Shooting Galleries using Live Ammo

[Phil C]

I was fortunate to find it right after it came in and was purchased.
Edgar I think you are right. I purchased 3 22's this summer. A model 90 in Long rifle kind of a Frankingun. With a 06 frame. Bore is excellent. Shoots great. Also a single shot model 67. Excellent condition. Sounds like you found a great 63.

[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?

[edgarspencer]

This is the new 63, and I do mean new. I also have a first year, with the 20" barrel, and tang site, but it has extra holes on the side of the receiver.

Somewhere I have a set of 7/8" Stith rings for the grooved receiver, and will put an Alaskan on it.