Start him off right!
Start him off right!
I buy every good condition Winchester 67 I come across. Keep a couple around to pot pests, but give them to friends who have kids of shooting age. It is truly the best starter gun. Sometimes I take one to the local range with a box of shorts and remember being 12 years old again.
Daddy had that exact same Winchester single shot when he was a boy. He was born in 1918 so it was probably around 1930 when Granddaddy ordered it for him.
They made the mistake of also ordering a box of .22LR at the same time and even back then the U.S.P.O. would not deliver ammo.
They had to drive to Florala, Alabama to get it from Railway Express. My Nephew has it now.
...Start him off right....
I’ve got a Model 60 Winchester .22 that’s older than the Model 67. It’s a single shot with a peep sight. The rifle provided the family with squirrels during the depression.
Also, things were dirt cheap through the Department of Civilian Marksmanship, now the CMP, the Civilian Marksmanship Program. WWII M1 Carbines were less than 20 bucks, and you could get a WWII battlefield veteran M1 Garand for just a few dollars more. I once bought an Enfield .303 Jungle Carbine in cosmoline for $18.00 at Montgomery Ward.
Wow. I had a Winchester 22 like the one in the picture when I was in junior high school. Later in senior high we actually had firearms safety and marksmanship classes twice a week. I think I had the 5# one mentioned.
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That model 67 was what we used at boy scout camp.
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That was my first rifle.