Ah, for yesteryear and the chance to shoot a real .22 rifle at the county fair.
“The slide-action gained rapid popularity through the early twentieth century. In carnival and amusement park shooting galleries, the slide-action became the “gallery gun.” These were chambered for the .22 Short and provided many a young shooter his first live-fire experience. Television, and later gun control, reduced and soured interest in gallery shooting, with the video-game arcade finishing the job.”—C. Rodney James, Gun Digest Book of the .22 Rifle, from the chapter “What Kind of Rifle?”
Shot these many times in my youth. They still had them at the Long Beach Calif. Pike in the 60s. Loved it.