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I've often written the first firearm I ever shot was a top-break .22 pistol on my uncle's farm. However, as I have been thinking about it lately I have come to realize that's probably not true. Like many young boys growing up in the '30s, '40s, and '50s my first experience was probably at a county fair or amusement park with a gallery rifle--a pump action .22. Thousands upon thousands of these were in use at shooting galleries all over the country as well as leaning against the wall in many a barn ready for use on any varmint which dared to venture too close.

In the last quarter of the 19th century s Colt introduced their pump action Lightning ...

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