someguy2800
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I’ve been tinkering with this LCP 22 for a bit and just wanted to share this little anecdotal experience.
When I bought this pistol it shot high and right by a lot so I filed the rear sight down to correct the elevation and filed the left side of the front sight to correct the windage. I overshot the windage a bit on the first try and I ended up chasing that back and forth. Long story short I finally had to file the front sight off completely and tig weld a new front sight blade on, but after that I was a bit more patient and finally got it perfect.
Shooting 36 gr mini mags off a sand bag it shot about a 3” group at 15 yards, which I think is quite respectable from a tiny little mouse gun. After cleaning up all my file marks and polishing the slide I dropped it off at my buddy to cerakote the slide and barrel. He did OD green on the slide and was able to coat the sights and barrel black for me and he did a great job.
First thing I noticed putting it back together is that the barrel fits much tighter in the slide than before. I had to sand the finish inside the barrel bushing just a tiny bit to get it back together. Before you could move the barrel in the slide a good bit and now it’s a very tight fit.
That tighter fit payed off as it now shoots around a 3” group at 30 yards, which is nothing to write home about for a target 22, but I’m ecstatic with that for a mouse gun the size of my wallet. It doesn’t seamed to have caused any reliability issues either. I’ve had a couple light primer strikes for no failures to feed or eject since coating it.
Now I’m curious how long it will take for the coating to wear off.
When I bought this pistol it shot high and right by a lot so I filed the rear sight down to correct the elevation and filed the left side of the front sight to correct the windage. I overshot the windage a bit on the first try and I ended up chasing that back and forth. Long story short I finally had to file the front sight off completely and tig weld a new front sight blade on, but after that I was a bit more patient and finally got it perfect.
Shooting 36 gr mini mags off a sand bag it shot about a 3” group at 15 yards, which I think is quite respectable from a tiny little mouse gun. After cleaning up all my file marks and polishing the slide I dropped it off at my buddy to cerakote the slide and barrel. He did OD green on the slide and was able to coat the sights and barrel black for me and he did a great job.
First thing I noticed putting it back together is that the barrel fits much tighter in the slide than before. I had to sand the finish inside the barrel bushing just a tiny bit to get it back together. Before you could move the barrel in the slide a good bit and now it’s a very tight fit.
That tighter fit payed off as it now shoots around a 3” group at 30 yards, which is nothing to write home about for a target 22, but I’m ecstatic with that for a mouse gun the size of my wallet. It doesn’t seamed to have caused any reliability issues either. I’ve had a couple light primer strikes for no failures to feed or eject since coating it.
Now I’m curious how long it will take for the coating to wear off.