Show off your safe queens!

[savage1r]

Thought this might be an interesting topic for discussion. Feel free to post a video reply to me on youtube or post pics in the thread along with your thoughts.

VIDEO

 

[Art Eatman]

http://thefiringline.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=9172&d=1039716589

A WW II bring-back. .22 rimfire. Tack driver. 30" barrel. Dates back to somewhere in the vicinity of 1900, give or take.

 

[savage1r]

That's not a safe queen, that's a work of art that should be featured in a display case.

 

[Rembrandt]

Vintage Winchester 52B Sporter....on rare occasions it goes outside for fresh air.

 

[madcratebuilder]

Pair of Swiss snipers. They go out about one time a year.

 

[Bigfatts]

I have a few safe queens. This is the only one I have pics of. A Weatherby XXII my wife bought me for our anniversary a couple years ago. The scope has changed. Now it wears an old El Paso Weaver K-10.

 

[5RWill]

Sako 85 hunter .260 remington topped with Zeiss Conquest 4.5-14x44mm

 

[smith357]

Well I guess I do have one safe queen, only because ammunition for it is darn near impossible to scrounge for it. Normally I would sell off a rifle like this for something I could shoot, but this one was Granpa's rifle that kept meat in the stew pot during the depression.

It's a first year production Winchester 1903, the predecessor of the Model 63. It is chambered for the long extinct Winchester .22 Automatic. .22 Win. is very similar to a .22lr only a few hundredths wider. The rifle will actually shoot .22lr one at a time, and you have to get the split casings out with a ram rod, something I learned when I was twelve.

No safety, they were added in 1905.

Tube magazine holds seven