[Vette]

Don't know much about chiappa . Any opionions?

[cyclopsshooter]

yeah, get the GSG 1911 22

[Chopdoktor]

I had one. It had a downright horrible trigger pull, it stovepiped a fair bit, and the finish rubs right off. Get the GSG-1911. I got one of those after I sold the Chiappa, and never looked back. You'll be really happy with it, I'm sure. I use mine as a suppressor host, too, and the sights clear the can, amazingly. Very good gun. Definitely gives the full 1911 feel, unlike the Chiappa, which is just 'close' to the 1911 dimensions.

[WC145]

I agree with my friends above. My GSG is a great gun. I wouldn't own a Chiappa.

[wally]

Total garbage. Their warranty is basically worthless as you have to send it back at your expense and to add insult to injury they didn't fix mine despite having it for over two months.

When it does actually shoot, accuracy is terrible as the barrel is fixed to the frame and slide (where the sights are!) to frame fit is beyond sloppy.

My Jennings .22 works better and was a lot cheaper!

IMHO it'd be hard to do worse.

[Hanzo581]

Pass on it, buddy of mine shot one in a rimfire match a couple weeks ago and it jammed more than Bob Marley. After trying different mags and ammo we gave up.

[EddieNFL]

Are any parts interchangeable with a 1911...specifically the MSH? Thanks.

[WC145]

Are any parts interchangeable with a 1911...specifically the MSH? Thanks.
Yeah, with the GSG. Can't speak for the Chiappa.

[Vette]

Thanks for all the replies. You may have saved me a lot of grief.

[doubleh]

I'll post a different opinion. I've had a Chiappa for several months now and other than having an aversion to feeding Remington Golden Bullets it's a pretty nice gun. It shoots anything else I load it with. Trigger was a little rough to start with but it smoothed up nicely and the accuracy is pretty good also. The instructions tell you to give it 200 shots to break in and it needs them. I'm happy with it.

If you will look closely at the new Colt/Umarex 45/22 you will find it has the same type barrel arrangement as the Chiappa and it is mentioned as the reason the Colt is a very accurate gun.

[wally]

Are any parts interchangeable with a 1911...specifically the MSH?

On the 1911-22 nothing is a normal 1911 part, its only a cosmetic resemblance, about the only thing they got right was the size and weight :(

I'll post a different opinion. I've had a Chiappa for several months now and other than having an aversion to feeding Remington Golden Bullets it's a pretty nice gun.
Even the best make bad guns and the worst let some good ones get out. I gave them a fair chance to make mine right, and it was FAIL and a waste of my $60 to send it back, throwing good money after bad!

It they had fixed it I'd be giving them kudos, but this is my absolutely worse gun buying experience and I suspect I'm more the norm than the exception based on how quickly the prices on these POS have dropped -- but they are still way too expensive to take a chance on IMHO since they can't fix them!

[Toforo]

I'll post a different opinion. I've had a Chiappa for several months now and other than having an aversion to feeding Remington Golden Bullets it's a pretty nice gun. It shoots anything else I load it with. Trigger was a little rough to start with but it smoothed up nicely and the accuracy is pretty good also. The instructions tell you to give it 200 shots to break in and it needs them. I'm happy with it.

If you will look closely at the new Colt/Umarex 45/22 you will find it has the same type barrel arrangement as the Chiappa and it is mentioned as the reason the Colt is a very accurate gun.
Mine's been good too....

I carry it in the woods as a plinker, fence-post killer, and puncher of holes in tin cans; it's killed a fair number of snakes too.

Not for cheap low-velocity ammo though - needs the good stuff.

No, nothing about it is compatable with a 1911 except it's weight - sorry, ya can't pimp ur ride with this one!

[wally]

Not for cheap low-velocity ammo though - needs the good stuff.


Defeats the whole point of buying a .22 pistol if you have to feed it ammo that costs near as much as 9mm.

I've heard the claim, mine is still a jam-o-matic with CCI Mini-Mag even *after* being "repaired" by them. This is the IMHO as bad as it gets having to pay to send it back and they not fixing it.