We acquired a new Ruger and borrowed a locally owned, new-condition P22 for this test. And if this hypothetical gun were far more accurate than either of these two test guns, we’d beat a path to the maker’s door and buy one for ourselves.) But that veers off our current topic, which is pitting the two similar 22 autoloading pistols head to head. (If Ruger or Walther decided to do it, we suspect a great many fans of James Bond would buy the guns just for the fact that they look like the famous PPK. No one makes that gun today, so far as we know. What would have impressed us mightily is if Ruger (or Walther) had attempted to copy the original Walther PPK for the 22LR, and brought it off nicely at a good sale price. The top of its anodized slide was smooth and semi-gloss, instead of the Walther’s dead-flat black with longitudinal serrations. Like the Walther P22 WAP22003, now $379, Ruger’s SR22 is full of angles and bumps and slots, but not so many serrations.

This is a difficult trick to manage for any handgun, because differing ammo selections, test conditions, individual pistol variations, and matchups can magnify the flaws found in any product, making it hard to get a top grade again and again.īut when a gun does that well over time, it can serve as a benchmark against which to test newer products, which in this case is the Ruger SR22PB Model 03600, $399. We thought it was an ideal fun gun, one we’d take in the backpack and not even know it’s there.” Then, in the May 2010 issue, we wrote, “Our Team Said: The unanimous decision was that the P22 was the top performer in our tests.…” 22 pistol that works every time and doesn’t bust the bank need look no farther than the short-barrel P22. The windage was slick and handy, we found, and adjusted with relative ease.… We think anyone in need of a fine little. The impact could be fine-tuned as necessary by changing the front sight. It was completely reliable in our limited shooting, and shot very well, with many five-shot groups going around an inch at 15 yards. WAP22003, $301, an “Our Pick.” The test team said, “We liked this little. In a February 2006 test of four handguns, our Idaho staff called the Walther P22 22 LR No.

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