What the thread regarding what to get as a first gun for a kid starting out, got me to thinking about the first .22 I used. I tried to find an example at gunsamerica.com but couldn't. I don't know the model, but I can describe it.
It was an old Browning single shot, bolt action - that as family history has it my dads dad used to use to shoot pigeons for the family table when he (Granddad) was a boy. It didn't have a regular hammer but rather a concave disk (with a concentric ring pattern in it) that stayed back when the bolt was worked. You could drop the "hammer" by holding on to it and either turning it a quarter turn or tripping the trigger and letting it down slowly. I haven't seent he thing in years and thats about all I remenber of it.
Granddad was born in 1911 so he probably had the rifle around 1925. I don't know if he got it new or how he came to own it.
Anybody know what model this was?
It was an old Browning single shot, bolt action - that as family history has it my dads dad used to use to shoot pigeons for the family table when he (Granddad) was a boy. It didn't have a regular hammer but rather a concave disk (with a concentric ring pattern in it) that stayed back when the bolt was worked. You could drop the "hammer" by holding on to it and either turning it a quarter turn or tripping the trigger and letting it down slowly. I haven't seent he thing in years and thats about all I remenber of it.
Granddad was born in 1911 so he probably had the rifle around 1925. I don't know if he got it new or how he came to own it.
Anybody know what model this was?