Lots of Fun with a Cheap .22
As a kid, one of my first actual cartridge guns was an old second (or maybe third)-hand Ruger Single Six, which back in the 1980s was a lot cheaper than what they are now. I probably put enough bullets through that little revolver to wear the rifling smooth. No pop can was safe.
Recently, I have kind of rediscovered that joy with a new single-action rimfire wheel gun from Heritage Firearms in Georgia– the Barkeep. An homage to the chopped down Sheriff’s Model and Storekeeper variants of the Colt Single Action Army, the .22LR Barkeep runs a 2.68-inch barrel while keeping a near full-sized grip. The short length deletes the traditional onboard ejection rod but gives the gun a kind of old-school snub-nosed look to it.
Sweet shooting and running about $180, it also accepts a .22WMR cylinder.
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The reaction to this gun has been interesting online. Those who get it see it for what is a toy and a talking piece. And then there are those who want to survive a rounds count that would break a GP100. The US gun market can be very snobby.