Pietta PPS 50

Got mine today, they really are beautiful little guns, its nice that you can ride the hammer on the bolt as to not dry fire it.

No bolt hold open on it though so dry firing is a given anyway which sucks.

Not sure how prone the firing pins are to damage in these guns, any ideas?.

I guess its time to get back into the habit of counting my rounds.
 
I know it says specifically in the manual not to dry fire this gun as you can damage the firing pin, not sure about chamber face either....

So I really don't wanna do it at all to be honest.
 
Well I took it to the Range today, fed it all kinds of ammo. 4-500 rds worth.

Honestly with the drum magazine I havent yet found an ammo that feeds reliably all the time, also sometimes empty cases are not ejected fully.

The Stick magazine is much more reliable than the drum but still not 100%.

My best luck was with the Blazers, Federal gameshok Copper coated 40GR RN, and
Thunderbolts....

The lead federal gameshoks, winchester 333's, wildcats, not so much.

The dynapoints were a nightmare, couldent even get one chambered with the metal Drum, and fed horribly with the stick mag.

This gun cyles well "most of the time" with ammo in the 1200's fps but I now understand why they insist on 1300fps or higher.
When I use High Velocity ammo in the stick magazine, it will only catch an empty case on the last round.

This is obviously due to the bolt closing too quickly as there is no drag from stripping another round from the magzine.

All in all a nice gun but I was hoping for a little more reliabilty.


I'll have to try some CCI mini-mags and see how it goes.
 
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Tyockell18 said:
Well I took it to the Range today, fed it all kinds of ammo. 4-500 rds worth.

Honestly with the drum magazine I havent yet found an ammo that feeds reliably all the time, also sometimes empty cases are not ejected fully.

The Stick magazine is much more reliable than the drum but still not 100%.

My best luck was with the Blazers, Federal gameshok Copper coated 40GR RN, and
Thunderbolts....

The lead federal gameshoks, winchester 333's, wildcats, not so much.

The dynapoints were a nightmare, couldent even get one chambered with the metal Drum, and fed horribly with the stick mag.

This gun cyles well "most of the time" with ammo in the 1200's fps but I now understand why they insist on 1300fps or higher.
When I use High Velocity ammo in the stick magazine, it will only catch an empty case on the last round.

This is obviously due to the bolt closing too quickly as there is no drag from stripping another round from the magzine.

All in all a nice gun but I was hoping for a little more reliabilty.


I'll have to try some CCI mini-mags and see how it goes.
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Thanks for your update. This is exactly the same result that I got with mine.
Im wondering if I should get rid of it...

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I just took the gun apart to clean her up, first of all the Front Sight worked itself loose to the point of rattling around, Second when I took the trigger assembly off the Reciever, the Barrel was rattling around as well....


There is an allen key bolt in the bottom that holds the barrel tight, it rattled loose, the barrel would slide back and forth a few mm inside the barrel shroud, no wonder it had serious feeding issues late into my session....

My question is, did it just come all loose from the Factory or is it just a POS?.

Not very impressed so far, will know more next time I take it to the range, see if it goes Tec-9 on me again.
 
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I have a Squires and Bingham .22lr that looks almost identical to this gun. I bought it about 17 years ago. Is there any similarity here or are they completely different guns?
 
osborne said:
I have a Squires and Bingham .22lr that looks almost identical to this gun. I bought it about 17 years ago. Is there any similarity here or are they completely different guns?
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Pretty much identical as far as I know.


UPDATE: I took it out again today and put 200 rounds through it of CCI mini mags, it worked quite well, also it did not rattle anything loose this time while firing

It must have been loose from the factory.
 
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Tyockell18 said:
Well I took it to the Range today, fed it all kinds of ammo. 4-500 rds worth.

Honestly with the drum magazine I havent yet found an ammo that feeds reliably all the time, also sometimes empty cases are not ejected fully.

The Stick magazine is much more reliable than the drum but still not 100%.

My best luck was with the Blazers, Federal gameshok Copper coated 40GR RN, and
Thunderbolts....

The lead federal gameshoks, winchester 333's, wildcats, not so much.

The dynapoints were a nightmare, couldent even get one chambered with the metal Drum, and fed horribly with the stick mag.

This gun cyles well "most of the time" with ammo in the 1200's fps but I now understand why they insist on 1300fps or higher.
When I use High Velocity ammo in the stick magazine, it will only catch an empty case on the last round.

This is obviously due to the bolt closing too quickly as there is no drag from stripping another round from the magzine.

All in all a nice gun but I was hoping for a little more reliabilty.


I'll have to try some CCI mini-mags and see how it goes.
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Have tried CCI mini mags and they work beautifully with stick or drums mags.
Load carefully and don't try to fire too fast as most jams we had were caused by rushing the hammer fall before the bolt was fully forward. Yes we were going that fast.
 
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Best Ammo

Just spent an hour shooting my new Pietta.
She cycled CCI Mini-Mags 36 Gr hp's, 40 Gr rn and 32 Gr stingers with only 1 misfire. Used the 30 rd stick magazines. Fired 200+ rds.
Tried the 50 rd metal magazines but where I stripped them down to clean off the grease they came shipped in, I didn't use enough tension on the spring when I put them back together. The jury is still out on the 50 rd magazines until I try them with more tension on the spring.
With the stick mags, she is a sweat rifle to shoot.
 
I just picked up a couple 30 round stick mags from smacdonald, great price.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477572

As far as the spring tension on the drum, just crank it as far as you can go and it should work. But I can't say I recommend trying this:

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