Pure Kustom
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A picture is worth a 1000 words.................I should have taken a picture of my chin
Ow. Glad you're okay.
I think that'll be covered by the warantee...
nice clean break!
Circumstances?
Ammo?
Clamp-on doo-dad restricting slide movement?
A few less than 1000 words will do.
Were there any warnings? Stiffer and stiffer slide movement?
Any evidence of cracking when you cleaned it?
Yep. P22 is a gun I refuse to buy, no matter how great of a host it would be for my silencers.
aaaaaaaand another reason why I wear shooting glasses.
How old is that P22 and does that happen on the P99 too?
I have never heard of this happening to a P99, but it seems to be a somewhat common problem with the P22s.
Sorry, dude. Hopefully they'll make it right for you.
Wow...glad you are okay. They should be able to cover it under warranty.
On the bright side, with .22s, the manufacturer can't blame you for using reloads.
The P22 and P99 look similar but are utterly different guns. Walther doesn't even make the P22. It's made by Umarex.
The P99 also doesn't have a cast zinc slide. That seems to help.
The slide failures on the P22 (there have been several reported) do seem to be much more common on the fake compensator model.
EDIT: I should add that Zinc alloys and casting have improved. They don't suck as bad as they used to, but they still suck.
Yup, always seems to be at the same place for the P22. Right in line with the front sight hole where the slide is the weakest. Just waiting for mine to break.
Actually, every single broken P22 slide I've seen has been on the fake compensator models.Thanks atblis, I was thinking that but the compensator. Does change anything to the slide. I think it is just the pot metal and the sight hole lol
If I understand MIM correctly then it can't be "cast" zinc since metal used in MIM parts never reaches melting point, even during sintering. It's injected as a powder and then sintered to expel the binders and bind the metal.