Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns looking for a good 22 auto pistol

just heard back from my FFL guy.....Walther P22

as shown in pic.....I like the high viz front sight......

portability ..two tone frame......SA/DA........

we'll see.........$350 + tax....

what do they make the slides out of these days? Zinc alloy? What holds me back from buying the smaller guns from the major manufacturers is my perception that the materials they use are designed for a limited lifetime. Someone correct me if I am wrong. I guess I would rather spend another $200 dollars to get something that would still be working long after I am not able to use it. People used to sneer if you had an RG revolver made out of pot metal, and now its come into fashion.

Not me brother.....I have bought a couple of shellacked cow turds in my life when younger and with much less wisdom.

The gun has a cast polymer grip frame with a slide and frame receiver inserts made from metal injection molding cast zinc alloy. The barrel consists of a rifled steel insert containing within a steel barrel sleeve.

yep........slide from zinc as per U Tube vids

picked it up yesterday.......gave her a good cleaning.......

ran 100+ rds of Win 333 out.....a few duds.......

otherwise functions fine.......not too bad to pull down/clean

nice pocket gun.......did come with 2 magazines also

If I was in the market for a .22 auto pistol I'd watch gunbroker until a nice High Standard Sport King showed up.

There's some nice ones on there right now, as a matter of fact.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/784444735

looks good. i had one of the early walther p22s and it wouldnt feed for sheet. mostly unusable, which was unfortunate bc they are handy little pieces.

Tough to beat.

Yeah, truly worthy. My favorite Mk II is the 10" version but the Gov't Target comes a very close second especially with a little trigger work.

Tom

One of my Bucket List guns. Oh how I kick myself for walking past them when they were common.

Probably easier to ask for recommendations for an unreliable, inaccurate 22lr pistol.

Bought a 10” Mark II 30 years ago and loved it. Shot like a rifle......Then one day sold it in a fit of stupidity.

Happened across another rare model that I had long wanted a few years ago in a 678 Target Tapered and it shoots great too. And in a handier package.

Still I’m intrigued by the lightweights.

remember.....this is a handy little sucker........

fits in front pocket nicely.........

tikk a buddy of mine has one every body that shoots it love it I will buy one soon

"looking for a good 22 auto pistol"

Almost any of them except a Sig Mosquito.

Mine is a Mk II 5 1/2" Target - feeds & fires anything and is far more accurate than I can hold.

I have one of those GSG 1911 22lr pistols.Shoots very accurately.

I have several brands and models of semi auto 22s.

But the 22 handguns that give my old shaky hands and dim eyes are the S&W K22 revolver with scope and the Colt Officers model revolver with homemade scope mount.

I have a Colt Woodsman Target that I made a clamp on scope mount for. When we shoot it, my groups are twice as large as my brother's. I think that trigger pull consistency is easier with a heavy fat revolver from the bags.

maybe you shoulda made a clamp on pistol vice to go along with the clamp on scope mount. Thatta way you could maybe shoot as good as the heavy fat revolver from bags. Maybe even some clamp on bags would help. With enuff 'clamps', anything is possible.......

I have one too. Excellent .22lr semi auto. Most people have never heard of them.

interesting............


https://www.gunbroker.com/item/784815293

Bud's has em too.....$252 shipped !

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I believe it is an interesting gun. Same size and weight as the 1911 - .45 ACP.
Take down is slightly different.
I would prefer it without the extended grip safety but that is just me.
Here is my ATI back when it was ne.
Not quite so pretty today but it still shoots well.