Bought my first handgun!

[mllc]

Hey guys, I'm happy to report that after much debate and waiting, I finally made up my mind on which starter gun to get. And when I say "bought", I really mean that it was a birthday gift, from my special someone. I got a Ruger SR22 from Pete's gun shop in Adams (I'm also gonna post on his shops thread about the great customer service) I have spent the last couple hours with the help of youtube getting proficient at taking it apart and learning what all the parts do. I can't wait until my membership goes through at my local range, so I can give it a proper break in.

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[sweed]

Nice! I'm sure that'll be fun, and cheap to shoot. What's next? haha
I got a Ruger for my first, great guns.

 

[warwickben]

I've borrowed my brothers, not my cup of tea but its a nice gun.
Stay away from Winchester 555 bulk packs. Besides of finding a hand full of defective bullets(weird copper burrs). I had failure to feed problems. Just had to rack the slide. It almost sounded like some where under powered.

My brother says it eats federal bulk packs. I shot a whole box of them with him . Only problem we had with those was a few duds.

 

[Mrs. Zbomb]

What club? We would be happy to host you at Hopkinton if you'd like some help getting started!

 

[SteelShooter]

I just bought one today from Northshore Firearms for my wife. Christmas gift so Ill have to wait awhile before we get to test it out.

 

[CBL]

Good first buy! I had issues with mine at first but I sent it back to Ruger and they made it right. I've tried all sorts of bulk ammo and it fires everything i've fed it.

 

[gleas_troda]

nice, i was torn between this and the p22.. ultimately went with walther, shot both, fun as hell and cheap, spend hours at the range for pennies- good luck!!

 

[temchik]

Congrats! I too had a less than stellar experience with Winchester 555, but nothing too severe. Makes a good failure practice, priceless, if you ask me... maybe one FTF every few mags, nothing to be upset about...

I broke mine in using CCI mini-mags and now I am getting Winchester and Federal bulk at Walmart... it does eat more or less anything.

I didn't have to adjust the sights either, it was spot on right out of the box.

One piece of advice though - dont buy those .22 cleaning patches, I found them to be too small and useless - an old toothbrush, .22 boresnake (awesome), an old rag and qtips.

Cleaning it is not very easy since it is rather small and the barrel is attached... I don't recommend spraying CLP down anything other than the barrel, I usually put some on a toothbrush and qtips directly, that way the oil does not get into all the nooks where it just stays.

Oh, and I found that compressed air in a can is invaluable to blow the debris and extra oil out of the assemblies! I made a mistake once and sprayed a little too much CLP on to the slide, I still get black goo coming out onto the barrel.

 

[OffshoreJ]

Pete's is a pretty good little shop. Not usually the best deals around but good people. I've bought a couple of guns from them before with no complaints. I'm not too sure how local you are to Adams but I belong to a club about 25 min to the East of Pete's. The next couple of weeks are going to be a bit hectic but if my schedule allows I could host as well.

 

[mllc]

Congrats! I too had a less than stellar experience with Winchester 555, but nothing too severe. Makes a good failure practice, priceless, if you ask me... maybe one FTF every few mags, nothing to be upset about...

I broke mine in using CCI mini-mags and now I am getting Winchester and Federal bulk at Walmart... it does eat more or less anything.

I didn't have to adjust the sights either, it was spot on right out of the box.

One piece of advice though - dont buy those .22 cleaning patches, I found them to be too small and useless - an old toothbrush, .22 boresnake (awesome), an old rag and qtips.

Cleaning it is not very easy since it is rather small and the barrel is attached... I don't recommend spraying CLP down anything other than the barrel, I usually put some on a toothbrush and qtips directly, that way the oil does not get into all the nooks where it just stays.

Oh, and I found that compressed air in a can is invaluable to blow the debris and extra oil out of the assemblies! I made a mistake once and sprayed a little too much CLP on to the slide, I still get black goo coming out onto the barrel.

Thanks for the tips, I picked up a pack of CCI mini mags when I bought it. They were cheap enough so that's what I'll probably stick with for a while, maybe mix in a few mags of Federal ammo and see how it likes that. I also picked up a cleaning kit that included a Boresnake with it.


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[mllc]

Pete's is a pretty good little shop. Not usually the best deals around but good people. I've bought a couple of guns from them before with no complaints. I'm not too sure how local you are to Adams but I belong to a club about 25 min to the East of Pete's. The next couple of weeks are going to be a bit hectic but if my schedule allows I could host as well.

I did pay a little more than what Dave's would have charged me, but I didn't mind, they were some great guys there, plus the three labs they had were pretty cute. What club do you belong to? I am joining the club in Lenox, which is about a quarter mile from my house.


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[temchik]

Ha, I thought of CCI minimags as cheap too, but after blowing through a thousand in 3 trips I favor 4c/round and cheaper

 

[OffshoreJ]

I did pay a little more than what Dave's would have charged me, but I didn't mind, they were some great guys there, plus the three labs they had were pretty cute. What club do you belong to? I am joining the club in Lenox, which is about a quarter mile from my house.


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Ashfield Rod and Gun Club. Only a 100 yard range but only 5 min from my house so you can't beet that. Small club of about 200 people, mostly fudds. I'm usually the only one at the range and the rare chance that I do have to share the range they don't seem to mind my evil looking Black Rifles.

 

[Carnea]

Congrats on your purchase! It will be cheap to feed and provide you with a lot of fun!

 

[Lank]

Congrats and excellent choice. I have been a Ruger fan for decades- so much got the ruger emblem tattoed on me.

 

[ejc2g]

My wife has this gun. It has ate up any type of ammo we have thrown at it. It's pretty reliable! About 2000 rounds through it already.