I've never seen one a these before. On the way home from the range we stopped off at the gunsmith. A customer had a Mossberg M1-Garand training rifle in the shop.

No tripod iso-800 w/17-35mm

Very interesting pics. I was particularly interested because sometime in 1945 or so, I became the owner of a 22 bolt action, bottom fed clip (OK, "magazine" to the purists) (5 rounds as I recall)and equipped with a peep sight. It was designated as the Mossberg 44, US. I wonder if it was in the same category of a "training rifle"? I would welcome any thoughts.

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http://www.cobs.com/lprgc/m44faq.htm

I had a Stevens savage 22 auto that was basically the same rifle w/o the handguard.

is it a tube feed?

Clip fed

tin can:

Many thanks for the link. I was struck by the description of the manufacturing process for the rifling and barrel and that it was an expensive process only used on target rifles later on. That Mossberg of mine was extremely accurate. Maybe it's an old man's memory failing him but I seem to recall groups the size of a dime at 75 yards. What definitely is not any failure of memory is shooting woodchucks in the head at 75 yards with the peep. Thanks again for giving me so much info about a rifle I hardly have thought about in over 60 years. (P.S. -the link mentions a bull barrel. I'm quite sure mine did not have a bull barrel. The rifle was perhaps heavier (as I recall)than other bolt action 22s that I owned many years later but I just do not recall the bull barrel)

mossberg delivered a lot of rifle for the money, and were out of the mainstream, maybe, in that they offered, as far as I can tell, so much for the target shooter affordably.

there's a catholic boys school near me, St. Xavier, that still has a riflerange in the basement, and pictures of the rifle teams hanging in the hallways- from days past. there must have been tens of thousands of kids who cut their teeth at the target ranges in schools, summer camps, etc, using mossberg rifles.

here's a mossberg target aperture sight-



made out of sheet metal, but an affordable decent sight.

richj-

that's a deftly composed photo of your rifle up there, very nice.