Just think of our World now!

[JWFilips]

This could have been me in 1964! Just think what Facebook would be saying about this proud lad!

 

[JWFilips]

Shorpy.com image 1959!

 

[fiver]

I don't know what the one in the center is [muzzle loader?] but I'd love to have the one to it's left, and probably that A-5 too.

 

[KeithB]

The second from the right looks like a JC Higgins .22 semi auto or maybe the same gun as a different model by the parent company. (Marlin, Savage?) I have one, the beavertail cross section forearm that continues back on either side of receiver is a dead giveaway.

 

[Ole_270]

Lucky kid, in 64 I was lucky if dad let me shoot the old Monkey Wards bolt action 22 more than once a year. Definately not a gun family. Guess I'm the black sheep in more ways than one.

 

[Dusty Bannister]

Fiver, is the one to the right of the A5 a Japanese rifle? Thinking maybe the dust cover on the receiver might be the give away.

 

[david s]

The second from right rifle has the bright red sling that rolls back up into the butt stock. They were more than a little common where we lived between 3rd and 8th grade. Oddly enough I've only seen a few at gun shows and ranges since. The slings were to long to be practical for anything. I always liked the idea though.

 

[RicinYakima]

Yep, Type 44 in 6.5. Great stuff for a kid. I got to use the family guns, but only owned a Dixie Arms repro .44 Remington cap and ball, and 1903 Springfield in 1964.

 

[freebullet]

I wasn't an accident yet. Do enjoy old pix though.

 

[RicinYakima]

In 1961, when I became a Freshman in high school, I was allowed to hunt my way to school. Then put the Ithaca double 12 in the principle's office and hunt the way home again. Don't think they let you do that anymore.

 

[fiver]

yeah, type 44 with dust cover, that's what I make it to be also.
I had one in hand a few years back, but it was beat all to hell and missing the dust cover.
the asking price wasn't so bad until I looked down the barrel, it wasn't the rifling so much as it really did look like the proverbial sewer pipe that hadn't been cleaned in 50 years.
but not all lumpy rounded sewer pipe like it was sharp angular sewer pipe looking.... rust.

 

[oscarflytyer]

My dad bought me a Remington 582 22 bolt action in about 1969, when I would have been 7/8 yo. It was hanging way up high on the small town hardware store wall (16' ceilings?!?). I still have that rifle; prob 'refinished' the stock 3-4 times; killed at least a bushel basket of squirrels with it; no telling how many rounds it has seen - I used to buy and shoot a 500 rd brick at a time! Haven't shot it in a long time. Maybe I need to have some quality range time with it and then take it for a walk in the woods (what my Ol' Man called hunting) and take a few pot squirrels for old time's sake!

 

[Ian]

I wasn't even an accident in 1964 either, but I remember many a time dragging out my meager collection of rifles and shotgun to clean, oil, and generally admire when I was about the age of the boy in the photo. I was fortunate enough to have parents that though poor, would find affordable, decent things to buy for me and let me have them after working them off doing odd jobs for a buck an hour. Got my first .22 and shotgun that way.

 

[Pistolero]

Humpback auto shotgun, I think maybe the Rem copy of the Auto5 from the stock. A Jap milsurp,
hard to be sure, but I think the 7.7, but that bayonet may make it a 6.5, with dustcover. Not sure of
the next, maybe muzzle loader.
I have seen the .22 Semiauto with wood over the sides of the receiver, but do not
know the model. I the one on the right is a Benjamin air rifle.

Good start!

Bill

 

[Brad]

Think of a photo today of you with all your guns? Many would be aghast.
Or your primers, powder, and lead supply.

 

[Rally Hess]

Or the number in your pick up!

 

[Bret4207]

I was born in late 59. My first 2 rifles were an Ithaca '49 Saddlegun, a Martini knock off falling block SS 22 and later a Wichester 320 bolt action 22. I never should have let either of them get away, especially the Winchester which was simply accurate beyond all reason. Of course 12 year old eyes and a near endless supply of 22's helped a lot in that regard. I had 120+ acres of our own to shoot on plus thousands of acres beyond that as no cared about kids with 22's walking the power lines, state land or peoples woodlots.

Youth is indeed wasted on the young!

 

[RBHarter]

I think the ML is a 2 band ....... The names gone again , it was the 1820ish replacement for the Brown Bess 69-78 cal smooth bores some were choked like a Fowler but the those were much longer .
A quick trip to the safe tells me that most likely the A5 is a Model 11 Remington no parts sharing between them but an authorized use of design . The funky post on the front makes me think not a Browning . The stock looks very Browning though . I haven't seen enough of the slick barrel A5s to make a call 100%.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

I have the exact same JC Higgens 22. I got it the year i was in 8th grade.

 

[Jeff H]

........My first 2 rifles were an Ithaca '49 Saddlegun,..............

Youth is indeed wasted on the young!

My first rifle was an Ithaca 49 as well. It was a deluxe version with amazing wood and, of all things, a gold-plated hammer and trigger. My ol' man traded into it somehow, as it was not something the family placed much value on normally - the "bling," but that was one of THE most accurate 22s I have ever had. Always wished they'd have made a steel-receiver 38/357 version of that gun.

When I was in high school, we took our shotguns to school so we could shoot trap out back of the school after class - on school property. The door locks on my old pickup didn't work but no one ever thought about that - if it was in your vehicle, it was off limits to anyone else and people didn't mess with it. It was a very rural community too though.