The Rossi Rio Bravo is a beechwood-stocked lever-action .22 Magnum built for plinking and small game. It has an MSRP of $379.99. Its frame is aluminum alloy instead of steel, so a 12-shot lever gun comes in at 5.17 lbs.

It comes sighted, with a drift-adjustable front and an adjustable buckhorn rear, so the rifle shoots as it arrives. Twelve rounds load into the tube under the barrel, and a crossbolt safety runs through the receiver. The barrel is alloy steel under a polished black oxide finish over a matte black frame, and the stock is plain beechwood.

If you're cross-shopping, the Henry Golden Boy has an MSRP of $770 and holds the same twelve rounds, but it weighs 6.75 lbs with a brass-finished receiver and comes drilled and tapped for a Henry cantilever scope mount. The Ruger American Rimfire has an MSRP of $469, is a bolt action at 6.0 lbs holding nine, and its receiver is machined with a scope base. The Rio Bravo costs the least of the three and has no provision for a scope.