Friend Dennis said that if you have more than one of something, that makes it a collection. I bought an amazing George Schoyen .22 Ballard a few years ago that started this mini collection within my collection.

Top to bottom ...
  No.1 - H.M. Pope Ballard .22LR
  No.2 - A.W. Peterson .22LR
  No.3 - George Schoyen .22LR
  No.4 - custom Zischang-style .22LR
  No.5 - A.O. Niedner .22 Cal (need to do a chamber cast)
  No.6 - Eric Johnson .22 Cal

What other barrel makers would you add? ... Hubalek, C.C. Johnson, Titherington, ...

All very nice but I’m green with envy over 2,3 and 4!

Yes, that’s a Peterson scope on the A.W. Peterson rifle. The front scope mount has the windage Adjustment and the rear is for elevation.

I would be tickled pink with the Eric Johnson Prone rifle!

Now that is a specialty .22 collection within a single shot collection! Super nice, you’ve done yourself well!

Greg ... a “GT” marked striker Ballard would look very nice next to these others   

Here's the rifle!! I tried, but it told me my file was too large. F..ing technology.

Another try.

And, Joe, those are just about as good as any collector could want. Thanks fer the look.

It is a .22lr. I was also shooting a centerfire that day.

Matt Blackall

I believe that Hubalek should be in your future, He could hold his own with the best of them when it came to 22s. They seem to be rather scarce, but they are out there.

Joe Do... wrote on Aug 7^th, 2020 at 7:44pm:


Joe,
A compliment and I almost missed it!  I don't even begin to put myself in the class most of the above shown/mentioned rifles are in.   
The problem is most of the rifles I build have far more hours in them then anyone would be interested in paying  and besides, they are somewhat like your children and the only time you would have ever considered selling them... may have been while they were in the mid to late teens.  Generally once they make it past that period, if you raised them right, you love them and they are a treasure.   
These guns reach their teen years just before they are completely finished and at that point few folks are really interested...
Greg

I think a Hubalek or Worn would really round out your collection. 

Joe, what number is your Neidner ? Apparently there aren't too many .22's around. Mine shoots lights out !

I would certainly die if I paid the money it would take to get one. My wife would kill me.....



JMH

Joe I noticed three of your rifles have single triggers. Do you happen to know if they might have been worked on by their individual makers. We hear allot about the quality of their barrels and other work but seldom do we hear about any possible improvements being made to the triggers themselves. We all know that a single trigger has a better lock time and I am just curious about the quality and functionality of the three that you now own.

Outside of Otto A. Bremer of old and Richard Binger of new you just don't hear to much about any trigger work being improved upon on anymore. Or like Bremer having it Patent.

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