I posted on here in 07 but since then I got a couple of more cheap 22's. I went to a gun shop and was looking at the guns they had bought from a local police dept and I bought a Ranger 101 semiautomatic ( which is a house brand for Sears I think ), which I think it is a Savage model 6. I looked at this gun in the gun shop and a tag on it said it was broken ( bolt locked up ), and the price was $25. I got to looking at and it had a knob that you used to slide to bolt backward and foward and it did not move until I pulled out on the knob and was able to slide the bolt backward and foward. I know you are not suppose dry fire a .22 rimfire but I had to know if it worked and it did. This gun you can fire in semi auto or lock the bolt fire one at a time and manually work the bolt. When I went to buy it the guy behind the counter he messed with it and found the same thing I did and he said I think I fixed it. I told I did too and if he wanted to keep it I was O.K. with it. He said we bought it as a broken gun and we are going to sell it as one and do not tell the boss. When I took it to the gun range it is very accurate but has a little problem. When would shoot it, it will fire, eject the empty cartridge, load the next cartridge but when you pull the trigger nothing happens. When you lock the bolt back and manually rack the bolt it works fine.
The next good deal I got was from Tripledigitride , he had a friend that had a Stevens model 4C and it was missing the magazine for it and he was asking $50. I had a Stevens 84C so I brought that magazine with me and it worked so I bought. I found a magazine for it at Brownells. I had it the range last week and I was hitting a big metal gong at the 200 yard line every time with open sights. Thanks, TDR.