Well I got a Taurus PLY22 a while back and finally got around to shooting it this weekend.
At first I was very unhappy with it. I was shooting Federal Champion ammo and every single shot I fired jammed because it failed to cycle the slide far enough to actually eject the casing. It was literally having to be cleared after every single shot. I fired quite a few rounds before I got extremely annoyed and switched ammo.
I tried Federal Automatch afterwards (this stuff usually works great in all of my .22lr semi automatic pistols) and had better results but still were not very impressive. I still didn't get very many full magazines off without a hitch with this stuff but it performed waaaay better than the Champion ammo.
I was just about to call the PLY22 a lost cause and was starting to genuinely hate it when I switched to CCI Stingers. The gun then worked perfectly. I mean 150+ rounds without a single failure of any kind. Accuracy was limited by my skill with the DAO trigger but I could still easily hit coffee cans at 10 yards.
I now love this little gun. It takes consistently hot ammunition for it to function properly all the time but with the right load it performed with perfect reliability. I intend to see if I can find a cheaper ammo to use with it but I'm ok with Stingers as long as I get the same kind of performance from it with them.
Both types of ammo worked flawlessly in the Beretta Neos so the Taurus is just picky and requires hot ammo to overcome the heavy hammer spring and force the slide back quickly enough for it to properly function.
At first I was very unhappy with it. I was shooting Federal Champion ammo and every single shot I fired jammed because it failed to cycle the slide far enough to actually eject the casing. It was literally having to be cleared after every single shot. I fired quite a few rounds before I got extremely annoyed and switched ammo.
I tried Federal Automatch afterwards (this stuff usually works great in all of my .22lr semi automatic pistols) and had better results but still were not very impressive. I still didn't get very many full magazines off without a hitch with this stuff but it performed waaaay better than the Champion ammo.
I was just about to call the PLY22 a lost cause and was starting to genuinely hate it when I switched to CCI Stingers. The gun then worked perfectly. I mean 150+ rounds without a single failure of any kind. Accuracy was limited by my skill with the DAO trigger but I could still easily hit coffee cans at 10 yards.
I now love this little gun. It takes consistently hot ammunition for it to function properly all the time but with the right load it performed with perfect reliability. I intend to see if I can find a cheaper ammo to use with it but I'm ok with Stingers as long as I get the same kind of performance from it with them.
Both types of ammo worked flawlessly in the Beretta Neos so the Taurus is just picky and requires hot ammo to overcome the heavy hammer spring and force the slide back quickly enough for it to properly function.