Taurus 942 22 WMR

I have a 94 in 22 lr. I like it just fine. Occasionally a light strike but that could be the ammo so....
I also recently picked up a 942 in 22 lr. It's a great gun. I can highly recommend it. 8 rounds of rimfire goodness.

I have a 942 in 22 lr and haven't had any issues with it. Once I figured out the difference between POA and POI, I can actually hit clay birds out to 50 yards with the little 2" barrel. I can recommend the 942 also. It is also a good trainer for my fiancé to go with her Taurus 85.

12Bravo20 said:

. It is also a good trainer for my fiancé to go with her Taurus 85.

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Bingo.

CNobbe said:

Good to know, I may go for the 22LR version too if I can find one.

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That's a major issue with Taurus revolvers right now, the panic really did a number on the supply chain. I've been looking to get one of the Aluminum frame 942's in .22 LR... it's like they don't exist.

I picked up a 942 a couple of years ago. Haven't shot it a lot, but it definitely has more bark than the 22 LR. Recoil is not existent. I could see it as a decent small game hunter or possible a home defense gun for the recoil sensitive.

My daughter has one. The DA trigger pull is really heavy, but the SA pull is crisp. Shoots well.

But I'll stick with my Single Six.

I have a 992, which I think is similar with a shorter barrel. It's an OK shooter. Runs fine, no issues, kinda boring. Definitely more run shooting 22 mag. Big bang, big flame.

Every time someone suggests the .22 Mag in a handgun I am instantly drawn to the measured ballistics/velocities which are on the ballisticsbytheinch website. Besides a lot more noise and blast there is a small (200fps at best) increase in barrels less than ten inches or so. The round was not invented for handguns, but rifles.

beag_nut said:

Every time someone suggests the .22 Mag in a handgun I am instantly drawn to the measured ballistics/velocities which are on the ballisticsbytheinch website. Besides a lot more noise and blast there is a small (200fps at best) increase in barrels less than ten inches or so. The round was not invented for handguns, but rifles.

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I don't disagree, but people think because it's magnum that they're getting a lot more for not much more in ammo cost. Not better than .32, but there are a lot more revolvers available in .22 Mag.

Still, in the same size revolver, I'll take .32 over .22 Mag every day. Something like the NAA revolvers... I like .22 Mag in those.

I have a M94 and my brother before he passed had a M941 which is the same gun only in magnum. These are 9 and 8 shot guns respectively and quite subject to misfires in DA. It has to do with hammer weight and length of throw for the most part. I bought mine cheap at Gander Mountain during a % off sale. It was used and marked around $150. I walked out with it at around $135 so could not go to wrong. I didn't plan on using it for any DA activity so it has treated me OK as a SA easy to reload .22 RF gun. It has misfires in DA with most ammo. My late brothers gun in .22 magnum is the same. DA pull is also heavy which little can be done about. My aunt bought a M941 and the results were the same. That's my experience. No complaints other than that. A review of the newer Model 942 in .22 LR was not flattering for mostly the same reliability in DA. The reviewer had a 70% reliability rate using most ammunition. Like my experience CCI ammunition was the winning brand for reliable ignition.

22WRM is just plain fun! And versatile.
P!inking, small varmints, training newbies.

I bought one for my daughter years ago when she lived alone in a big town. She was very recoil "shy" and I thought eight shots of .22 Magnum in a revolver was the best answer to her particular situation at the time. The biggest regret I have in getting her this revolver is how ridiculously heavy the double-action pull is on it.
She's married now with a couple of sons and lives half a country away from my wife and I so we don't get to see her much but I hope her husband can manage the trigger pull better than I could. They need to sell the gun and get something else but, sadly, neither of them are much "into" guns or shooting.

I have a 2" 941 Ultralite SS in .22 Mag., and one each 94 with 4" bbl. SS in .22LR and .22 Mag. I tried the Wolff springs in the 941 and had too many light strikes in DA, so put the original ones back. The 4" versions are just plain fun and nicely balanced. The 941 is used for CCW when I can't carry much else, and while not a "stopper" it is so LOUD that any assailant might think it was a bigger gun!

The last two posts... this is why I wish people would get a woman a .32 revolver over a .22 Mag: trigger pull and noise.

If I were a betting man, I would put money on a majority of women would prefer shooting .32 S&W Long in a snub vs a .22 Mag.

Not my recommended SD round but the second most gruesome SD fatality I saw as a cop ( the first was a mag of double aught shot gun to the face) was an old lady who popped an intruder with 6, 22 mag to the face. Small holes in -big holes out!

Most brands of revolvers I have shot the double action trigger pull was really heavy and the single action pull light and crisp. I have even shot some S&W and Colt revolvers that weren't a whole lot different then the Taurus or Rossi revolvers as far as double action trigger pull. I'm talking about revolvers straight out of the box that are absolutely stock.

I like my 942 22lr and it makes a good companion for hikes or fishing and is a great companion to the Taurus 85. I can definitely see the value in the 22WMR version for the same types of uses.

TTv2 said:

The last two posts... this is why I wish people would get a woman a .32 revolver over a .22 Mag: trigger pull and noise.

If I were a betting man, I would put money on a majority of women would prefer shooting .32 S&W Long in a snub vs a .22 Mag.

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I agree 100%.

I had the 22lr version. It was reliable, but the DA trigger was so stiff that I traded it towards something else.

Tallball said:

I had the 22lr version. It was reliable, but the DA trigger was so stiff that I traded it towards something else.

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I agree. I've shot many brands of revolvers over the past half century or so, but nothing had a da pull as "stiff" as the little Taurus. Just about impossible to shoot with any degree of accuracy.

I remember when I was in my teens we had a 9 shot H&R .22 snubbie. It's long gone now, but at the time I dry fired that thing a few times and that DA trigger was horrible. Like, every DA trigger on a revolver I think back to that H&R and very few times have I come across anything worse than that H&R.

Come to find out years later than rimfire revolvers all have pretty bad DA triggers. IMO, even if you spent hundreds more on a snub .22 revolver, it's not a guarantee of a better trigger, which is why when I found out Taurus was making the 942 that I took the LCRx .22 off my list.

I'd say out of all my DA revolvers right now, the worst trigger award goes to the SP101. One of my best feeling DA triggers is actually the Taurus Public Defender.

The reason that the DA trigger pull is so heavy on ALL rimfire revolvers is the fact that rimfire primers are harder to ignite compared to centerfire primers. It's just the nature of the beast. Rimfire ammo requires heavier hammer springs compared to their centerfire counterparts. And it is the same in every brand of rimfire revolver that I have ever shot.

My understanding is that the smaller rimfire revolvers tend to have even stiffer triggers than the larger ones.

My 2" Charter Arms Pathfinder has a pretty decent DA trigger, but I probably just got lucky.

I have an old model that was my "kicking around" gun for years. Still shoot's accurately. I use plus 1200 FPS in my semi automatics for reliability, but the little 94 shoot's everything.