Just posting this here on the Forum because I can.
Enjoying researching a couple of vintage Winchester Model 69A .22 rifles this afternoon. Ummm ... I have them out in the living room while Mrs. noelekal is away at the office!
Was over looking into Rolex forum and again noticed that firearms and knives are proscribed there by "God." I'd forgotten that was one reason I never joined. OmegaForums is much more well adjusted anyway and for that I am grateful.
The book is hot off the press and just now out. "The Winchester Model 69 Evolution in Design" is great if one wants to delve into minutiae about one particular model of Winchester .22 rifle. I love details. In one's hobby pursuits books are as important as the acquisitions themselves.
After an initial poking around in the book it appears that I have a 1946 vintage Model 69A target and a 1954-55 Model 69A sporter equipped with a mid-50s Unertl Condor 6X scope, a great vintage combo.
The Models 69 and 69A represent the mid-line Winchester bolt-action .22 rifles, falling as they do between the Models 67 and 68 and the fine and fabulous Model 52. By today's standards the Model 69 in its variants are equal to the CZ .22 bolt-action line and are even as good as low end Anschutlz bolt-action .22 rifles.
Was another era when dads might spring for a Winchester .22 for their sons. Glad I am to have lived it.
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