Your favorite, bestest, gotta have 22 rifle

[The Happy Kaboomer]

I have 4......A Belguim Browning SA-22......A Winchester 9422......a Marlin 1897T(39) and a Gr II Browning Bl-22........These rifles have served me faithfully for over 55 years.........I don't need no pot metal & plastic.

[North Country Gal]

Great choices. With the exception of the BL-22, I shoot those, too.

[Hatchdog]

Revisited this post, and rereading thru the threads reminded me of my great grandmother who lived alone well into her eighties. I'd spend a week with her most summers, and there were favorite things.

Freshly made blackberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream.

A huge round hooked patterned rug in her living room to drive my Hot Wheels cars on in the evenings.

An ancient 22 single shot that sat by the back door leading to her back porch. The porch overlooked her garden, and we'd sit there and watch, the 22 across her lap, she'd snipe the varmints and birds that dared to invade it, as we enjoyed the "air." She loaded it with 22 shorts. Cheaper, quiet, all she needed at that short range. She rarely missed.

She took pleasure in her simple home, her garden, her "things." She took care of them, and told me on every visit. "If you take care of your things, they will be there to take care of you."

This reminds me of a story from the past. A buddy was raised on the west end of the Spokane area next to his Grandpa’s farm. It was fantastic for ground squirrel hunting and we dispatched many. My buddy told me a story about a neighbor who was an elderly man. He would buy a box of 50 22’s and patiently sit in a lawn chair and shoot the squirrels. He would always put the empty case back in the box if he made a hit. Always he would finish with 48 -49 empties in the box. Fun times way back then in the mid 70’s.

[North Country Gal]

That one shot, one kill/don't waste a single shot/treat every shot as the only one you'll get was a philosophy that was still very common in the 60s when I was a youngster, learning to shoot. It was the way I was taught by the older generation. Still the way I approach shooting after all these years.

The best squirrel hunter I ever knew was a guy who owned a rural gas station and garage down the road from us. When he got home from the war, he bought a single shot Marlin 22. It was the only 22 he ever owned. He thought it was silly and a waste of money to use anything else. Never used a scope, either. Didn't think much of that fancy stuff.