Yep, I have found this to be true as well. I have a MK1 45/8 bull bbl, had it for many years. My preference is a Smith 34(?) kit gun-type 2", does everything a .22 revolver needs to do for me. Looked for one many years before the Right One crossed my path. (Right One defined as Availability, Condition, Discretionary Wealth) I keep it handy... Ya never know when that slippery fella Mr Justin Case will come around...
I just learned something from you guys.. Never-Ever throw your away your hard plastic cases even on a rimfire.
... unexpectedly.... Beside .22s being good for general practice and maintaining familiarity...
Likewise. One of the best "value" purchases I have made...
I have long suspected its not really possible for a normal human to wear one of those out in a normal lifetime. First pistol I ever had that was mine was on of the old MK standards. It was well worn when I got it and I have to have burned a train car load of ammo through it. Let someone who just had to have it buy it from me and its probably still cranking along. The MK II I bought when I started dating my wife and wanted to teach her to shoot we have had for almost 30 years now. It has burned untold K of ammo and shows no sign of ever stopping. I suspect when we shuffle off one of the kids will never be able to wear the damn thing out.
I truly hope its just a sight issue and I wont have to replace the barrel on the TX22. Before I bought this, I really went to the entire specs and Its not a lot of full size firearm that has the light weight, with a 17 round magazine. Whenever I transfer from a 9mm to the TX22 on target sessions, It feels like a feather. As soon as I get this straighten out, I'll take it to an outdoor shooting and see how it performs on a long shot.
I hope the slide of this GC3 will fit on the G3X... I have a red dot sitting and just collecting dust. Might as well put it to use.
Because it is known to be unreliable. Ask me how I know...
It's really no big deal. If it's one of the early ones that shipped from the factory with a bad barrel, they'll send you a new barrel free of charge just for the asking, and it takes about 30 seconds to put on.
Im curious, but don't doubt the unreliability and have seen many reviews that confirm. Without owning one, I grew up hearing lots about saturday night specials/ring of fire drama from leos and politicians in the southern california area. Nothing against any group or culture, but those factories were known to hire non-english speakers to work machines ha (look up preban cooper magazines, some wouldn't fit magazine wells and others only had 3 spot welds haha).
Okay great! I'll head to the range tomorrow morning an try it out.
Look "dude", you brought this on yourself when you quoted and bashed me having never interested with me before. My original comment was to a mod and they didn't seem to take issue, why are you?!? Not sure what you are trying to accomplish by continuing to escalate here. Really, get over it and troll elsewhere. To keep the thread clean, please PM me if one of your personalities still needs to go on. Otherwise, have a great day, eve, night, and morning-we love all types here!
About 30 years ago I had a brand new specimen (my father's) go kaboom on the first box of ammo through it. I was fine, but the pistola was no more. Legendary Jennings quality!
The one I had didnt have a chance to explode, it was a jammin jenny that never fired a full mag. It went into the "buy-back" pile along with a couple other abominations that were thrown in on trades. Should anyone be so bold and stupid as to have a "buy-back" around here I'll turn them in. They are frankly useless for anything else. Heheheheh....About 30 years ago I had a brand new specimen (my father's) go kaboom on the first box of ammo through it. I was fine, but the pistola was no more. Legendary Jennings quality!
All of those "Ring of Fire" guns were well known to be questionable at best. Some did of course work but, at the price point what did people really expect? Back LONG ago when I was in AZ and we could not get a CC law passed I bought one of the Davis .380's. Back then it was legal to carry a pistol in the glove box. So a shop had these for $50 and I bought one. Ran several mags of ammo through it and it did work. So it rode the glove box with the idea that if it got stolen not worth crying over. Sold it decades later for twice what I paid for it. In its life it had only ever fired a couple boxes of ammo. The way they were made they were not something to make a range fun gun out of but, a lot of them did work at least for a while. People today often point to High Point as a comparable gun. Price point they are in today's dollars but, guns are not even in the same league. Many video's of people buying HP's with the idea of breaking them for fun and finding out it can be extremely hard to break them. Those old ring of fire guns would NOT be hard to break as many of them broke themselves just by firing them
