Nushif
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Alright, so I just picked up a beat up .22 SA revolver as a little plinker. It had some surface rust (very mild), the finish is kinda owrn, but the trigger is very light and crisp. The cylinders line up and while there is a little side to side on the cylinder, there is no forward or backward play, there is no transfer bar, but that's not an issue in a plinker ... and it was cheap.
In short, it is what it is. A cheap plinker that shoots .22. and it has a loading gate, loaded from half cock, which is fun.
I promptly went on the interwebs and looked up some data. It import mark says "Sportarms of Florida Miami." There's another mark on it. "MOD. 21S Cal .22lr MI West Germany"
So I googled around a bit and appears to be a Rohm.
I googled that and found out they actually are considered Saturday Night Specials and are on par with Jennings and the like.
Here's my question though.
This is a single action .22 revolver. How badly can it suck? I know the trigger is actually pretty good and accuracy can be no worse than my Puma, which ... while not stellar keeps me on a letter sized piece of paper quite easily at ten yards.
It weighs in at about what I would expect a revolver with the appropriate barrel length, and even if it is made of zink, which the interwebs says, how much does it matter, considering it shoots a .22?
Is it a match grade olympic pistol? Well, no. But how bad can this thing really suck?
Am I missing something here or are all these "junk" comparisons just because they compared a cheap plinker with a serious defensive pistol?
In short, it is what it is. A cheap plinker that shoots .22. and it has a loading gate, loaded from half cock, which is fun.
I promptly went on the interwebs and looked up some data. It import mark says "Sportarms of Florida Miami." There's another mark on it. "MOD. 21S Cal .22lr MI West Germany"
So I googled around a bit and appears to be a Rohm.
I googled that and found out they actually are considered Saturday Night Specials and are on par with Jennings and the like.
Here's my question though.
This is a single action .22 revolver. How badly can it suck? I know the trigger is actually pretty good and accuracy can be no worse than my Puma, which ... while not stellar keeps me on a letter sized piece of paper quite easily at ten yards.
It weighs in at about what I would expect a revolver with the appropriate barrel length, and even if it is made of zink, which the interwebs says, how much does it matter, considering it shoots a .22?
Is it a match grade olympic pistol? Well, no. But how bad can this thing really suck?
Am I missing something here or are all these "junk" comparisons just because they compared a cheap plinker with a serious defensive pistol?