I love 100 or so year old rimfires. They were built with the same quality of full size guns only smaller. My favorite is a a #4 Remington Rolling Block takedown in .22 short. It’s only about 3’ long, octagon barrel and perch belly stock. Still shoots great.
I grew up with 22 rifles in the home. You had to bear down
and be accurate to hit something. We were on a 120 acre farm.
Flash forward to the 1990s, and one of my co-workers invited
the crew out to shoot skeet. I was around 45 at the time.
I had almost no shotgun experience. I’d shot a single shot
or two out of a few, when I was about ten.
Shooting skeet, I may have missed one all afternoon.
My fellow employees couldn’t believe it.