Took wife to the range today for her to shoot the P22. She has never shot a pistol except the 45acp. Really never shot anything until a couple of months ago when she began shooting the ARs and the 45. We were up early and at the range by 08:30. Did not notice until today the she was placing he left hand palm under the grip of the pistol. I was told back in the dark ages that when a gun blows up it usually will blow the mag out of the bottom of the gun and if your hand is there, "it could be a problem." Prolly not a big problem with a .22 but why start doing stuff that may be a problem later?
The Pistol was loaded with the bulk box .22lr Remington Gold ammo which fed and shot without missing a beat in the little pistol. Have been told by someone somewhere that the ammo is dirty and of poor quality..Heard a few say the same about the pistol...It worked and the gun did not have a problem with the ammo. I usually buy Federal but that is what I had and wanted to see if the pistol would have problems.
By 10:00 it felt hotter than 90F so I went inside to look at some new Glock arrivals that had just come in. Finally at 11:00 the wife came in and as my gun shop guy and I were having iced tea I asked her if she had any problems with the gun? "Who me, no I really like my gun."
I figure she shot 450 rounds (looks like maybe 100 left in the box) and after further investigation she did say she had one round that did not feed properly which she cleared and continued shooting..All from a girl who couldn't hardly spell gun 2 months ago! We got home and she did not want me to help clean her gun but wanted to do it herself. She could not get the locking release down on the pistol but finally with trial and error plus the manual which was included in the box she tore the gun down. After cleaning she tried several times to get it back together but again she is small, female, and not gifted with a lot of hand strength. I put that gun together 5 times thinking she was finished trying to "figure it out" just to watch her tear it down again. Finally she got a way of placing the gun butt down on a thick towel to assemble the upper slide on the rails and she managed to do it twice before finally putting the gun in the box........Whew, I think I have created a gun freak! Actually I felt more pride at her caring and working on the gun than I did when she hit her first spent shotgun shell on the ground @ 10 yrds which she was using as a target! I taught her to play Golf and she never gave up; I expect her to be ace of the base (range) in a few months, only time will tell. Her biggest problem is being right handed but left eye dominate.
The Pistol was loaded with the bulk box .22lr Remington Gold ammo which fed and shot without missing a beat in the little pistol. Have been told by someone somewhere that the ammo is dirty and of poor quality..Heard a few say the same about the pistol...It worked and the gun did not have a problem with the ammo. I usually buy Federal but that is what I had and wanted to see if the pistol would have problems.
By 10:00 it felt hotter than 90F so I went inside to look at some new Glock arrivals that had just come in. Finally at 11:00 the wife came in and as my gun shop guy and I were having iced tea I asked her if she had any problems with the gun? "Who me, no I really like my gun."
I figure she shot 450 rounds (looks like maybe 100 left in the box) and after further investigation she did say she had one round that did not feed properly which she cleared and continued shooting..All from a girl who couldn't hardly spell gun 2 months ago! We got home and she did not want me to help clean her gun but wanted to do it herself. She could not get the locking release down on the pistol but finally with trial and error plus the manual which was included in the box she tore the gun down. After cleaning she tried several times to get it back together but again she is small, female, and not gifted with a lot of hand strength. I put that gun together 5 times thinking she was finished trying to "figure it out" just to watch her tear it down again. Finally she got a way of placing the gun butt down on a thick towel to assemble the upper slide on the rails and she managed to do it twice before finally putting the gun in the box........Whew, I think I have created a gun freak! Actually I felt more pride at her caring and working on the gun than I did when she hit her first spent shotgun shell on the ground @ 10 yrds which she was using as a target! I taught her to play Golf and she never gave up; I expect her to be ace of the base (range) in a few months, only time will tell. Her biggest problem is being right handed but left eye dominate.
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