A while back during a sale I bought a new Taurus PT-22 for dirt cheap. Its a ugly Beretta copy with DAO and a gold trigger and white grips. Thought it would be a good trail gun. But reliability is some what spotty, and the DAO trigger pull is too darn heavy. I am considering pawning or selling it but I do not even know how much to ask. Any ideas? Or should I just take my losses and try to make it a decent gun?
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toivo
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IMO, they're so cheap to begin with that it's hardly worth selling, unless you really need the money. You can make them work -- keep it clean and lubed, dump those grips for some rubber wrap-arounds, and dry fire it a bunch to smooth out the trigger. Shoot nothing but CCI Mini-mags, and it should work for you. Oh, and pick up a couple of bolt buffers; they have a habit of disintegrating.
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Yeah my Polymer PT22 had constant issues right out of the box and I hated it. Until I switched to CCI minimags. Since then it has had almost 100% reliability.
The trigger will also improve after firing a couple hundred rounds.
If I were you I'd grab some minimags and give the gun a shot. Pun intended.
The trigger will also improve after firing a couple hundred rounds.
If I were you I'd grab some minimags and give the gun a shot. Pun intended.
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Don't "dry fire it to smooth out the trigger". If you do so enough to actually smooth anything, you'll end up "smoothing out" the firing pin edge from peening due to impacting against the chamber edge. This can cause ignition problems (cartridges fail to ignite.)
Most .22LR guns in that size bracket have very stiff recoil springs; they're needed to keep the lightweight slides from suffering stress during cycling. Because of those stiff springs, they tend to be less reliable with standard or low-velocity ammunition. Mine is no exception, but it runs beautifully on MiniMags.
Value on a secondhand PT-22 depends on locale and market; in my area, the "FTF value" is probably right around $120. You'll get less at a gun shop (again, in my area), and even less again at a pawn shop.
Most .22LR guns in that size bracket have very stiff recoil springs; they're needed to keep the lightweight slides from suffering stress during cycling. Because of those stiff springs, they tend to be less reliable with standard or low-velocity ammunition. Mine is no exception, but it runs beautifully on MiniMags.
Value on a secondhand PT-22 depends on locale and market; in my area, the "FTF value" is probably right around $120. You'll get less at a gun shop (again, in my area), and even less again at a pawn shop.
toivo
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Correct -- I should have specified to use snap caps to protect the firing pin and chamber edge. (Peening the chamber edge can cause extraction problems.) You can use #4 wall anchors from the hardware store as a cheap alternative snap cap. Rotate them in the chamber every few "shots" as the plastic gets mashed down by the firing in.
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