Well, I took mine out Friday (2 days ago) and shot if for the first time. First 2 magazines of Federal 38 Gr HP bulk ammo went through without a hitch. The group was a little off windage wise, but I adjusted for that, and it was shooting okay groups after that.
THEN... I switched to a box of American Eagle 40 Gr round nose, and it stovepiped almost every round! Eh Gad!
I though I had a turd of a pistol on my hands. The whole box ran almost with an issue with every round. I left the shooting session very frustrated. Cleaned and lubed it after, and today I shot it again. Today it ran
flawlessly! I shot Rem Golden Bullet HP, and that same Federal field box 38 Gr HP, and CCI Small Game with flat points, and Fed Champion, all ran without a hick-up.
Then to push my luck I tried Remington SubSonic, the bane of many a semi-auto 22. and that ran
without any issue!!! So, I must have had a bad box of ammo last Friday, causing all kinds of mental havoc until today.
My review so far, that gun is nice, accurate, runs smooth. One thing I did run into, and it caused a failure to feed, you have to load the round in with the bullets angling up in front. If you push the follower down on the sides and the rounds fall in with the bullets facing down angle you're gonna have issues, they just get jammed straight forward into the front part of the magazine interior and the noses get munched, and they won't feed. If you use the provided "quick loader" (which is NOT quick at all) it will push the rear of the rounds down in back, and the bullets end up facing up in front, feed fine.:bthumb: