I've started getting interested in OLD 22 caliber rifles. I like the idea of bolt guns for their simplicity. Anbody here own some? I currently have two on layaway at Cabelas. A Winchester Model 75 made in about 1947 I think and a Remington Model 41 targetmaster singel shot circa 1936 - 1939.

- Peter.

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I have an old Remington that my dad had when he was a kid. I also have an Army target rifle that my uncle Ned gave me. It has a nice iron sight on it that is very accurate.

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I don't know what you are calling old. I have a Remington automatic, tubular magazine that was my Dad's. I expect it to be late forties, but could be earlier, since he never bought a new gun until many years later.

I also have a Marlin 39, probably vintage late forties. I also have a J.C. Higgins single shot that has been chrome plated, probably from the forties or fifties. I bought it used in 1967. My other 22's are form the eighties and nineties.

Oh yeah, I have an orignal ACE conversion from probably late forties with the box. This is a .22 conversion for an Army .45 and it's great.

I have a Sears bolt action .22 that I haven't shot in about 35 years. I was always jealous of my friend's Ruger semi-automatic .22 in the days I used to shoot it. His odds of success were always higher than mine when we went rabbit hunting.

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Is Army the brand or do you mean it was a military weapon?

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By old I pretty much mean pre WWII into the early 50's I guess. Guns with traditional walnut stocks and a more classic design than the modern black plastic stuff.

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As a high-school graduation gift, my father gave me a semi-automatic .22 sniper rifle. It could be disassembled and stored in its stock along with two 9 round clips and the scope. Once it was broken down and stored in the stock, it looked kind of like a small laptop computer with a hole along the top as a handle.

I shot a ground hog with it and never used it again. I think my ex-stepmother may have it now.

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Army surplus. I can't remember what brand it was. It was very accurate, though. It also can take a clip, but I never had one for it.

I also have a child-sized 22, which I found in the woods. My cousin and I were looking for suitable sticks to use as pretend-like guns to play army, when I found it. It was in rough condition, but I reblued the metal parts and refinished the stock ad it was a nice little gun. I kept it as a curiosity.

I am thinking how politically incorrect the concept of a "children's gun" is in this day and age.

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that one also floats. it is actually a survival weapon and lots of campers and pilots used to tote those. they are pretty cool.

It's called an AR-7 and was made by the Armalite Co., the people who made Eugene Stoner's design into the AR-18, i.e. the first M-16, before they started adding a's and numbers to it.

I have one too. The Euro version is wood, the US version black plastic

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Are you sure it was because of the rifle he was shooting?

It's a poor workman that blames his tools.

Yes I considered buying an AR7 back in the seventies, but money was tight for me in those days.

Yes, his multiple shots at a running rabbit were a lot quicker than mine. It's also a foolish workman who doesn't use the right tool for the right job.
Of course we don't want to diverge back into the other topic of how 'tools' should be used.

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I'm pretty sure that the AR-15 (itself derived from the AR-10), the eventual M16 Stoner's design at Armalite, preceded the AR 18 by a couple years.

The AR-18 while using some of Stoner's design, mainly the rotating bolt configuration was in many ways different. The recoil spring assembly was integral to the receiver where as the AR/M16 has it in the butt stock, that allowed the AR-18 folding stock, and the recoil operating system was although gas operated used piston rather than a gas tube ala`AR/M16, and almost as important was the construction which in the AR-18 was stamped and welded steel receiver as opposed to the high tech cast/forged and machined alloy receiver of the AR/M16. My understanding is that the AR-18 was conceptualized as a design to be licensed and manufactured in countries that did not possess the sophisticated manufacturing capabilities that the US had the AR/M16 weapon required.

The AR-18 was in some ways a morph of AR and AK technology, ahead of it's time and in many ways it was the father or grandfather of the more recent assault rifle designs like the recent HK G-36.

In my case I don't hunt. So these are purely inteneded as target/plinking guns. I just prefer the older simpler, and often better looking and quality stuff.

- Peter.

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