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January 25, 2024
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Hello, New to Winchester Collectors. Just curious if anyone knows how many 9422 XTR Classic rifles were made. Also any variations of what they are chambered in. Thanks for any information.
April 15, 2005
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There are no known production records for the Model 9422. The Model 9422 was manufactured for 22 Long Rifle, and the Model 9422M for the 22 Win Mag.
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March 23, 2010
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The earlier Model 9422 rifles in .22 would shoot short,long and long rifle.At some point there was a change made ,so they would only shoot long rifle ammunition.When and why I have no idea.:)
June 1, 2023
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If I remember correctly, the 9422 Classic was made in 1985-86 only, and had a pistol grip stock and a steel crescent buttplate.
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January 20, 2023
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28 gauge said
The earlier Model 9422 rifles in .22 would shoot short,long and long rifle.At some point there was a change made ,so they would only shoot long rifle ammunition.When and why I have no idea.:)
This is an older thread I just noticed but it got my attention.
The USRAC 9422 XTR I bought for my son was the first brand new post-63 Winchester I’d seen that I’d wanted to buy. I remember being surprised at its high quality and so bought it. Son still owns and shoots it. And grandsons.
The one i bought feeds and functions with shorts, longs, and long rifles interchangeably, including mixed loadings, just like my Model 61. Unsurprising because I’m pretty sure the feed path of the 9422 is based on that of the 61.
I can’t understand why the later guns would be made or rollmarked differently. Unless a pilgrim didn’t clear the tube of the “unhappy last cartridge” and blamed it on some lawyer-imagined feeding flaw.
Except for automatics and box magazine fed bolt guns, I dislike rimfire twenty-twos that won’t handle shorts. The little CB shorts are uncommonly useful in suburbia when when under attack by a nuisance squirrel or stubborn cottonmouth moccasin.
Because the 9422 is now many miles away and no longer manufactured, I had to break caste and lay in a clean little ’58 Mountie, which likewise feeds CB shorts just fine.
I haven’t seen the current Ranger model and wonder if it’s based on the 9422.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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