OH IT'S KINO
Southerner
Let me preface this by saying: Sorry! No pictures! I can upload a couple crappy cell phone pictures when I get home. This is more meant to help out anyone who is on the fence about buying this .22.
DO IT!
I picked up my GSG from Mark at 2A (thanks, Mark!) on Tuesday, and anxiously waited for Wednesday to arrive so I could go to the range. It was a long day, but I took the opportunity to break the gun down and become familiar with it (my first experience with anything remotely like a 1911) and gave her a good cleaning. I use Ballistol on all my guns and I really like it, so I decided to continue using that for the GSG.
My first impressions: The gun has a nice feel to it. I’ve only handled a small number of what I would call “real” 1911’s (not knocking the GSG, but it IS a .22), but the feel is surprisingly similar. It’s made primarily out of aluminum, but it doesn’t seem that way. For me, it took some getting used to because I’m not used to the more slim frame of a single stack, but after adjustment it felt really good. I’m sure you 1911 guys will feel right at home immediately.
The finish is good, not great. But it’s also not an $800 .45; I’m pleased with the finish.
The action was a little rough at first, but after I removed some of the factory grease, applied some Ballistol, and worked the slide a bit it started to smoothen out some.
Take down is pretty simple. Unfortunately, you have to remove a hex screw from the side with the provided Allen wrench, but it’s not that big of a deal. After that step it’s pretty simply done. I’ve taken it apart probably a dozen times and it’s not getting on my nerves yet.
The trigger is actually not that bad. I rather enjoyed it. I’m not expert, but I would predict it to be around 5lbs and I thought it felt solid. However, I had some problems with the grip safety. I have larger, skinny hands and a high grip, and sometimes I found it difficult to depress the grip safety and I wouldn’t get a smooth pull on the trigger. Maybe it’s just because I’m not used to the 1911 style, but it was a factor for me. Also, the ambidextrous safety was a pain for me. First, I don’t like the fact that it’s ambidextrous, but I realize that it is somewhat of a must and I can deal with that. However, I found that the safety really dug into my strong hand’s thumb and was very uncomfortable. Maybe this is because of my high grip and the way I hold the gun, but I found it unmanageable. I actually took a dremel to my gun and shaved down the safety to the point that it wasn’t uncomfortable. I can post some pictures of this if you’d like. Once I paint it black I think it will look good as new, and it made shooting the gun far more comfortable. Okay, that’s enough boring stuff.
After a nice preliminary cleaning and a generous application of Ballistol I headed out to the range.
I shot about 200 rounds through mine yesterday and it went great. I started off with 100 CCI mini mags to break her in. Out of the 100 rounds of CCI’s I had no failures other than probably 2 or 3 failures to feed. This was probably more my fault than the guns… it had trouble feeding the first round sometimes if it was angled too far down in the magazine. Once I started making sure the first round was angled up so that it would slide into the feed ramp I had no more FTF’s. Also, I think I had one stovepipe. I’m honestly not sure why… maybe I limp-wristed.
After the CCI’s I started on about 100 Winchester 333 bulk pack. They shot visibly dirtier (obviously) but I was very happy with the guns performance on them. Maybe 5 or so failures to fire but I attribute that more to the ammunition than the gun. I only had a couple of failures to feed for whatever reason.
The gun is more accurate than I am, and I’ll just leave it at that. I was very happy with how well it shot. As stated previously, I liked the trigger.
That’s pretty much all I got! I’m not an expert by any means so if this information sucks or is lacking, I apologize. If you have any specific questions let me know and I can try to answer them.
Basically, get this gun if you want a nice .22 pistol!
DO IT!
I picked up my GSG from Mark at 2A (thanks, Mark!) on Tuesday, and anxiously waited for Wednesday to arrive so I could go to the range. It was a long day, but I took the opportunity to break the gun down and become familiar with it (my first experience with anything remotely like a 1911) and gave her a good cleaning. I use Ballistol on all my guns and I really like it, so I decided to continue using that for the GSG.
My first impressions: The gun has a nice feel to it. I’ve only handled a small number of what I would call “real” 1911’s (not knocking the GSG, but it IS a .22), but the feel is surprisingly similar. It’s made primarily out of aluminum, but it doesn’t seem that way. For me, it took some getting used to because I’m not used to the more slim frame of a single stack, but after adjustment it felt really good. I’m sure you 1911 guys will feel right at home immediately.
The finish is good, not great. But it’s also not an $800 .45; I’m pleased with the finish.
The action was a little rough at first, but after I removed some of the factory grease, applied some Ballistol, and worked the slide a bit it started to smoothen out some.
Take down is pretty simple. Unfortunately, you have to remove a hex screw from the side with the provided Allen wrench, but it’s not that big of a deal. After that step it’s pretty simply done. I’ve taken it apart probably a dozen times and it’s not getting on my nerves yet.
The trigger is actually not that bad. I rather enjoyed it. I’m not expert, but I would predict it to be around 5lbs and I thought it felt solid. However, I had some problems with the grip safety. I have larger, skinny hands and a high grip, and sometimes I found it difficult to depress the grip safety and I wouldn’t get a smooth pull on the trigger. Maybe it’s just because I’m not used to the 1911 style, but it was a factor for me. Also, the ambidextrous safety was a pain for me. First, I don’t like the fact that it’s ambidextrous, but I realize that it is somewhat of a must and I can deal with that. However, I found that the safety really dug into my strong hand’s thumb and was very uncomfortable. Maybe this is because of my high grip and the way I hold the gun, but I found it unmanageable. I actually took a dremel to my gun and shaved down the safety to the point that it wasn’t uncomfortable. I can post some pictures of this if you’d like. Once I paint it black I think it will look good as new, and it made shooting the gun far more comfortable. Okay, that’s enough boring stuff.
After a nice preliminary cleaning and a generous application of Ballistol I headed out to the range.
I shot about 200 rounds through mine yesterday and it went great. I started off with 100 CCI mini mags to break her in. Out of the 100 rounds of CCI’s I had no failures other than probably 2 or 3 failures to feed. This was probably more my fault than the guns… it had trouble feeding the first round sometimes if it was angled too far down in the magazine. Once I started making sure the first round was angled up so that it would slide into the feed ramp I had no more FTF’s. Also, I think I had one stovepipe. I’m honestly not sure why… maybe I limp-wristed.
After the CCI’s I started on about 100 Winchester 333 bulk pack. They shot visibly dirtier (obviously) but I was very happy with the guns performance on them. Maybe 5 or so failures to fire but I attribute that more to the ammunition than the gun. I only had a couple of failures to feed for whatever reason.The gun is more accurate than I am, and I’ll just leave it at that. I was very happy with how well it shot. As stated previously, I liked the trigger.
That’s pretty much all I got! I’m not an expert by any means so if this information sucks or is lacking, I apologize. If you have any specific questions let me know and I can try to answer them.
Basically, get this gun if you want a nice .22 pistol!
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