Remember when...

[Catt57]

I can't tell you how many $25 marlin 60 beaters I fixed up and sold off over the years. Terrific little plinkers, easy to work on. No telling how many OSA members have their kids and grandkids shooting on a 22 I rebuilt. It's gotta be 20-25.

I'm a Ruger 10/22 fan boy. At last count, I was in the double digits. Some look like AR's, others like a g36, fal, m1, even had one with a 30" barrel and a barrett m82 type muzzle break on it. Sure, out of the box a cheap plinker isn't much in terms of accuracy, but the fun of it is dumping a grand into one and measuring .30 groups at a century mark and hearing that thud of striking a prairie dog. Somehow it seems more humane than cutting one in half with the 284 norma.

I've probably done that myself over a dozen times with those Marlins. I still have a sack of them in the corner that i need to fix.

 

[HoLeChit]

Glad I bought one of these when I could.

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I'm happy I got my 10/22 when I did a few years back, my model seems to be kinda rare now, and I love it. But now I really want a takedown myself. I doubt I'll find one for a reasonable price.

 

[BReeves]

I have a 1022 I was consistently hitting 22 cases at 25 yards with last summer. The gotcha is I have over $600 bucks and quite a bit of time in it. Only item that hasn't been replaced or massaged is the receiver. Spent quite a bit of time getting the head spacing correct and finding ammo it liked but was having fun.

 

[Jack Shootza 50]

You could walk into almost any pawn shop and pick up a Ruger 10/22 for just over $100.00 and Marlin 60's were $75 to $100. Really wasn't that long ago, I have a 90% 60's 10/22 I paid $125.00 for and a stainless Marlin 60 I bought for $50 because it had a broken trigger guard. Now you see stuff like a Browning pistol listed for $125.00 over what you can buy a new one for and any 10/22 asking price is over $250.00. Glad I got when the gettin was good.

Things one thinks about when you can't sleep.

Bought my first 10-22 back in the 80's at a Big 5 on sale for $119, I can still remember back in the early 50's my grandmother giving me 50 cents to go down to the hardware store to buy a box of 22's so I could shoot the crows and other berry robber's out of her cherry trees, I was eight years old then, now a days a kid would get throwed out of the store if he tried something like that.........yes, the times sure have changed.

 

[MilitantBEEMER]

Bought my first 10-22 back in the 80's at a Big 5 on sale for $119, I can still remember back in the early 50's my grandmother giving me 50 cents to go down to the hardware store to buy a box of 22's so I could shoot the crows and other berry robber's out of her cherry trees, I was eight years old then, now a days a kid would get throwed out of the store if he tried something like that.........yes, the times sure have changed.

I still have my first 10-22 that was actually my dad’s Christmas gift when I was young. I believe it was $99 at Kmart. That same year I was given my first single shot 22. It was a copy of an Springfield 120a. Unfortunately as a dumb 18 year old I sold it for $75….

 

[Hodrod]

I shot my first 10/22 ruger in the mid 60's.....my best friend had one and I remember it was a blast to shoot. The rotary mag was super new and cool at that time. I love rugers....I have a 10/22 and 4 p89's.....I have Hk, Glock and other pistols but I enjoy the P89's because they always work and fit my hand nicely.

 

[montesa]

I shot my first 10/22 ruger in the mid 60's.....my best friend had one and I remember it was a blast to shoot. The rotary mag was super new and cool at that time. I love rugers....I have a 10/22 and 4 p89's.....I have Hk, Glock and other pistols but I enjoy the P89's because they always work and fit my hand nicely.

P89 is the only auto I like from Ruger. Kind of a classic. Maybe apex will make a trigger for them and they’ll become popular.

 

[XYZ]

Back in the day I bought a few Win 94 for $50-60 bucks. Not anymore.

 

[AKguy1985]

I remember barrels of $99 yugo SKS at wanenmachers gun show slathered in cosmoline.

 

[RickN]

P89 is the only auto I like from Ruger. Kind of a classic. Maybe apex will make a trigger for them and they’ll become popular.

I love my P89 too. It is my nightstand gun. I just wish my Camp 9 used the same magazines.