petingrass
Well-Known Member
So my first-gen Walther P22 finally gave up the ghost a while back, and I thought I should share. After a measly 1500 rounds or so (mostly suppressed) the fire control group housing cracked. The P22 uses a similar scheme to the Sig P365 and P320, where an internal trigger and slide rail assembly is the serialized part instead of the plastic frame.
It was never a fantastic gun, but it did have a certain charm. The single action trigger was mediocre, the sights were plastic and fairly usable, and the controls were lackluster. The double action pull was horrendous. There was no way to decock the thing without pulling the trigger, the magazine disconnect safety made that procedure more likely to go badly, and the safety lever was bass ackwards like a Beretta 92FS.
About the only good things I can say about it is that it had a little bit of a James Bond-ish vibe with a suppressor and Walther’s cheap laser attachment, and that it fit small kid-sized hands pretty well where a larger gun like a Ruger MK series might be too much.
Walther sent me an RMA and return address label at no charge, and a few weeks later sent back a brand new pistol of the current generation. It’s my understanding that they made some changes to make them more reliable, but at the end of the day it’s still an Umarex-made Zamak pot metal turd. I unloaded it as soon as possible.
It was never a fantastic gun, but it did have a certain charm. The single action trigger was mediocre, the sights were plastic and fairly usable, and the controls were lackluster. The double action pull was horrendous. There was no way to decock the thing without pulling the trigger, the magazine disconnect safety made that procedure more likely to go badly, and the safety lever was bass ackwards like a Beretta 92FS.
About the only good things I can say about it is that it had a little bit of a James Bond-ish vibe with a suppressor and Walther’s cheap laser attachment, and that it fit small kid-sized hands pretty well where a larger gun like a Ruger MK series might be too much.
Walther sent me an RMA and return address label at no charge, and a few weeks later sent back a brand new pistol of the current generation. It’s my understanding that they made some changes to make them more reliable, but at the end of the day it’s still an Umarex-made Zamak pot metal turd. I unloaded it as soon as possible.