Jennings J-22 oppinions for wife

I was looking around for a concealable alternative for Mrs. Long Range Mauser...

Anyone know anything about these Charter Arms wheel guns? Here's a link. Never owned one personally. Are they reliable carry pieces?

Jason

+1 on the bersa .380 idea.

I had one of those as well, GREAT gun...i would trust it no problem. Can be found for 199 or so new.

Also this, for $180:



http://www.centerfiresystems.com/AC-M200.aspx

Long Range you will find on most gun sites money seems to be no object. No one seems to realize that some have to work on a budget, and family priorities come first.

Another thought, you say your wife wants a .22 cal. Why? Recoil? If thats the case remind her if the worse should ever happen recoil and its effect will never be noticed.

Lots of good comments why the Jennings is NOT a self defense gun. My Hungarian Walther look alike (commonly called a Hungarian Mac) is totally reliable, harder hitting than a .380 and very accurate. The alloy frame makes it light weight for carrying. 9mm Luger = 9x 19. Makarov = 9X18. and .380 (aka 9mm short or Kurtz) = 9X17. You can do better than the Jennings with a LOT of other guns even on the cheap.

Long Range you will find on most gun sites money seems to be no object. No one seems to realize that some have to work on a budget, and family priorities come first.

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Jcwit


We all realize that and nobody here is suggesting to buy a Glock or a Kimber....few of us suggested a Makarov wich can be had for $50 or less more than that Jennings deal the OP as talking about.

I realize the right of everybody to defend themselves but you should not go under certain minimum standards....and the Jennings/Bryco/Jimenez/Lorcin are well below that standard and I cannot suggest one to a guy asking for advice...life is too important.

A gun that jam or, worse, blows up when you need it is worse than no gun IMHO

I would second the idea of a Beretta 21A if a .22 is all the recoil she can handle.

I also like a Kel-Tec P32 with rubber slip on grip and finger extension on the bottom of the magazine.

Accurate, reliable, thin, light and recoil isn't bad.

Don't get me wrong, I have a Jennings J22 and it has always gone bang when I pulled the trigger except one time my thumb rubbed on the slide during recoil. Hold it with the thumbs down and it feeds everything, even standard velocity ammo with all lead bullets.

I wouldn't, however feel safe carrying it with one in the chamber. It's for plinking.

Long range mauser, you really should forget about the Jennings early in the early 80's I was looking for something to carry off duty made very little money so I know where you are. I got a Jennings 22lr and it just never work right at that time I really didn't know much about weapons. Bglz42 make a good suggestion the NAA mini's are good you should be able to get one close you your budget not the best for SD but better then most small auto's no matter who make it seem to me anyway the small auto's just seem to have some problems here and there I know there are people out there with Kel tec with 1000's of trouble free rounds out of their but I just hasn't ever had that kind of luck with a small auto the NAA will fire every time plus I understand the 22 is a lot cheaper so she can learn the weapon better.

be safe

Okay so i am looking for a purse gun for my wife. Ran across the J-22 at local gun shop for $90. What are your thoughts about these guns.

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In the interest of domestic tranquility, take your wife to the gun shop. Let her pick out what she likes.

If you're not interested in peace on the home front, buy her that cheap junker.

if you really had to stuff it in apurse and be small, there's the small 32 auto and 380 kel tecs... i would get their p3AT. the 380 is considerably more powerful and about the same size as that paperweight. $90 is probably what it went for new. it's worth about $0.

Jcwit


We all realize that and nobody here is suggesting to buy a Glock or a Kimber....few of us suggested a Makarov wich can be had for $50 or less more than that Jennings deal the OP as talking about.

I realize the right of everybody to defend themselves but you should not go under certain minimum standards....and the Jennings/Bryco/Jimenez/Lorcin are well below that standard and I cannot suggest one to a guy asking for advice...life is too important.

A gun that jam or, worse, blows up when you need it is worse than no gun IMHO

Well I see mentioned a $600 Beretta, and a a reasonable priced Bersa for $239, but remember he mentioned a 2 week paycheck of $600. Kinda tight money wise I
would think. Did I bring up Jennings/Bryco/ect./ect. or any other mfg. or are bringing other threads into this discussion? Further more show us substantive info regarding all these blown up handguns that you keep preaching about. Come on give us numbers and facts, lets see them. Not Isaw this one, or a buddy told me, or I read about, lets see some facts or are you just all hot air with something that happened once and no one knows all the particulars about. As the saying goes sh1t happens.

With all of the above being said not even you Saturno v, can bring me down to your level by continuing this argument. I'm gone, byby

if money is that tight... there's always pepper spray of some sort to help as a gap filler between now and a decent handgun purchase.

i would keep haunting the used counter for a sub $200 revolver or autoloader. minimum revolver really should be 38 special, or in an autoloader, a 380 auto. again, both should be able to be found for under $200 at the used counter. anything less than that ,you might be rolling dice as to whether or not it may work. there's also those PA-63 and other makarov pistols, but they may be hit or miss - but will work fine so long as you test it thoroughly.

now

if I didn't think to much of my wife, I would indeed buy her a jennings

Pepper Spray is a good idea. Pepper Spray would actually do more to incapacitate someone than a .22 would.

It's funny to me that everyone I've heard of that actually have owned a Bryco / Jennings / etc., wouldn't recommend it as a self defense gun, but there are still a few fierce defenders (very few).

I would pass on it.
I owned a jennings .380
it worked, that one maybe will, maybe wont,

spend a few extra dollars, please.

as said before, bersa is good.

+1 on the bersa... you can probably get them used for about 169-200 if you are able to. i carry mine when i need to go discreet as possible (summer/tux/suit) or as a BUG.

make sure you train her to disengage the thumb safety if you want her carrying condition one. if it's a purse gun, she'll be holding her purse in one hand and won't be able to rack the slide.

also, with a bersa, it's slim enough to where you may want to train her to carry inside the waistband.

if she can sew, then you can customize an $8 uncle mike's holster to fit the bersa pretty good; just need to take up a small amount of material around the trigger guard and the skin guard at the top. this way, if someone gets the jump on her and grabs her purse first, she won't be out of a firearm. additionally, he won't be in posession of the firearm if he gets away with the purse.

With all of the above being said not even you Saturno v, can bring me down to your level by continuing this argument. I'm gone, byby

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Well...I apologize for giving some reasonable advice to a fellow shooter..if you call this "low level argument"...what can I say???

I know I'm new here, as this is my 2nd post. But many have given you good sound advice on a gun purchase for the wife you love. I'm not new to firearms by any means, but please do not trust your wifes life to a Jennings anything.

Have your wife handle several handguns to see what fits her hand, as she will be the carrier of that firearm. Emptying a 22 in 1.5 seconds doesn't mean anything if #1 she can't hit well with it and #2 if it will not put an agressor down it is worthless. A small 22 like that is a belly gun at best, so please reconsider the Jennings because it could mean a whole lot of differance if things get nasty.

There are many small .38 snubbies that make great purse guns, for a pretty good price.

Whatever you say saturno

Whatever you say saturno

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Someday I hope you will explain to me why I lowered the level of discussion. I thank you in advance for that.

I never

owned a J22, but was in gun business for 40 years and if not everyone, damn near every Jennings we sold had to go back at least once. I can't say I ever had a customer come back and say , "great gun" just put a 100 rounds through it.

they looked fairly nice but they IMO were junk. We finally just quit selling them, as it was costly sending them back and most every customer was not happy about it either.

But some where I read where they made over 2 million of those guns, so I guess "junk does sell".

Jocko

You are lowering the level of the discussion....

sorry

about that, just trying to give a dealer perspective on the Jenning line of different names.

We sold the J22 for $69, can't recall what we sold the 380 for. Sold more chrome than the black versions, by far.

saturno v

I knew you lacked the capacity to comprehend, its been evident all along.