Walther P22

[Pofoo]

We all know, or have read, about the problems associated with this pistol.
That's really a shame, as it could be a really fun gun.
Mine had the familiar fte and ftf problems. Back to Walther where they installed a new slide and that pretty much fixed the reliability issue. Remington thunderbolt ammo is 99% reliable (and cheap) in this pistol.
I did install a Galloway Precision captured recoil spring strictly for ease of assembly. It had no effect on function or reliability.
The other problem I had was that this pistol was the most inaccurate pistol I own. The rear sight is total crap. The notch is huge, there is no elevation adjustment, and it wobbles a lot. I fixed the wobble by putting a thin plastic shim under the sight base.
The next problem was that I installed a fiber optic front sight which made the the pistol shoot way low. Since there are no replacement rear sights with a elevation adjustment, I made a adapter plate that I glued on the rear face of the sight with JB Weld. It's taller and I filed a thinner and higher notch that helps quite a bit. A shot of flat black spray paint makes it look pretty good.
Still not a Olympic target pistol, but much more fun to shoot.
So, if you have one and you're mildly mechanically inclined, you can fix yours too.
I wonder why Walther doesn't fix these issues themselves????

[newbie1234]

(1) That's really a shame, as it could be a really fun gun.
(2) Mine had the familiar fte and ftf problems. Back to Walther where they installed a new slide and that pretty much fixed the reliability issue.
(3) Remington thunderbolt ammo is 99% reliable (and cheap) in this pistol.
(4) I did install a Galloway Precision captured recoil spring strictly for ease of assembly. It had no effect on function or reliability.
(5) The other problem I had was that this pistol was the most inaccurate pistol I own.
(6) The rear sight is total crap. The notch is huge, there is no elevation adjustment, and it wobbles a lot. I fixed the wobble by putting a thin plastic shim under the sight base.
The next problem was that I installed a fiber optic front sight which made the the pistol shoot way low. Since there are no replacement rear sights with a elevation adjustment, I made a adapter plate that I glued on the rear face of the sight with JB Weld. It's taller and I filed a thinner and higher notch that helps quite a bit. A shot of flat black spray paint makes it look pretty good.
Still not a Olympic target pistol, but much more fun to shoot.
So, if you have one and you're mildly mechanically inclined, you can fix yours too.
(7) I wonder why Walther doesn't fix these issues themselves????

These questions has been answer many time before. To make it short P22 is a piece of crap, period!

(1) Since we live in North Korea so we don't have much choice as the people in free States, our really fun gun are: GSG 1911-22, revolver SSA Heritage and the state of the art revolver Wrangler. I like to make clear that for people in free state the Wrangler could be a POS but for peasants like us Wrangler is a State-Of-The-Art because we don't have much choice.

(2) This is the problem on the P22 since the day one , whatever Walther fixed the problem still exist, I still don't understand why don't Walther drops the whole damn thing liked Sig Sauer drop the 22LR Mosquito.

(3) The most reliable ammo on P22 is CCI Minimag, all the rest just hit and miss. These arguments did not cover the $$$ ammo such as Lapua, SK, Eley. BTW, who want to shoot $$$ ammo on the ****ty P-22.

(4) People had the same problem but they don't speak up. I think Galloway advertised: easy to field strip, and never mention fix the FTF problem.

(5) I am agree with you, may be I am bias, bad mouth the P22, but some people will say it's the Indian not the arrow.

(6) You are a handy man. Too bad you can not send to gun back to Walther for repairing now.

(7) No, Walther won't fix the problem, they wait for a genius in RimfireCentral fixes the problem then they follow, they did the same thing for Sig Sauer Trailside and Hammerli Xesse.

If it FTF again then just rack the slide then shoot again, it is fun isn't it, just think this is a way to practice Tap, Rack then Shoot. Some people will post that their P22 shoot like a champ, yes it is. But yours and mine are POS, c'm just cheer and keep plinking

[Pofoo]

OK, well, I'm happy with mine now.
I do understand the anger many people have towards Walther.
(3) Mine does shoot the cheapo Remington very reliably. I also like this because the Remingtons are not slathered in wax that tend to gum up semi autos that shoot hundreds of rounds. I'm sure other brands will shoot well also. I definately do not want to pay 3x the price for the mini mags for plinking. Aguilla 22 is the worst I've ever shot. Many under powered rounds.
(4)The only advantage of the captured recoil spring is the ease of reassembly.
It did nothing, good or bad, for the functioning of the gun.
(6)I don't plan on sending the gun back, but I don't see how changing the sights would impact warranty work.
The commiefornia doj roster is a joke. I probably wouldn't have bought the Walther in the first place if we didn't have the roster, but we're stuck with it.

[vpravada]

When was your gun made?

[lmcc0072]

My P22 has worked well straight out of the box. The guy at the gun store said not to use the cheapest ammo, but even the expensive .22 ammo is cheap. I’ve only put 300 rounds or so through it, but so far so good.

[Pofoo]

When was your gun made?

I've had mine for about 2 yrs. No idea when it was actually made. I bought it after reading that they had fixed all the problems. Mine wasn't.

[Kokopelli]

The wife and I took her P22 to the range twice in the past two weeks. First time, it was a jam-o-matic with Federal Red box, copper HP. The gun used to like that stuff. But we had FTE, FTF, and the slide sometimes would not stay open after the last round. Took it home, cleaned and lubed it well.

Next time, we brought only CCI mini mags. Jam-o-matic again! A nice group of shooters at the bench next to us gave us some Winchester Super X 40 grain, copper plated 1300 FPS stuff to try. The P22 functioned perfectly with it!

Couldn’t find that exact ammo at the store but did score a brick of Win Super-X 40 gr hyper velocity HP at 1435 FPS. I hope it works out well and doesn’t cause excess wear. Our P22 CA is two or three years old.

[H8Mud]

Mine eats anything I have fed it so far. Usually federal bulk.

[STEWMAN]

I bought one of the first models when s&w was importing them never had a problem with it. I liked it so much I recently bought the newer version with blue frame for my wife and have had zero problems with that one as well.