My question is why can Ruger, S&W, Beretta, and even Browning's Buckmark subcontractor make a high quality .22LR pistol with "good" materials and charge around $300 or so for many models yet this 1911-22 has to be pushing $600 in many areas. It is almost twice the price of other quality .22's. Do you really want to pay more than you have to pay to shoot a .22 pistol?
I may have misunderstood you then. You don't think the browning is a $600 gun quality wise. The caliber is irrelevant. My point is that a gun should not cost less just because it is a 22.An HK is an imported pistol subject to exchange rates and a very weak dollar. Sig has similar issues, albeit many are now assembled here. They are both higher quality pistols than Ruger semis, although the Rugers are serviceable. In that example you get what you pay for. My point is that for close to $600 you can get an all steel target pistol rather than a plinker. I LIKE the Browning 1911-22, but for me it is not worth $600. I can buy a more accurate, nicer Buckmark, made by the same subcontractor for half the price.
I understand what you are saying. I think a typical .22 plinker should cost less than a quality centerfire pistol. I would not want to pay HK, Sig, or even Beretta, or Glock prices for a Ruger MK III or Buckmark, and I don't think the 1911-22 is any better made or a better pistol than the MKIII or Buckmark.I may have misunderstood you then. You don't think the browning is a $600 gun quality wise. The caliber is irrelevant. My point is that a gun should not cost less just because it is a 22.
The few that have made it to dealers here have all been sold, leaving Buckmarks, SRs, and M&P 22s still in stock. The market, at least here, has yet to react equilibrium. There are no Mark IIIs to be had, either.I understand what you are saying. I think a typical .22 plinker should cost less than a quality centerfire pistol. I would not want to pay HK, Sig, or even Beretta, or Glock prices for a Ruger MK III or Buckmark, and I don't think the 1911-22 is any better made or a better pistol than the MKIII or Buckmark.
Browning is over charging for these because they can. The market, for now, wants a unique little, quality downsized 1911. It is worth what the market will pay. Whether it can sustain that price point is another matter.
Browning is a marketing, and distribution company. They don't make ANY guns. Other manufacturers make guns for them. FN in Belgium makes the Browning Hi Power, and a subcontracting firm (I don't have the name) makes the Browning Buckmark in the U.S. I forget where Browning rifles and shotguns are made, but they are NOT made by Browning."Subcontractor" has been used in 3 different posts to describe the maker of the 1911-22 and the Buckmark.
Could someone please explain this, and let us know who this mythical company is? They seem to do good work.
That makes me wonder who is making the 1911 22lr now.
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Buck Mark 22 Pistols, Buck Mark 22 rifles and 1911-22. The facility for these firearms in just south of here in Salt Lake City.