SW Victory

I have had one since they first came out and love it. The only tricky part is they had trouble early on with the Allen screw for disassembly either being frozen in place or loose. I had to send mine back to S&W for them to break it free after I twisted 3 quality Allen wrenches trying myself. They replaced it with one that has Vibratite on it and it's been fine since.
 
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Mine is a tack driver stock but I have to watch my thumb placement or I put the safety back on.
 
Got the TK trigger done - great upgrade vs factory. Weighs appx 2.5 lb or less depending on how/where you pull with the gauge.
Almost no pretravel now and pretty clean break without any sear work.
I like spare parts so upgraded firing pin and extractor, kept OEM for spares.

Also ditched the mag safety but added the TK replacement for spring pressure on mag removals.

Zero it this week and then get it out for some serious plinking.
 
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my SW22 victory has been utterly reliable with all types of ammo -/+ suppressor. Very happy with it.

AMF10690 said:
Volquartsen extractor is about the only upgrade it needs. Solid pistol.
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why does it need this “upgrade”? It’s a blowback firearm. The extractor does not actually extract the case under live fire, only during hand cycling.
 
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92G said:
why does it need this “upgrade”? It’s a blowback firearm. The extractor does not actually extract the case under live fire, only during hand cycling.
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Plenty debate on that. But I keep spare parts for all my pistols [especially .22s] and was going to buy one anyway. Not such an expensive difference.
 
Not Victory related but I recall using a single shot adaptor [bolt blocker] on my 10/22 and it would not manually extract the fired case [at least once.]
I have a different 10/22 that I just dropped a Volquartsen extractor into - will do some tests.

Even the Model 41 pistol benefits from extractor tweaking especially with tighter chambers. Some .22s treat the extractor as an afterthought - in large part I think since they DO [or should] spit the fired cases out via blowback.
 
Zeroed the Victory - ran great with both Fed auto match and Win Super X. Will test again with some softer loads just to see but judging from how it spit the brass out it can run on fairly lower powered ammo.
Should be spot on for 50 ft depending on ammo, indoor range with iffy light so need to go outdoors and shoot it some more including some accuracy work with better quality loads.

Very happy with the TK trigger, well worth it
 
I picked up a Performance Center Victory with 5 mags used a couple years back for a steal at 450. Fantastic gun for Steel Challenge. Only upgrades I've done are the Tandem Kross charging handle and Thumb Safety (Tandem Kross installed them for me at the Area 7 Steel Challenge championship in 2021). I also bought the Gas pedal but haven't gotten around to having a gunsmith install it for me yet (I have no drill press).

I did have an issue with some failure to ejects causing stovepiping and double feeds, even with CCI minimags and lots of lube. I bent the ejector a bit and that seemed to fix it. Was weird because it ran fine for a season of matches before doing that.
 
Finished ammo testing, ran 100% including CCI and Aguila standard velocity.
Rem Golden Bullet, cheap 36 gr Federal bulk, Win Super X all fine and they aren't usually the best.
Fed Auto match and Aguila HV as well.

If anything I'd use a stronger recoil spring on the hotter stuff - brass zips out in a hurry.

Good addition to the stable!
 
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