Walther P-22 Range Failure (Slide Cracks In Half)

[billt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USAUn3lsUSA

This is actually a You Tube video of a Sig Sauer P-229. At around the 2:00 minute mark a companion is shooting a Walther P-22, and the Aluminum slide cracks in half.    Bill T.

[Timothy]

My daughter has a P-22.  She won't shoot it anymore, it's always giving her problems.  I offered to melt it down into jewelry for her...

Her Sig never fails!

[ericire12]

*That guy sure likes the word fu-ck
**Bill, learn how to post vids

[bafsu92]

I've got 2 P22's that have a combined total of almost 75K rds between them with 0 issues. I guess it's a matter of luck.

[billt]

**Bill, learn how to post vids

Does the link not work for you?  Bill T.

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[billt]

What surprised me in the video was learning the slide is made from Aluminum. If it is Aluminum and it's die cast not milled, it's not surprising it failed. The Colt, (Umarex) AR-15 .22's are experiencing the same problem with the lowers. Many are cracking because they are die cast and not milled, and or forged. I don't mind cost saving measures, just as long as quality doesn't suffer to the point of hit or miss failure.  Bill T.

[Timothy]

Cost savings are one thing but the P22 is anything but inexpensive as .22's go in pricing.

$350.00 bucks if memory serves, about twice that of a Ruger plinker.

[billt]

Cost savings are one thing but the P22 is anything but inexpensive as .22's go in pricing.

$350.00 bucks if memory serves, about twice that of a Ruger plinker.

I have 3 Ruger .22 autos. 2 Mark II's, and a new Mark III I just bought a couple of months ago. All 3 run like Rolex's, and are made from STEEL.  Bill T.

[Timothy]

I have 3 Ruger .22 autos. 2 Mark II's, and a new Mark III I just bought a couple of months ago. All 3 run like Rolex's, and are made from STEEL.  Bill T.

Exactly!

 

[Rob10ring]

I have 3 Ruger .22 autos. 2 Mark II's, and a new Mark III I just bought a couple of months ago. All 3 run like Rolex's, and are made from STEEL.  Bill T.

I have 2 Ruger Mark II's that have eaten a lot of rounds. I have my grandpa's Mark I, from 1958. It has eaten more, as has my father's Mark I, that him and his 4 sons have put over 100,000 rounds through. They are beasts that will take it and those Mark I's have no bolt stop, so the last trigger pull is a click on the empty chamber. Ruger's auto pistols are the stuff!