The best laid plans,,,yada, yada, yada.
Well, I had planned to shoot the old ones, but my wife's new Winchester 9422 just called out to me. As an after thought, I threw it into the trunk along with all the others I planned on shooting, and just got carried away with it.
As kind of a review of the gun:
Winchester 9422, Trapper Model
Ammo: Remington Thunderbolt
Winchester DynaPoint
Winchester Xpert
Fit and fishish are good to very good. I would of course prefer a little better blueing, but,,,
Accuracy is acceptable, but the open sights are off to the point of being unuseable. Even adjusted "all the way down" for elevation, the gun shoots 3 inches high at 50 yards. Since it is going to be scoped, this isn't a problem. A friend's 9422 shows a similar tendancy to shoot high.
Trigger: Fantastic. Measured a hair under 5 pounds, and smooth as glass. got better as I shot it more.
Reliability: Have to rate this a zero. I had no less than 7 jams in a total of 300 rounds fired. The most common problem was the shell jumping the rail as it was being loaded into the chamber. The loading action has a lever that moves the shell into place to be rammed into the chamber. On 5 occasions, the shell would fall between this lever and the inside of the reciever. Each time I had to unload and disassemble to remove the shell. My friends 9422 does not do this, so I think it is a problem with mine, and possibly not a design flaw.
Overall rating: A gun more suited to an experienced handler because of the feed problem. Fun factor is very high, hunting use is very possible, but agin the jams may be a problem. I will try some faster (ie:Stingers) to see if the POI comes down, plus there is the micro adjustment on the Buckhorn rear site that I didn't mess with.
Would I buy another: No, not in .22lr or .22 mag. For open sight use, the Trapper in .38/.357 is OMHO a better option. Side loading gate and close to the same price to feed with reloads.
UPDATED: I found the feed problem to be tied to the use of cheap ammo. I went back out today(Sunday), after mounting a 4X scope, to try it out again. This time I took along a half a box of CCI mini mags. The Mini Mags fed 100%, but I again had a lot of trouble with the cheaper ammo. It seems that the Winchester is very sensitive to rim thickness.
*George: I didn't see Janet, but I suspect she was close at hand. Either that or the cows in the next field were overly active in their production of fertilizer. I hope I didn't offend you with the other post, I just got sick of seeing her mug plastered all over the news, and figured you might get a kick out of excercising your "god" powers in a friendly kind of way.
[This message has been edited by Hal (edited August 29, 1999).]
Well, I had planned to shoot the old ones, but my wife's new Winchester 9422 just called out to me. As an after thought, I threw it into the trunk along with all the others I planned on shooting, and just got carried away with it.
As kind of a review of the gun:
Winchester 9422, Trapper Model
Ammo: Remington Thunderbolt
Winchester DynaPoint
Winchester Xpert
Fit and fishish are good to very good. I would of course prefer a little better blueing, but,,,
Accuracy is acceptable, but the open sights are off to the point of being unuseable. Even adjusted "all the way down" for elevation, the gun shoots 3 inches high at 50 yards. Since it is going to be scoped, this isn't a problem. A friend's 9422 shows a similar tendancy to shoot high.
Trigger: Fantastic. Measured a hair under 5 pounds, and smooth as glass. got better as I shot it more.
Reliability: Have to rate this a zero. I had no less than 7 jams in a total of 300 rounds fired. The most common problem was the shell jumping the rail as it was being loaded into the chamber. The loading action has a lever that moves the shell into place to be rammed into the chamber. On 5 occasions, the shell would fall between this lever and the inside of the reciever. Each time I had to unload and disassemble to remove the shell. My friends 9422 does not do this, so I think it is a problem with mine, and possibly not a design flaw.
Overall rating: A gun more suited to an experienced handler because of the feed problem. Fun factor is very high, hunting use is very possible, but agin the jams may be a problem. I will try some faster (ie:Stingers) to see if the POI comes down, plus there is the micro adjustment on the Buckhorn rear site that I didn't mess with.
Would I buy another: No, not in .22lr or .22 mag. For open sight use, the Trapper in .38/.357 is OMHO a better option. Side loading gate and close to the same price to feed with reloads.
UPDATED: I found the feed problem to be tied to the use of cheap ammo. I went back out today(Sunday), after mounting a 4X scope, to try it out again. This time I took along a half a box of CCI mini mags. The Mini Mags fed 100%, but I again had a lot of trouble with the cheaper ammo. It seems that the Winchester is very sensitive to rim thickness.
*George: I didn't see Janet, but I suspect she was close at hand. Either that or the cows in the next field were overly active in their production of fertilizer. I hope I didn't offend you with the other post, I just got sick of seeing her mug plastered all over the news, and figured you might get a kick out of excercising your "god" powers in a friendly kind of way.
[This message has been edited by Hal (edited August 29, 1999).]