So, first and foremost, to those who were in mortal fear of me losing my life, a limb, or permanent residence... The revelation to my better half that I had brought home another orphan was met with nary an eye roll and sigh, prior to my dearest proclaiming "It IS cute".
So, domestic bliss continues...
THAT said, the wee papoose has now also been to the range for the first time under my care - First shooting impressions:
The trigger is awful. I mean AWFUL. It must be about ten pounds or so! Hopefully things will break in a bit, but I swear that my DA pistol has a lighter pull!
The sights are off left about 4" at 25m range. I think I was putting things into about 1.5 - 2" groups, but aiming off is something that I have nearly forgotten since my militia days. Will have to figure out whether one should push the rear sight, or the plastic front sight blade over.
In about 60 rounds fired today, had one stovepipe ejection, and three instances where the closing bolt did not pick up the round in the magazine - All 3 occurrences with the second round in the mag. It IS possible that with the tiny little fore-end (or lack thereof), I may have been yanking back on the magazine, and this may have been a factor. Was shooting Federal high velocity HP.
Anyway, she does seem to clean up real easy, although for the life of me, I WISH that someone would design a .22 that doesn't need a screwdriver to take apart.
Hopefully, as parts wear in, reliability in cycling will improve, the trigger will lighten up some, and I can figure out which sight to push... Unless I put a little red dot or telescope on her.
Will update with next session killing the paper.
Cheers,
Neal
