I got a nice surprise from my Mother-in-Law yesterday. She gave me a rifle that belonged to my Father-in-Law that I always admired.
It is a Remington Speedmaster model 241 that was made in 1937. Can't wait to shoot it, wish my eyes were a little better with open sights.
Zim

Very nice Zim!

WOW!

Moosetrot

I've always admired those little guns, you are a lucky man.

Nice.

Beauty Zim. Very much like the browning 22 auto.

Osky

They were made off Brownings design...……... from '35-'51
the difference is how the barrel attaches/takes down from the receiver

That's a beaut!

See....someone likes you !

Someone does indeed !

They knew you would take care of it and appreciate it so much !

The guy to enjoy the legacy passed down.

Give Chickie a hug for me . We will catch up .

Great gift !

Wow. Great gift

Nice! she must this a lot of you.

Very nice rifle Zim. That is one of the few Remingtons not in my “Masters” collection.

I've never seen one before. I noticed the resemblance to the Browning.

Sounds like a good mother in law too.

Pete

Nice rifle. What cartridge does it shoot?

Jim

Very Cool! Thank you for sharing.
Mac

Very nice!!!!

Nice.

Guns from Family are the best no matter what they are..

Mac

.22 long rifle only. They also made them in .22 short only, I think those were called gallery guns and many were used in public shooting galleries back in the day.
This one must be a deluxe grade as many of them that I looked at on line do not have checkering on the grip or forearm.
Yep, it is made on a Browning patent and Remington had to pay a royalty to Browning for each one manufactured. This one is pretty early, serial No. 20xxx
puts it at 1937 manufacture.

Zim

What a sweetheart looking rifle Zim the stories it could tell !

Likely to be a bit of a scuffle when Beto comes to "buy it back".

LOL Zim

All kinds of goodness there!

Very nice!!

I agree, very nice.

the trick for iron sights and aging eyes is to find the drug store readers that will let you focus clearly on the front sight , then you put the crisp front sight on center of the blurry target.

take a tape measure and have Patrice measure the distance from the front sight to your eye then go try the readers on at the pharmacy when your head is that far from the text and you can read it clearly you should have a good crisp sight.

there is a new line of safety/shooting glasses using this. that they call Top Focals , they are a bifocal but reader on top half and not the bottom. haven't tried them yet.

I wear prescription shooting glasses to get my correction mostly astigmatism at this point to make the round targets wound again.

but I have some friends who use the reading glasses trick for shooting irons sharp front sight blurry target.

if it works well you might even see the eye doctor about making you glasses to perfectly see that front sight.

Very nice rifle indeed. With a little practice you can learn to instinct shoot. Don’t look through the sights or even at them. Both eyes open and looking at the target mount the rifle to your shoulder pointing at the target when it “feels right “ fire. If you give it an honest try you will be amazed at how quickly you can start to hit shotgun shell size targets with regularity. John Browning was a genius and Remington and Winchester recognized this.

Aw heck Pete, I will use the old spray and pray method although I do have dime store glasses that allow me to see the sights perfectly and very clear.
Now if I could get a couple squirrels to sit within 10 feet of the business end of the barrel I will have you guys over for stew.

LOL Zim

Extremely Nice!!!

Visited my father in nevada this weekend and he gave me this

Its in 22 short , its a little rough .....seen better days

Thanx to your thread i now know more about it

Not seeing a serial number Zim , my eyes must be getting old

Remington

Says model number 24

And browning's pat oct 24 1916

No patent number



Date codes PN .....looks to be june 1922

Cool! And so if your mother-in-law

AntiGov, I think what ya got there is a model 24 that was made before the 241.
I did not know much about this before I got this rifle I showed on here. What I
learned in a brief history lesson is that in the 30's and in the Great Depression
Remington was in some tough times and Dupont bought a controlling interest.
That was in 1933 or so and one of the things they did was to make "improvements"
to the model 24 and that is why it is called a model 241.
I did not know all this stuff til I got the rifle.

Zim

Great gift indeed... I received the Belgian Browning clone to it as a gift from my hunting buddy.

I ran 10 rounds thru it this evening, my eyes are not as bad as I thought and an 82 year old rifle runs like a Singer sewin machine.

Zim

Dang fine .22

many pre 1968 22 rifles and shotguns have no SN# they were tools purchased at a hardware store.

it is very possible you don't find a SN#

the old Mossberg bolt action shotguns didn't have SN# till 1968 or 69

same for the old bolt action Stevens shotguns

Mossberg 22s didn't either

Eyes, schmeyes!
You ever see John Wayne use the sites on his Model 94 Winchester?
Shoot it like you shoot a full choke shotgun. Put the "shot pattern" on center.

My great grand father had one. My old brother used it on the trap line in high school. He has it in the gun safe . Good for you

This thread made me go look at mine. Just like yours antigov, Model 24 45620. Does yours say smok or smokeless? Buddy gave it to me for fixing his garage door. It was his dads but he isn't in to guns.

The 241 I have says 22 long rifle only - smokeless - greased

Zim

Boy, is that a cool little piece! Even with his bad eyesight Trapstickman could hit the broad side of a barn with that. You are one lucky guy to receive a fine gift like that.

Thank you MnMan. No offence but it would appear that Mr. Stick has procured somewhat of an ocular sighting advantage for his weapon.

Zim

The date code is at the end of the barrel where it connects to the gun . On the right in this picture but actually the left side of the barrel

P = JUNE
N= 1922

Looks like mine except in long rifle.
Zim that's a sweet gift, get after them squirrels!
I like shooting AT the little red's off my back porch.