Comments on: Smith & Wesson 22A Recall

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:56:41 +0000

Just got mine back from S&W total time of retrofit including shipping was 2 weeks.

By: Tam

Tam — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:41:09 +0000

From what I’ve heard, the barrels on S&W 22A and 22S pistols are rifled on the same machinery used to cut the rifling on the vastly more expensive Model 41. The 22A/22S seem to be very popular among novice bullseye shooters who are dipping their toes in the game before they spend their money on a 41 or a Marvel 1911 rimfire upper.

As a plinker, though, they have a serious weakness vis a vis their Ruger/Browning competitors in that they puke their guts in relatively short order.

By: VegasChris

VegasChris — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:42:26 +0000

Hi Tam,

Thanks for the info! Makes me feel much better to find out that it’s a known issue :-)

By: Tam (remotely)

Tam (remotely) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:24:34 +0000

VegasChris,

The cracked frame thing is endemic to the gun. This recall is to fix slamfires.

OTOH, 22A’s are really accurate until they crack their frames, and when they do, S&W will replace the cracked frame and number the new one to match the old so you don’t have to do a new 4473…

By: VegasChris

VegasChris — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:41:20 +0000

They’re not kidding about the recall, bad things can happen: http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/VegasChris/Kaboom/

On its way back to S&W now, hopefully they’ll fix it :-0

By: Tam (remotely)

Tam (remotely) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:40:54 +0000

From S&W: if you have a Model 22A, .22 LR pistol there exists the possibility that the slide was not manufactured to the correct tolerances…

…and a 100% chance that your gun is a ruptured pulsating ball of fuck.