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We suspect that reader either had dirt fouling the latch or a faulty latch on his Walther. As for the mag dropping out of the Walther, we could not get it to come out accidentally no matter how thick a glove we wore, nor by pressing down hard on the release with our trigger finger inserted. That trapper always removed his gloves to shoot, even at 40 degrees below zero. While one of us was in Alaska running a trap line, the handgun was kept warm in a shoulder holster. We submit that handguns ought never to be fired with gloves. One reader wrote that he had trouble keeping the magazine in the gun whilst wearing gloves, or with a shooter who had fat fingers. Next is the ambidextrous magazine release, which is a latch device at the bottom rear of the trigger guard that you press downward to release the magazine. Although the gun can be carried cocked and locked, its not a convenient safety for that purpose.Īnother control is the slide lock, which holds the slide rearward after the last shot. Or if youre lazy, just press the trigger with the gun pointed in a safe direction. You can lower the hammer by grasping it firmly with thumb and index finger on its sides, and pressing the trigger. If the hammer is cocked, putting the safety on leaves it cocked. The safety blocks the hammer from striking the firing pin, and also locks the firing pin so the gun cant discharge. Move it down to the safe position and the hammer moves back a touch if its down, but doesnt drop if its cocked. Align it with the barrel and youre ready to shoot. Theres the ambidextrous safety, and though it operates in a reverse direction from that of many popular guns, its intuitive after a few seconds. Theres the trigger, with a useable DA and pleasant SA pull. The controls are simple and straightforward.
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Its a delight to the eye, very busy yet business-like in its look. The gun is covered with serrations, angled metal and plastic, notches, grooves, and on the grip, pebble-graining.
#WALTHER P22 PISTOL FULL#
The Walther P22 is full of tactile surprises. Walther also has a version with a longer barrel, and one with an integral laser sight for $479.
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How does the new Ruger stack up against the Walther P22? Lets take a look feature by feature of the winning gun: These were CCI Green Tag Competition, Eleys Match EPS, CCI Mini Mag solids, Winchester Power Point HP, and Federal Classic High-Velocity. We acquired a new Ruger and borrowed a locally owned, new-condition P22 for this test. And if this hypothetical gun were far more accurate than either of these two test guns, wed beat a path to the makers door and buy one for ourselves.) But that veers off our current topic, which is pitting the two similar 22 autoloading pistols head to head. (If Ruger or Walther decided to do it, we suspect a great many fans of James Bond would buy the guns just for the fact that they look like the famous PPK. No one makes that gun today, so far as we know. What would have impressed us mightily is if Ruger (or Walther) had attempted to copy the original Walther PPK for the 22LR, and brought it off nicely at a good sale price. The top of its anodized slide was smooth and semi-gloss, instead of the Walthers dead-flat black with longitudinal serrations. Like the Walther P22 WAP22003, now $379, Rugers SR22 is full of angles and bumps and slots, but not so many serrations. Then, in the May 2010 issue, we wrote, Our Team Said: The unanimous decision was that the P22 was the top performer in our tests.… This is a difficult trick to manage for any handgun, because differing ammo selections, test conditions, individual pistol variations, and matchups can magnify the flaws found in any product, making it hard to get a top grade again and again.īut when a gun does that well over time, it can serve as a benchmark against which to test newer products, which in this case is the Ruger SR22PB Model 03600, $399. We thought it was an ideal fun gun, one wed take in the backpack and not even know its there. 22 pistol that works every time and doesnt bust the bank need look no farther than the short-barrel P22. The windage was slick and handy, we found, and adjusted with relative ease.… We think anyone in need of a fine little.
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The impact could be fine-tuned as necessary by changing the front sight. It was completely reliable in our limited shooting, and shot very well, with many five-shot groups going around an inch at 15 yards. The test team said, We liked this little. In a February 2006 test of four handguns, our Idaho staff called the Walther P22 22 LR No. They were the Walther P22 Model WAP22003 22 LR, $379 and the Ruger SR22PB Model 03600, $399. We tested two 22 LR handguns in an April 2012 showdown of plinking pistols.