Posted: 3/7/2009 9:56:08 PM EDT
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Hey all,
Just bought a Walther P22. Since picking it up, I've heard that people have had some problems with them, specifically feeding issues. Has anybody heard anything? What do you all think of them? Thanks! |
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Use hot ammo and keep the chamber clean. Mine will eat anything as long as the chamber is clean. It will eat the bulk pack cheap stuff until it fouls the chamber and then the slide will not go all the way home and "click" instead of bang.
If I use lower powered ammo, the safety will walk to the safe position and "click" instead of bang It will run all day long on Stingers and Velocitors. They seem to be cleaner burning than most and are hot enough to not get the "safety dance". Don't know how that works, but it does. Fun plinker and looks cool. My 10yr old son likes it a lot. |
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CCI Mini-Mags are the gold standard; use them, and you likely won't have any issues. I'd definitely recommend using them for the first few hundred rounds.
But, it will likely work just fine with bulk ammo, perhaps better with some brands than others. Many P22 owners recommend Remington Golden Bullets; personally, mine seems to work just fine with the Federal bulk pack from Walmart. I still get the occasional failure to strip a fresh round from the magazine (like maybe one in a hundred shots), but it's not a big deal. The hotter stuff will definitely work better, but you'll just have to decide for yourself if it's worth the price. Many of the problems that have been reported with the P22, such as the walking-safety issue mentioned above, were with the older models. If you have a new gun, my bet is that it will treat you right. |
| That might be true because I bought mine when they first came out. I can live with new bugs but the fact that a return to the factory with no improvement will never sit well with me. I have a CZ Kadet conversion on top of one of my frames and that thing has ran perfectly so far. I always liked the look, feel, and size of the Walther but unreliable even in finicky .22's is unacceptable. Good luck, I hope yours runs well. |
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Also, download the "P22 Bible" if you haven't already:
P22 Bible It provides some great information on assembly and disassembly, one recommended modification for all P22s (trigger bar ear polishing), and some modifications for problems with the older guns such as the safety issue that was mentioned. |
| Don't mean to be rude but any gun that requires I read its "bible" isn't worth my money. Buy something that works the first time you use it. I am not trying to troll, but hopefully people read stuff like this before they buy something and find out that they bought crap. These issues aren't isolated. |
| Yea I bought 1, then I got my son 1, One of my friends that I shoot with got 1, then my sister-in-law got 1. Out of those 4 mine was a piece of crap out of the box. I had small issues from day 1. The other 3 have worked fine and never missed a lick. The shop where I got mine helped me send it in for repairs ( which took forever ) and it is still a piece of crap. So I got rid or it.....Just got a bad one i guess..... |
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mine needed about 20 rounds or so to "break in" after that it eats anything i throw at now. especially with the can installed.
the only down side is cheap build and parts are damn near impossible to get. took me almost 8 months to get a replacement hammer from walther/S&W. |
| I read stuff like you guys having a great gun and it almost makes me want to try again. I loved the size, ergos, everything about the p22. It just wouldn't shoot or work worth a damn. The problem is that if I got another and it was a lemon, its the old "fool me twice, shame on me". |
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Everyone should have to read the P22 bible before purchasing one, so they know what they're getting into. I wish I had. Define "older" P22. Mine is only 3 or 4 years old and the safety walks all over the place. pull the safety and lightly strech the spring or replace it with a longer on from a pen. that fixed mine permanantly. |