model 67 winchester with deluxe checkering on stock

Buying a nice old repeater requires factoring that aspect in if it ever becomes necessary, which it probably will.

Plus, you don’t have to worry about finding a long-out-of-print detachable box magazine for one. They’re as close to indestructibly idiot-proof as any firearm can be. There’s something to be said about picking up any old vintage single-shot. Of the several variants made over the course of the rifle’s production life, two of the most interesting from a collector’s standpoint are the shortened Boy’s Rifle and the smoothbore Garden Gun, intended for dusting rats, gophers and assorted noxious rodents via. But in terms of quality, it’s a serious cut above what would classify today as a utility gun. Produced from 1934 to 1963, it was-in various iterations-the mainstay of the company’s “price” line. Many of those little bolt guns were single-shots, and one of the nicest was the Winchester Model 67. 22s ruled the roost-classics like Winchester’s Model 52 and 69A, Remington’s Model 580 series, and more Mossberg, Marlin, Savage and Stevens tubular and box magazine-fed entries than you could count. But believe it or not, there was a time when bolt-action.

22 rimfire market wasn’t dominated by Ruger’s rotary-magazine 10/22 autoloader, chances are you’re pulling Social Security.

Model 67 winchester with deluxe checkering on stock