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Torture test summary- first of all, some people would not consider 405 rounds without maintenance to be a torture test. However, this is a 22lr, which is very dirty ammo and is known to be finicky. I'm also on a budget. Out of 405 rounds, I shot 30 CCI 40 grain CPRN MiniMags, and the rest were Winchester Westerns. It cycled flawlessly throughout the 405 rounds except for one Winchester cartridge which felt very underpowed (probably an ammo issue, not a gun issue). Four other rounds (all Winchesters) were squibs, and refused to fire even putting them through the gun a second time. All others, like I said, functioned fine. At about the 120 round mark the firearm started flinging very thick carbon paste at my face, but still functioned fine. I was extremely surprised by its overall performance throughout the test.
Coming home after work I cracked it open to clean. It WAS a pain, but still took no more than 15 minutes to scrub off the gunk and lube it back up. The fouling was pretty heavily caked on, especially around the chamber. The rifling in the barrel was completely filled with fouling, yet a copper brush soaked in gun cleaner fixed it after about 15 strokes.
The wear wasn't bad at all, just where you'd expect it. After today I'm at 885 rounds through the pistol in total. No cracks, even with the heat of rapid shooting, and just wear of the finish where the slide contacts the frame.
Overall I'm purely in love with this pistol, especially after today. I think people have a tendency to give it a bad rap for the "pot metal" material, but I think that is hardly justified. It's a solid, reliable platform that should last years of hard use and abuse, and well worth the $300 to buy brand new.
Sorry for the long read, hopefully it will debunk many of the myths and gripes surrounding this well-made pistol.
Coming home after work I cracked it open to clean. It WAS a pain, but still took no more than 15 minutes to scrub off the gunk and lube it back up. The fouling was pretty heavily caked on, especially around the chamber. The rifling in the barrel was completely filled with fouling, yet a copper brush soaked in gun cleaner fixed it after about 15 strokes.
The wear wasn't bad at all, just where you'd expect it. After today I'm at 885 rounds through the pistol in total. No cracks, even with the heat of rapid shooting, and just wear of the finish where the slide contacts the frame.
Overall I'm purely in love with this pistol, especially after today. I think people have a tendency to give it a bad rap for the "pot metal" material, but I think that is hardly justified. It's a solid, reliable platform that should last years of hard use and abuse, and well worth the $300 to buy brand new.
Sorry for the long read, hopefully it will debunk many of the myths and gripes surrounding this well-made pistol.