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.22 rimfire simi auto pistol.
Any thoughts or experience with these ?

With the weird Calif. laws, these seem to be one of the few .22 pistols available.

I have one with 2 size bbls. Has the red dot sight mounted below the bbl. I have it around for protecting the bird feeder. Fun gun . Shoots very well.

I’ve had 2 and neither were reliable. If there was a way to fail they managed to do it often. A friend has one that runs good but I moved both mine on down the road. Both of mine and his were quite accurate but mine were completely unreliable.

Had one. Wouldn't run without high ve!ocity ammo. Just would not. That said it was great with the right stuff. In fact I gave it to a family member to use a while back when big cities were getting worse than they were. Figured she could handle that better than the 40 Smith I had as a spare. If a fair price get it.

bought one for my daughter when she wanted to learn to shoot, It was available in pink digi camo. it eats everything all the time and is still more accurate than her

the older ones had some reliability issues the newer one seem to have fixed that. can't remember offhand but there's barrel codes on there and after a certain year things seem to get quite a bit better. you can Google that information up and dig through the internet and find that. my current one is funny reliable and quite accurate actually for the size little pistol it is.

I have one that was picky about ammo until it was well broken in. Now it handles most decent ammo reliably. Nice size gun for ease of carry.

I have one that I bought on a whim when they were early on the market. Surprisingly accurate for what it is. Primarily used as a plinker by the kids and grandkids, running through boxes of Walmart bulk ammo, mainly Federal and Winchester, so fast that it would get too hot to handle. Went through thousands of rounds with no cleaning or maintenance and never choked. I’m thinking about getting rid of it, only to reduce the number of guns I’ve got, but will probably give it to one of the kids or grandkids.