dontcatchmany
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Since I put a handgun range in my back yard I have been shooting a lot more and shooting 9mm, 40 S&W, 357 Sig and 45 acp as well as 38 apcl/357 mag and 44 spcl/44 mag. Quickly I realized that my wallet was losing weight.
With arthritis and back and neck problems as well as other ailments my over all shooting accuracy had gotten less precise than I wanted. And I was trying to improve it.
I pulled out the SR22 to get cheaper trigger time to practice all the fundamentals of shooting that had ebbed considerably over the years.
I purchased the SR22 in 2013 and it was always problematic and would only shoot CCI Minimags with anything resembling consistently.
The SR22 became impossible to shoot so I sent it back to Ruger and hope to have it back soon.
Meanwhile I purchased a GSG 1911-22. Did not break the bank and it had some decent reviews.
Got it last Friday and cleaned it and put 10 rounds (CCI again) through it. All went well as I was mostly just familiarizing myself to the gun and had no time for more.
The next day I took it out and immediately had lots of failures to feed the first round and failures to eject. CCI Mini Mags.
Did some research and took out the Dremel and a pointed felt bob and some polishing compound. I removed the paint on the upper slide and frame slide rails and polished it and oiled it so that it was rather "wet" (came from research). Cleaned the gun also.
Went out yesterday started to shoot and every round was going halfway into the chamber and had a couple of rounds stick in the chamber.
What the heck?
I noticed that the ammo had a whiteish substance where the bullet meets the casing and the bullet seemed swollen and yes the ammo had been hard to get out of the box. Looked at the box and the thing had a $19.99 price tag so it was purchased when 22 lr ammo was hard to come by. Do not know what happened but I set it aside and used the brush supplied by GSG to clean out the bore some.
Proceeded to shoot 50 rounds of CCI Mini Mag ammo from a different box and all 50 fired flawlessly.
Then fired 50 rounds of PMC Zapper ammo (had to be old stuff) and all 50 fired flawlessly.
Finished the 50 rounds of the CCI Mini Mag and they all fired flawlessly.
Cleaned the gun up and polished a couple bits of paint that I had overlooked went back out again this am.
100 rounds of CCI were flawless.
Then 50 rounds of lead nosed ammo (Centurion). Had 5 failures to feed.
100 more rounds of CCI and in the first 5 rounds of that, I had a failure to fire and two failures to feed. I am thinking the lead nosed ammo caused that as the remaining 95 rounds were flawless.
Got more shooting to do but I do believe getting the paint off the rails and running the gun wet was the ticket.......and no more lead nosed ammo.
The gun is more accurate than I am, but as I was going round after round with no problems I noticed my accuracy increased quite a bit. It also is heavier and is much like my "real" pistols. I think it will be a good training pistol and maybe I can teach my wife and even my grandsons and maybe granddaughters how to use a semi automatic by starting with this.
Over the last 400 rounds except the lead nosed stuff the GSG worked better than my SR22 ever did. When I get it back I am going to take a closer look at its rails and see if I can do something with it to hopefully make it more reliable.
Sorry for the long post on a 22 lr pistol.
With arthritis and back and neck problems as well as other ailments my over all shooting accuracy had gotten less precise than I wanted. And I was trying to improve it.
I pulled out the SR22 to get cheaper trigger time to practice all the fundamentals of shooting that had ebbed considerably over the years.
I purchased the SR22 in 2013 and it was always problematic and would only shoot CCI Minimags with anything resembling consistently.
The SR22 became impossible to shoot so I sent it back to Ruger and hope to have it back soon.
Meanwhile I purchased a GSG 1911-22. Did not break the bank and it had some decent reviews.
Got it last Friday and cleaned it and put 10 rounds (CCI again) through it. All went well as I was mostly just familiarizing myself to the gun and had no time for more.
The next day I took it out and immediately had lots of failures to feed the first round and failures to eject. CCI Mini Mags.
Did some research and took out the Dremel and a pointed felt bob and some polishing compound. I removed the paint on the upper slide and frame slide rails and polished it and oiled it so that it was rather "wet" (came from research). Cleaned the gun also.
Went out yesterday started to shoot and every round was going halfway into the chamber and had a couple of rounds stick in the chamber.
What the heck?
I noticed that the ammo had a whiteish substance where the bullet meets the casing and the bullet seemed swollen and yes the ammo had been hard to get out of the box. Looked at the box and the thing had a $19.99 price tag so it was purchased when 22 lr ammo was hard to come by. Do not know what happened but I set it aside and used the brush supplied by GSG to clean out the bore some.
Proceeded to shoot 50 rounds of CCI Mini Mag ammo from a different box and all 50 fired flawlessly.
Then fired 50 rounds of PMC Zapper ammo (had to be old stuff) and all 50 fired flawlessly.
Finished the 50 rounds of the CCI Mini Mag and they all fired flawlessly.
Cleaned the gun up and polished a couple bits of paint that I had overlooked went back out again this am.
100 rounds of CCI were flawless.
Then 50 rounds of lead nosed ammo (Centurion). Had 5 failures to feed.
100 more rounds of CCI and in the first 5 rounds of that, I had a failure to fire and two failures to feed. I am thinking the lead nosed ammo caused that as the remaining 95 rounds were flawless.
Got more shooting to do but I do believe getting the paint off the rails and running the gun wet was the ticket.......and no more lead nosed ammo.
The gun is more accurate than I am, but as I was going round after round with no problems I noticed my accuracy increased quite a bit. It also is heavier and is much like my "real" pistols. I think it will be a good training pistol and maybe I can teach my wife and even my grandsons and maybe granddaughters how to use a semi automatic by starting with this.
Over the last 400 rounds except the lead nosed stuff the GSG worked better than my SR22 ever did. When I get it back I am going to take a closer look at its rails and see if I can do something with it to hopefully make it more reliable.
Sorry for the long post on a 22 lr pistol.