My 12th Birthday present. Sort of a Redneck Bar mitzvah.

[Grumpyolman]

I'm actually proud to be a redneck, blue collar American. My wife is Jewish... it's a wide world. (thus the Bar mitzvah reference) LOL. My dad gave me this rifle on my 12th birthday, a graduation from Daisy BB guns and pump pellet rifles. It taught me a lot about life and death and the ways of the world. Still have it, and it shoots straight to this day. It's a JC Higgins single shot .22. Made by Marlin for Sears in 1965. Like me, it's been through some shite over the years, but still does what it's supposed to.

God bless America and long live the 2nd Amendment!

 

[The Duke]

Somebody gave me one like that when I was 11 and I sawed it off. Wish I hadn't now, but it is what it is.
I was given a Model 60 with a squirrel on the handle when I turned 11, too.
Beautiful stock and it was a helluva shooter. So damn good it ruined me as far as a lot of other guns are concerned.
Not all guns are that accurate, in fact, most aren't.

 

[1srelluc]

Those are great training rifles for kids.

I started out on a old 1920s era Winchester M1902 single shot. Very accurate.

All the manufactures of that era made very accurate barrels.

 

[fncceo]

Today you are a man.