Should I buy another p22?

[gadgetguy1288]

I had one about a year ago, but had to let it go to pay some bills I found one locally with everything it comes with, <500 rounds through it, and both mags are "b", for $250. I have the funds available at the current time.

What say you?

 

[PT1911]

my p22 is the most fun to shoot of just about any gun I own... it isnt the most powerful, the most accurate, the highest capacity or the best in any category except just plain fun. I find them to be well worth the price... and even a good fishing gun with a fobus hip holster.

 

[jbkebert]

I sold mine and wish that I never had. Would like to have that little thing back. If you have the funds go for it.

 

[BHP FAN]

Gawd, I'm glad I got off of mine.Buy a Ruger.

 

[atomd]

Gawd, I'm glad I got off of mine.Buy a Ruger.

+1. I like the idea of the P22 but I don't like the P22. It's a tempting gun though but in reality it didn't work out so well. I think for the same price or less, Ruger has a pistol made of higher quality materials.

 

[searcher451]

The P22 is a toy on steroids and wasn't made to be a long-lasting, works-forever, repair-it-when-it-breaks pistol. If you want to shoot it a lot, you might as well get another one now at today's prices because, somewhere down the road, it's going to up and die on you, and there won't be a thing that you can do to pump life back into its zinc/plastic carcass. At that point, throw it away and pull out another one, I guess -- or get yourself a real .22 instead and use it for a lifetime.

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

I've got a P22 and I use it a great deal for practice.


Here's my beef with Rugers. Why can't Ruger make their .22s to at least look, act, and feels something like a full size SD-gun. Ruger .22s look and feel like Buck Roger's toys.

 

[nwilliams]

Here's my beef with Rugers. Why can't Ruger make their .22s to at least look, act, and feels something like a full size SD-gun. Ruger .22s look and feel like Buck Roger's toys.

That's how I feel about the P22 and Sig Mosquito, I've owned both and sold both after a short time. They don't feel like real guns, they feel like toys guns to me. The Ruger feels like a real gun to me, hefty, accurate, reliable and comes in all sorts of configurations to fit your specific shooting needs. The Ruger will last for decades and the P22, who knows.

However the P22 does look cool and it is very fun to shoot, so it does have that going for it.

 

[Publius1688]

I got rid of mine and don't miss it. Really really wanted to like it---love the IDEA of the P22, and tried hard to learn to love it, but it wasn't for me.
These days, my .22 plinker is a Colt Officer Match wheelgun. Beat up, Butt-ugly and ancient, but accurate and jam-free.

 

[wow6599]

No.
I had one for a short time.......better guns out there for the money.

 

[Rem700SD]

I own a P22 and a Sig Mosquito. I finally decided to spring for a real, solid .22 and bought a Ruger MkIII target model. The Ruger is by far my favorite .22, and I'm not a Ruger fan.

Buy a solid .22 and you won't miss the P22

 

[phrogpilot]

I've got a S&W 617; perhaps the best .22 on the market today; it's accuracy astounds me. I also have a Ruger MkII target, which is accurate and reliable. The one I have the most fun shooting though is the Sig Mosquito; it feels like a duty gun, has a little flip of recoil after each shot, and is accurate enough. Mine was made earlier this year and has been totally reliable. I broke it in using CCI Mini Mags, and after the initial 500 rounds, it is fine using Blazer and Federal Bulk from WalMart. I have no experience with the P22; it felt too small in my hands when I looked at them.

 

[Big Bill]

NO - buy something better.

 

[swiftak]

I will sell you mine for 100.00 bucks.................................

 

[KBintheSLC]

I loved the look and feel of the P22, but was pretty disappointed with the performance after renting one. I went with a Sig P226 in a pre-configured 22 LR format and I have never looked back.

I would love to have a P22 that is machined... not cast pot metal. The unit I rented felt very cheap, and it was very picky about ammo. The Sig was more expensive than the P22, but the quality difference is in a much higher class. There is really no comparison actually.

 

[Publius1688]

I think Walther/Smith & Wesson did a bad thing with the P22. I'm always in the market for a new pistol, more or less, and I've not even considered the modern Walthers-which are probably good weapons, because of my bad experience with the P22.

 

[Phydeaux642]

I've got one that I wish that I had never purchased. It works fine, but I would have rather spent the money on a model 17 or 18. I'll probably try to sell it some time in the future now that the prices have gone up.

 

[leadaddict]

I traded mine away for an older Dillon Reloading Press. (still need some parts for it ) I found it to be ammunition picky and very much disliked the 5" barrel extension. It wasn't solid at all. I'm not sad it's gone. I have a Ruger Mark III now, and haven't looked back.