Need help identifying a firearm from my childhood

[Nazgul]

I have 2 of them. One of them was my fathers when he was a teenager. Have a pic of my mom shooting it, early 1940's.

He taught me to shoot with it.

Don

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Good eye, Jim! It's a K4.

I've got the same model on my High Standard Sport King rifle.

 

[two70]

I do believe that it is the only Mossberg .22 of that vintage that I have ever seen in my life. I had no idea they were so common, they were not common at all in the area I grew up in.

Now I live in Indianapolis where there is near as makes no difference no used gun market and the used guns that exist are all fairly new and all of them are overpriced. I think I need to get out of the city. I can take the wife antiquing out in the country and while she is browsing I can hit up the small town gun stores.

The last time I was there (early October) the Deer Creek Range had an old Mossberg .22 for sale. I didn't look closely enough to see the price or which particular model it was.