chaim
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They are decent enough guns. However, I've been saying for a while that they don't quite do it for me. Everyone loves them and suggests them, but I wanted something different. I acknowlege that they are good guns, and to some degree the only thing I don't really like about them is that they are the gun in their class that everyone screams "you gotta have one".
Also, it is just a catagory that there were a few others that I liked a bit better. I simply planned to not buy one, at least not until I had one or two other examples of this type of gun.
On Wens I bought a Ruger MkII.
I need a .22 handgun. I still didn't have one.
I had planned to order (no one seems to stock them locally) a Taurus 94 revolver. I love revolvers and it would certainly fit my need for a .22.
I was also considering a few other options, mostly a little less mainstream- a S&W 422, a S&W K-22, a Colt SAA type in .22 (Frontier or something like that), Ruger Single Six (OK, this is fairly mainstream) or a Walther P22.
Well, I do like the regular 4" blued Ruger MkII. It isn't one of the target models with the price jacked up, it isn't the ugly (to my eyes anyway) 22/45, and it was available. Ruger doesn't have built-in locks so the local stock of MD legal (i.e. pre-Jan 2003) guns is getting low so I figure I won't be able to get this gun again for a while should I want one. Since a dealer had exactly what I'd want if I get the Ruger I figured it was worth a try.
Also, I just bought a S&W 908 online and I need to transfer it. MD does have an exception to the one gun per month law. If you buy two in one transaction you can do that and just have to wait two months instead of one before you can buy again. I figured I'd buy the .22 I need in the same transaction as the transfer. This made existing stock all the more important since ordering one would take longer and the auction gun is already on its way. I was able to get a deal on the transfer fee since I bought a gun at the same time so this was part of the bargain.
Anyway, even though it wasn't exactly what I had in mind it is a good gun. I've been resisting them more due to their popularlity anyway than anything I have against the gun (at least with the basic blued, pencil barrel, MkII version). With the price, the fact that they are good .22s, and the fact that it is getting hard to find the right one around here, I think I did well.
I hope I like it as much as the hype around here suggests I should.
Also, it is just a catagory that there were a few others that I liked a bit better. I simply planned to not buy one, at least not until I had one or two other examples of this type of gun.
On Wens I bought a Ruger MkII.
I need a .22 handgun. I still didn't have one.
I had planned to order (no one seems to stock them locally) a Taurus 94 revolver. I love revolvers and it would certainly fit my need for a .22.
I was also considering a few other options, mostly a little less mainstream- a S&W 422, a S&W K-22, a Colt SAA type in .22 (Frontier or something like that), Ruger Single Six (OK, this is fairly mainstream) or a Walther P22.
Well, I do like the regular 4" blued Ruger MkII. It isn't one of the target models with the price jacked up, it isn't the ugly (to my eyes anyway) 22/45, and it was available. Ruger doesn't have built-in locks so the local stock of MD legal (i.e. pre-Jan 2003) guns is getting low so I figure I won't be able to get this gun again for a while should I want one. Since a dealer had exactly what I'd want if I get the Ruger I figured it was worth a try.
Also, I just bought a S&W 908 online and I need to transfer it. MD does have an exception to the one gun per month law. If you buy two in one transaction you can do that and just have to wait two months instead of one before you can buy again. I figured I'd buy the .22 I need in the same transaction as the transfer. This made existing stock all the more important since ordering one would take longer and the auction gun is already on its way. I was able to get a deal on the transfer fee since I bought a gun at the same time so this was part of the bargain.
Anyway, even though it wasn't exactly what I had in mind it is a good gun. I've been resisting them more due to their popularlity anyway than anything I have against the gun (at least with the basic blued, pencil barrel, MkII version). With the price, the fact that they are good .22s, and the fact that it is getting hard to find the right one around here, I think I did well.
I hope I like it as much as the hype around here suggests I should.
i wasn't too happy w/ the looks when I bought mine, but I couldn't be happier w/ the performance! Congrats!!
