A 22 For Christmas

[Researcher]

Mine is not quite the happy ending. My first rifle was a Winchester Model 67 single shot .22LR. A great uncle who was a gunsmith in North Seattle checkered the stock and fitted a grip cap and black forearm tip to resemble a Model 70 Super Grade. Also, fitted it with a Mossberg scope. Quite a few close Rockchucks and Gophers were dispatched over the next couple of years. The memory that blows my mind is my buddy Wayne and I riding a Seattle city bus downtown with our rifles, in cases, to an indoor range in the basement of if I remember correctly the County/City Building.

My Model 67 was one of four guns stolen out of my father's house in 1978.