I know GNR likes both .22 WMR and store brands...

WB
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 15:23 (2772 days ago)

I don't think I can pass this one up. My friend is offering it to me at a very good deal. It is a "Revelation" M116 in .22 WMR with a steel receiver. I think that was "Western Auto" line of sporting products. The gun was actually produced by Marlin as the M57. I once read who designed it and such but forget where I saw it. Sounds great and I think it progressed to the line that saw the .256 Winchester and .30 Carbine rounds in a larger centerfire version. Don't know why they were dropped. Maybe there is something inherently wrong with the design I don't yet know.

I have been thinking of a .22 Mag. truck gun and this might be what I have been waiting for. A strange one. The tube feed is nice, no losing a magazine. Surely it would shoot with the Marlin bolt gun as to accuracy.

The action sports a very short throw, you don't take your hand off the stock, and the trigger stays with the action. Very interesting. Any proper Hillbilly just can't resist a good .22 mag. rifle. (No I'm not a deer poacher). Sometimes you just need a bit more than a regular .22LR, but not make a big ruckus with a 5.56.

This is representative, not the actual rig he's offering.
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Those are neat guns. I have the M62 in 256 Winchester...

Huey
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 15:29 (2772 days ago) @ WB

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the store brand guns can be the buy of a lifetime

Gary Reeder
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 16:00 (2772 days ago) @ Huey

Various companies made guns for Sears, Montgomery Ward, Woolworths, Western Auto, J.C.Pennys, Coast to Coast and a lot more. Guns by Winchester, Marlin, Savage, Mossberg, Stevens, Fox, High Standard, Sako and a lot more. These are the same guns as put out under the gun company's name with maybe a bit less fancy wood. But they are real bargains these days.
A few years ago at the Tulsa show Kase was wandering around and spotted a 577 Nitro double rifle marked Army-Navy which was a big sporting goods store in Europe. He came back to my tables and asked me about it. I looked it up and they were made by both Holland and Holland and Jeffery's and sons. Either way it was a $75,000 gun and was priced at $12000 as the guy at the table had never heard of the Army-Navy brand. I went over to the table to grab it and it had just sold. That would have been a great buy for a true English side by side rifle.

I have seen Winchester Model 70s priced super low that were marked Sears model 100 and Winchester model 94s listed as Sears 53 and so on. So they are a real bargain if you watch the gun shows.

Kessler was the company that invented the action

WB
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 16:14 (2772 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

they made shotguns but went under. Marlin picked up and developed the action design for rifles. An interesting point is none of the rimfire Levermatics were seralized, no numbers at all. The first 4k M62's wer not seralized either and they tried to fix that. If you have a 62 that's not numbered it is super rare. They made about 15k M62 centerfires about 8k in .30 Carbine and the rest .256 Win.

This steel frame .22 WMR is post 1960, and they stopped all of them in 1969.

My first shotgun was a Kessler.

IC
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 16:34 (2772 days ago) @ WB

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What was it, a 12 ga. Bolt action?

WB
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 17:28 (2772 days ago) @ IC

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Yep. My father thought

IC
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 18:07 (2772 days ago) @ WB

I should have been able to hit doves with it. Not really.

LOL, you are still in good company today!

WB
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 18:24 (2772 days ago) @ IC

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12 GA pump worked much better.

IC
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 19:05 (2772 days ago) @ WB

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My best dove gun was a Winchester M24

WB
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 19:27 (2772 days ago) @ IC

12 SXS with 26" barrels, choked IC & M. With premium 1-1/8 oz. #9 Super-X field loads I was on fire! My first limit on one box of ammo. A benchmark never yet repeated.

serial numbers weren't really considered

Gary Reeder
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 17:30 (2772 days ago) @ WB

necessary until the 1968 gun control law. I have quite a few non serial numbered guns.

22 WMR

stonecold
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 15:56 (2772 days ago) @ WB

Get it and call it a birthday present. After all, today is your birthday.

I like your thinking.

WB
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Thursday, January 31, 2019, 16:02 (2772 days ago) @ stonecold

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