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The rimed round .22 was always a LOT harder for the manufacturers to make reliable in mouse guns. It did not help that so many of them over the years have been VERY cheaply made. When you get into some of the more expensive ones they were able to make them work. Of course the ultra cheap pot metal models always sold well because they were so cheap. Many who bought them seldom actually shot them.The old Colt Woodsmans were also wonderful. I inherited a Colt Woodsman Target, from my mother, one of the guns I learned on. A gun that stayed reliable even though it was used so much nearly all the blueing is worn off. I also had a hi standard target .22 with a long barrel with remove able weights that was totally reliable.
I also had a tiny Jennings that was reliable in its own way...it always jammed on the second shot, so was reliably a single shot. Seems to me that while not all full-size .22 semiautos are reliable, the reliable .22 semi autos are always full size. And tiny .22 semi autos are very unlikely to be reliable.