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I Recently bought one of these from sportsman's warehouse and wanted to pass along my impressions after putting it through its paces on a few range trips.
Quick basics:
-10 round 22lr (mags can easily be converted to 15 round), comes with two mags
- $240 on sale
- P22qd is the second generation and specifically fixes being picky about ammo issues of the original p22 as well as grip improvement, safety decocker
- Light and compact
- Threaded barrel
- Hammer fired dual action/single action
- Last round bolt hold open
- front accessory rail
- 3 white dot sites
Pros:
A) Trigger - very nice, light single stage trigger. Better than I expected for this price range.
B) Reliability - After first few mags break in, handles pretty much any ammo. I used some ten year old blazer that was pretty bad and sound varied like crazy from shot-to-shot but it still cycled them (to my surprise). Also tried 3 types of regular, newer bulk ammo which all shot excellent.
C) Easy to field strip
D) Cost
E) Good white dot sites
F) Light and compact
G) Simple $25ish conversion (tandemkross brand) to make both included mags 15 shot instead of 10 shot. Available at brownells and other places.
H) Slide is very easy to rack not stiff at all (first time is harder due to double action but still very easy imo)
Cons
A) Grip - distance from back of grip to front ("width") is very short. I found this uncomfortable and causes me to use second digit of finger on trigger instead of first. I put quite a bit of grip tape on it and also switched out the backing strip (comes with extra back strip) and now it feels pretty good. I have average hands so if u have big hands this grip may feel too narrow for u (front to back I mean).
B) Safety location - I dislike safety location not easy to reach for me compared to 1911 style safety location. But since first pull is double action (long pull) u can just leave safety off if u want. The safety does safely decock hammer though so that is kind of nice to have.
C). Mag release - European style ambidextrous mag release (integrated into trigger guard) which I don't like.
D) magazine disconnect. Not that big of a deal for this type of gun but it needs to be listed for completeness I think.
Bottom line:
Well worth the money for a semi auto plinker imo. Build quality is solid and it's reliable and pretty easy to shoot for a small gun due to the good sights and trigger. Easy to make 15 shot capacity and the resulting slightly longer grip from that conversion makes grip better imo.
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