This is the Walther KKJ 22 LR that arrived yesterday. It was made in 1954 as was the Weaver G4 scope that was on it sitting in an ugly tip-off mount. All I did was substitute a 3/4" Redfield mount.
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2Another beautiful firearm, the wood looks to be in great condition. Looks like the current Walther 22lr rifles are match target models. The master manufacturer built one of wood but it looks very different than your 1954 rifle. Adjusting the scope really helped.
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4As soon as I fired the first shot after moving the crosshairs, which had to be done with my Leupold boresighter, because the scope's adjustment has no clicks or graduations, and saw it was exactly where I wanted it, I really concentrated on the next 4 shots. Besides the great group, I was amazed to find that the non-centering crosshairs were right in the middle.highdesert wrote: Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:33 pm Another beautiful firearm, the wood looks to be in great condition. Looks like the current Walther 22lr rifles are match target models. The master manufacturer built one of wood but it looks very different than your 1954 rifle. Adjusting the scope really helped.
https://www.carl-walther.com/portals/ma ... kshop.html
https://www.carl-walther.com/products/s ... ifles.html
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5Nice!
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6Sweet score Joel! I keep thinking I need a 22lr bolt action, but haven't pulled the trigger on one yet.
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8Still, a very nice old rifle.
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Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
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10I have a KKJ in .22 Hornet, which I my Dad got for me to woodchuck hunt with as a boy. What a delight to carry all day. I don't dig in out of the safe often enough. It's the only rifle I have which my wife is really interested in.
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11Where were you shooting woodchucks? Back when I was young, my folks had some friends who had land outside of Monroe NY. I would go up there from NYC and use their hornet rifle to cut down the seemingly endless population of woodchucks. To this day it is still my favorite centerfire cartridge. I'm embarrassed to admit how many rifles in that caliber I have.
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12My Dad and I hunted woodchucks in Faquier County, Virginia, on an estate owned by acquaintances.
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13As strange as it sounds when I came out here to Wisconsin in the late 1950's to go to school woodchucks were protected. This remained so until very recently. Nowadays that we live on 120 acres of hilly wooded land with plenty of woodchucks I can no longer bring myself to shoot anything. Even raccoons which have to controlled, are dealt with by my wife. I do keep he 90 year old Remington Model 24 cleaned and functioning, but that's all I contribute to the bloodshed.