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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
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They are become more and more common here in the states.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
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It has an interesting interrupter trigger design.
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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.
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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.
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Discussion starter · #33 ·
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.
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It has an interesting interrupter trigger design.
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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.
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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.
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Those are wonderfully preserved and beautiful rifles.
 
Description of this one, please?
That's a Beretta CX4 in 9mm, with the forward rail for a bipod, and a cheap-but-very-nice BugBuster scope. Fits perfectly both looks-wise and function-wise (fixed 6x)

I loved that thing, but moved it on in my quest to have shot or owned one of everything eventually - not being able to own them all at the same time. :)
 
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.
 
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