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This is an excellent thread title, best because it is not "contrived" sounding (as some).
Toward Revisiting old favorites, I cranked up the way back machine. EVERYBODY's favorite list has a .22 and I am no exception to the rule.
Here's the first two that were (are) mine:
Winchester Model 67A "Boys Rifle". Birthday present brand new when I became 6 years old. I was feeding the family with head-shot cottontails (.22 Shorts only!) inside of a week. Dad handed me one cartridge at a time, and I wasn't strong enough to cock it. (Smart Dad!). I couldn't keep it in my room then, but I kept that "Olin" box on my bedroom dresser!
Colt's "Stagecoach" Semi-Auto Carbine. This was also a birthday present (11 years old). Dad had the new Ruger 10-22, and I 'window shopped" the Shooter's Bible, seeing this baby was just as handy but held 13!!!
But I didn't get it until almost two years later. Colt's was preoccupied (busy making M16's and NOTHING else). I got busted skipping school when I was 13 to get home early the day it came in. Dad made me wait another month.
And my girlfriends always wondered why I seemed quite comfortable with protracted pleasure.
Toward Revisiting old favorites, I cranked up the way back machine. EVERYBODY's favorite list has a .22 and I am no exception to the rule.
Here's the first two that were (are) mine:
Winchester Model 67A "Boys Rifle". Birthday present brand new when I became 6 years old. I was feeding the family with head-shot cottontails (.22 Shorts only!) inside of a week. Dad handed me one cartridge at a time, and I wasn't strong enough to cock it. (Smart Dad!). I couldn't keep it in my room then, but I kept that "Olin" box on my bedroom dresser!
Colt's "Stagecoach" Semi-Auto Carbine. This was also a birthday present (11 years old). Dad had the new Ruger 10-22, and I 'window shopped" the Shooter's Bible, seeing this baby was just as handy but held 13!!!
But I didn't get it until almost two years later. Colt's was preoccupied (busy making M16's and NOTHING else). I got busted skipping school when I was 13 to get home early the day it came in. Dad made me wait another month.
And my girlfriends always wondered why I seemed quite comfortable with protracted pleasure.
