Well my first thoughts of the P22 were nicely built and good quality. It was an early Christmas present for my wife. We took it out with 3 different types of ammo because i kinda figured a .22lr might me picky on ammo and i was right! We used:
Winchester Wildcat: This was the worst ammo we tried in the bunch for this weapon. Had multiple stove pipes, a couple failure to eject, and 3 stuck cartridges that i had to use a rod to get out. With that being said the extractor spring seams to be a bit weak as i played with getting one out i just used more hand pressure on the extractor itself to grab the rim and the cartridge pulled right out.
Winchester Xpert HB: Not to many of these were used so i cant say to much, however the ones we did use it failed to feed a few times with this ammo and so we had to rack the upper in order to get another round to feed.
Remington Golden Bullet: This ammo worked the best in this weapon as we had zero problems with it! Firing the pistol with this ammo made it feel better in my hand as well.
After about 200 rounds of mainly the crappy stuff through i checked the barrel after i removed a cartridge that didnt extract i noticed a MASSIVE amount of lead fouling! So much so that you couldnt see the rifling.
We changed the sights around as well to get it zeroed in and both, the front sight post (easy to change out) and rear sights were easy to adjust.
Overall i enjoyed shooting it with the ammo that worked best in it! Also since ive never really dealt with this amount of lead fouling.... whats a good product to use to get it out!?
Winchester Wildcat: This was the worst ammo we tried in the bunch for this weapon. Had multiple stove pipes, a couple failure to eject, and 3 stuck cartridges that i had to use a rod to get out. With that being said the extractor spring seams to be a bit weak as i played with getting one out i just used more hand pressure on the extractor itself to grab the rim and the cartridge pulled right out.
Winchester Xpert HB: Not to many of these were used so i cant say to much, however the ones we did use it failed to feed a few times with this ammo and so we had to rack the upper in order to get another round to feed.
Remington Golden Bullet: This ammo worked the best in this weapon as we had zero problems with it! Firing the pistol with this ammo made it feel better in my hand as well.
After about 200 rounds of mainly the crappy stuff through i checked the barrel after i removed a cartridge that didnt extract i noticed a MASSIVE amount of lead fouling! So much so that you couldnt see the rifling.
We changed the sights around as well to get it zeroed in and both, the front sight post (easy to change out) and rear sights were easy to adjust.
Overall i enjoyed shooting it with the ammo that worked best in it! Also since ive never really dealt with this amount of lead fouling.... whats a good product to use to get it out!?