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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Dakotaranger on April 07, 2007, 11:06:16 PM
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I purchased a used Sig Misquito and have only put 350 rds in it before today all non-Blazer. Went home cleaned it.
I went to the indoor ranger with one mags worth of Winchester and two hundred Blazer .22. Every mag there was some Fail to fire, fail to eject, fail to feed with at least one round.
Has anyone had that kind of trouble with Blazers and the Mosquito? The store I purchased it from I believe has a thirty day policy on used firearms, should I just try to return it?
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My GF has a Mosquito and is having the same problems with Federal ammo. Works in my sons MKIII but she has at least one stove pipe or FTFire or FTFeed every mag.
It comes with two sets of return springs and we have the 'light' spring in it now. I can't imagine the heavy spring would help.
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I had a NIB Mosquito and 1st time out I tryed 8 different types of ammo. Had read that they didn't like some types so I wanted to see which ones mine liked. Had probs with some on the first or second round on a full mag but this seemed to get better as the gun got broke in. Even some really old heavy waxed Win. Wildcats would stovepipe on the first round on a full mag but then would empty the rest with no prob. Really liked the feel of the Mosquito and I think they have a good gun but as far as being accuerate it needs some improvement.
CAMO.
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:o Hi guys. This is my first post here. Hope I don't step on any toes. I love my Mosquito. I've never fired anything but velocitors through it though. Changed the spring before the first mag was empty. Has worked like a charm since. I can't beleive all the bad reviews I've heard about it. Great training pistol.
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Hey guys. I can tell you what the problem is. The freakin thing needs some serious feed and reliability work and a trigger job.
I just finished shooting the Ruger Rimfire Challenge with a Mosquito and I had absolutely zero malfunctions or problems through nearly 500 rounds.
We(Grayguns, Inc.) will be offering mosquito work in the not so distant, near future. If you're interested please email me at scott@grayguns.com
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I have yet to find someone to have a flawless SigMisquito. I have also not seen one of those people dissapointed with the Sig costumer service. Everone i know said the service tec told them to junk the white spring(usually in the gun), then lub excessive as compaired to normal 22pistols especially the hole on the right side of the slide behind the ejection port(3-5 drops until break in finished then 1 drop of light oil per cleaning) and use high velocity or hypervelocity rounds. I have seen many happy shooters in my area using Agulia 60gr SSS w/out failure. As some people look at 22s and accept jams i along w/my peers do not and after a little info and a change of the mantinance routine they love the reliability and accurcy of the pistol for action training.The MkIII ruger is still the way to go IMHO but if you want short $ training for your action sports stick w/it .
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"I have seen many happy shooters in my area using Agulia 60gr SSS w/out failure."
But .22s are supposed to be CHEAP to shoot. I want a gun that will run with a brick of Feds that I can pick up at Wally World. My sons MKIII does it so why shouldn't an even higher priced gun.
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"I have seen many happy shooters in my area using Agulia 60gr SSS w/out failure."
But .22s are supposed to be CHEAP to shoot. I want a gun that will run with a brick of Feds that I can pick up at Wally World. My sons MKIII does it so why shouldn't an even higher priced gun.
That is super simple man, do not buy a Misquito and use your boys MkIII.
If you do not like the advice or can only read one line make it the highvelicioty or hypervelicioty part!!! High velicioty reminton golden bullets about $11/box of 525 where as the hyper is $4/box of 50 .
To each his own. But i once again state that the MkIII is my first pick!
Hope i was a little clearer this time for ya Hazcat
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Took it back to the store and got a Browning Buckmarck Camper
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I wouldn't test any auto with the Fed stuff now being put out there. The old Lightning wasn't too bad. Fed stopped making/marketing that and changed to the Champion packaging, same UPC code. New stuff...no 2 alike.
I shoot the .22 silhouette game. the troops were using Lightnings. We're testing everything else since Fed dropped it last year. As I said, pif, poof, pow, crack, bang, poof...not necessarily in that order.
It's awful. Definiitely, NOT the fodder for function testing.
As an aside, I 'pattern' tested some old Champion Target...not so good. PMC rifle match, 1/2" @ 40 yds, T22, 3/4"; Thunderbolts, 1"; Rem. 525 pack, 1", American Eagle, 1-1 1/4"; Aguila, 3/4". Leaning towards the T22 Winchester for the game, (.22 Silhouette)
Too Bad, Federal has some really excellent stuff, can't explain the cheap .22 problem.
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Yes, My Mosquito is a jammer also. Tried several different brands of hi-speed and std vel ammo. Changed the springs, used hi-speed with std vel spring and vice-versa; even cut a coil or two off one of the springs.....no help. Jams at least once per mag. Am about to clean it up (again!) and send back to SIG as it's been in the safe about 1 1/2 yrs now and not fired since I put it away. Ive been shooting about 40 or so years now and I'm amazed at how such a thing could get out of the SIG factory. I used to have an :( FFL and sold a good number of SIG centerfires. Never had a complaint about any of them....they oughta stick to what they do best. I wonder how their "black rifles" work. Since they're centerfire; I bet just fine.
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The Mosquitos are just problematic, it's kind of a shame. I've found that they have way too much over cock and the ammo needsto be oiled to make them work well enough.
The black rifles are great. I have a 556 that I literally dragged under my quad(by accident) while on a camping trip, it got all tore up, but it still shot perfectly out to the 300 yds I was shooting it to.
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But I thought there was ONE Mosquito, here at DRTV that worked... ;)
Don't know what it is, the larger caliber handguns are top-shelf, I have a 556, that is top notch also. Can't they be sent to a gun guru, and made right?
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But I thought there was ONE Mosquito, here at DRTV that worked... ;)
Don't know what it is, the larger caliber handguns are top-shelf, I have a 556, that is top notch also. Can't they be sent to a gun guru, and made right?
DDMac had one that worked for a while then went tits up. Mine SEEMS to be working itself into being fairly reliable. Of course this is after a trip back to SIG and another 1,000 rounds. Big thing is like an AR it runs WET best.
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But I thought there was ONE Mosquito, here at DRTV that worked... ;)
Don't know what it is, the larger caliber handguns are top-shelf, I have a 556, that is top notch also. Can't they be sent to a gun guru, and made right?
Yes, there was one. I worked it over about 3 years ago for a friend and it ran great for a few thousand rounds. She ended up putting it away after I used it to shoot the Rim Fire Challenge a in '07.
The problem is that the Mosquito needs so much work to be made to run "ok" that it's really not worth it.
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But I thought there was ONE Mosquito, here at DRTV that worked... ;)
Don't know what it is, the larger caliber handguns are top-shelf, I have a 556, that is top notch also. Can't they be sent to a gun guru, and made right?
I will take this as a veiled attempt to provoke me to posting my incredible Sig Mosquito experience... Oh darn, you did!
All I know is I got a real cheap used Mosquito and read the directions where it states it was tested using CCI mini mags and will function the best with them and I have never looked back except to see if I could hit someone standing behind me with spent brass. Please feel free to send all unwanted Mosquitos to Brosometal C/O... ;D
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My Mosquito seems to work best with CCI Mini Mags. I've tried every kind of ammo I can find through it, and no matter what, the pistol does not perform reliably. The original gun I got was so bad, when I sent it back, Sig kept it and sent me a new one. Same problems, just not so frequently. The pistols have to be cleaned frequently and require a lot of oil. There is an oil hole on the side of the slide for the extractor which also requires a lot of oil.
Mine is pretty much a safe queen. Not reliable, therefore not fun to shoot. Trading stock.