My 22a is about the most fun I have had for $200! Are there better, more accurate .22s out there?, sure, but for a lot more money. It's not on a par with my model 41, but I get just as tight groups out of it as I do my Ruger and my Buckmark.

The only complaint I have is the sights, and a little day-glo paint on the front sight cured that.

I have 15k rnds through mine and I'm only on my second recoil buffer. I don't understand some of the guys I see reporting only getting 500 rnds out of them unless maybe they are shooting some of the hotter loads. I shoot a mix of CCI blazer and CCI standard velocity.

The only FTF/FTE's I ever have are when it starts getting dirty, particularly when some of that waxy bullet lube starts getting built up on the slide face around the extractor and the case rim recess. When at the range, if I stop every 300 rnds and dig the goo out of those areas with a toothpick I never have any problems.