S&W 22x Thoughts?

[icampnw]

Anyone own one of these? I was leaning on the TX22 TORO until I came upon the 22x recently.

Goal is to have a higher capacity 22 pistol that feeds reliably suppressed and unsuppressed for range use.

Thanks everyone.

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[kmk1012]

I hadn't heard much about it but the specs look good. 20 round capacity, threaded, familiar grip-what's not to like? I have the Taurus TX22, got it when it first came out. I use it as my beater gun, I have several nice Ruger MKIV 22/45 builds for more precision work. You should buy one of the S&W's and give up a range report.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Anyone own one of these? I was leaning on the TX22 TORO until I came upon the 22x recently.

Goal is to have a higher capacity 22 pistol that feeds reliably suppressed and unsuppressed for range use.

Thanks everyone.

No experience with that s&w. Have the s&w/Walther sp22. All of these semi auto. 23lr handguns have been 100% reliable for me (yes 22lr will have some bad ammo at times wspecially if you use Winchester or Remington garbage ammo -which I don't). I shoot all of them mostly suppressed with subsonics. Of course higher velocity ammo works also.

Best gun -

Grand power k22

Excellent guns -

Taurus tx22
Beretta/walther m9
Walther ppks
Colt/walther 1911
Buckmark
S&w sp22

Good guns but less accurate -

Walther p22Q
Hammerli Walther forge h1

 

[kmk1012]

No experience with that s&w. Have the s&w/Walther sp22. All of these semi auto. 23lr handguns have been 100% reliable for me (yes 22lr will have some bad ammo at times wspecially if you use Winchester or Remington garbage ammo -which I don't). I shoot all of them mostly suppressed with subsonics. Of course higher velocity ammo works also.

Best gun -

Grand power k22

Excellent guns -

Taurus tx22
Beretta/walther m9
Walther ppks
Colt/walther 1911
Buckmark
S&w sp22

Good guns but less accurate -

Walther p22Q
Hammerli Walther forge h1

No love for the Ruger MK's? That list is not very comprehensive without it on there.

 

[The Heretic]

I prefer the Buckmark, but the newer S&W Victory is probably as good, maybe better. Both should be fine for suppressor usage.

 

[Biblethumpncop]

I just bought a 22X and shot it this weekend. I also own a Buck Mark which I use for indoor 25 yard pistol league.

The 22X has a striker fire style trigger, but the trigger is lighter and crisper than my Glocks I've owned, and less travel than the current RXM I have. The gun is light, I think I read it was 16 oz. The magazines are easy to load, and are polymer. The front fiber optic sight is green and the rear is a serated black sight that is adjustable for windage only. The gun is drilled and tapped for a RMSc footprint optic. I'll be bringing it to my Dad this weekend and putting a OSight SE or K on it for him to use. The gun is a quality gun with a very good striker fire trigger, and feels very nice in the hands. The gun was FULL of grease in the action and I cleaned it up before shooting it. No failure to feed or eject, but I had strong striker indents in the primers of junk ammo it didn't fire. It was the ammo's issue, not the gun.

This doesn't appear to be a bullseye gun, but that's okay, I have a buck mark. But, this gun is fun and I will test the accuracy this weekend with a red dot off a bench.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

No love for the Ruger MK's? That list is not very comprehensive without it on there.

Nothing against them and I had a nice stainless 6" barrel. I just found it very boring to shoot. Shot it one time and sat in safe for 10 years before selling it. The two first guns I shot as a kid were ruger mark x and double action revolver. Loved the revolver but thought the ruger was boring even then. Not sure why.