Winchester 1897 Black Diamond Trap

[Bill Murphy]

I feel like I have to comment on Researcher's post about Harold Money. I just don't know what to say. Those colonial period Brits lived some lives.

[Autumn Daze]

Bored Bill ?..... Hows the rehab coming?

[Steve McCarty]

Originally Posted by david ross

I use a mod 37 ithaca to great old pump guns.
All the best Dave.

I own two 37s, a 16 and a 12. I put choke tubes in the 12. I like 37's. The 16 is light as a feather, and while not new, it looks as such. I bought, not long ago, a bran new Remington 870 in 20 gauge which was less $ that an Ithaca of similar gauge. I also have five Model 12s in 20, 16 and a few 12s, so I'm pretty well "pumped".

[Steve McCarty]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

I feel like I have to comment on Researcher's post about Harold Money. I just don't know what to say. Those colonial period Brits lived some lives.

Yeah, like Sir Richard Burton (not the one of Liz fame).

[Bill Murphy]

Dave, rehab is good. I'm driving and going to the gun club a couple of times a week, but not shooting yet. Using the cane outside the house.

[Autumn Daze]

This is good news Bill. Stay with it and you will be raising hell with the rest of us in no time!

[Bill Zachow]

Browning .22 autos (takedown) were made caliber specific as either .22 long rifle or .22 short. Shells were not interchangeable. While originally manufactured in Belgium at the FN plant, production was moved to Japan for cost control reasons. Noy too long after the move, the .22 short version was discontinued. They were never very popular (think .410 Parkers) and currently bring significantly more bucks than the long rifle version. The last production of the .22 short variety from Belgium was in the late 90s for the Browning Collectors Group. I have one and it is a beautiful gun, comparable to a grade 2 in engraving and a grade 3 in wood and checking.

[Steve McCarty]

Originally Posted by Bill Zachow

Browning .22 autos (takedown) were made caliber specific as either .22 long rifle or .22 short. Shells were not interchangeable. While originally manufactured in Belgium at the FN plant, production was moved to Japan for cost control reasons. Noy too long after the move, the .22 short version was discontinued. They were never very popular (think .410 Parkers) and currently bring significantly more bucks than the long rifle version. The last production of the .22 short variety from Belgium was in the late 90s for the Browning Collectors Group. I have one and it is a beautiful gun, comparable to a grade 2 in engraving and a grade 3 in wood and checking.

Thanks, Bill! I thought that I had seen .22 Short Browning autos. I'd like to have one. I do have that little lever Browning .22 which is Short, Long or Long Rifle. I guess I can just dump half a box of shorts in it and go to town!

I am a great fan of the .22, but aren't we all?

[charlie cleveland]

seen a box of 22 longs for sale lately...other than on collector ammo sites... charlie

[Bill Zachow]

All in all, .22s are my favorite guns, even more than Parkers, truth be told. Winchester made the finest, in my opinion. I have a large number of their guns and have never found one that was innaccurate. All are deadly, from the little bolt actions to their semi auto model 63, and all the pumps in between. Charlie, Winchester made the model 1890 in .22 long, but they are hard to find--.22short and .22WRF are more commob--.22 Long Rifle are scarce, too. My finest for pure accuracy is a 1935 model 52 with a Unertl 12 power scope. I have shot bugs on my target butt with it--off a bench, of course. Before I got as old as I now am, I would walk my farm with a .22 almost every day.