Vic303
04-30-2005, 22:12
Finally made it to the range to shoot the LNIB P22 I bought early this month. Whew! Shot it in the 5" config, with a box of STingers to start with. Dang! Those things are snappy!;P
The Stingers ran flawlessly, and it grouped pretty well although I wasn't trying too hard. No malfs with the safety, or premature slide lockback, or feed problems with Stingers.
Then went to Thunderbolts--YUCK! FTF's, FTRB's, FTE's. Nasty slow dirty ammo. The rest of that brick is gonna have to be run thru my little H&R wheelgun to get rid of it!
Then Win Wildcats--Not a lot better, but no FTF's. Still had a couple FTE's and FTRB's though. Probably gonna run the rest of the Wildcats thru the H&R too.
Then onto Rem Golden bulk box. Snappier than Tbolts or Wildcats. Better functioning too--no FTFs, or FTE's. I think there were a couple FTRBs, but by then the pistol was getting dirty, and the Tbolts/Wildcats may have gunked up the action a bit. I think with a bit of work, the Goldens will run fine.
Saved the last 10 Stingers for my husband (the Ruger Slabside man) to try. He loved the pistol! He says if I don't like it, he wants it! And he's a guy who loves his Ruger Mk I-II_Slabsides! He now wants me to swap barrels so he can see the muzzle flash from the 3.5" barrel!;f He then shot a bunch of Eley Target (brown box?)thru it, and it ran perfectly. Go figure, std velocity Eley, and it groups nearly as tight as his red-dotted Slabside 6"! Guess I'll have to lay in a supply of Eley now! Oh, he also ran a bunch of cheap Aguila thru it, or I should say TRIED to run it--the Aguila failed to fire on hard primer hits so often he pitched it! So NO Aguila for my P22 from now on!
Too bad for my husband though--I LIKE this pistol! I'm keeping it!;f
The Stingers ran flawlessly, and it grouped pretty well although I wasn't trying too hard. No malfs with the safety, or premature slide lockback, or feed problems with Stingers.
Then went to Thunderbolts--YUCK! FTF's, FTRB's, FTE's. Nasty slow dirty ammo. The rest of that brick is gonna have to be run thru my little H&R wheelgun to get rid of it!
Then Win Wildcats--Not a lot better, but no FTF's. Still had a couple FTE's and FTRB's though. Probably gonna run the rest of the Wildcats thru the H&R too.
Then onto Rem Golden bulk box. Snappier than Tbolts or Wildcats. Better functioning too--no FTFs, or FTE's. I think there were a couple FTRBs, but by then the pistol was getting dirty, and the Tbolts/Wildcats may have gunked up the action a bit. I think with a bit of work, the Goldens will run fine.
Saved the last 10 Stingers for my husband (the Ruger Slabside man) to try. He loved the pistol! He says if I don't like it, he wants it! And he's a guy who loves his Ruger Mk I-II_Slabsides! He now wants me to swap barrels so he can see the muzzle flash from the 3.5" barrel!;f He then shot a bunch of Eley Target (brown box?)thru it, and it ran perfectly. Go figure, std velocity Eley, and it groups nearly as tight as his red-dotted Slabside 6"! Guess I'll have to lay in a supply of Eley now! Oh, he also ran a bunch of cheap Aguila thru it, or I should say TRIED to run it--the Aguila failed to fire on hard primer hits so often he pitched it! So NO Aguila for my P22 from now on!
Too bad for my husband though--I LIKE this pistol! I'm keeping it!;f