walther p22

[unclebriar]

Any one have any problems with the P22? Just bought one today and it jams alot with Walmart Federals, but does fine with CCI Stingers. Does it need to be broke in or does it have to like the high dollar stuff? This is my first Walther 22 so I don't know what the problem is. Thanks

 

[pauli]

i've seen mixed reports... a lot of people say theirs only likes good stuff, and plenty of others subsist on cheap bulk packs.

i'm gonna pay for one tomorrow (and then wait three whole days to pick it up...), and i'll see what i get

 

[Jake]

From my experience with my daughter's and from what I've heard, they do tend to have a break in period were you are better off running hi-velocity ammo.

 

[mfree]

I picked mine up last week and went through it since I haven't had time to take it to the range yet... and I just happened to have ~390 rounds of wallyworld fed bulk pack sitting around.

The problem that the P22 has with Fed BP is the shape of the bullet, how soft the lead is, and the *very* sharp machine line at the mouth of the chamber. The angle and smoothness of the feed ramp is alright, but there's a little relief to accomodate the cartridge rim, and that edge is like a razor. I took 1/16" slivers out of every bullet I manually chambered before I figured out what was going on.

So, I took my warranty into my own hands and did a very tiny relief. .22LR doesn't need 100% case support since it's not reloadable, 99.9% should do... but don't take my word as gospel, I'm just a yahoo with a set of needle files and spare time.

I can, however, now manually chamber a full clip of fed bulk pack without shaving chunks off the bullets or getting any stuck at the mouth of the chamber.

I can't get to the range to try it.... Actually, what I can't wait to do is take the barrel to the local college's CAD/CAM shop and see if I can have a barrel for .17 Mach 2 made

 

[GigaBuist]

I've run 1k of Remington Bulk Packs through mine now. I've had, oh, perhaps 20 failures to feed. Plenty of failures to fire but a double-strike takes care of that.

My only real beef with it is the safety will flip on accidentally pretty easily. Seems racking the slide tends to push it back towards safe. Only a consideration on the range I suppose. It has flicked to safe a couple of times on me in the middle of a mag though.

 

[Dave Bean]

I went to my local range today, they had a P22 as a range gun for rental purposes. The pin that holds the safety broke a while back and it was fixed.

HOWEVER, the slide is apparently made from the sintering process, powdered metal forming a shape from extremely high pressures. The slide sheared in half and (from what the owner told me) it flew back towards the shooter. I'm trying to convince him to take digital pictures of it. I would have thought that the slide was at least be formed by casting. Forging would be much better, but may not be necessary for a 22.

Possibly more to come...

Dave Bean

 

[Craig M. Arnold]

P22

I had a very early P22. I could not get it to fire a full magazine without jamming (FTF). This was with several different types of ammo. I finally sent it back to Smith & Wesson and they sent me a new pistol. The new one did not function any better than the first one. So I continued to work with it. After a lot of adjustment and some new magazines from Smith & Wesson the P22 worked most of the time. However, I finally got tired of messing with it and sold it. I am sticking with my Browning Buckmark now.

 

[Night Guy]

Mine didn't like anything but CCI Mini Mags for the first ~500 rounds or so, after that I've fed it Federal bulk back stuff from Walmart without a problem. The gun's not 100% perfect, but it works well enough at the range. I can generally shoot a couple hundred rounds with about 4-5 failures of some kind. That's acceptable to me in a plinker.

 

[DougB]

I don't have a P22 (yet), but for what it's worth, I have a couple of other small .22 pistols (PPK clones) that don't like the Federal bulk ammo, but work great with Remington (also available at my local Wal-Mart for the same price as Federal). I wouldn't blame your P22 until you try some brands other than Federal (to include Remington). With my guns, cheap ammo wasn't the problem, it was cheap FEDERAL ammo.

Doug

 

[denfoote]

I dunno.
For about $800 (That's with the tax stamp) I can get a P22, threaded barrel, equiped WITH a supressor!!!
Saw it in my dealer's case yesterday!!