But, No Ruger Lever .22LR ?

[WAYNO]

With the discontinuance of the Marlin 39, and the Winchester 9422, Henry has hit the mother lode with their lever action rimfires. I suspect Winchester, or whoever owns them this week, has keyed into this shortage of lever action .22's and they have released a Turkish made lever gun with the Winchester name. Seems it's another cheap little rifle, along the lines of the Henry... Both cheap in price and of construction.

Come on Ruger! Folks are buying these cheap rimfires. Can't you come up with something? After all, you did come up with the Ruger Wrangler to compete with the Heritage Rough Rider. Or even a model 39, which you already own the design. :cool:






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[trapperon]

Bring back the 96/22!!!!

 

[bigbillyboy]

Bring back the 96/22!!!!

Yes , I have two of them . A 22 and a 22 mag . On the lookout for the 17hmr . I like them ,wish I had bought them when still in production . Hard to find for sure .

 

[Pál_K]

The Marlin 39 was the oldest rifle still in production. How could Ruger end this? Well... because accountants. Under Bill Ruger this would not have happened; he was more of a romantic than a bean counter.

 

[Guv]

Maybe it's on the way, if so it will be expensive.
The last ones sold were not anywhere close to the Henry in price or substance.
My dad bought me one in 1978, if I remember correctly, it was about $50 more than the 336 and M 94 on the rack at Western Auto.
It is a piece of American firearms history.

 

[black1970]

If you are waiting for Ruger to make a 22 lever you will have a very long wait. Nice 39’s are still out there. Pay the price and get a little History.
1966 39
1956 Mountie
Cowboy
39 M
All 98%+ condition
Life is short-go buy one and enjoy.

 

[needsmostuff]

Nice 39's are still out there. Pay the price and get a little History.
Life is short-go buy one and enjoy.

I agree with black1970 about that. Marlin made a lot of them and at least for now they can be found for sale. Maybe not cheap but probably cheaper than a new one would be.
So, ante up and get um while you can.
If you don't need the history and insist on cheap Chiappa and probably some others are making clones.

 

[hfcable]

" Yes , I have two of them . A 22 and a 22 mag . On the lookout for the 17hmr . I like them ,wish I had bought them when still in production . Hard to find for "


i bought all three and and the 96/44 as well. glad i bought them "

 

[bigbillyboy]

" Yes , I have two of them . A 22 and a 22 mag . On the lookout for the 17hmr . I like them ,wish I had bought them when still in production . Hard to find for "


i bought all three and and the 96/44 as well. glad i bought them "

Wow, good deal ! I remember when they came out . Like other guns , I figured I would get them sooner or later . Well , they dropped them and I had to buy used ones . Both of the ones I have are real nice , no boxes or paper work . There was a nib 22 mag at an auction earlier this year , Didn't make it to the Auction . Not sure I need duplicates but I am going to keep looking for a 17 hmr.

 

[DerekR]

I have a Winchester 94/22 XTR. That thing is SO well made. I don't know how they ever made money on them.

 

[Watertender]

Bring back the 96/22!!!!

My 96/22 is the most expensive .22 rifle I own. The cost of the rifle bought from a fellow ROCS member was not that bad. It's the 168 mile towing cost and new transmission in the car that I owned at the time which was the costly part.

 

[Guv]

I have a Winchester 94/22 XTR. That thing is SO well made. I don't know how they ever made money on them.

Again, like their 30-30 brothers, they like the 39 cost more to purchase back in the day.
I had a 22mag with a longer bbl, short mag tube and pistol grip stock.
I cuss myself often for letting it go

 

[GasGuzzler]

The 96/22 was less than successful and the Henrys are cheap junk made to look better than shoot unless you pay through the nose for a brass one to avoid the pot metal ones. I'll keep my 1951 Redfield peep sight equipped 39A Peanut, thank you.

 

[bcp]

Bring back the 39 but make it slightly modified (enlarged?) to take 22 Mag and 17 HMR. The Marlin 94 22 Mag action was too large.

Bruce

 

[Pál_K]

Bring back the 39 but make it slightly modified (enlarged?) to take 22 Mag and 17 HMR. The Marlin 94 22 Mag action was too large.

Bruce

It can't be done unless there are three separate chambers and barrels that would interchange.

The .22 magnum has a thicker rim and larger diameter case than the .22 LR. Trying to fire a .22 LR in a .22 WMR would cause the brass to rupture; this is why Ruger offers separate .22 LR and ..22 WMR cylinders for the Single Six revolver.

The bottleneck .17 HMR would also need its own chamber and .17 caliber barrel.

 

[Cofaler]

I have more .22 rifles than would seem even remotely reasonable. That said, I think the only one that came to me brand new was the Springfield 120 my Dad bought me in the early '70s. I see guys who I think should know better get a case of the vapors over the Henrys, I just don't get that at all. I also see the guys get all misty over their CZs. I'm sure they shoot well, but I prefer my 39a, a 9422, an old bolt gun or even a Stevens single shot.

I would like to see someone come out with a quality lever action .22, but truthfully I wouldn't buy it, and probably a lot of other guys wouldn't either. We all grew up with .22 rifles, and I think we want the guns we shoot now to be like the ones we grew up with, like we listen to the music we grew up with. Maybe I'm just getting sentimental. Dang, there's something in my eye...

 

[Bad Barlow]

I have more .22 rifles than would seem even remotely reasonable. That said, I think the only one that came to me brand new was the Springfield 120 my Dad bought me in the early '70s. I see guys who I think should know better get a case of the vapors over the Henrys, I just don't get that at all. I also see the guys get all misty over their CZs. I'm sure they shoot well, but I prefer my 39a, a 9422, an old bolt gun or even a Stevens single shot.

I would like to see someone come out with a quality lever action .22, but truthfully I wouldn't buy it, and probably a lot of other guys wouldn't either. We all grew up with .22 rifles, and I think we want the guns we shoot now to be like the ones we grew up with, like we listen to the music we grew up with. Maybe I'm just getting sentimental. Dang, there's something in my eye...

What, no mention of the Browning BL-2? I have the 9422,a Mountie and a BL22 and the Bl22 is the best of the 3,but I love them all !

 

[Watertender]

What, no mention of the Browning BL-2? I have the 9422,a Mountie and a BL22 and the Bl22 is the best of the 3,but I love them all !

Years ago I picked up a Browning BL22 that was unfired and had been sitting in a closet. The owner needed lawyer money and gave me a good deal. It's a great rifle and the short lever throw is amazing. The trigger moves with the lever so you don't pinch your fingers. The only thing that I could see wrong on it was a rub mark on the front sight where it was against the wall in the closet it was kept in.

 

[bcp]

It can't be done unless there are three separate chambers and barrels that would interchange.

The .22 magnum has a thicker rim and larger diameter case than the .22 LR. Trying to fire a .22 LR in a .22 WMR would cause the brass to rupture; this is why Ruger offers separate .22 LR and ..22 WMR cylinders for the Single Six revolver.

The bottleneck .17 HMR would also need its own chamber and .17 caliber barrel.

I guess I wasn't clear. The 39 design could be enlarged a bit so it could be offered in a choice of the LR or one of the larger cartridges, not all in the same chamber. :)

Bruce

 

[GasGuzzler]

I knew what you meant.

The 39A was invented before the .22WMR even came out but maybe they could sell a re-pop if it was offered in more than the plain old .22 Short, .22 Long, .22 Long Rifle options all from the same gun a "normal" 39A can shoot.

 

[jyo]

I used to have a very fine little Browning BL-22---probably the best of the 22 LR lever rifles, with the Marlin 39A and Winchester 9422 right behind it in my ratings... During my trip to visit an old shooting buddy (RIP) in SW Texas, I used his 9422M in 22 Mag. and liked it a lot for the critters that needed shooting in his part of Texas...
Somehow, all the lever 22s that I owned drifted away and now I have an old Belgium made Browning SA-22, A Ruger 10-22 pre-warning Deluxe Sporter and a mint Remington Nylon 66 to cover my 22 LR shooting needs... No critters available to shoot here in my big West Coast city...

 

[jmol50]

Years ago I picked up a Browning BL22 that was unfired and had been sitting in a closet. The owner needed lawyer money and gave me a good deal.

A BL22 won’t bring much in lawyer money. Maybe an hour of counsel? Yikes. I hope they got what they needed.

 

[BULL'S-EYE]

Far too many here don't read any other posts besides their own...

https://www.rugerforum.com/threads/will-ruger-ever.316301/

 

[dreamer]

With the discontinuance of the Marlin 39, and the Winchester 9422, Henry has hit the mother lode with their lever action rimfires. I suspect Winchester, or whoever owns them this week, has keyed into this shortage of lever action .22's and they have released a Turkish made lever gun with the Winchester name. Seems it's another cheap little rifle, along the lines of the Henry... Both cheap in price and of construction.

Come on Ruger! Folks are buying these cheap rimfires. Can't you come up with something? After all, you did come up with the Ruger Wrangler to compete with the Heritage Rough Rider. Or even a model 39, which you already own the design. :cool:






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[32shooter]

I have a handful of 39's. But none that nice!

 

[Pál_K]

and a mint Remington Nylon 66 to cover my 22 LR shooting needs...

Mohawk Brown, Apache Black, or Seneca Green?

In 1959, to show the reliability of Remington's new Nylon 66 .22 LR semiauto, Tom Frye used three Nylon 66 rifles to shoot at tossed wooden blocks and averaged 1,000 shots per hour (one shot every four seconds) for 13 consecutive eight-hour days. At the end of this, he shot at 100,010 blocks and hit 100,004, missing only six! The rifles were cleaned only five times during the demonstration.

 

[dreamer]

I have a handful of 39's. But none that nice!

Not mine, a beautiful display at Missouri Valley gun show in KC

 

[Watertender]

A BL22 won't bring much in lawyer money. Maybe an hour of counsel? Yikes. I hope they got what they needed.

Not sure how much lawyer time it bought him. Like I said, it was brand new and never fired. The price he asked was more than reasonable and I didn't think twice about buying it.

 

[jmol50]

Not sure how much lawyer time it bought him. Like I said, it was brand new and never fired. The price he asked was more than reasonable and I didn't think twice about buying it.

I absolutely agree with you. I’d have bought it too.

 

[Sam Summey]

I knew what you meant.

The 39A was invented before the .22WMR even came out but maybe they could sell a re-pop if it was offered in more than the plain old .22 Short, .22 Long, .22 Long Rifle options all from the same gun a "normal" 39A can shoot.

SHOT Show this year I asked when Ruger was going to make a 39A. I was told both halves of the receiver were forgings which were cost prohibitive. Now Henry, and now Winchester make a lever action which are die cast aluminum. That said, Ruger is known for precision investment cast steel parts, for strength, the investment cast steel parts are sufficiently strong for a 22 LR-22 WMR receiver. No excuses that insult my intelligence please. BTW I was an engineering designer for GE for 34+ years.