What's your favorite 22 LR Auto Handgun?

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is a single action revolver! The barrel is from a Model 52 Winchester target rifle ... one chamber is opened for .22 Magnum .. has a speed hammer and straightened trigger and a nice light let-off. Also has the Taylor Throat. Dad bought it in 1963 and rebuilt it the same year.

Mines a Mk 3, I suppose I’d like the Mk 4 with the updates.
It’s a bit heavy to carry on the hip for a .22 though. Been admiring the newer lightweight 4” barreled ones for carrying around. Hard to beat the bull barrel for just shooting though.

He carried it when he and my Dad hunted snowshoe hare and cottontail rabbits with their beagles.

I have others but it is special.

Well-made, reliable and once I got used to it, surprisingly accurate to boot!

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years ago, went looking for it, can picture setting it down in at least 100 places, pretty sure my ex-wife picked it up while getting her stuff. If'n I can find the receipt might still have the SN, not sure I could call it stolen after all this time?

It is one of the early versions and I have added on and changed bits and pieces over the years. My sentimental favorite is my fathers Ruger standard auto. Built in the first couple weeks of production. I still have the original cod box.

My first was a 44 mag SBH and then I got a Ruger MK I. I’ve shot a few others. But, that thing was money.

Ruger MK 1 factory compensator 7.5

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Target model that I lost in a house fire. Haven't been happy with anything else I've tried since I lost it

This hails from 1957. I bought it for $75 and parkerized it, added some old stock Numrich grips and it shoots MOA with ammo it prefers. How can you top that. Plus magazines are $20. You take the new made mags and switch the button to the other side. There you go. It's competition of the day were the Colt Woodsman and varied High-Standards. Both are gone today due to manufacturing costs and their high refinement. They were fantastic shooters but just too fancy. The Ruger trigger is crude by comparison but that can be helped. Mine is fine from tens of thousands of rounds fired over the last couple centuries.

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The MKII 5" bull barrel at top was purchased new in 1984 and has probably +50K rounds through it. The majority being the old Federal Lightening rounds. You could purchase a brick at Walmart or K-mart for around $9. Would generally shoot a brick at a time. Only purchased when going shooting, no need to hoard, there was an unlimited supply in the 80's and 90's. This gun was built before the corporate lawyers got involved and the factory trigger breaks at less than 3 lbs. with no creep.

The Ruger 22/45 MKIV was purchased in 2018 and has seen many rounds in two years. I have replaced the entire trigger assembly as the factory had 1/4" of creep and broke at over 7 lbs.

The Taurus TX-22 was purchased last year at Christmas and has quickly become my "go to" gun when shooting a 22 LR pistol.

I like the Kimber. It has been reliable has great sights and a familiar 1911 trigger.

Buckmark. The Model 41 is exceptionally accurate and feels perfect in my hand...... and love the trigger. The Browning is almost as accurate, but the Model 41 feels like it was made for my hand.