Check out this little odd ball! Winchester model 55

[Armament]

Has anyone come across one of these? It's an auto loader but yet a single shot 22lr/ 22 short.It fires from an open bolt and then the shell is ejected from the bottom. The single round is loaded from a trap door in the top. This one is in fair condition. Stock is a little dinged up.

 

[grauhanen]

That looks very unusual. I've never seen one. Did you buy it?

 

[Armament]

That looks very unusual. I've never seen one. Did you buy it?

Yep

 

[surfclod]

My grandfather apparently had one, though I only heard about it. Made from 1957 to 61, an interesting gun.

Then when living in AB a girl I knew shot gophers with one.

 

[unicorn gravedigger]

It kinda looks like a BSA Air Sporter concealed underlever air rifle, or maybe the BSA was inspired by the Winchester...

 

[Armament]

Now how rich can this little puppy make me? 100 shillings? 800 shillings? There were 45,000 produced.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qjs8Z0CxWM

 

[OkayShooter]

Def interesting. Reminds me something thats on a M1 MBT. Manual Load, auto eject.

 

[caperaway]

I have one I picked up at a show a couple years back. Fun little gun and quite accurate.

 

[Eagleye]

I bought one brand new in Salmon Arm in about 1960. It was a unique 22, but I tired of the single shot feature at the time, and
traded it off on a Mossberg 151M.
As I recollect, it was accurate enough, and was trouble free. Regards, Dave.

 

[Armament]

What could I price this at? They are in gun broker for around $500 us which seems to be a little outlandish

 

[Trinimon]

Huh, first time seeing one of those myself. Cool!

 

[a j cave]

Like Eagleeye, I had one but tired of the single shot. They are sure different but not that accurate. As for value I don't remember how much but it took a while to sell.

 

[BCRider]

That's super slick. But the guy in the video is doing it all wrong. The spare ammo is supposed to be wedged between the fingers of the support hand! Then it's simply shoot, pluck, place and shoot again. Makes a single shot gun like this almost as fast as a bolt action gun. And hellishly fun!

I'm not even going to try to guess at a price. I'm a sucker for interesting old rimfire guns but I simply won't pay the prices I see for some of them to scratch what amounts to a fairly mild itch in my own case. So instead of a Winchester 62 pump where even a crusty example sells for well north of $400 I opt for a less popular Remington 12 and find nice shooter examples for south of $250.

So as always with something like this where you simply don't know start a bit high and drop by 10% per week until it hits the right level for someone that has to have one. Maybe start at the $500 you found on Gunbroker and work down from there.

 

[caperaway]

I paid less than $200 for mine at a show IIRC. And as everybody knows,gun show prices are outrageous.

 

[art.h]

They have a press fit and pinned barrel which does not stand up to it slamming shut to fire. The loosen up quickly,