Castrophic P22 failure....IF YOU OWN ONE: READ THIS

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posted this under another topic that i realized at the end was WAY old...so here goes a re-post.

Hey guys,
i'm new to this board...but not to shooting and i have/had a p22 with about 6500rnds thru it.

i just had the "business" end of the slide break off... all the way off... on round seven of ten. Slide, or most of it at least, landed beside me, and the end chunck landed 20ft in front of the shooting line.

it broke from the front edge of the sight opening straight down to the bottom of the slide...very cleanly along the casting line. I have cast aluminum many times and been a metal worker all my life and this looks like a design flaw(the slide is too thin)...the next slide they send me will have the same design ...same problem and none of my confidence.

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i cannot beggin to describe how sketched out this left me. i really liked my p22. It was fickle with ammo but once i found something it liked(winchester dynapoint 40grain), it fed beautifully...

Now i don;t even want to shoot it. Destroyed any confidence i had in it as a machine.

please beware the p22 upper...and check it for cracks when you are field stripping it.

last, sorry for the poor quality pics....

-TheLame
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This was on my '08 purchase list, but I remember that first thread too. I may not be so interested anymore.
 
ya quite the bummer

I hope i said it enough....i loved this gun...fed well, shot well, interchagable back straps helps when i take women to the range(better than my colt model 70 for small hands).

i got it new and put 6000rnds thru it in a year...

i'm so disillusioned with it now...bummer....thinin about replacing it with a s&w model 317 or 351pd.

sure as hell i'm not gonna be shootin it anymore(once they "repair" it that is)

as a side note, Walther is paying for the shipping to get it back to them and the repair in theory but we'll see....i'll try to keep yall in the loop as i go through the process.

thanks for the support guys....if anyone has links to other p22s this has happened with i'd love to see it.

thanks
TheLame
 
I remember reading about a similar situation where the users was shooting a P22 with an extended slide and the barrel weight. His slide broke but the slide did not fly off like yours. Contact S&W, tell them what happened and I am sure they will take care of you. Oh, if they give you a hard time, say when the slide broke it hit a "x" month old baby and it's mother causing injury. That should get their attention and quick.

I have had my P22 for over 4 years and have many thousands of rounds through it during that time. In my case nearly all of them have been with a suppressor which may be less harsh than a P22 alone. My P22 has never failed me even when it was dirty beyond all recognition.
 
i had a p22 but traded it off. I hated the FTE, the ejected cases that came flying back into my face, and the way it showed heavy wear after only a few hundred rounds.
 
We had the same exact failure on a range rental P22 back in Christmas 06. We caught it before the end came totally off, tho, so it wasn't quite as "exciting."

best,

Dave
 
Ah the P-22 haters come out of the woodwork I see. My P-22 has tens of thousands of rounds through it with no failures. The range P-22 has hundreds of thousands of rounds through it with no failures also.

The ejection issue can be fixed by replacing the extractor.

It's not a great gun, but there have been what 5-6 reported failures from credible sources, that's not bad considering how many of them are on the market.
 
please beware the p22 upper...and check it for cracks when you are field stripping it.
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I think "inspect it regularly" is the point. I'm no hater just a shooter...and not much of one at that. But it is damn un-nerving to have that failure on the firing line, it would be much better to find the problem on the cleaning bench!

best,

Dave
 
I have cast aluminum many times and been a metal worker all my life and this looks like a design flaw(the slide is too thin)...
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It's not even aluminum, it's zinc.
The P22 is a neat looking gun that isn't built to last.
Moral of this story: Avoid guns with zinc parts.
Get a Ruger or Buckmark and your grandchildren will inherit it.
 
Ah the P-22 haters come out of the woodwork I see.
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Let's put it this way: I've seen, in something like 10 years on various gun forums, ONE thread on a Glock kBing.

In the last six months, I have probably seen 10 threads on peoples' P22 slides cracking exactly at this spot, and personally handled two P22s whose steel slide inserts had stripped and would no longer lock back.

I'm not saying P22s are junk, I know there are lots of people who like them. But I've NEVER seen a thread about a Ruger or Buckmark failing this badly, and they're what? $40 more than a P22, maybe?
 
I had a P22 and sold it too. It was too ammo sensitive, too many fail to feeds and it just felt cheap!
Replaced it with a Ruger.
 
Man, I love mine. I put Remington Golden Bullets through it like there's no tomorrow, but I guess I'll be checking that slide now.
 
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