Bought the G22 a little while ago because im a fan of the bullpup design. On the first firing it performed flawlessly, and really impressed me. went through 500 rounds or so with no problems at all, in fact i was impressed with its accuracy and performance. I ran into problems when i field stripped it to clean it:
There were many loose parts that just seemed to fly off the gun when it was dissasembled, and in the confusion, im pretty sure i put the bolt latch spring in wrong. I assume this because when i go to fire it again 2 things happened:
1: on the final round the bolt locked to the rear. fine, only it wouldnt go back forward. AT ALL. the only way i could get the bolt to go forward again was to dissasemble it. If your not familiar with the G22, there is no bolt release button, you have to pull the charging back and let it ride forward.
2: the magazine would no longer seat properly, you really had to slam that sucker in there for it to lock.
I went high and to the right. I was seconds away from smashing the stupid thing and leaving it at the range, but i heard walther had excellent customer service, so i figured id give it a shot.
Called walther, they send me a useless but detailed diagram of the gun. Ok fine then, its smash time. Then i think to myself: if you have to reach around and pull the bolt back anyway to send the bolt home, wtf is the point of having a lockback function at all? in fact, it seems to be causing a huge problem. Why dont i just take the whole freaking spring out and not worry about it?
so thats what i did. I took the spring out (noticed it was bent really bad too) and just as im reassemballing it i realize the other spring they tell you not to lose (magazine latch spring or something like that) somehow fell off. THESE 2 STUPID SPRINGS ARE THE CAUSE OF 90% OF THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE G22. you think walther would just fix it but thats not the point. the point is i put it all back together without either spring inside the gun, and the thing works flawlessly. and i mean FLAWLESSLY.
All of a sudden the magazines are seating perfectly, the bolt locks to the rear on the final shot, and rides back home when you slap in a new magazine. In fact it works exactly the same as it did when i first got it.
Maybe they do something necessary that i dont know about, and maybe theres someone out there who knows more about it, but for right now they seem completely useless.
Went through another box of federal (500 rounds or so) and everything worked great and i couldnt be happier.
There were many loose parts that just seemed to fly off the gun when it was dissasembled, and in the confusion, im pretty sure i put the bolt latch spring in wrong. I assume this because when i go to fire it again 2 things happened:
1: on the final round the bolt locked to the rear. fine, only it wouldnt go back forward. AT ALL. the only way i could get the bolt to go forward again was to dissasemble it. If your not familiar with the G22, there is no bolt release button, you have to pull the charging back and let it ride forward.
2: the magazine would no longer seat properly, you really had to slam that sucker in there for it to lock.
I went high and to the right. I was seconds away from smashing the stupid thing and leaving it at the range, but i heard walther had excellent customer service, so i figured id give it a shot.
Called walther, they send me a useless but detailed diagram of the gun. Ok fine then, its smash time. Then i think to myself: if you have to reach around and pull the bolt back anyway to send the bolt home, wtf is the point of having a lockback function at all? in fact, it seems to be causing a huge problem. Why dont i just take the whole freaking spring out and not worry about it?
so thats what i did. I took the spring out (noticed it was bent really bad too) and just as im reassemballing it i realize the other spring they tell you not to lose (magazine latch spring or something like that) somehow fell off. THESE 2 STUPID SPRINGS ARE THE CAUSE OF 90% OF THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE G22. you think walther would just fix it but thats not the point. the point is i put it all back together without either spring inside the gun, and the thing works flawlessly. and i mean FLAWLESSLY.
All of a sudden the magazines are seating perfectly, the bolt locks to the rear on the final shot, and rides back home when you slap in a new magazine. In fact it works exactly the same as it did when i first got it.
Maybe they do something necessary that i dont know about, and maybe theres someone out there who knows more about it, but for right now they seem completely useless.
Went through another box of federal (500 rounds or so) and everything worked great and i couldnt be happier.