Re: Does anyone make a High Cap 22lr Pistol?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: xmil91w</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DFOOSKING</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There's a conversion to replace the follower in the Walther P-22 factory mags, takes about thirty seconds to replace and whalla you have a thirteen round mag instread of ten. Friends modded three, extended base and standard base. OH, and you lose the spring compressor tab on the side of the magazine doing this as well! FYI
Not tremendous, but when you have five coons in your attic and no room to move let alone stand, every round is welcome.
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I had a P22, fun little gun, but amazingly inaccurate. I traded it in on a MK3 and am much happier. It wouldn't be bad for close range(under 5 yards), but was shooting it at 20 and couldn't even make dinner plate size groups. </div></div>
Not to get off topic, and certainly not in defense of the P22 which I think is junk, but the accuracy issues you are encountering are due to the pistol's design. It uses 2 receiver plates that sandwich together with stove bolts to keep the barrel under tension. These bolts loosen up--barrel loosens up.
Drift the 2 roll pins out of the frame, (long one in the rear) and remove the receiver from the frame. The Bolt catch will fall out, keep your finger on it and observe the relationship between the catch and the bolt catch spring so you don't have issues when its time to go back together. When you take the receiver out of the frame, on the right side of the receiver where the serial no. is engraved you will see 2 phillips head stove bolts. Take them out, degrease, loctite, reinsert and torque. Put the receiver back in the frame (with the bolt catch & spring reinserted) and drift the pins back in place. The pistol will be more consistant now. (But its still junk)