commygun
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I'd love to see a reliable LCP in.22.
Ruger must be kidding!!
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Guillermo
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I picked up this K-22 (a FAR from perfect example as far as finish goes) for 290 (plus shipping and FFL)
I am following a couple as we speak that could go for under 500 (also watching some K-38s and Model 10s)
but my toy money may go to a $500 pristine Python. (Will end up being $600 after shipping and a little gift money for the fellow who put it together)
BTW, this old K-22 has quickly become my favorite range toy. And I have some great shooting guns, including a .38 Officer's Target and a pile of snakes (Python and Diamondbacks) Yes...it shoots that good!!!
Keep looking OneOnce...keep looking. Your patience will be rewarded.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=606976
I am following a couple as we speak that could go for under 500 (also watching some K-38s and Model 10s)
but my toy money may go to a $500 pristine Python. (Will end up being $600 after shipping and a little gift money for the fellow who put it together)BTW, this old K-22 has quickly become my favorite range toy. And I have some great shooting guns, including a .38 Officer's Target and a pile of snakes (Python and Diamondbacks) Yes...it shoots that good!!!
Keep looking OneOnce...keep looking. Your patience will be rewarded.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=606976
Guillermo
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Actually...throwing the gun is the best thing that you can do.
Superman takes the bullets to his back and chest but ducks when the gun is thrown at him!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c8Hsy4opO8
Of course that was an old style forged revolver.
He would take the MIM revolver to his chest and it would shatter
Guillermo-- +1 on the Superman analogy, I had to let out a few chuckles. 
What year is your K-22? Man, that looks just like mine. Did they all have the pinned barrel?
If I can free hand an average of 75% on a pop can at 50 yds it will have a home. My old Tuarus 970 used to, but the cylinder started getting sloppy on four chambers during full lock up so I sold it (used the money to buy this K22). If this K22 can even get close to the accuracy of that 970 I will be happy.
What year is your K-22? Man, that looks just like mine. Did they all have the pinned barrel?
If I can free hand an average of 75% on a pop can at 50 yds it will have a home. My old Tuarus 970 used to, but the cylinder started getting sloppy on four chambers during full lock up so I sold it (used the money to buy this K22). If this K22 can even get close to the accuracy of that 970 I will be happy.
forindooruseonly
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The enthusiasm I've seen for this LCR in a .22, both on this board and on others, has shown me just how out of touch I am with the gun buying public.
oldfool
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2k rimfire rounds is only about 4 decent range trips, Girodin
unless you are old and slow to reload like me, then it's 6 trips
(no point in wasting such a small handful of rounds out of them 333 round mini-bricks, you know, they might age too long by next week, and go bad on you)
If some average joe can't dump 333 rounds an hour (less than one reload a minute, without any hurry, 3 seconds of shooting, at 'speed' too embarrassing slow for a shot timer, with a hitch in their giddyup, and 57 seconds of every 60 to leisurely reload on average, sip orange juice, and light a cigarette every now and then) they be even slower than me, or they just don't practice DA triple DTs
Do that with a 6" k-22/17 real regular, and you just might be surprised at how much your hit ratio on soda pop cans at 15 yards improves with a 6" k-19/66 shooting only 50 rounds a week thru 'em.
for us that don't reload, it ain't a poor investment
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that ain't no big red S under G's cape, skidder
(it's a Pony logo, slightly obscured and distorted by gunpowder stain)
and his k-22 is '53 vintage, shoots good even if it do rotate the cylinder "backwards"
I will bet those pop cans come out on the losing end of that 50 yard contest, skidder, if your hands are good enough... plan on buying up a good supply of hard foam practice golf balls
welcome to the k-22 club
unless you are old and slow to reload like me, then it's 6 trips
(no point in wasting such a small handful of rounds out of them 333 round mini-bricks, you know, they might age too long by next week, and go bad on you)
If some average joe can't dump 333 rounds an hour (less than one reload a minute, without any hurry, 3 seconds of shooting, at 'speed' too embarrassing slow for a shot timer, with a hitch in their giddyup, and 57 seconds of every 60 to leisurely reload on average, sip orange juice, and light a cigarette every now and then) they be even slower than me, or they just don't practice DA triple DTs
Do that with a 6" k-22/17 real regular, and you just might be surprised at how much your hit ratio on soda pop cans at 15 yards improves with a 6" k-19/66 shooting only 50 rounds a week thru 'em.
for us that don't reload, it ain't a poor investment
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that ain't no big red S under G's cape, skidder
(it's a Pony logo, slightly obscured and distorted by gunpowder stain)
and his k-22 is '53 vintage, shoots good even if it do rotate the cylinder "backwards"
I will bet those pop cans come out on the losing end of that 50 yard contest, skidder, if your hands are good enough... plan on buying up a good supply of hard foam practice golf balls
welcome to the k-22 club
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Guillermo
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Skidder,
Mine (I know thanks to Radagast on the "DOB S&W" thread) is a 1953.
Yes they all had pinned barrels back then before they were "improved".
I was popping a telephone pole at 90 yards (as measured by pacing it) about 50% of the time after dusk (there was a berm behind it but I couldn't see my front sight real well.)
Truly amazing guns.
Mine (I know thanks to Radagast on the "DOB S&W" thread) is a 1953.
Yes they all had pinned barrels back then before they were "improved".
I was popping a telephone pole at 90 yards (as measured by pacing it) about 50% of the time after dusk (there was a berm behind it but I couldn't see my front sight real well.)
Truly amazing guns.
Guillermo
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in stereotypical asian voice
you mista fool are funny man
you make me go ha ha
buy me drink joe?
BTW...OF is right. The damned cylinder is defective. Rotates bass ackwards
CajunBass
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When the LCR came out, a lot of people said "I wish they'd make it in 22." Well now they have.
For some reason people seem to think of a 22 as a toy or something, and think it should be priced like a toy. Then when one comes along that IS priced like a toy (think Rough Rider), "they" complain that the quality isn't up to the standard of a centerfire gun.
You can't have it both ways.
For some reason people seem to think of a 22 as a toy or something, and think it should be priced like a toy. Then when one comes along that IS priced like a toy (think Rough Rider), "they" complain that the quality isn't up to the standard of a centerfire gun.
You can't have it both ways.
Guillermo
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cajunbass is right.
If you want a quality product it is not going to be ultra cheap. Or vice versa.
Besides.
MSRP oft bears little resemblance to "street price".
Wait and see
If you want a quality product it is not going to be ultra cheap. Or vice versa.
Besides.
MSRP oft bears little resemblance to "street price".
Wait and see
Snowbandit
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I think it's great that Ruger brings these to market. Now, if everyone will kindly trade their old "j" and k-frame Smiths for one I might even get another revolver for myself.
That's the truth - I saw a beautiful snubby SW Model 63 awhile ago for $625. Too much for my blood.
I had a 317 - trigger was set for folks who live on a 2.5G planet. What a trigger pull
There's nothing wrong with the gun for fun and despite the fears of meth head, zombie, giant, love struck football coaches after you - it will probably work in the vast majority of SD cases.
I had a 317 - trigger was set for folks who live on a 2.5G planet. What a trigger pull
There's nothing wrong with the gun for fun and despite the fears of meth head, zombie, giant, love struck football coaches after you - it will probably work in the vast majority of SD cases.
"Superman takes the bullets to his back and chest but ducks when the gun is thrown at him!!!
Of course that was an old style forged revolver.
He would take the MIM revolver to his chest and it would shatter"
Actually, this is not correct.
MIM has the same Rockwell hardness as Kryptonite.
That is why Superman ducks.
gd
Of course that was an old style forged revolver.
He would take the MIM revolver to his chest and it would shatter"
Actually, this is not correct.
MIM has the same Rockwell hardness as Kryptonite.
That is why Superman ducks.
gd
Guillermo
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I guess that early MIM (1953) was different than it is today.
Even MIM is getting worse!!! :banghead:
MCgunner
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.22 trainers? Nah, I shoot my own handloads for less money, cast my own. All I need pay for is 2.7 grains of Bulleye and a primer per round. You can get set up to handload, even with a Dillon progressive, for 500 bucks. A single stage handloader will be a lot less.
A single stage handloader will be a lot less.Guillermo is using selective logic here to advance a poorly conceived argument.
What did Superman do with the bad guy's gun?
He would crush them in between his two hands (while the bad guy looked on in astonishment and awe).
In other words, he was making...MIM!
gd
What did Superman do with the bad guy's gun?
He would crush them in between his two hands (while the bad guy looked on in astonishment and awe).
In other words, he was making...MIM!
gd
The thing JUST hit the market. Of course they're going to ask full MSRP. Same thing happened with the regular LCR. The people that have to be the first kids on the block to have one will pony up ... and the rest of the people who want one will wait a few months till the "street price" is established (prob. close to the .38 special LCR). We see this all the time regardless of the product. Go to an auto dealer when the latest greatest model first arrives and they add an "additional dealer mark up" to the price... yeah MORE than MSRP.
Once the "newness" wears off , I'm sure the price will come down... and how much does a comparable J frame in .22lr cost?
Once the "newness" wears off , I'm sure the price will come down... and how much does a comparable J frame in .22lr cost?
Guillermo
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gdesloge
Here is Superman ducking a forged revolver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3DnAgyQoAk
kryptonite is just as scary as an early S&W to the man of steel
(waiting for you to show us superman creating MIM and an internal lock
)
Here is Superman ducking a forged revolver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3DnAgyQoAk
kryptonite is just as scary as an early S&W to the man of steel
(waiting for you to show us superman creating MIM and an internal lock
)oldfool
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Lex Luther was the evil genius behind ILS, G
shucks, I thunk everybody knew that
(yo, let's talk skidder into auctioning off that '48 vintage K-22)
shucks, I thunk everybody knew that
(yo, let's talk skidder into auctioning off that '48 vintage K-22)
the price is not completely Ruger's fault. Ruger can price that .22 $100 higher and some will still buy it.
It's the huge demand...people are going for them like rabid drooling shoppers at a Wal-Mart store that just opened on "Black Friday"
get a nice pre-lock Smith and be done with it
It's the huge demand...people are going for them like rabid drooling shoppers at a Wal-Mart store that just opened on "Black Friday"
get a nice pre-lock Smith and be done with it
Guillermo
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Old Fool...
sit down
gonna type something and don't want you to fall and hurt yourself.
Getting my paws on a pristine '48 K-22 would be higher on my list than a .22 Diamondback.
Or at least just as high...and a hell of a lot more likely (due to price)
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One of the reasons I didn't buy a LCR for concealment was because I didn't feel I would practice enough with it to be proficient. I hate, hate, haaate small pistols!
If I could have a revolver that felt the same, came out of a holster the same and had the same sights, I would definitely go for it. 2000 rounds to break even is nothing, it would pay for itself in a year, plus I would feel more at ease carrying a smaller gun being confident in my abilities with it and being comfortable while doing it.
If I could have a revolver that felt the same, came out of a holster the same and had the same sights, I would definitely go for it. 2000 rounds to break even is nothing, it would pay for itself in a year, plus I would feel more at ease carrying a smaller gun being confident in my abilities with it and being comfortable while doing it.
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