Favorite rimfire handgun is my High-Standard Citation (M107) Made in Hamden CT, in 1968:
Why?
1.) It is a replacement, as exact as I’ve been able to manage, for the first gun I ever bought myself with my own hard-earned dollars (79 of them, to be exact) down at the local furniture store in 1960.
2.) It, like the original which was stolen from me in a burglary in 1984, makes a hole pretty much exactly where I’m looking and pretty much without my having to think about it.
Most fun: My new Ruger Shopkeeper. It’s just so dang cute!
I have more rimfires and, with a couple of exceptions, they are all fun to shoot.
My favorite rimfire of all, however, doesn't function anymore, and I don't care. It is a Hamilton Boy's rifle which my grandmother used to bring cottontails home for supper from our wanderings about dusk when I was four or five years old. I will always remember her teaching me how to prepare them for the skillet.
Best,
Will