First, If you go searching the site for all of the A Boy and His Rifle posts, you won’t find most of them. The majority of them were on the wold website and are now gone. I regret that because it is one of my favorite ongoing series and it had many friends and readers chiming in with their boyhood .22s. I chose to continue the numbering of the series to show they are new articles and in case some how I manage to recover the old stuff and I’m able to report them here.

Today we are going to look at the Winchester Model 67A. I know it’s hard to believe there was a time when you could buy a rimfire rifle that wasn’t a 10/22. The 67A has 27 inch barrel and it is a single shot bolt action. I’ve talked about the Model 67 before but this is a slight variant.

So many of these were made because it was the affordable Winchester rimfire. I recall in the early 2000s these could be bought for 150 bucks tops. Not anymore, naturally.

I used to walk in the woods for hours and hours, day after day as a kid with one of these. Shooting at anything that looked like it needed shot or killed. You sure can’t do that as a 12 year old boy anymore.

I used some period match ammo to shoot a few groups at 30 yards. Mainly because that is all I have left. Either me, the gun or the ammo shoots to the right. I’m not so good with these type of iron sights these days. My eyes and my glasses are failing me. It’s definitely time for new glasses. I’m just 2 years away from 50 so cut me some slack. My eyes were never good to begin with.

All 5 shot groups at 30 yards. I think one group is actually 6 rounds since I lost count.

I posed the rifle from a few period boys items from its heyday. And things I carried as a boy and still do, The Case XX pocket knife and hanky. Both always useful in normal day to day life.

This 67A belongs to the son of my best friend. He’s been a little hard on the stock. Boys usually are. Most of them these days anyway. These are just the thing for a boy. Single shot and requiring manual cocking before firing even with a round chambered. They are full size though, so they are too long for most boys. There is a very rare youth or boys model that is pretty pricey these days. It has a 20 inch barrel and a slightly shorter stock. If you see one cheap I would buy it.

I took this one out on a walk in the woods. I didn’t see any game unfortunately. But it sure does bring back memories.