What's your favorite .22 rifle ??

[Freightman]

I love the M60 but gave the three I had to my sons and grandson, I have a single shot 1885 Winchester that is a lot more accurate than I will ever be so I guess it is my favorite,as it is my only 22 at this time.

[Birdville2011]

remington 597

[Shooter45]

It's been over six years since I started this thread and now I have a new favorite.

Anschutz 54 made in 1963 and yes, it will still drive tacks.

[patrol]

My favorite .22 rifle is the one Ive had for years that I bag squirells with and shoot nothing but CCI Stingers out of with never one problem. I have a standard blue Ruger 1022 with a Choate folding stock and a cheapo Simmons Scope and basic sling. Absolute tac driver. When it goes, i'll get another Ruger 1022 with a stainless barrel. I also have a Winchester lever action mdl 9422 that I keep aprilla short 22rounds in that are as quiet as a BB gun for varmits I take without disturbing the neighbors.

[berto64]

I've added a few since I posted here last. (2 Yrs ago)

I now have 2 Rem. 12C's in 22 Rem. Special and 3 Rem. 12C's in 22 LR. & 6 JC Higgins autoloaders in different model numbers, and 1 Mossy bolt action, a 46B(b)

[mrkirker]

For 'poppin' rats at the dump, Winchester 52-B. Mfg '36
For 'poppin' rabbits in the field, Winchester 75. Mfg '46
Old, heavy, ugly, and Accurate!
Iron sights, both.

[banger]

Golly, reading all these posts reminds me of all the nice .22's I've shot over the years. Once I learned on a pump-up Sheridan pellet gun, I shot Dad's Model 63: very accurate, nice loading port in stock, the one I compare everything else to. Marlin 39A: accurate Micro-Groove barrel, loved Viper ammo for some reason, well built. Remington 74: accurate, "man-sized", not as nice loading port in stock as M-63, it's my beater. I have my girls shoot the 10-22 with a banana clip so I don't have to reload it so much. The longer I have it, the less I like it. Rem. M-74Short: great for head-shooting rabbits in town. Win M61: accurate, feeding problems at ramp. Colt Lightning 22mag w/scope: For shooting pigeons off the top of grain elevators. Knocks the wings right off, if you could hit em since it wasn't very accurate. I know I'm forgetting some remington's Ican't remember the models. But every one I had, including my Mk-1 and 2 rugers and Victor pistols, I would shoot at least 5 different brands of ammo to see which one it liked best, and believe it or not it could make quite a difference in accuracy. And once I knew what it liked, I'd buy a brick at a time. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

[banger]

Just got a Rem.12CS with a swing-up peep site and a slider under the rear ramp site. Have you seen any like that before? Seems like you may have a bit more experience than I. Thanks

[stash247]

Banger, for what?
I have a bunch of bolt guns, in the caliber, Remington 40-x's, Win 52's, 75's, and Anschutz, Brno, Suhl, and others. They all shoot well, but are kinda boring. After all, they are just 'Bolt guns'.
I LIKE single shot rifles, a lot, and own several Win 1885's, Martini Cadets, and a Stevens or two, you begin a long list, because they are the heart and soul of classic accuracy rifles, back in the days when a rifle match, on Sunday, was at least as 'Socially Acceptable' as a Church Picnic!
When one considers that I buy and shoot four to five cases of ammo, every year, the magnitude of my involvement with the caliber starts to become evident.
The Marlin 39 is without a doubt the most accurate rifle of it's Genre, on the market, yet compared to some of the above, it fares somewhat poorly, in numbers on the scorecard, beaten soundly by rifle designs which were old, when it first came to market.
If I re-phrase the question, into "What is the last one you would part with", the answer is stilll not easy, but, for me, would boil down to a Model 44 1/2 Stevens, a falling block, single shot, "switch barrel", rifle, competent to the extreme, as a .22; It becomes a .17 Mach IV, or .17 Hornet, if I also change the Breech block, and lever!
This one is obviously a 'custom rifle', and, less than obviously, built, one caliber at a time, over a period of twelve years, or so, while in service as my 'offhand rifle', for the Sheutzen Club, where the rule is "Iron sights,until you are over 70, or legally blind", and has given good results, every time it is shot, against Win 52's, and Rem 40-X's, at the line.
The only 'downside', is that were I today, to attempt to duplicate the rifle, in a 'commercial environment', it would likely cost more to do, than a good late model used car!
It will be the last one sold, if ever, things get that tough, because it is already willed to a grandson, who is starting to shoot it, and well!

[remguage]

i have to say the 597 ss is my favorite i just like the way it feels because the modal 60 i have is just as accurate both are really good guns

[Choctaw]

My all around favorite is the good ol Ruger 10/22 with a Butler Creek stock. This rifle will shoot all day long, and is as accurate as I could ever hope for.

[Birdville2011]

My Remington597 isn't necessarily the best, but I'm not really in the mood to get a new .22 since mine is only like 3 or 4 years old, but if i was, ya'll have pretty much got me sold on the marlin 60.

[HadEmAll]

My sweet little Browning .22 auto. It's just a Grade I, but I marvel at the precision each time I take it down for cleaning. And it shoots as well as I need it to for punching paper, shooting silhouettes, or dispatching, when absolutely necessary, skunks, possums, and racoons.

Edited to add that I've had it for over 30 years now, making it my "senior" firearm.

[gerrybraz]

I'll cast my vote for the Walther G22. Small, light, very quiet and accuracy that makes others envious.

[GOGETTER]

MARLIN 39A WITH A 4X SCOPE. DEADLY ON THE GOPHERS IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

[travihanson]

I wanna pick me up a 10/22, they are nice shooters. Just shot a couple of them the other day and I just couldn't miss. Had to do a little Kentucky windage though cause of the fact that my friend and I shoot so different, but after I figured it out I was shooting his own gun better than he could. I could probably pick up a "jacking special" in the uncle henry's (local swap/sell/trade book) for around 100 bucks. Can't beat that with a stick.

I currently have a little Davey Cricket that I picked up at Wal-mart, for like 110 bucks. Bought it for my daughter, What a tiny little rifle, it's a single shot bolt action. The smallest little rifle I have ever seen, and I have seen some small ones. Has a set of peep sights on it, it is pretty cool and a good shooter...

[annieo_lol]

Is the 597 a bolt action target rifle? I am in the market for getting my own, as I have been using my father's old winchester. I like shooting the remingtion mastertarget (513?) that another lady uses at our range, but have been told they are no longer made...Got any suggestions? I have been reading everyone's post in hopes that I may get a better idea of which rifles are better for accuracy and longevity.
annieo_lol

[Marlin]

The 597 is a semi-auto .22 calibre.

[strayshot]

For rifles, all I've got for a .22 is a very unattractive model 80 Marlin...I really want an all-weather Ruger 77/22.

[stash247]

I like shooting the remingtion mastertarget (513?) that another lady uses at our range, but have been told they are no longer made...Got any suggestions?
Is 'Used', out of the question?
At my age, there are no 'virgns' so far as I can see, but the Rem 513-T is still available, as 'pre owned'
The other alternative, like my Stevens model 54, on a 44 1/2 action, is to build it yourself, from parts, either commercial, or custom (Made here)!
When the bug for a 'High Grade' Stevens crawled up my butt, I scouted the market, and all I saw were 3K plus prices, for collector, not shooter, rifles. (Read that, there MAY be visible rifling, in the bore!), So, I kept looking, and found a really sound, but low end, M-45 'Range Rifle', in a pawn shop, a hundred miles away.
Bought it, re-barreled it, re-stocked it, replaced all the parts inside, and now I have my model 54!
I have less than 900 dollars, in the whole deal, though a huge amount of time, as I am lucky enough to be able to do all my own machine work.
But, the satisfaction of knowing I can 'head shoot' a squirrel, well past 100 yds, with a rifle far older than me, makes all the time and money worth the effort; I shoot this rifle, as my 'offhand' gun, twice a month at the Alamo Sheutzenverein, in San Antonio, and seldom, without an offer, to buy it!
Collector value, none, as all the mods took the identity away. But, it is what I wanted, and want, so that is a 'non issue'; funcionality, 100%, it shoots where it looks, Irons, or scope, within 1/2 ", at a hundred yards.
Don't be afraid of a 'used' rifle; a target rifle has usually seen the best of care. Shop 'Estate sales', and such, when you hear of a local shooter passing on; there are bargains to be had!
I bought a Remington 40-X out of an estate, some years ago, for exactly the asking price, $200, with a set of Redfield International Mk 8 sights, on the rifle; "Buy the sights, get the gun free", it seemed to me!
Dunno; don't care; fine rifle, I still shoot it, a lot, and when I die, it may again come on the market, too cheap!
Survey your local 'used rifle ' market; you may be missing some of the best deals going!

[strayshot]

Well..this thread got me going. After I typed the above post, I thought 'quit wishing and go get one!' So, I did. I went to Cabella's..looked around, and they had Ruger .17hmr's on sale, the synthetic, blued sporter barrel version for 369.00. I bought one and when they rang it up it said 349.00, the cashier said "well, the cash registers always right", the 22/17 were on sale 'till 6pm, and they were then going up to 499.00.This will strictly be a target rifle so the .17 hmr should be great for that. I can't wait to shoot it! When I get a scope that is. No iron sights, which is fine, it means I get to buy more stuff.

[dogman]

Hi everybody,new to the club here. Anyone know where I can get parts for a ted williams model 34. 583.3402 a .22 cal tube fed rifle. and who manufactured it ?

[stash247]

Dogman, I donot have access to Sears' 'source codes', but can tell an avacado, from a bannana.
Show us a picture, of what you got, and help is on the way!

[delta13soultaker]

Springfield 86C J, Stevens Arms Company 22 short, long, or long rifle

Had since it was tall as me. Best guess it was made in the 1940's. I think of it as a 'baby 1903'. An ol' timer back home once told me they were used post-WWII to train youth marksman etc.

When I was 11? or 12? me and a kid on my street decided our .22's stocks were in bad need of refinish, which was true since the rifles were hand-me-downs. I figured mine was old as my dad and probably several years older than my mom, which back then seemed really ancient...lol So we fully disassembled our rifles and using commandeered stuff from my grandfather's barn and his dad's motor shed, we went to work. We got kicked out of the kitchen really quick, but in the garage nobody noticed us. The only thing in there was a racecar resting after the season. Days of scratching away with sandpaper at the bench and painting with woodstain and drying/restaining and a final coat of aerosol polyurethane to seal it...and we had the most amateur looking stocks in smallbore history...but they were our own gunsmithing so we were really proud.

In addition to the amateur stock job, the metal finish had long lost its luster. It was, still is, sort of a black shade of steel with a permanent reddish hint that no oil or solvent could kill...the perpetual look of having been born from a piece of railroad...lol

But the bolt handle was gleaming chrome and I knew the bore inside was smoother than glass and bright as a mirror. I remember that .22 leaning in the corner of the log walls beside the gun cabinet full of shiney rifles and sparkling gold-triggered Brownings...and it was in a class of its own to me.

She's still deadly accurate on squirrels, rabbits, smaller pigs, coyotes, and soup cans out to 100 steps. When I was 14, I once shot the cherry off the tip of a cigarrette in the hand of a smartmouth kid standing beside our campfire. He relit it with a twig and finished it sitting down.

In dollar value she ain't worth a tank of unleaded gas...but I'm gonna pass her along anyways to my oldest...along with some stories just a few country kids would know anything first-hand about.

[stash247]

Delta, you have obviously got your ducks in a row; having five grand kids makes 'Estate planning' all the more difficult, because I love them all!
Blessedly, I have a daughter, who is a shooter, and pretty knowledgeable, about arms, and their worth.
My 'Net worth' at my death, will likely favor the arms I have accumulated, over the years, more than real estate, or cash; I am not a 'collector', per se, but rather an 'accumulator', of odd, or interesting, arms.
My daughter, Jen, used to ask why I 'set up', at gunshows, and never sold a gun, and paid $40 for the table.
She shoots a Remington 40X, and quite well, that came from such a show!
I love the 'little smiths', the J frames, and if they bear a 3" barrel, I will do what I must,to possess them; that I already have a dozen, is a 'non issue', for me, as I would buy another if it's nice, tomorow!
Same same, with accuracy .22 rifles; I own more than many shooting clubs,all , that perform, or go 'down the road'.
I have, and suggest that you prepare, a 'list of arms' and their aproximate worth, in a separate document, from your will, so whomever administrates your estate, has guidance, but 'room', to operate.
I've always beena little bit 'queer' for 3", J frame, smith revolvers, several of which have unique history, and features, enhancing their value, substantially, to those that appreciate such things; ditto, for the dozen or so M-52 Winchesters, living in one or the other, of my safes.
Having 'squandered' my paychecks, for many years, buying firearms,instead of stocks, or bonds, I've done quite well, relative to the securities market, as to 'appreciation', but the kids need to know, accurately, what this stuff is worth, to 'come out' OK, upon my death.
They are heirs to well over a half a million dollar arms accumulation, upon my death, with the list they now have, as to description, and value; some, marketable, a few, that never will be sold. My hand built Stevens, and all it's barrels, will go, without question, to grandson #3, Giovanni, because he liked it, before it ever was; we 'built it', with him at my ankle, when he was but four years old; today, he's a fourth grader, but still loves that rifle, and shoots it quite well!
Delta, there are no guarantees, in this world, and had you my medical records, you might better understand this advice; I've been shot, stabbed, run over, and 'blown up', multple times, in every column, but then, i was working in a 'high risk' environment.
Today, I have grandkids, little guys I care about greatly, and have changed my lifestyle, and job, to compliment these little rascals.
This is way afield of the original post; I understand: for the record, my 'Favorite .22' will always be the Stevens 44 1/2, built with a grandson, in mind; it's always been his gun, I am but it's temporary caretaker.
Excuse the excursion, from the spirit of the post, if you will, but give serious thought, to what I have said; a few notes could double the value of your estate, to your heirs!