I know I'll be chastised for this but after doing literally months of research on the Victory and Ruger's Mark IV Competition, I ordered a new Competition from Ruger yesterday. Their media price was a bit higher than S&W's but I just saw a lot fewer negative reports about the Mark IV than the Victory and frankly like the Mark IV's looks better. But that's a very subjective thing about which many may disagree with me.

One can never have too many 22LR firearms so a Victory might be added to my collection in the future. I have an S&W 22A-1 Talo edition that I'm kind of afraid to shoot very much for fear of the frame cracking as so many have. The last I heard, S&W had no replacement frames left in inventory so they offer you a different model in exchange. I like the 22A-1 a lot and it is very accurate, especially for its price range.

Ed