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A while back I purchased a new TX22. I loved the ergos, weight, price and 16rd mags. The trigger and sights were nothing to write home about, but they were fine enough for casual plinking. Unfortunately, the gun was plagued with issues. The gun would constantly stovepipe, and fail to extract. Additionally, the mags had a tendency to nose dive the top round into the front of the magazine wall.
After a deep clean or 4, and struggling to give it a break in period of 500 rounds, the gun was no closer to being a reliable shooter.
The first bit of work I did was give the frame rails and feed ramp a slight fluff n buff. Nothing major, just a buffing wheel and some Mother's Mag polish to clean up some machining slop and smooth out the bearing surfaces. That actually cleared up my FTE problems. Though, the mags were still causing a significant feeding issue.
My solution was to completely clean them with soapy water (they had a lot of plastic debris in the mag body) and then apply some Lucas Slick Mist to all of the pieces.
With my fingers crossed and my bung hole puckered, I took it out and ran it through it's paces. My efforts payed dividends as the gun ran perfectly. Another 500 rounds of various ammo flawlessly ran through it and I figured it was a great little gun.
Fast forward a bit and I was shooting the little Bull at 100 yards. I kid you not when I say it was printing a 8-9 foot group. Thinking it may have been my sanity and skill leaving me, I took some shots at the 100y plate with my old ruger .22. I had no issues hitting the 12in plate a few times each mag and keeping the rounds all within a foot of the target.
So, I put out a paper target at 25 yards and took some shots with both guns. The ruger printed a 4in group, and the Taurus...well did not.
Key Holes!!!!!
This was with federal automatch. I tried some Remington thunderbolt at 15 yards and had much better results. I guess this little gun really hates automatch. I also shot the gun at 30 yards on paper with the thunderbolt and while the group was not great, I didn't witness any keyholing.
I do need to find a round this gun wants to be accurate with. While the gun shoots everything reliably, my best group at 25 yards was about 8in; over twice that of my ruger. Who knows, maybe that's all it wants to shoot.
After a deep clean or 4, and struggling to give it a break in period of 500 rounds, the gun was no closer to being a reliable shooter.
The first bit of work I did was give the frame rails and feed ramp a slight fluff n buff. Nothing major, just a buffing wheel and some Mother's Mag polish to clean up some machining slop and smooth out the bearing surfaces. That actually cleared up my FTE problems. Though, the mags were still causing a significant feeding issue.
My solution was to completely clean them with soapy water (they had a lot of plastic debris in the mag body) and then apply some Lucas Slick Mist to all of the pieces.
With my fingers crossed and my bung hole puckered, I took it out and ran it through it's paces. My efforts payed dividends as the gun ran perfectly. Another 500 rounds of various ammo flawlessly ran through it and I figured it was a great little gun.
Fast forward a bit and I was shooting the little Bull at 100 yards. I kid you not when I say it was printing a 8-9 foot group. Thinking it may have been my sanity and skill leaving me, I took some shots at the 100y plate with my old ruger .22. I had no issues hitting the 12in plate a few times each mag and keeping the rounds all within a foot of the target.
So, I put out a paper target at 25 yards and took some shots with both guns. The ruger printed a 4in group, and the Taurus...well did not.
Key Holes!!!!!
This was with federal automatch. I tried some Remington thunderbolt at 15 yards and had much better results. I guess this little gun really hates automatch. I also shot the gun at 30 yards on paper with the thunderbolt and while the group was not great, I didn't witness any keyholing.
I do need to find a round this gun wants to be accurate with. While the gun shoots everything reliably, my best group at 25 yards was about 8in; over twice that of my ruger. Who knows, maybe that's all it wants to shoot.
