Originally Posted by
Duelist
Shot it yesterday. Nice gun! Very accurate and easy to shoot. Shot a 4"x2" offhand single action group at 20 yards, and cut out the X on the repair center DA at 7 yards. 50/50 dot Torture at 5 yards.
Not perfect, though. Chambering rounds requires firmly placing them in the chambers, and checking to make sure they're all the way in. Not quite fully chambered rounds drag on the frame, are probably the cause for the 10 or so misfires (all fired on the second whack, so I assume the first seated them in the chamber), and extraction was ridiculous. It's a freaking .22. My Single Six is faster and smoother only extracting one at a time. I have never seen anything like this before. I mean, full-house .357 magnums are easier to extract from my 13-3 or 28-2. .38 Specials are nothing to extract from any of a variety of .38 and .357 revolvers I've used.
I had to switch hands and whack the rod, hard, with my right. 100 rounds in, it was harder than it started, and I was done with that. It was a relief to switch to my G26 and run a box through it before I left the range.
I've done a bit of research, seems that a lot of the K22 family have tight chambers that require polishing, or even reaming, before they will act normal. One guy on rimfire central said he was at a big rimfire revolver match, and there were basically two groups of K22 shooters: those whose guns had to be beaten on to extract empties, and those who'd had their chambers reamed.
Sounds like this 60 year old gun hasn't had that done, and will likely either be making a trip to the mother ship, or to a good smith. The extraction problem subtracted a lot from the fun factor. It wasn't fun enough to want to shoot hundreds of rounds through, which is one of the reasons I got it, so fixed it will be.