Walther P22 Canadian 5inch barrel is goofy long

Andronicus

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So I just bought a Walther P22 online. I hadn't really looked closely at the 'Canadian' version until after I pushed "purchase". Now looking at it, that 5" barrel is really silly long. (Is this just the California Compliant version?)

Has anyone ever put a shorter barrel on there or had their barrel cut down? What price range would you expect to pay to have a .8" removed from your barrel?

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I guess you would also have to get rid of that hiddious front thing, put a fake can or something on whatever is left of the barrel sticking out of the slide, and put a new front sight on the slide.
 
Remove the fake compensator/barrel weight and have your barrel cut down and re crowned

Your silde most likely has a cover plate over where you can mount the front sight
 
I had my wife's P22 cut, crowned and reregistered by Dlask arms in Delta. Now there is only about 5/8"-3/4" sticking out. Looks way better but I have no idea what I paid for it to be done.
 
I just picked up my Walther P22 today. A question if anyone has ideas.

The front sight is mounted on the "stabilizer",. The stabilizer has to be removed for disassembly when cleaning. When it goes back on, there is no lock for rotational angle. I fear that the point of aim will be different every time I disassemble and clean the gun.

Should I just remove the sight from the stabilizer and put it on the slide? There is a mounting spot just covered by a plastic plug. Or is a tiny bit of rotational error not going to matter at a 7m range? What about at a 25m range?
 
Andronicus said:
I just picked up my Walther P22 today. A question if anyone has ideas.

The front sight is mounted on the "stabilizer",. The stabilizer has to be removed for disassembly when cleaning. When it goes back on, there is no lock for rotational angle. I fear that the point of aim will be different every time I disassemble and clean the gun.

Should I just remove the sight from the stabilizer and put it on the slide? There is a mounting spot just covered by a plastic plug. Or is a tiny bit of rotational error not going to matter at a 7m range? What about at a 25m range?
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I have some pistol compensators that dont have anything for rotational clocking, so what I do to try and put them on as aligned as possible is put the whole slide and comp in a vise with smooth jaws. I set it up in the vise so when its tightened it alights the slide and the comp, and I leave the part where the fasteners are exposed out of the jaws.

If your slide width/shape is pretty close to the width of the stabilizer, I think you could use the same technique. Or something similar using the alightment of the sides as a guide to making it align rotationally as best as possible

You will loose 2 benifits by moving the sight back onto the slide, but being a .22 not sure how musch these are worth to you

1 you have a longer sight radius which is technically more accurate then a shorter sight radius

2 the sight being on the barrel not the slide usually makes it have less movement during follow up shots, as it is no longer moving with the slide. It allows you to get your sight aligment back faster after shots.
 
Andronicus said:
I just picked up my Walther P22 today. A question if anyone has ideas.

The front sight is mounted on the "stabilizer",. The stabilizer has to be removed for disassembly when cleaning. When it goes back on, there is no lock for rotational angle. I fear that the point of aim will be different every time I disassemble and clean the gun.

Should I just remove the sight from the stabilizer and put it on the slide? There is a mounting spot just covered by a plastic plug. Or is a tiny bit of rotational error not going to matter at a 7m range? What about at a 25m range?
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Is there no detent in the top of the barrel shroud that a set screw on the top of the fake compensator sits it? That's how it was on my my p22 years ago when I had one. You'll have to cut the barrel and shroud of you go that route, personally I think it looks better with the compensator than a Pinocchio Barrel
 
bigdaddyeo said:
I had my wife's P22 cut, crowned and reregistered by Dlask arms in Delta. Now there is only about 5/8"-3/4" sticking out. Looks way better but I have no idea what I paid for it to be done.
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While at it, probably should have the smith get rid of the annoying magazine 'safety'.
 
OK, I had a chance to shoot my new P22 this week. I put about 200 rounds through it of various brands from high quality to bulk junk. I had no stoppages. It shot as accuriate as I can shoot. 0 complaints.

I am super happy I bought this pistol!
 
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