Back in my miss-spent youth several gun writers used to refer to guns that they preferred for casual hiking and fishing companions as "woods-loafing" guns; mostly .22 rifles, small caliber center fires like .25-20s, and long-barreled .22 handguns. (I remember an article in an old Gun Digest on the Savage Model 24 that referred to it as the ultimate "woods-loafing" gun). Suppose there is any relationship between that expression and the German "Waldlaufer"? Certainly German-Americans were in the middle of American shooting sports for a long time....until our unfortunate disagreements with Kaiser Bill and all the anti-German propaganda that accompanied it.
