Sharps40
Price, it's all about the price
So, got it yesterday and having been to the range today...... Well, the one in my yard, not a public range, more like my own happy place....
Primary impression is WoW! Impresses me as the .22 handgun I just might keep.
The range parameters....Off hand, 3 to 10 yards. Target paper, 2" swingers, 5" plates. 50 rounds Blazer 40g RN and 450 rounds Winchester M-TwennyTurds.
Wiped the gun out, applied RIG to all contact surfaces, converted scary 12 round mag to Liberal Terrifying 15 rounds with NicTaylor kit.
All the shots went just over or on the front sight grouping nicely on paper and pleasantly ringing even the smallest steel if i held still for it.
Front sight is hard to see.
Trigger pull is decent and feels enough like my RI Officers that I'll not make any changes.
The gun runs like a German Black Forest Clock, only stopping when the mag is empty.
The nic taylor 15 round conversion locks the slide back every single time and feeds like a champ. I clipped one coil from the bottom of the spring.....it won't give you a 16th round in the mag but it makes getting #15 in there a breeze. 16 total shots (with one squirreled away in the pipe) and this gun is a wonder to hold and shoot.
Thumb safety stuck on once but with use it loosened up and seems reliable now. Rather have it stuck on than off or hell, just glad its broke in and not sticking at all now.....
Really really really really really REALLY>INFINITY like the checkered rubber grips.
Hate the white lettering. Fortunately its ink stamped on so maybe it'll wear off.....white lettering on a gun sucks big green donkeys.
Just enough recoil to make you find and refocus the front sight (rather than wait for it to come back down from somewhere just above your eyebrows) and so double taps quickly become triple taps, quadruple taps, etc. Its quite easy to quickly be making a series of double taps from 3 to 10 yards a bit faster than 2 rounds per second. Might not seem fast compared to Jessy or Jerry, but probably faster than most of us have done it before.
Feels like a full size 1911 (with less kick of course) should be a wonderful practice piece that transitions to centerfire platforms.
Incidentally, and regardless of whatcha think of .22 lr for defense, I'd have no qualms carrying this one for defense. Being able to put up to 16 rounds where ever you want them, and fast, has some real merits over larger harder kicking packages. For sure its way better than that 50 caliber air pistol that the Innernet Nut (And he IS Nuttier than a Squirrel Turd) is touting as UK Legal and viable as a self defense weapon!
And finally, to the ammunition.
1. Blazers didn't disappoint. They simply shot reliably and accurately.
2. Neither did the Winchester M-TwennyTurds disappoint......They shot accurately enough to hit the steels, functioned the gun well, only had three complete duds in a box of 450 rounds, and Just Like their Good Buddy, Remington ThunderTurds, they leaded the rifling clear full for the last two inches of the barrel. (2 dozen passes with a bronze brush and I once again had rifling in the full length of my barrel, so no complaints here.)
Go getcha one, or two.
Primary impression is WoW! Impresses me as the .22 handgun I just might keep.
The range parameters....Off hand, 3 to 10 yards. Target paper, 2" swingers, 5" plates. 50 rounds Blazer 40g RN and 450 rounds Winchester M-TwennyTurds.
Wiped the gun out, applied RIG to all contact surfaces, converted scary 12 round mag to Liberal Terrifying 15 rounds with NicTaylor kit.
All the shots went just over or on the front sight grouping nicely on paper and pleasantly ringing even the smallest steel if i held still for it.
Front sight is hard to see.
Trigger pull is decent and feels enough like my RI Officers that I'll not make any changes.
The gun runs like a German Black Forest Clock, only stopping when the mag is empty.
The nic taylor 15 round conversion locks the slide back every single time and feeds like a champ. I clipped one coil from the bottom of the spring.....it won't give you a 16th round in the mag but it makes getting #15 in there a breeze. 16 total shots (with one squirreled away in the pipe) and this gun is a wonder to hold and shoot.
Thumb safety stuck on once but with use it loosened up and seems reliable now. Rather have it stuck on than off or hell, just glad its broke in and not sticking at all now.....
Really really really really really REALLY>INFINITY like the checkered rubber grips.
Hate the white lettering. Fortunately its ink stamped on so maybe it'll wear off.....white lettering on a gun sucks big green donkeys.
Just enough recoil to make you find and refocus the front sight (rather than wait for it to come back down from somewhere just above your eyebrows) and so double taps quickly become triple taps, quadruple taps, etc. Its quite easy to quickly be making a series of double taps from 3 to 10 yards a bit faster than 2 rounds per second. Might not seem fast compared to Jessy or Jerry, but probably faster than most of us have done it before.
Feels like a full size 1911 (with less kick of course) should be a wonderful practice piece that transitions to centerfire platforms.
Incidentally, and regardless of whatcha think of .22 lr for defense, I'd have no qualms carrying this one for defense. Being able to put up to 16 rounds where ever you want them, and fast, has some real merits over larger harder kicking packages. For sure its way better than that 50 caliber air pistol that the Innernet Nut (And he IS Nuttier than a Squirrel Turd) is touting as UK Legal and viable as a self defense weapon!
And finally, to the ammunition.
1. Blazers didn't disappoint. They simply shot reliably and accurately.
2. Neither did the Winchester M-TwennyTurds disappoint......They shot accurately enough to hit the steels, functioned the gun well, only had three complete duds in a box of 450 rounds, and Just Like their Good Buddy, Remington ThunderTurds, they leaded the rifling clear full for the last two inches of the barrel. (2 dozen passes with a bronze brush and I once again had rifling in the full length of my barrel, so no complaints here.)
Go getcha one, or two.
