Thompson Center Classic, Leupold VX-2 3-9x33 EFR

Weatherby XXII, Leupold 2-7x28 (currently has a glossy 3-9x40 AO on it, though)

 

Awesome!

 

My 1948 vintage Model 63 Winchester

 

I love old Winchesters and that one is nice!

 

Ruger 10/22. First year of production w/Leopold scope.

 

Really sweet rifle!

 

 

Wow those are beautiful. Nothing like a wood stock. Classic like a set of Cragers on a 70's Camaro.

 

 

Not a big fan of the self-loaders because Im sick of clearing jams, but I still have a few hanging around-

Built this one outta spare parts using an old Colt conversion kit, a blem 9mm upper, and a leftover 18" .223 Wylde barrel.
Since I put a real buffer and spring in it's been 100% reliable and shockingly accurate with HV ammo considering the twist is all wrong. This thing is just crazy fun doing mag dumps.

The original 377 Plinkster....
One of the worst Mossbergs ever built, IMO. Age and round count have not improved it. At the point now where it has to be cleaned every couple hundred rounds to be halfway reliable. The foam stock would probably disintigrate if I tried to take it apart again.
Only keep it cuz my oldest learned to shoot on it and still loves it for some reason.

And one of the best semiauto rimfires ever made- my old 550-1. Never skips a beat even with SV, and silly accurate despite the primitive sights.

 

Mine to. Just a great rifle.

 

My Marlin 99, pre-68, with its Williams FP aperture sight. Great shooter.

 

Picked up this HK MP5 A5 "Carl Walther Edition" at an estate sale for $375.00 ... the last one I saw on GB was at $1100.00 and was still under bid. It came in the box with all the paperwork, stickers and the receipt from Cabela's. I don't think the old guy ever shot it.

I have a 50rd drum mag and six 25 round sticks ... and it runs like a Rolex. I've run aprox. 1200 round through it without a single failure or jam. It's stamped "High Velocity Ammo Only" ... I've never seen that before. The accuracy is very good and actually very surprising.

It's the ultimate range toy ... but I think if loaded up with some Mini-Mag hollow points it would fill in nicely for home defense if needed.

 

I recently picked up some Browning BPR Performance Rimfire 40 Gr HP at $ 18 for 100 rounds 1435 fps. I've only shot 10 rds in my CZ 457 American. It likes it.

 

 

A few of my 10-22’s.

 

“Coast to coast” cc440 rifle
With some Coast to Coast 22 ammo

 

Kidd .920 Kidd barrel Kidd 2 stage 8oz/8oz Ruger receiver and bolt Boyd’s SS evolution stock and a fixed 40x Mueller !

 

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Kidd .920 Kidd barrel Kidd 2 stage 8oz/8oz Ruger recover and bolt Boyd’s SS evolution stock and a fixed 40x Mueller !

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Very nice set up! The blue and gray is killer!

 

What's not to like!

 

 

When it comes to semi-automatics, I had only two before the dreadful flood:

Ruger 180 series mini-14 on the rest
Ruger 1022 in the case. This was just before the dreadful flood swept through and wrecked them.

These two rifles did cover a lot of ground for me.
I bought the Mini-14 used from an old friend, who had given it to his father and recently
received it back from his mother after old Walt died. I knew old Walt and respected him so
I was a little sentimental about this Mini-14. My friend was happy to sell it to me.
It looked like this before the dreadful flood packed it with sand and ruined the rifling

I didn't mod this rifle (much). I bought her a steel buttplate, but kept the original part.
I got her a trigger job by a local gunsmith. It's smooth and crisp now, and breaks cleanly at
about 4.5#. That's about right for this type of action, so I was happy and could hit the target with
this mini-14. Then came the flood... Oh well.

I was proud of my 1022 before the dreadful flood. it came with a Weaver 3x9 .22 scope which I kept,
and I modded it with a laminated stock from Stocky's, a JWH bolt, a BX trigger, the bike tire tube barrel
stabilizer and aluminum tape bedding. It shot excellent 50 yard groups for me using CCI SV and also
Aguila Super Extra. Then the dreadful flood swept it away along with so much else. I'm devastated, but
life goes on.

 

10/22 Magnum w/ 20” Shilen barrel. Custom walnut stock. Volquartsen trigger.
Nikon Prostaff Rimfire 4-12X40 scope.

 

These are mine;

jc higgings,10/22,marlin 990, browning SA, and winchester 63.

 

I'm guessing that most with silencers or moderators are UK and without are USA.. your law seems strict on moderators. Where ours prefer you to use them. With subsonics it's absolutely silent. You only here this click of the reloading. Ruger 20/22

 

They are become more and more common here in the states.

 

50th anniversary 10-22.

 

I like the 50 stamp in the bolt

 

Nice rifle. Love the wood-blued steel combination on this gun. Good looking .22.

 

 

Great looking wood stock

 

Both have been sold on now. They used too much ammo, and were getting expensive.

 

Description of this one, please?

 

I’m just going to show this one because I just put it back together yesterday and test fired it. Over 60 years of ownership, my dad gave it to me for Christmas when I was about twelve. I test fired it and it cycled flawlessly. I had given it to a “self proclaimed” gunsmith when I was in the navy for cleaning and blueing and got it back with improper replacement screws. The barrel block had been broken and repaired so I replaced it too. This rifle probably has been carried more miles than some of your cars have on them. Although not the most accurate, I never remember it not cycling except when I got a dud. Even when full of snow, freezing rain etc. which was quite often when I was a kid.

 

Brings back memories. My granddad bought me the identical gun and taught me to shoot when I was about 10. He taught me to drive a John Deere M at about the same time - stood on the draw bar behind the seat and coached me. Long before I had my drivers license I was mowing fields with a sickle-bar mower, running a PTO drive post hole digger, stretching fence, etc. Shot hundreds of 22 RF from that Nylon 66 (provided by granddad). And yep, still own that rifle. Glad I missed growing up in the video game generation . . .

 

A ^Nylon 66^ was my first "real" (non-pneumatic) rifle at age 14 (circa 1964). I had a choice between it and a 10/22 (which was just out). My shooting buddy got the 10/22, which I liked, but the fore end was too large for my smaller hands. The Nylon 66 was perfect, and a lot lighter for toting up the railroad tracks to the squirrel woods.

I put lots of squirrels on my family's dinner table with it. (I enjoyed hunting with it way more than the 16 ga.) Mine wore a simple 4X scope. (Leupold, I think.) I wish I still had it. So lucky you to still own it.

 

Yeah, “my” first one too. I had a 410/22 combination gun but it was actually a “loaner”. At $2.50 for cutting and trimming a yard I would save money in my sock drawer for ammo through the winter. A brick was less than $10 at the Western Auto as I remember. If I wasn’t in the woods, I was walking the Chesapeake Bay shoreline with my Nylon 66 and Chesapeake Bay Retrievers at my side. Tough little guns, for sure.

 

Some of the early 'first generation'.

A System Schmeisser 1912, it has a Savage magazine, the originals looked the same but were not marked. 22 Long Rifle.

It has an interesting interrupter trigger design.

A Febiger No 3 circa 1910 that could be switched from semi-auto for 22 Long Rifle to pump action for Shorts, Longs or Blackpowder Long Rifles.

above set to pump, below set to (semi) Auto. The button on the forearm just lock it forward so it cannot interfere with the cycling in semi-auto, pushing the button then connects it to the slide for pump action or chambering the first round.

 

Those are wonderfully preserved and beautiful rifles.