Advice neeed: Dedicated .22lr or conversion kit?

[M1NM]

Find yourself any Ruger Standard Auto to MKIII. They are all good - but of late Ruger has been having quality/employee problems. Quality = I'd say it's due to numbers of guns they have had to produce for the recent panic. It seems their customer is their quality control if you find a problem they'll fix it. I'd rather have it right the first time. Employee = lay offs and dropping of their retirement benifit.

[Justintoxicated]

Neither, 22lr is hard to find and too expensive.

[digdug74]

Can't speak to 1911 or Sig p226 conversion kits, but between these two, the M&P wins 'hands-down'. It eats everything reliably.

The Advantage Arms Glock conversion kit (AA also make a 1911 conversion kit) needs to be run clean and wet and is ammo picky...
AA recommends only CCI Minimags and Remington GB's.

+1 for the dedicated M&P22... However, it's not on roster.

That was the exact conversion kit I was looking at. Glockmeister had them for sale out here for around $325.00 but I was able to get into a new M&P 22 for a little over $400.00 so I went that route.

Interestingly, when I test fired the M&P, there was guy on the lane next to me with the Advantage Arms conversion kit on his Glock and he was having all kinds of problems with it. I talked to him a bit and he said he sort of regretted buying it. Was somewhat surprised since I'd heard mostly good things about those particular kits.

[nikki#2]

That was the exact conversion kit I was looking at. Glockmeister had them for sale out here for around $325.00 but I was able to get into a new M&P 22 for a little over $400.00 so I went that route.

Interestingly, when I test fired the M&P, there was guy on the lane next to me with the Advantage Arms conversion kit on his Glock and he was having all kinds of problems with it. I talked to him a bit and he said he sort of regretted buying it. Was somewhat surprised since I'd heard mostly good things about those particular kits.

Yep... 'bout the only things the M&P22 needs is maybe a set of Dawson Precision sights..... a whole bunch more of these babies and a couple cases of ammo
(availability / prices will improve one of these days, right?) !

[Wordupmybrotha]

Get a dedicated 22LR pistol.
You should set up a poll so you could see the responses in summary form.

[jrara]

Dedicated .22lr

I used to have a Conversion kit for my P229 and CZ Sp01.

Now I have a Star Model F (Got it really cheap on Consignment) and a ruger SR22 pistol.


Mags were cheaper and left a handgun free when I was shooting with friends.