Your Culina round butt to square butt conversion grips are NOT the 1st ones he has ever made...for what it's worth he has been making them for many years now...I know because I have bought many sets of them from him...RogerIts a fine handgun, I wasn't in love with it. I did not care for the round butt frame and asked John Culina if he could make a conversion round to square. He did and they may be the first ones he did. I still did not care for the recoil and sent it off for a quadra-port job by Magnaport. That worked real well but made the thing so damned noisy I really lost interest in it. I traded it off to someone on this site for a very nice Hi-Power, great trade...never met a Hi-Power I didn't like.
Roger, When I asked Jennifer if it was something John was capable of doing back in 2012 she had me talk to him. I am aware of the fact that it is something that is now offered on their website. They are special to me in that I originally bought them for that first run of Mountain Revolver I had received from an uncle, they were also the first of more than a few stocks from the Culinas. I later picked up a Model 24-3 Lew Horton 44 Special which was also round butt framed. I traded off the Mountain Revolver and put them on the 24-3 where they still are. Thank you for correcting my statement of owning the FIRST set of Culina round to square butt conversions. Just one of the great things about this website, the wealth of information that is so willingly shared.Your Culina round butt to square butt conversion grips are NOT the 1st ones he has ever made...for what it's worth he has been making them for many years now...I know because I have bought many sets of them from him...Roger
Rimfires can be tricky. I have a GP100-22 that had a choice between a very heavy trigger pull or misfires in DA mode. Deburring , a spring swap and adding a washer to the mainspring strut solved it. It was a bit of an ordeal.Mine is perfect. Shoots very well. Also bought the 617 and 686. No real issues. 617 has some FTF's.
Mine shoots great no problems