My American .22 Cal Target Rifles

[Jethro]

I have three American-made .22 cal target rifles in my collection. All of them are accurate and fun to shoot.

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Mossberg 144LSB

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Remington 513T

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Winchester Model 75

Both the Remington and Winchester are singleshot rifles, whereas the Mossberg is a clipfed repeater. I prefer the singleshots and never use the clip with the Mossberg. The Remington, with its blade front sight is the most challenging to shoot.

Jethro

[bmorrill]

After over-dosing on BSA Martinis, I got this yen to dabble in a bit of "boltish" perversion (that's a joke, son) and bought a Winchester 52 Pre-A. Then I bought a Savage 19-L. Now I'm fighting off a Remington 513T. Please help me!

I'm real impressed with them. They're both 1930s vintage, very accurate and both came with Lyman sight sets, which tickled me no end since I got real used to the peep rear and ring-on-post front sight setup on the BSAs. The Savage has a blade insert in the front sight at the moment, but I'll change that as soon as I get some more inserts for the Lyman front sight.

Although I prefer iron sights, I finally gave in and bought an old Lyman Junior TargetSpot for the 52. Lordy, but those old scopes can get expensive! The scope was about 2/3 of the price of the rifle! Still, the rifle just wouldn't look right without a 20-some-odd-inch scope instead of a modern shortie.

[USDF]

Jethro,

The Rem. 513 T

and Win. 75 both took 5 and 10 round mags

although you could purchase a single shot loading block for the Winchester. I've never heard of a single shot 513T.

I noticed you had the old 513T barrel with the ramp front sight,

the newer ones had the dovetail in the barrel for a globe front sight.