My collecting of shootable .22s is worse than my Parker collecting. Every several years, I accumulate so many .22s that twice now I have sold every one of them off and started fresh. Some of these sales have made me sick, like the Mauser 350ES target rifle in minty original condition, or the 13,000 serial number range, 1928 Model 52 with slow lock in mint condition that would shoot 3/4" to 7/8" groups at 100 yards all day. I'd like to have back the little Ruger International that was made the first month they made them. Once at a gun show, I needed some shotgun money so I sold a mint late Model 61 Winchester for about half what it was worth and couldn't even get the scope off of the grooved mount because the mount was screwed onto the gun with some weird high tech screw. I had to let the scope go with the gun. Well, I'm into the third .22 collection now and will never feel the need to sell again, I hope.
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