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Well, there goes the hobby.One of these days you’ll realize it’s more about the Indian and less about the bow and the arrow.
take as detailed notes watching me shoot as you do with your target percentages and ammo usage and the improvement will comeWell, there goes the hobby.
The search is over.
And I was having so much fun!
What will I do next?
My notes on Zackcz:take as detailed notes watching me shoot as you do with your target percentages and ammo usage and the improvement will come
Seems spot on.My notes on Zackcz:
- young guy
- steady hands
- good eyes
- arthritis-free
- shoots better than me standing & free-handed than I'll ever do on a rest sitting down
- hasn't learned that Browning Buckmark guns shoot a little better than most others, haha!
- best at gun trades on INGO & perhaps the state of IN
Observational summary:
There's not a gun I can buy that will enable me to outshoot you, haha!
Those are great little pistols. I own one as well. Bought it before people caught on. Paid like $160 8 or 10 years ago.I left the Browning Buckmarks in the safe today to shoot one of my favorite "oldies."
SW 422 (bought off Zachcz, March 2022).
Produced 1987-1996.
Love the trigger!
Used 4 different ammo brands:
- CCI Blazer
- CCI SV
- Federal AutoMatch
- Armscor
No failures to fire or eject (some questions online about using SV or HV with this gun).
I didn't have any problem with the SV.
10 rds per 3.75" circles.
20 rds per ammo brand, with Armscor getting an extra 10 rds b/c there was an extra circle left over, haha!
If I wasn't pressed for time today, I would have put the 1.75" circles up for a go-around.
Fixed sights: it wants to shoot 1-2" low & a little left in my hands, but easily to adapt POA.
My usual 21' for a non-optic.
Groups listed:
- Armscor = 1st with 1 1/8" best group (1st row 3rd circle)
- CCI Blazer = 2nd with 1 3/8" best group (1st row 2nd circle)
- Federal AutoMatch = 1 1/2" best group (3rd row 1st circle)
- CCI SV = last with 1 5/8" best group (2nd row 1st circle)
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Pic of 422 w/target
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Zackcz was telling me the same just today.Those are great little pistols. I own one as well. Bought it before people caught on. Paid like $160 8 or 10 years ago.
I also have a S&W 41 and with me behind the trigger Dollar for dollar that 422 doesn't lag that far behind the 41. And there are ALOT of dollars in between...lol. even at today's prices there hard to beat.
Very niceZackcz was telling me the same just today.
My Smith 41 shoots better than the SW422, but for 1/3 the price, the 422 gets its share of love, haha!
Fantastic about the $160 price tag.
I have had 3-4 of these 422, but by the time I was buying them they were $400+/-
SW 41: 30' with a red dot 100%.
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Before with iron sights before red dot.
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30' with red dot: 100%, 95%, 85% & 95%.
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SW 41: 21' with iron sights before red dot. 100%
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SW 41: 100% at 30' w/red dot.
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SW 422: 85%
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SW 422: 70% & 75% (1st & 4th row)
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SW 422: 95% & 90%
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I saw a vid with a guy cleaning the Buckmark w/o removing the sight bracket, which probably allows for more access & a deeper clean.I contemplated buying a Buckmark but from what I read the sight bracket/optics base has to be removed to disassemble the pistol. I would most definitely need an optics base with some type of dot sight.