Ruger SR22 Question

[Capybara]

I have one and my Mother in Law has one. It's a fun, reliable little plinker. Personally, I would take a MKII or MKII or even a Buckmark or 22/45 over one but if you want small and tacticool looking, it's a fun little gun. Great for first time shooters, that's why I keep it.

[purer00r]

I have one and my Mother in Law has one. It's a fun, reliable little plinker. Personally, I would take a MKII or MKII or even a Buckmark or 22/45 over one but if you want small and tacticool looking, it's a fun little gun. Great for first time shooters, that's why I keep it.

Ya, was out last wed, and I shot the Mark I more than the sr22.

[customiiguy]

my sr22 is currently in jail. cant wait to pick her up

[junior40er]

A quick glance at the Marketplace tells me they are selling for between 500-650.

When they were on roster, I picked mine up for just over 350 OTD, on sale at Turners.

****, if thats true I will gladly sell mine for $650!

[xrik]

My wife has one, I shoot it sometimes... I like it, she loves it. There's only two problems we have had.

1. If you don't get the recoil spring installed on the guide rod correctly, the SR22 will become a single-shot annoyance.
The key to getting it on right is: the first coil of the spring should fit snugly around the nearly invisible shoulder on the guide rod.

2. Limp-wristing will cause failures to cycle every time.

Awesome little gun, I have 2. My daughter, age 15, also limp wrists it and causes it to mis-feed once in a while. But she is getting better and it is happening less frequently now. The gun has never mis-fed on me when I have shot it.

As far as the hammer pinching the hand of someone with a big hand--not true. I have heard that about the Browning 1911-22 which is tiny, but not the SR-22. I have HUGE hands and although the gun is small, I still shoot it fine.

The reason people are selling them is that it is pretty much a beginner's gun. It's not as accurate as a Buckmark or a Mark II or III, so eventually people move up to 9mm and sell their SR-22 because they are durable. The Slide is metal so it will outlast the slides on guns like the P-22 that are made of the cheaper Zinc, Alloy often referred to as "pot metal."

[Lazyme]

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[battleship]

No ones bought one here for $650, more like $500 is the tops. I got mine for $400 most go for $450.
Super great little gun.

[Crf450rr]

My wife loves her SR22. I did change out the cheap plastic guide rod with a Galloway Precision stainless steel guide rod and spring.
I found it on amazon for $24.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Galloway+Precision+stainless+steel+guide+rod

[Off the Roster]

+1 on the SR22 love. The only "negative" is that in CA the lifetime replacement warrantee is pretty much void if you get an issue that requires replacement, not repair. A gunsmith jacked mine up during it's 10k round cleaning and overhaul and Ruger wants to replace it but they can't now that the gun is off roster. I like the gun so much that I bought a replacement via PTP and will get the other replaced when I get out of Cali.

[dotfortune]

my sr22 is currently in jail. cant wait to pick her up

Congratulations! Hope you've been enjoying it!

I've found that mine will eat pretty much everything I feed it - only exception has been Federal Automatch, curiously. That peculiarity is even stranger when you consider it goes through Remington Subsonic just fine.

[majtom94]

I'm an original owner and I've thought about selling it off from time to time; but that hasn't happened, yet.

The gun is like a Toyota vs Porsche, the toyota works, runs and is cheap to keep but the german car makes for a love afair.

I guess because I know that I can't buy another new one (SR22) and that it works with everything, I keep it around.

I've had two german cars both times they have gone bye bye without remorse for all the maintenance issues to keep them running so I can have the love affair fun!

Being older and wiser - slow and steady is just fine.