Shooting Galleries using Live Ammo

[Bill Murphy]

My 63 was bought late in life, about 25 years ago, because they were so overpriced when I was a young one. I paid $168.00 for my mint 63 at a local auction because it had a bunch of holes drilled for a side mount. It now has a Weaver N mount in those holes with a 3/4" Redfield, the neatest little .22 scope of high quality. I have had more fun with that little rifle and it has always worked flawlessly. Of course, I have other .22s, an early custom M22, an outrageous custom octagon single caliber Model 61 built in the thirties by John Oberlies of Dayton, a minty 1948 heavy barrel Model 52B with all the bells and whistles to shoot in competition, which I will never do. I often wonder whether the Shooting Gallery raffled at the early NRA Collectors show was the same one that is on display at the National Firearms Museum. Does anyone know if they are one and the same? If not, who won the raffle?