What's your favorite junk pistol for the range?

[The Saint]

Everyone has a piece of junk in the safe that is just fun to shoot, right? I have a few, but my #1 junker has to be the USFA Zip 22. What about you all?

 

[Gcs7th]

Everyone has a piece of junk in the safe that is just fun to shoot, right? I have a few, but my #1 junker has to be the USFA Zip 22. What about you all?

Ya that’s an odd one for sure! I’ve had the pleasure/displeasure of one as well. Glad I didn’t buy that one.

 

[The Saint]

Ya that’s an odd one for sure! I’ve had the pleasure/displeasure of one as well. Glad I didn’t buy that one.

I've only owned it a for a year and they're already jumped another $100...if I get sick of it it's a pretty solid profit haha.

 

[Biggfoot44]

They're ugly enough to be cute , and rare enough to now get stupid expensive as " rare stamps " .

But I hate those for killing USFA .

 

[The Saint]

They're ugly enough to be cute , and rare enough to now get stupid expensive as " rare stamps " .

But I hate those for killing USFA .

I think you can blame USFA for killing USFA, to be fair. It was all a conscious choice to tool up for these and get rid of the SAA tooling.

 

[smokey]

It's gotta be my cz52. I love the 7.62x25 as a cartridge and how this sumbitch just flings brass almost as hard as it throws the bullets. It's also extremely accurate, despite the old bore. The only negative is ergonomics kindve suck, especially the safety/decocker that wears a hole in my thumb when I shoot this too much.

 

[The Saint]

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It's gotta be my cz52. I love the 7.62x25 as a cartridge and how this sumbitch just flings brass almost as hard as it throws the bullets. It's also extremely accurate, despite the old bore. The only negative is ergonomics kindve suck, especially the safety/decocker that wears a hole in my thumb when I shoot this too much.

I'd be hard pressed to call that junk, but hey haha. My Jennings J-22 wants its money back.

 

[budman93]

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It's gotta be my cz52. I love the 7.62x25 as a cartridge and how this sumbitch just flings brass almost as hard as it throws the bullets. It's also extremely accurate, despite the old bore. The only negative is ergonomics kindve suck, especially the safety/decocker that wears a hole in my thumb when I shoot this too much.

I agree about the ergonomics but I've always thought the 52s were pretty cool looking guns.

 

[Biggfoot44]

I'd be hard pressed to call that junk, but hey haha. My Jennings J-22 wants its money back.

My Junk was Junk , Because it wasn't fun to shoot .

1st generation Raven .25acp was in the top two pistols worst pistols that went bang . Davis .22 Derringer was the other .

OTOH , my buddy's Jennings J-22 had a surprisingly good trigger , and soda can plinking accurate.

 

[linkstate]

I think you can blame USFA for killing USFA, to be fair. It was all a conscious choice to tool up for these and get rid of the SAA tooling.

Slight thread drift but I kick myself whenever it come up that I didn’t get a SAA from them. Secondary market now isn’t much better than 3rd Gen colts…. Then you have to figure out if it’s their better ones or the half Uberti half USFA ones… or something like that, can’t remember exactly. I may have to go Standard Mfg before they change or disappear.

 

[The Saint]

My Junk was Junk , Because it wasn't fun to shoot .

1st generation Raven .25acp was in the top two pistols worst pistols that went bang . Davis .22 Derringer was the other .

OTOH , my buddy's Jennings J-22 had a surprisingly good trigger , and soda can plinking accurate.

I would qualify Raven/Davis/Jennings/Bryco all certified junk. Mine is not half bad with accuracy either, but that's after I fixed it haha. Got it broken for literally a few bucks.

 

[outrider58]

Everyone has a piece of junk in the safe that is just fun to shoot, right? I have a few, but my #1 junker has to be the USFA Zip 22. What about you all?

Are you allowed to shoulder that? [J/K]

 

[outrider58]

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It's gotta be my cz52. I love the 7.62x25 as a cartridge and how this sumbitch just flings brass almost as hard as it throws the bullets. It's also extremely accurate, despite the old bore. The only negative is ergonomics kindve suck, especially the safety/decocker that wears a hole in my thumb when I shoot this too much.

I believe I have had the misfortune of shooting one of those a few times. Now, I just say no...

 

[Squaregrouper]

Something by Glock.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

WOW a Junk pistol.

I don't think I would consider any of my firearms/ handguns to be junk.

My Llama 45 could use some nicer sights, and then some more practice for me. So, maybe I would say the Llama, in my Profile Pic.

 

[USAF05]

Can honestly say i dont have any junk firearms, would gladly just save for quality

 

[RFBfromDE]

Something by Glock.

Save it for the "what pistol did you shoot yourself in the junk with" thread.

 

[Moonlighter]

G17. It's not really junk because junk wouldn't work as well and as consistently as it does, but it's pretty damn ugly. For some reason, I can shoot pretty effectively with it compared with other, higher quality handguns that I have.

 

[rfawcs]

Walther P-22. Too ammo brand dependant.

 

[outrider58]

G17. It's not really junk because junk wouldn't work as well and as consistently as it does, but it's pretty damn ugly. For some reason, I can shoot pretty effectively with it compared with other, higher quality handguns that I have.

That's the one thing about a Glock, you can hate their looks or feel, but you can't dispute their efficiency.

I look at pistols as purely self defense tools. I don't care what they look like in a glamour shot magazine ad. I'm not romantic about them. I want something dependable and something I won't worry about getting scraped up.