# The Great Ongoing .22 Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268 "2023-06-29T01:33:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/1 "2023-06-29T01:33:35Z")
I saved this thread in Word a year ago. I’m not sure if it’s complete, but I thought I’d post it anyway. Sears JC Higgins .22 Model 41 single shot rife (Marlin Model 101) This was/is my first firearm. > **[Featured Gun: J.C. Higgins model 41](https://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2017/09/featured-gun-jc-higgins-model-41.html)** > > This is a combo post, it is both a featured gun article and the start of another project. The subject of this month's featured gun article... Walther P22 > **[Walther P22](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_P22)** > > The P22 is a semi-automatic pistol chambered for .22 LR (5.6 mm) rimfire ammunition. Manufactured by Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen, it was introduced in 2002. > The P22 may be fired double action at about 11 pounds-force (49 N), and operates as a single action with slightly more than 4 pounds-force (18 N). The P22 operates by blowback where pressure generated by a firing cartridge is countered by a combination of the inertial weight of the slide assembly and the force of the recoil spring. The act... Ruger Single Six > **[Ruger Single-Six](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_Single-Six)** > > The Ruger Single-Six is a single-action rimfire revolver produced by Sturm, Ruger & Co. The Single-Six was first released in June 1953. > The Single-Six is currently produced as the New Model Single-Six. The term "New Model" simply means that this model includes Ruger's transfer bar mechanism for increased safety, allowing one to carry the revolver safely with all six chambers loaded. Prior to 1973, the Single-Six was produced without the transfer bar mechanism, making it less safe to carry with a... Ruger Mark II > **[Ruger Standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_Standard)** > > The Ruger Standard Model is a rimfire semi-automatic pistol introduced in 1949 as the first product manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Co., and was the founding member of a product line of .22 Long Rifle cartridge handguns, including its later iterations: the MK II, MK III, and MK IV. It is marketed as an inexpensive .22 caliber rimfire intended for casual sport and target shooting, and plinking. Designed by company founder William B. Ruger, the Standard model and its offspring went on to become th... Harrington & Richardson 999 Sportsman > **[Classic Test: H&R’s Model 999](https://americanhandgunner.com/handguns/classic-test-hrs-model-999/)** > > Along with many other shootists, I’m totally sold on the merits of a .22 revolver. It’s a type of gun you’ll find in the collections of experts and smart Ruger 10-22 > **[Ruger 10/22](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_10/22)** > > The Ruger 10/22 is a series of semi-automatic rifles produced by American firearm manufacturer Sturm, Ruger & Co., chambered for the .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge. It uses a patented 10-round rotary magazine, though higher capacity box magazines are also available. The standard carbine version of the Ruger 10/22 has been in production continuously since 1964, making it one of the most successful rimfire rifle designs in history, with numerous third party manufacturers making parts and acc A ... Winchester 94-22 I saved this into Word a year ago, I don’t know if it’s complete, but here it is. > **[An Official Journal Of The NRA | Winchester Model 9422 Lever-Action Rifle](https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/winchester-model-9422-lever-action-rifle/)** > > The Winchester 9422 had a 33-year production run and was one of the most popular .22 rifles with numerous variations and special editions for collectors. Marlin Model 39A > **[Marlin Model Golden 39A](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Model_Golden_39A)** > > The Marlin 39A represents the oldest and longest continuously produced shoulder firearm in the world. The current variation gold trigger lever-action .22 Caliber Golden 39A is produced by the Marlin Firearms Co. of New Haven, Connecticut. The Golden 39A is constructed in Remington’s Marlin factory in Ilion, NY. > As of 2022, the 39A appears out of production. The Ruger company bought out the remaining Marlin production, but no new Marlin .22 cal rifles are currently available. The model 336 ... Henry Arms (Armalite) AR-7 > **[ArmaLite AR-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmaLite_AR-7)** > > The ArmaLite AR-7 Explorer is a semi-automatic firearm in .22 Long Rifle caliber, developed in 1959 from the AR-5 that was adopted by the U.S. Air Force as a pilot and aircrew survival weapon. The AR-7 was adopted and modified by the Israeli Air Force as an aircrew survival weapon in the 1980s. > The AR-7 was designed by American firearms designer Eugene Stoner, who is most associated with the development of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle that was adopted by the US military as the M16. The civilian AR-7... ETA: I have two Ruger 10-22s. One is a stainless steel Wal-Mart special with a 22-inch barrel. It has a stainless steel-finished scope. The other is a 'crinkle-finished standard 10-22 that I’ve modified with a Manlicher stock. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/2 "2023-06-29T01:47:08Z")
I have a bog-standard Ruger 10-22, a Buck Mark and a Hi-Standard I inherited from Dad. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/AX_Browning_Buck_Mark_Plus_UDX_SS.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/AX_Browning_Buck_Mark_Plus_UDX_SS.jpg) [![](https://images.guns.com/prod/2022/05/25/628e6e179d6bfff0195ab24a37d0227facdeac8141fa1.jpg?impolicy=og-image) ](https://images.guns.com/prod/2022/05/25/628e6e179d6bfff0195ab24a37d0227facdeac8141fa1.jpg?impolicy=og-image) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/3 "2023-06-29T01:58:18Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I have a bog-standard Ruger 10-22 I tend to like the most mundane version of a firearm. Think; ‘This is what most people bought.’ That’s why I bought the Ruger Mk. II pistol with a four-inch barrel and fixed sights. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/4 "2023-06-29T02:08:57Z")
I used to have a Dan Wesson .357 with a couple of different barrels. And the same pistol and barrels in .22LR for cheaper practice. Great guns. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/5 "2023-06-29T02:43:12Z")
I had a Super Six ages ago, and a roommate had the same model. Fun little plinking gun. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/6 "2023-06-29T02:48:01Z")
I’ve never fired my (three-screw) Single Six. I need to buy some .22 Magnum rounds so that I know which cylinder is which. I really like my H&R 999. I’ve never taken it to the range, but I used it to dispatch a mouse that the snap trap maimed but didn’t kill. I think the aesthetics and the top-break are cool. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/7 "2023-06-29T03:09:11Z")
This auction entry is a much higher-quality [Colt Woodsman Match Target First Series (elephant ear grip)](https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/75/351/prewar-colt-first-series-match-target-woodsman-pistol-box) than the one I own, which has amateur engraving and is a user, not a collectible, but it’s a darn nice shooter. One of the grips got broken and glued back together by a previous owner. Mine’s actually a 1938 manufacture, as I found when I checked the serial number. So the gun’s actually older than I am. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/8 "2023-06-29T03:17:23Z")
I’ve always wanted a Colt Woodsman, though I’ve never fired one. I guess I should have said in the OP, these are guns I own. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/9 "2023-06-29T03:25:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I’ve never fired my (three-screw) Single Six. I need to buy some .22 Magnum rounds so that I know which cylinder is which. Aww, you should. (Looks up how much they’re going for today) JEEBUS! I think I got mine for about $125, with the magnum cylinder (never used it once). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/10 "2023-06-29T03:29:25Z")
What? I haven’t looked to see what they’re selling for nowadays. I think I payed a couple-hundred clams for mine. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/11 "2023-06-29T03:44:18Z")
Well, the cheapest one I can find right now is about $350, and it’s pretty damn rough. It doesn’t have the magnum cylinder, and you’d have to refinish the bluing, at least. Most used ones are in the same ballpark as a new one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/12 "2023-06-29T03:47:01Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Well, the cheapest one I can find right now is about $350, and it’s pretty damn rough. Wow. Mine is ‘like new’, and does have the magnum cylinder, And a plastic case, though I don’t know if it is original to the firearm. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/13 "2023-06-29T03:52:51Z")
Really nice older ones are asking for more than new ones. Who knows, maybe they’re not selling for those prices. I just would have never thought a plinking gun that’s still manufactured would be collectible. BTW, IIRC, my mag cylinder was marked as being for them. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/14 "2023-06-29T04:09:38Z")
I own a Ruger 10-22, but it was purchased for me as a present by my FiL riiiight before COVID / BLM panic buying, and it’s never been fired. Sadness. Now that .22 and other ammo is not pain inducing, I may have to take a chance to go shooting again - probably in fall when the temps drop. I have a pair of .22 bolts that I have semi-inherited from my FiL, one with a fire and reload mechanism, one with a tiny 5 round box mag. Both are probably 70+ years old, and were apparently my wife’s grandmothers guns. I have another .22 coming to me from him in a few more years, a .22 revolver (full size, 9 shot) with a top break extractor system. I don’t _think_ he owns any other 22LR, but considering I have a safe full of guns from him that he didn’t have space for anymore, I won’t rule it out. I don’t think I’ll be buying any more guns but there are two I have always wanted but couldn’t justify when I have more than I will ever shoot. One of which is a Henry Lever action in .22 mag… Because lever actions are just too much fun to shoot. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/15 "2023-06-29T04:18:17Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > BTW, IIRC, my mag cylinder was marked as being for them. Image? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/16 "2023-06-29T04:57:10Z")
Well, mine is long gone (haven’t owned a chemical propellant gun in decades), and apparently not all of them were marked (possibly they’re the minority). This forum thread has a pretty good discussion about identifying them, but obviously if you have both cylinders the cheapest and safest method would just be buying some .22 magnum and seeing what fits. I mean, .22 ammo is still expensive for what it is, but $0.40 per round at Academy for the fancy stuff doesn’t seem too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/17 "2023-06-29T05:04:18Z")
Interesting. I’m pretty sure all of these pistols are prohibited weapons in Canada. Some may be allowable for competition shooting. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/18 "2023-06-29T05:36:43Z")
Wow, you guys seem to classify air guns that can reach over 500 FPS and more than 5.7 joules as firearms. That would make my ancient Crossman .177 multi-pump a firearm under Canadian law. It can do twice that speed, and easily double that energy with a heavier pellet. Of course, if I’m shooting it in my backyard I keep the pressure down so the pellets wouldn’t go supersonic and scare the neighbors with a pop that’s indistinguishable from a .22 pistol. My house would be the backstop behind/around my pellet trap, so it avoids the prohibition of firing any projectile throwing weapon in a trajectory that would cross a property line that seems pretty standard in Texas. Either way, yeah. These .22 pistols aren’t really good for anything but target shooting/plinking. I wouldn’t even hunt squirrel with a .22 pistol. That’d just be cruel. .22 LR in a proper rifle? Yeah, that’s perfect for squirrel, or really any other varmit around the same size. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/19 "2023-06-29T11:17:09Z")
- Winchester single shot bolt action that my grandfather owned. Passed down to me from my father. The rifling is about gone. - Browning BL-22 short throw lever action. - Rugar Mark II bull barrel target pistol. I also bough a Benjamin Marauder PCP ( Pre-Charged Pneumatic) in .22. Also bought a special compressor to charge it up. It’s very, very accurate. Didn’t come with iron sights. Came with a 4x-16x 40mm scope, and it makes good use of it. I do live remote, and people do sight in their hunting rifles around here from time to time, but I prefer something quiet for target shooting. The scope on it makes me feel like I’m cheating though. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268/20 "2023-06-29T11:47:00Z")
My first gun was also a J.C. Higgins .22. Mine was a tube fed, bolt action rifle made by Marlin (Model 81). My brother gave it to me for Christmas when I was (I think) 13 years old in 1960. He ordered it from the Sears catalog, of course. I recently gave it to my grandson. Actually, come to think of it, by step-grandfather gave me a Stevens 22-410 over/under break action rifle/shotgun about a year earlier than that. Stevens started making these in 1938, and Savage took it over in 1950. Mine had “patent pending” stamped on the barrel, so it may have been a very early model. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-22-thread/986268.md?page=2)