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A favorite of Ernest Hemingway— he owned at least three of them— the Colt Woodsman was the gunmaker’s first .22 target pistol. Based on Browning patents, it was made from 1915 until 1977.

The Colt Woodsman was and is a fine handgun, capable of making even the most basically trained nimrod look good. But it isn’t the only .22 semiautomatic pistol that has a long history of such.