I composed a nice long post last night but there was a gateway issue and it wouldn’t post or save, so yer outta luck.
I still have my first .22 rifle though. It’s a Savage “boy’s rifle”, little bitty sucker, single shot with a rolling block chambered for .22 Short. It belonged to my dad’s cousin who got kilt in the Philippines, dates back to about a hunnert years ago.
Others I had, as a teen:
Remington 513 bolt action, box mag.
Browning semi, with the tube mag in the stock like yer Mossberg
Mossberg 44US bolt action, mil surplus target rifle from my Rifle Club days
BSA Martini target rifle, single shot falling block…a total sweetheart.
The only 22 I have these days is a H&K semi with box mag and the best iron sights I ever saw. Had it since the eighties.