Browning BPR-22. Anyone else have one?

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Okay I'm old maybe not Methuselah old but I'll be 60 in a few months. Grew up with a father that was raised on a Kansas farm and severed in WWII. He introduced my brothers and I to shooting about the age we started school. The 22 rifle I grew up shooting was a Winchester Model 61 pump action he'd bought when we lived in the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Any way when I turned 18 I went to buy my first new gun at a gun store and had dreamed of getting a Winchester of my own, but they were long out of production by 1974, so I found the Browning BPR-22 and brought it home. A choice I've never regretted but you know I've never read about anyone else having one of these great guns. I swear I'm the only one in my home town that has one, maybe in the state of Oklahoma.

So does anyone else have one?
 
I remember looking at one... then went with a 77/22.

Prices of EVERYTHING are silly- a Remington speedmaster 22 - another rifle I looked at back in the day- is crazy $$$ but at least it's still in production.
 
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its the one gun I did not get, that was many years ago and been looking for one the last few years, they come up occasionally either sold quickly or way out of my price range I would expect to have to pay
 
Pumps and .22LR go together like peanut butter and jam. I've got a bunch of them and along with the lever action they rank way up above the rest for fun factor during general plinking.

Keep your eyes open for the Rossi 62 which is a copy of the old Winchester model 62. They run around 1/3 the "collectable" priced Winchesters and are fantastic guns to shoot. Mine cost me $240 about 4 years ago and a buddy recently got a super clean almost like new used Rossi at the local gunshow for $300.

Just last summer I used my Rossi in a couple of the local speed steel matches in the rimfire carbine class. It was like being a little kid back at the shooting gallery at the PNE all over again! ! ! ! I'm stoked about using it again this summer. I was even more stoked when it turned out that I beat a few of the semi auto guys that were "slowed down" by using their red dot optics and having trouble seeing the dots in the bright sunlight ! ! ! ! ! :dancingbanana:
 
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