I guess I'll send mine in, again. The recoil springs are crap. They get mushy and quit functioning after a while. I've been through five springs in maybe a thousand rounds.
I first bought the gun, I sorta liked it. It shot well, fairly accurate, and I like the exposed hammer. I carried it afield when fishing or knocking about on my place. I got the four inch barrel which is easier to sight and helped shrink the groups.
I got one right after they came out. The first slide cracked in half on the left side, Phoenix arms replaced the slide with a new one that was beefed up in the area where the first one cracked, a redesign. But, those recoil springs drive me NUTS! They're cheap POSs! They really need a better design on that spring, pops out when you try to assemble the barrel, just a general PITA. All in all, I'd not have bought the thing if I'd known about the recoil spring problem. It did shoot amazingly well for a while, though. It was quite accurate and feed and ejection were pretty much flawless, unusual for a .22 of its size. And, if a round failed to fire, just cock the hammer and hit it again. It would usually go the second time. The gun didn't have a problem with light hammer strikes, but old .22 ammo sometimes gets a little cranky about going off. I'm not the type that just throws it away and buys a new carton.
