Rimfire Roundup #5

It's time again for Rimfire Roundup! Presented here for your reading and viewing pleasure is an assortment of rimfire rifles and pistols. Well, actually one rifle, and the rest are handguns. In fact, a couple of them are even pretty marginal as handguns, but whatever!

When I was young and was looking to move up from my Daisy pump BB gun, I did a lot of looking around and asked a lot of questions in order to decide which .22 caliber rifle was for me. I quickly ruled out bolt action .22's, as they were, well, bolt actions, and weren't anywhere as cool as pumps and lever actions.

After a lot of going back and forth, I finally narrowed it down to either a Marlin 39A lever action or a Winchester 62A pump. I really couldn't decide one over the other.

Fate, as it often does, intervened, and when I was in the local hardware store, there sitting on the gun rack was a nearly new Winchester 62A with a price tag of $35.00. It was that far back that $35.00 wasn't a bargain, but was about an average market value for one! How times change!

Fug at Fugger Nutter, however, has a Marlin 39A, and loves it. Here's his opinion of the 39A:

"In my humble opinion the Marlin Golden 39A is one of, if not the best .22 that has ever been made. It has a heft, feel and a balance to it that no other .22 has."

For his review and a little history on the Marlin 39A, click here.

Marlin 39A Lever Action .22 Caliber Rifle

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Xavier of Xavier Thoughts took his daughter to Cussin' Bob's to do a little shooting. She began with her rifle, but eventually moved to his Colt Woodsman.

Xavier has the whole story here!

Xavier's daughter and a Colt Woodsman at Cussin' Bob's place.

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Speaking of ladies with guns, Denise at The Ten Ring has a post up about the Baikal IZH-35M .22 caliber target pistol. It's quite an unusual design, as her article reveals!

Baikal IZH-35M .22 caliber target pistol.

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Alan from the Blogonomicon headed out to the gun show to pick up a Ruger 22/45, but he opted not to buy the Ruger, because I found a gun that just felt better in my hand, a Walther P22.

When he got home with his new toy, he did a little plinking with it, then wrote a mini-range report and review.

Alan's new Walther P22 .22 caliber pistol.

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Tim from the Pubcrawler is the proud (?) owner of a unique model 52 .22lr semi-automatic pistol made by MAPF (Manufacture d' Armes des Pyrénées - Hendaye) from France. He didn't buy it, it was a gift, and even at that price it was no bargain, it seems! Here's the rest of the story!

MAPF Model 52 Pistol

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And then there's the Jennings J-22. I guess it embodies all the things that define a saturday night special! It's small, and light, and unreliable. These features, of course, are offset by a total lack of accuracy! Here's a review and range report (!) of this interesting little pistol.

Jennings J-22 pistol

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Well, that's the Rimfire roundup for this week. I ran out of time and wasn't able to get everything into the Roundup that I had planned, but next week I should have a little more time to get everything in, plus some stuff that I didn't get in this week should make it in OK.

If you'd like one of your posts in next week's Rimfire Roundup, please submit it by next Tuesday night.

As much as I would like to browse all of the gun blogs looking for rimfire posts, I just don't have the time, so I have to rely on you to send in your submissions. I don't want to miss a good post and not get it into the Roundup.

Thanks!