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Doc, please post that over in the "rimfire" forum. I'd like to see what you've encountered with that .22.

 

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Nothing with mine yet with about 2K through it.

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Here is more info about my SW22 Victory. I purchased it last week and ran some rounds thru it on Saturday.
I found out it prefers the higher velocity ammo, which is ok. But when I cleaned the gun the lug which is on the barrel came loose, it looked like the thread locking sealant used to keep the lug on had deteriorated. The problem was that the takedown screw and lug were now stuck together. I could have repaired the screws but I saw a burr in the lug threads. Of course I sent it back to S&W. Has anyone else had any similar problems? Thanks

 

I have owned one for over a year. On mine the takedown screw that holds the barrel to the lower comes loose at the range while in use. This drove me crazy and ruined a couple of range sessions for me as I did not have the wrench with me. Loctite has fixed it but I keep checking it. The accuracy and reliability are excellent. For the price it has been an excellent value but not without some minor problems. It could benefit from a grip sizing option. The one size grip is smaller than what I prefer.

 

I had feeding and ejection issues with my new Victory. With my gun the ejector was causing the problem. It seems this part is spot welded to the receiver and was not properly aligned but was too straight. I tweaked it inward a miniscule amount and the problems vanished.

I sotra wanted one until I read that.

 

Mine's an awesome tack driver.

Added the Tandemcross (sp) grips and mag follower (makes the 10 round mag into 11)

About 800 rounds, eats anything that's higher velocity

Loosening take down screw? I added a rubber o-ring to the screw, done.

OP ... what problem are you having with yours? SW Cust Srvc will fix ya up if it's the gun, but holler because maybe we can help you

 

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This gun has been a disappointment. Fortunately, this was the first gun I purchased through Davidson's Gallery of Guns with it strong guarantee to replace it if something went wrong with it. The original gun had ejector problems from the beginning. Upon research on the Internet I learned that this was a problem a number of people had encountered. The fix was to bend the ejector pin 1/2 to 1 mm toward the center of the slide. This worked.


But when I attached a suppressor, I got unacceptable blowback in my face. None of my other three .22 pistols has blowback, so I'm left thinking that S&W engineers gave a threaded barrel option for a pistol not designed to handle the additional pressures from attaching a suppressor.


Finally, this pistol stopped extracting and I found the extractor had come out along with the plunger and spring, all lost as I was shooting outside. Davidson's replaced the pistol without any hassle.


The second pistol extracted and ejected fine, but once again had the blowback problem when shooting suppressed. And, after shooting a couple of bricks the extractor, plunger, and spring came out again and were again lost. I went back to my local dealer and asked if I could just get the three parts needed. He checked all the S&W sources he knew, and the extractor plungers were not available. So, once again I asked Davidson's for a new guns and once again it responded quickly with no questions.


When the third pistol arrived I decided to remove, clean, polish, and lubricate the extractor plunger and the channel in which it moved. In trying to disassemble the pistol, the take-down screw did not release from the mounting stud, but rather the whole mounting stud came out. No Loctite had been used to secure the stud. After cleaning the threads I used purple Loctite to secure the stud and left it overnight. I've taken the upper off a couple of times with no problems. I did remove, clean, polish, and lubricate the extractor plunger.


I've decide to use only subsonic ammo when shooting suppressed with this pistol, even though my other three .22 pistols work fine with supersonic ammo suppressed. I've also decided to continue to clean and lubricate the extractor plunger at regular intervals. We'll see.


My conclusions: (1) The in-your-face blowback shooting suppressed shows that S&W did not design the Victory for suppression. (2) A small percentage (I assume) of Victory pistols have an ejection problem that can be fixed with minor gunsmithing. (3) The design of the extractor is flawed with 2 of my 3 guns losing the extractor, plunger, and spring. (4) As of May 2018 S&W cannot supply all 3 of those parts to a gunsmith. (5) Having the take-down stud installed with no Loctite suggests a quality control problem. (6) Davidson's Gallery of Guns honored its guarantee with no hassle. (7) I had my Ruger Mark III Hunter threaded and it operates reliably with or without a suppressor. The Browning Buck Mark (threaded) also works great.

 

Had one but as previously mentioned the takedown screw is terrible. Either you can't get it off or it becomes loose. I wound up putting a small rubber washer and it held. But I didn't like the gun much otherwise. Not as accurate and good as a Ruger Mark IV.

 

Mine would not lock back the slide on the last round. Turned out the takedown screw that had come loose earlier, allowed the slide lock to take enough beating / peening that it no longer could do its job.

Took two tries, but SW corrected it, at no expense to me. Good practice to throw an extra allen key in the range bag and just check it before & after for tightness. The o-ring trick has held up for me so far.

I have not tried shooting it supressed. Interesting to know about the difficulties, and I'll look forward to other's experience. If the fix is low velocity ammo, I'm ok with that as long as the slide still moves enough to function.

I have enjoyed shooting mine. I like the ergos and it is plenty accurate. I like the flexibility of the rail and ability to set the over travel of the trigger.