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Post by mud on Sept 9, 2014 5:42:29 GMT -7
A good buckmark or 22/45 taclite would be my choice
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Post by tjwilhelm on Sept 9, 2014 8:49:27 GMT -7
I have the Ruger SR22. It was provided and what we qualified with in the CCW course I had to take here in Illinois. In fact, that experience is what prompted me to buy one for myself.
It is a small-framed pistol; but, with the optional, slip-on extender for the mag, it fits my hand nicely...but, I do not have large hands.
It really is a sweet little shooter. With a trashed right shoulder, and totally blind in the right eye, at ten yards for my CCW test it was pretty easy to group ten shots within a 3" circle -- six of which could be covered by a quarter.
I've never handled any versions of the Mark; but, I do have a Browning Buckmark in .22lr. I get the impression this is similar to the Mark. I totally prefer the SR22 to the Buckmark, for whatever that may be worth.
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Post by marc on Sept 9, 2014 9:02:16 GMT -7
TJ!
Found any ammo that it dislikes?
Marc
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Post by tjwilhelm on Sept 9, 2014 9:22:09 GMT -7
TJ! Found any ammo that it dislikes? Marc Not yet, Marc; BUT, I've not put "thousands" of rounds through it...only a few hundred, all CCI. That said, the college that taught our CCW course had close to two dozen of the SR22s and they bought 30K rounds of Armscor .22lr. I took the course early on, so the SR22s were still fairly new. With about 20 people on the range, shooting 30-50 rounds each, I saw one of them have a single misfire, and a second one had a discharge problem. Other than that, on that day, there were no other problems. Of note, I'd never heard of Armscor before, and have never personally owned any of their products, so I don't know much about them. |
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Post by marc on Sept 9, 2014 9:25:19 GMT -7
Thanks for the info, Sir! Everyone I've talked to says that CCI never fails in the SR22, but most other standard/high velocity ammo is reliable too. My stack of pennies being saved to get one, may have just grown a little higher.
Hoping all is well you and yours........
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Post by woodyz on Sept 10, 2014 23:19:09 GMT -7
I will admit that both the Ruger and the Buckmark 22/45 models are a horror to disassemble compared to a good old Colt 45 of even the Beretta M9.
I don't know what they were thinking and one has to really be able to understand the manual with these or they might have a pile of gun parts that they take to someone else to reassemble.
I don't have that problem. I make it a point to strip every weapon I have down as far as it will go in order that I understand how and why it does what it does.
But as I recommend them to people I have found that some people just can't do it and I get a few piles of gun parts to reassembly every now and then.
PS I have had 2 I can remember that I could not reassemble.
Not Rugers or Buckmarks
But one 22 single shot that was obviously put together with one main part backwards of where it belonged. And I never did learn how to fix that problem. Turn out the same person who fixed it backward also welded/braised whatever, an additional part to the bolt. I just kept thinking I wasn't getting the correct diagram and kept ordering new pictures. In defense, it was an excellent braising job.
The other was a pistol with two key springs installed in each others place, both of the springs looked identical except one was bent oddly. I assumed the bend was a result of the problem rather than by design and that was the whole problem I had assuming. Never assume anything.
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