S&W Victory .22

[bannockburn]

MarkDido

Sorry to hear about your Victory takedown screw problem. I read a few early reviews where the screw came loose or wouldn't stay put without Loctite to keep it in place. Maybe this over torqued situation with your pistol was S&W's answer to the problem.

 

[anothernewb]

Have to admit mine was a bear to break loose as well. Have heard of people with success using an O ring to keep the screw from loosening in the future, without resorting to excessive torque.

 

[MarkDido]

Have to admit mine was a bear to break loose as well. Have heard of people with success using an O ring to keep the screw from loosening in the future, without resorting to excessive torque.

I've seen the o-ring trick and also the use of a lock washer.

 

[Mr.Revolverguy]

Love my Victory

 

[MarkDido]

Can't wait to shoot mine.
For some unknown reason, I moved away from rimfire several years ago in favor or bigger calibers, but just
recently I have rediscovered the joy of spending all day at the range with a couple of 550 round boxes of .22

 

[wally]

The things the Beretta has going for it are the itty bitty grip and ultra light weight feeling in hand.

That and the fact it looks more like a SciFi movie prop gun than a "scary" real gun, not intimidating at all to new shooters. Biggest negative to me is that the safety rotates the wrong way.

My favorite is the S&W M22A 7.5" fluted bull barrel. I've run over 100K rounds through mine, its been back to S&W three times, once for an out of the box defect, but so far they have always fixed it for free and paid the shipping both ways. I'd have a Victory if it used the M22A mags -- looks like S&W did with the M22A mags going to the Victory what Ruger did with the Mk II mags when going to the MkIII just enough to make them incompatible