Winchester 69A

[Joe Boleo]

I was in a gun shop and spotted a very nice original Winchester 69A .22 l.r. bolt action sitting in the used gun rack. The stock and bore are mint, but the barrel needs to be reblued. The gun shop staff and I haggled a bit and I brought the rifle home. I have already called my gunsmith and will drop it off this week. Once it is reblued, i will post pictures. Take care...
Joe

[Just a Hunter]

congrats on finding a good deal

[Altjaeger]

I look forward to the photos.

[purple heart]

Hey Joe, sounds like you found a sweet little gun.
I have a 67A. Single shot, bolt action 22.
It was my first gun. I
I got it for my 9th birthday.
I've put probably thousands if not ten thousand rounds through it
when I was a kid and it still shoots better than I can with open sights.
I cherrish it because my dad died when I was 12 and he was the one that
decided that I was old enough to have my own gun and be allowed to go
hunting by myself.
Of course times were a lot different back then.

[Gil Martin]

Joe,
Good catch! I love those classic older .22 rifles. All the best...
Gil

[DancesWithKnives]

purple heart,

I too have a 67 that my late father bought in the early 60s for me. He paid $16 at Mel's Gun Shop, which became famous when Patty Hearst and the SLA held it up years later. Still a great shooter after many cases of ammo through it.

DWK

[DUGABOY1]

Hey Joe, sounds like you found a sweet little gun.
I have a 67A. Single shot, bolt action 22.
It was my first gun. I
I got it for my 9th birthday.
I've put probably thousands if not ten thousand rounds through it
when I was a kid and it still shoots better than I can with open sights.
I cherrish it because my dad died when I was 12 and he was the one that
decided that I was old enough to have my own gun and be allowed to go
hunting by myself.
Of course times were a lot different back then.

Purple Heart you just told my life story, right down the the model number of the rifle! You are correct that things were different in those days!

I was six yrs old when when my father brought that rifle home, along with a box of .22 long rifle shells. I had already been hunting on my grandfather's ranch in the north end of the Texas hill country with my grandfather's old Remington rolling block single shot .22 rifle, and my uncle's 410 shotgun. The new rifle was a dandy, and shot true! Unfortunately it was lost in a house fire many yrers ago, or
I'd still be shooting it.

The year was 1942, and the war was on, and shortly after that sixth birthday my dad was drafted into the army along with all the men in our family, except my grandfather. All the wives and childern moved onto my grandfather's ranch, a me being the oldes boy, my job became the meat supplier for the duration of the war to feed all those folks. You know that was a job I surely "HATED"! Yeh Right! I nearly wiped out the wildlife in the next 4 or 5 years with that little rifle. Since we ate all the meat I was taught to shoot only head shots, and it took me a long time after to learn to shoot fore the heart/lung on deer after the war was over and we startrd hunting for sport along with the collection of meat for the table!

Sorry for the long wind, but you post brought back some good memories from a much different time, and a better one I think!

[purple heart]

Hey DUGABOY1, thanks for sharing your memories with us.
Sorry to hear you lost that rifle. It would hurt if I lost mine even though
I don't take it outof the safe much any more.
Those were the good old days even if we didn't know it then.