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  • #1

    Goodbye P22, hello...

    Ruger 22/45 Lite-












    Picked up this guy down during LSR at McBrides gun shop in Austin. I have been wanting to get rid of my p22 since.... well... I bought the damn thing because they are in my experience nearly the worst damn 22lr autoloader that you can buy, but I bought it a long time ago because it was the easiest way to start running my can.

    I have always loved these Rugers MK type pistols, and the new Lite model caught my eye on The Firearm Blog the other day. The gun weighs 22 ounces, has a threaded barrel, adjustable sights, and free hideous gold anodizing! None the less, it saves you from having to buy a ruger mk pistol and buying a $300 pac lite upper. When I saw it at the store an employee was unpacking it and it had no price tag because he had just gotten it in from ruger and didnt recognize the model number. I checked and saw the online MSRP was $470 so I fully expected him to throw out an insane number like $450 since it was new... but nope, he looked it up in a book and said "$379 is what I can do on this one". After seeing that a regular 22/45 was only a little less money, I filled out the 4473 and paid the piper.

    Finally, now I have a can host that will hopefully fire off a magazine without a jam
    Originally posted by lincolnboy
    After watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.
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  • #2
    Very nice pick up. I always liked the Rugers with the integral suppressed uppers.
    "It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!"

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    • #3
      Nice. I still have to laugh at the last time I fired your poor P22. It jammed 10 of 10 times on that one magazine.

      When it's time to clean your MKIII, just sell it.
      "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
      "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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      • #4
        Originally posted by 5.0_CJ View Post
        When it's time to clean your MKIII, just sell it.
        I bet there's a ton of people out there that would agree to this statement, they can be a bastard to tear down if not done right.
        "It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!"

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        • #5
          Very nice looking Ruger...

          Loved my MKII back in the day. Wish I had never sold it!

          Thinking of picking up a SR22 for the wife.
          "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson, 1776

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          • #6
            Originally posted by 5.0_CJ View Post
            Nice. I still have to laugh at the last time I fired your poor P22. It jammed 10 of 10 times on that one magazine.

            When it's time to clean your MKIII, just sell it.
            Lol, yeah that was funny. My p22 runs ok with the can on (I assume the extra back pressure allows the slide to cycle more violently) but take that sucker off and you have a bolt action pistol.


            I owned a MKII in the past and it was a great gun, and my Dad has a regular 22/45. Never in my life have I found a gun that works so well, yet is such a bitch to take down. I learned just to run a bore snake down the barrel, hit the feed ramp with a q-tip, and hit the action with some rem-oil.
            Originally posted by lincolnboy
            After watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.

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            • #7
              I'm sure it shoots great. Too bad it's so ugly.
              Originally posted by Broncojohnny
              HOORAY ME and FUCK YOU!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Nash B. View Post
                I'm sure it shoots great. Too bad it's so ugly.
                One thing I have learned the hard way about 22lr autoloaders is that the uglier the gun, the better that motherfucker will run.


                I really really wish that guns like the Sig Mosquito and the P22 ran well, I really do, but having owned the latter and read nothing but bad things about the former I am just too skeptical of 22 pistols that look like traditional pistols.
                Originally posted by lincolnboy
                After watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by DOHCTR View Post
                  Lol, yeah that was funny. My p22 runs ok with the can on (I assume the extra back pressure allows the slide to cycle more violently) but take that sucker off and you have a bolt action pistol.


                  I owned a MKII in the past and it was a great gun, and my Dad has a regular 22/45. Never in my life have I found a gun that works so well, yet is such a bitch to take down. I learned just to run a bore snake down the barrel, hit the feed ramp with a q-tip, and hit the action with some rem-oil.
                  Yeah that's what I do, I just clean as much as I can without tearing it down.

                  The tear down is easy, the reassembly in the bastard. I have two MKII's, super accurate and super reliable.
                  "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
                  "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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                  • #10
                    I like the looks of the Ruger 22s, I just don't like the gold upper on this one.
                    Originally posted by Broncojohnny
                    HOORAY ME and FUCK YOU!

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                    • #11
                      What happened to your P22?
                      "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
                      "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Nash B. View Post
                        I like the looks of the Ruger 22s, I just don't like the gold upper on this one.
                        I think they all look pretty fugly, but Ruger's decision to go gold just really pushes it over the edge into "damn, what the fuck" territory.

                        Hell, the thing could be pink with yellow stipes, purple grooves and pinstriping inspired by an Ed Hardy shirt and I would have still bought it over another p22.
                        Originally posted by lincolnboy
                        After watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by 5.0_CJ View Post
                          What happened to your P22?
                          I still have it, I can not in good faith sell a pistol that functions so poorly to someone. I may take a weekend day to take it all the way down and clean every part on the gun, polish a few things, and try to get it running well.
                          Originally posted by lincolnboy
                          After watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DOHCTR View Post
                            I still have it, I can not in good faith sell a pistol that functions so poorly to someone. I may take a weekend day to take it all the way down and clean every part on the gun, polish a few things, and try to get it running well.
                            I was going to volunteer to buy it off you as a project. I have a .22 can on the way and no gun to put it on.
                            "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
                            "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by 5.0_CJ View Post
                              I was going to volunteer to buy it off you as a project. I have a .22 can on the way and no gun to put it on.
                              We could probably work something out.

                              By the way, did you ever get your chrono fixed? Was it as simple as just buying new metal archways?
                              Originally posted by lincolnboy
                              After watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.

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