Back in California, I found one of these on a used gun rack in a gunstore in Arcadia. Somewhere along the line, someone had cut out a section of the buttstock to shorten it a bit, and had run a carriage bolt lengthwise through the stock to bolt the remaining halves together again. It was an ugly little thing, but it was cheap, and it shot OK. I taught my boy to shoot with that rifle when he was about 5 or 6 years old. Back when .22 ammo was $9.95 for a brick of 500 rounds, I could set my son up on the rifle bench next to mine, give him 100 rounds, and he would shoot that thing all afternoon long, and was just a happy little guy.
