Well, it happened...

[The Saint]

Yeah, I'll just let the picture speak. I finally found a Zip 22 for a price I didn't hate. A turd among oddballs...but here it is.

 

[trickg]

I had one of those one time. I accidentally left one on the seat of my car one night when I went into the club, and when I came out, the window of my car was busted out, and someone left a second there next to mine.

 

[whistlersmother]

From a collector's standpoint, this would be very interesting to own...

Not to shoot, but to own.

 

[The Saint]

From a collector's standpoint, this would be very interesting to own...

Not to shoot, but to own.

Exactly why I bought it...but also going to get a steel bolt machined for this and see if that "fixes" the problem with the overly fast cyclic rate.

 

[joppaj]

I had no idea that gun existed.

 

[erwos]

You know what? If I found one on consigment or used for a hundo, I'd buy it. It's an interesting engineering piece, if nothing more, and you could probably 3D print some interesting stuff for it.

Agreed that a heavier bolt (esp if you could fill it with some tungsten pellets) could probably make it more reliable.

 

[Bertfish]

I've never understood the purpose

 

[EODJoe]

I bought one when they were first released simply because of the interesting engineering. However, no amount of polishing will make this any less of a turd. I still have it in the back of the safe just because. But it is arguably the worst firearm ever manufactured.

 

[trickg]

I bought one when they were first released simply because of the interesting engineering. However, no amount of polishing will make this any less of a turd. I still have it in the back of the safe just because. But it is arguably the worst firearm ever manufactured.

I read an article last night that talked about how USFA, a maker of pretty solid replica firearms, was banking on this pistol so much that they sold their tooling for their replica firearms so they could tool up for these. The idea was that once this gun took off, they'd take the profits and re-purchase tooling for the replica guns, only it didn't pan out that way - the Zip flopped in such a colossal way that it put them out of business entirely.

 

[brianns]

See if there are front grips for it? And a back grip and maybe a stock. LOL

 

[welder516]

Save the box.



That is neat and i wish i had one

 

[The Saint]

I always save boxes for stuff...well, unless it's a run of the mill common as common gun or a generic cardboard box with a sticker (I'll peel the sticker and put that with the gun if so haha). Stuff this like the box is a must keep.

 

[HiStandards]

Ian from Forgotten Weapons did a video on this a few years ago. As mentioned in post #9, it killed the company. The design makes it easy to shoot yourself in the hand. No thanks.

 

[The Saint]

Ian from Forgotten Weapons did a video on this a few years ago. As mentioned in post #9, it killed the company. The design makes it easy to shoot yourself in the hand. No thanks.

It's largely played up in speculation, as there is not a single documented case of one doing so. Unless someone is an absolute total moron, they aren't going to shoot themselves...and if they do, they clearly aren't practicing trigger control of any kind, and shouldn't be handling ANY gun, much less this one.

 

[teratos]

I had no idea that gun existed.

It shouldn't.

 

[Threeband]

Here it is:

 

[calicojack]

I had one of those one time. I accidentally left one on the seat of my car one night when I went into the club, and when I came out, the window of my car was busted out, and someone left a second there next to mine.