing what it was since I had no pictures. It must’ve been the Winchester. Now that I know ... well, you all know. Better start rearranging the safe.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[MacAR]

Oh, the WayBack Machine... mine is in the form of a Norinco ATD that I picked up cheap a few years ago. Just a great little gun to pop cans and empty shotgun hulls with out in the yard. Its special because, when Mrs. Mac and I were first married, I had a Remington 24 in 22 short. I put a lot of meat on our table with that little Remington using 89 cent boxes of Winchester shorts. There's no telling how many critters I shot with it, but we were poor and hungry so none went to waste. It was traded off sometime later, sadly. So, when finances and opportunity finally allowed, I added the little Norinco to the herd. If I'm honest, it's not quite as nice as the old 24, but it shoots just as good!

Mac

 

[redneck2]

We had a Nylon 66. Bought from the K-Mart in about 1962. That thing killed literally thousands of sparrows, ground hogs, and tin cans.

 

[Boattale]

Ya' gotta love a .22 pump! Takedown is even better and an old brick of ammo even better yet !! This is my Remington model 121. Remington made different grades of these, with each ascending grade receiving more engraving and better wood. Sometimes the entry level assembly line would run out of buttstocks. When this happened the assemblers would just pluck a higher grade stock from upscale pile. I think this is how I got that nicely figured butt stock. The pic really doesn't do it justice. And, as usual, my puter is drunk again. Oh, well. One out of two ain't bad

That was the pump .22 that I used in High School. The .22 that I'd like to have another.