WyoCoyoteHunter: I was admiring this Rifle again today and it came to me that one reason the Rifle looked so unique or distinctive is because the barrel is so short and the end of its tubular magazine is just 1 1/8" shorter than the barrel (in other words the end of the magazine comes out to within 1 1/8" of the muzzle). I would have bought all he had left at $7.50 or $8.00 but he did not go for that - oh well.īottom line is I don't think the costs involved in our love of shooting 22 rimfires are going to go down, any time soon! I paid $10.00 per box for the Eley 17 Mach2 and am NOT happy about that - the fellow selling it had 10 boxes to begin with and folks were buying it - so I finally relinquished and bought 2 boxes to add to my small stash of this stuff. Its tough to get a "deal" first thing at a gunshow. I bid on three different Ruger heavy barrel 22 pistols (2 Mark II's and 1 Mark III) but was successful on none of these. I bought several small items at the show including a large Freeland spotting scope base/stand for $3.00 (an absolute steal!), a Buck knife and two boxes of Eley 17 Mach2 ammo. on the opening morning of this two day gunshow. I actually saw some of these sales transpire.Īnd this was at 9:30 A.M. One other note of interest to rimfirers, from this gunshow, there was a gentleman from Salmon, Idaho that had already sold half a case of Remington "Golden Bullets" hollow-point 22's at $46.00 per 525 pack! I hope to shoot this little gem someday soon.
REMINGTON SPORTMASTER 512 BARREL CODES CODE
The barrel date code for this clean little Rifle is "CXX" which would indicate an April 1951 manufacture.
In fact the Blue Book lists Models 512-A, 512-P and 512-X but no plain 512 like the one in hand? What a neat Rifle - I looked for info on it in the latest "Blue Book Of Gun Values" and not much to be gleaned there. The length of pull on this Remington is 12 1/2" and the barrel length is just a tad under 21". It was in very nice shape and reasonably priced - my friend had NO idea the instant he were to put the Rifle back on the table I was going to buy it.Įven though the Rifle is here at my house today its NOT because I bought it - my friend did and I am holding it until his wifes "bridge party" later this week when it will be clandestinely relocated!Īnyway I had never seen this model or heard this description of a Remington rimfire as a Boys Rifle before - I have a pair of Winchester Model 67 "Boys Rifles" though, and have seen many of these over the years but not this Remington 512 "Boys Rifle"! The owner relayed how this particular model was also referred to (among Remington Collectors"?) as a "Boys Rifle". The barrel was marked "Model 512" & "The SportMaster"!
He got his mitts on it first and looked it over - we first noticed that this tubular fed fimfire bolt action Rifle had a short length of pull and a somewhat short barrel compared to other Remington rimfires.
REMINGTON SPORTMASTER 512 BARREL CODES SERIAL
Small show but one real prize came out of our efforts.Īn older (no serial number!) Remington 512 was spotted at the same time by my friend and I. We gotto talking and it turned out we 3 had a combined longevity of 130 years worth of Gun Collecting amongst us. Three of us along, on the 120 mile round trip. Off we go yesterday in a heavy snow squall to a Gunshow here in SW Montana.