Eventually I got the S&W 22A too....here it is...(PIC HEAVY)

[saturno_v]

I still have mixed feeling about the Chiappa 1911-22....still lays in its box unfired....I just cannot get over the finishing and the "blank pistol metal" smell and feel....probably I will try to sell it.

So today I went to Cabela's, forked $199 (+tax) and finally got the rimfire pistol I originally planned to buy in the first place....the S&W 22A.

I love the style and ergonomics, great grips...it has a big pistol feeling......I really like the flexibility with the fully adjustable sights and the accessory rail.

Very nice plastic box for being a budget pistol....2 magazines (made of metal) which is nice.

No zinc alloy....just steel and alluminum.

Despite its somewhat utilitarian finishing it is light years ahead of the Chiappa.

Here she is.....

 

[PAPACHUCK]

Range report yet?

 

[RevDerb]

I've had an S&W 22a for almost two years and have probably put a couple thousand rounds through it. I love it. It shoots any ammo that I've been able to find. Put a red dot on it and it's even more fun!



That being said, I added the Chippy1911-22 a month or so ago and enjoy shooting it a lot also.

 

[wally]

I've got the fluted bull barrel model M22A and its by far my favorite .22LR pistol. I usually run 400-800 rounds a month through it depending on the weather and I've had it for almost five years.

Its best feature is that S&W will fix it for free if it breaks, paying the shipping both ways.

Mine was an early production gun that initially had an issue with the locking tab in the back of the upper. I was very impressed by their customer service then and even more so when the firing pin broke last year and they again fixed it for free (other than my time to drop it off at FedEx).

I'd have to rate my Chiappa 1911-22 as a lemon since mine is stovepipe city even when using expensive CCI Mini-Mag ammo with 2 in 60 rounds being a good day; also, the trigger reset is horrible making it shoot nothing like the 1911 it pretends to be.

One quirk my M22A (and Ive heard reports from others as well) is the second shot out of the magazine often will not feed if you are using some hollow point ammo (Federal bulk pack in my case) as the nose hangs on the mag catch cutout preventing the spring from pushing up the next round to feed. Messing with the mags never fixed it, but after a few thousand rounds of round nose (Federal Champion in my case, which Academy had been selling to $8-9/500) the problem just went away. I suspect it really wasn't a magazine issue but a mag catch issue that smoothed out with use.

 

[jonmerritt]

We got one of those S&W 22a last year, little pistol is stupid accurate (you only miss if you try to miss). We really like it.The only thing I didn't like was the little nylon recoil spring spacer. Square plastic piece with a hole in it. I was afraid that with a little to much heat, It would fail. So I measured it out and made one from aluminum. I also found that they really like them and are high priced for a little piece of plastic, if yours takes off accross the room, or melts. I made mine for about .05 cents. Made several out of a piece of scrap aluminum.