Ruger SR 22 (Pistol)--Update 6/16--6/17--6/30

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I did a quick search for "SR 22" and didnt see anything.

I bought one last night at Four Seasons. I took it home, cleaned it, and went to the range today.

I shot 600 rounds. 250 Federal Bulk Jacketed, and 350 Blazer. I Did not have any issues with the blazer, not even one failure. With the Federal the only issue I had is that for some reason the second round failed to feed. At first I thought that maybe the Federal rounds did not have enough power to make the slide go all the way back, but almost all the failures to feed that I had were with the second round. A couple of times I had failures with the third or fourth. Any thoughts?
The blazer ammo was great, not one single failure.
I will try mini mags this week.

In 600 rounds I only had one failure to eject.

The gun is very accurate and pretty comfortable to shoot. It is also a lot of fun to shoot. I was hitting a metal plate about the size of a paper plate at 50 yards.

Update 6/16
I shot 80 rounds of Blazer.

Update 6/17:
Today I shot 205 Blazer and 200 Winchester Hollow points I bought in Walmart (also a 555 value pack).

The Winchester worked fine, but for some reason I had two mags where every other round would fail to feed. I shot the Winchester after shooting 80 rounds on 6/16 and 205 rounds on 6/17, and I did not clean the gun before shooting the Winchester.

If anyone was carrying this gun I would not recommend the Winchester ammo. I didn't have constant failures like I I did with Federal, but I still had a few.

Ammo shot so far:

635 Blazer.---Only one failure (one failure to eject)
250 Federal---The second round almost always failed to feed.
200 Winchester---Not bad for plinking. An occasional Failure to feed, but not good if you want to carry a .22 (I dont carry a .22)

Note: I did not clean the gun before shooting different brands of ammo. The first time I shot 250 Federal and then 350 blazer without cleaning the gun. I only cleaned the gun when I got home.
Also, all the ammo is bulk ammo. I did not try CCI mini mags yet. I will try those next week.

6/30

Shot 250 CCI Blazer---no failures.
 
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There was at least 2 long thread discussing about this handgun. Don't have one, love to get one later.

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Ruger usually has no issues cycling Federal. All of my MKI/MKII pistols cycle both federal and blazer. My 10/22 cycles both very well also. Then again, my 10/22 eats anything I feed it. Ruger makes such reliable firearms so I'm sure you'll enjoy your SR22. Congrats on the buy.[mg]
 
There was at least 2 long thread discussing about this handgun. Don't have one, love to get one later.

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When i searched I wrote "SR 22". Now i searched again and wrote "SR22". I saw that there is one long thread about SR22 for CCW.

anyways, I just wanted to write a quick review. I will shoot another 500-600 rounds this weekend. I will also bring it to the car shoot.

Ruger usually has no issues cycling Federal. All of my MKI/MKII pistols cycle both federal and blazer. My 10/22 cycles both very well also. Then again, my 10/22 eats anything I feed it. Ruger makes such reliable firearms so I'm sure you'll enjoy your SR22. Congrats on the buy.[mg]

the only issue was feeding the second or some times the third round. Everything else was fine. Every primer went BANG, and it only had one failure to eject.
 
I want one of those SR22's and 10/22 TD's badly. Hopefully can pick them both up in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully someone will still have them in stock. Glad you like it. I have heard good things about it from just about everyone that owns one.
 
I picked up one a few weeks ago and just got to shoot it yesterday. Very impressed with it. Shot Eben cheapest 22 I had with no issues. My only complaint is that the hammer touches my hand when the slide cycles back. Not a big issue though, very happy with it!

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I picked up one a few weeks ago and just got to shoot it yesterday. Very impressed with it. Shot Eben cheapest 22 I had with no issues. My only complaint is that the hammer touches my hand when the slide cycles back. Not a big issue though, very happy with it!

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Interesting. You must have pretty big hands.
 
Stop tempting me with these posts... Every time I see one I'm tempted to buy it.
 
Stop tempting me with these posts... Every time I see one I'm tempted to buy it.

If u don't have one already you should. Fun gun, shoots great, 100% more reliable that the P22, and feels great in my hand.

I also have been experiencing the 2nd round issue, but only 1 or 2 magazines out of a dozen does it happen, and only with federal.

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I have several guns that shot 22lr and the Blazer seems to be the most consistent feeding and firing of anything I have used. Federal is probably second. That Winchester golden bullet stuff is crap, it doesn't feed well in anything I have used it in. The Mini mags are also real good but the pricing is a lot higher than the bulk stuff if you are just plinking. The last Blazer I bought was 13.99 for 550 rounds. Cant beat that
 
Did you notice how many more FS had while you were there??? What is the cash price?

Sorry. I didn't ask. They only had one out and all their stock was in the back room.

The credit card price was around $309. Take 2% off for cash.
 
Sorry. I didn't ask. They only had one out and all their stock was in the back room.

The credit card price was around $309. Take 2% off for cash.

The credit price is $319.95.

I purchased the SR22 a week ago from Four Season and my gf and I shot it this past weekend. I'm a little disappointed but I suspect it's the ammo. We shot 575 rounds.

525 Rounds - Federal Champion Bulk 36 GR
50 Rounds - Federal Lighting 40 GR

I didn't have much of a variety but we had so many fail to feed from the bulk ammo. We had no misfires or fail to eject. Gun was fired out of the box.
 
The credit price is $319.95.

I purchased the SR22 a week ago from Four Season and my gf and I shot it this past weekend. I'm a little disappointed but I suspect it's the ammo. We shot 575 rounds.

525 Rounds - Federal Champion Bulk 36 GR
50 Rounds - Federal Lighting 40 GR

I didn't have much of a variety but we had so many fail to feed from the bulk ammo. We had no misfires or fail to eject. Gun was fired out of the box.
its the federal champion. That's what I was shooting and had failure to feed. Try Blazer.
 
My son just bought one of these, primarily for his son to shoot. I shot it just after he got it and found it a very good, adequate weapon. It will make an excellent smaller sized pistol for my grandson to start shooting with. I found it fairly accurate and trouble free. It was pleasurable to shoot and should serve my grandson for a long time to come.
 
I had one. Just as reliable as any other pistol that type (sig skeeter, p22). If your not going to carry it reliability is a non issue. Other than that a pretty good gun.
 
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