Looking for info on a .22lr trainer, it's a long shot.

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So back in the early-mid 80's I was in Jr High and our local park district had a rifle club and I'm throwing a hail mary out there for some info or at least some ideas of where to start looking. So I'm trying to find info on the rifles we used but the park district either doesn't have the info I'm looking for, doesn't have any current contact info for any of the folks that were involved and don't seem interested in spending the time to find what I'm looking for. Can't really blame them.

So I'm hoping someone can help me even if just it's narrowing down what to look at.

The rifles were single shot bolt action with a bent bolt handle, wood stock that was bigger than something like a 10/22 but not like a competition stock, I don't recall sling swivels but we didn't use slings and only shot prone, the rear sight was a peep and the front was also a peep-style (I think someone called them bulleye-sights and we were taught to center the front peep inside the rear peep with POA being centered inside both). and the rifles seemed oldish and well-used but in good working order. I remember my dad commenting that it was a very smooth action and he was impressed with the rifle but said we couldn't afford to buy one even though it would be worth every penny (my parents weren't poor but they didn't have a lot of budget for this sort of thing either). They had probably 20-30 of these rifles in the racks and were all the same kind of rifle (so maybe they were surplus?) but I had my favorite and I wish I could remember the serial# now because I had it memorized back then.

I know it's not much to go on so no worries if this is a dead end, I was just hoping to find out what rifle I used and try to find one.

TIA
 
The “peep sight” setup … single shot … along with age references kinda makes me think of the Mossberg trainer lineage. In the early to mid ‘70’s we used Mossberg trainers (I can’t say what model) for 4-H … they were all bolt single shots if I remember correctly.
 
Some of these are mag-fed repeaters, but I would look at the Mossberg 144 as NCFubar mentioned, the H&R M12, Remington 513T, and Winchester 75, and see if any of those trip your memory.
 
Take a look at images of rimfire training rifles on google, you may find the rifle.
 
Yeah I did a google search but it pulled up so much stuff it was a bit of overload and the military trainers mostly used rear peep and front blade sights from what I saw.

The Winchester 75 target looks closest to what I remember except for the magazine, I'd swear on a mile-high stack of Bibles it was a single-shot and not even some sort of mod to make it single shot, you just dropped a round in and closed the bolt and it sticks in my head that we were taught to get at least the nose of the bullet into the chamber before closing the bolt.

The frustrating part is I was just a kid that didn't care to know much more about the rifle other than the rifle I liked had 38 on the side of the butt stock but if my Dad were alive he'd probably remember not just the manufacturer and model but the serial number of 38. I know he tried to buy a bunch of those rifles when they shut down the rifle club a few years later but I don't remember why it didn't happen, guessing they were probably loaners and not owned by the park district to begin with.

Thanks for the info!
 
That may be it, looks right except that I don't remember the stock looking like this one with the comb and buttpad, everything else fits though.
 
I've shot several Win 75's. You could do far worse than to get one of those. Still excellent rifles.
 
Sorry, I should have updated this. It's a long convoluted story but the tl;dr is a girl that was in that rifle club with me (I didn't know her at the time) confirmed it was a Schultz&Larsen M70. She's pretty sure the ones we used belonged to the Army but they were definitely gov't owned, her dad found a used one for her back then which she still has.
 
davesc2 said:
Sorry, I should have updated this. It's a long convoluted story but the tl;dr is a girl that was in that rifle club with me (I didn't know her at the time) confirmed it was a Schultz&Larsen M70. She's pretty sure the ones we used belonged to the Army but they were definitely gov't owned, her dad found a used one for her back then which she still has.
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They shoot extremely well
 
Our Army JROTC unit used them as well. Was probably a BETTER shooter than I was, at THAT time. 😳

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