Looking for Solid

From 1900 to the 1920s, America produced many, many fine .22 rimfire rifles, and they come up for sale on a regular basis.

BY TERRY WIELAND

NOW HERE’S AN ODD THING: LIKE MOST PEOPLE, I began my shooting career in my teens, with a single-shot bolt-action .22 rimfire. The rifle was made by Cooey, a Canadian company later acquired by Winchester, and my father bought the rifle in the 1930s. It was a solid gun, with an action and barrel of machined steel and a stock of black walnut. Naturally, as a teenage devotee of Outdoor Life and Shooting Times (yes, Shooting Times, way back then), I wanted a hot centerfire, squinting down the sights at a Dall sheep or a Cape buffalo. In the course of events, that pretty much all came to pass. As I passed the half-century mark, however, I found myself with a strange yearning. I desperately wanted a .22 rimfire rifle…

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Shooting Times (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2025

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