Re: Awful Tactical .22 Accuracy
update to the out of the box jamomatic
I did buy a colt .....this just wasnt the quality gun for me, After I ran a few rounds thru the colt I cooled off and started working on the mossberg tact 22 for the kid next door, I wasnt going to throw more cash at it by shipping it to Mossberg,
The major weak point in the gun is the 25rd mags, I found a metal bur under the mags top feed lips causing the cartirdge to catch & the front set of the mag feed lips was spread a little to far apart allowing the round to point upwards to soon and causing the stove pipes every second or third round, although the gun was now operating better it still jammbed periodically maybe 1 per mag....I still had problems loading the full mag, despite leaving it fully loaded a few days to weaken the springs,
I decided to buy another mag, since I had made such a drastic difference in the cycling THE NEW MAG RAN PERFECT, I also realized that the feed ramp on these is a little to low and causing feed jams if one uses hollow points with that flat edge on the nose...this was causing jams and shearing off shards of lead into the reciever and the polymere reciever housing...... :roll:
so I switched to winchester pointed nosed and CCI mini mags and the mag cycled perfectly
the brand new replacement mag ran flawlessly out of the box with both pointed and flat nosed bullets, however the flat nosed hollow points will still hang say 1 in 100 rounds
I bought a second replacement mag since the first replacement solved the majority of the jams, but this second mag also wouldnt load more then 11 rounds without crushing shells, IT TOO WAS A JAMOMATIC every second or third round a stove pipe.... I returned it for exchange, and the replacement mag ran flawless again...THE MAGS ARE THE WEAKEST LINK
with all the jams I also noticed a 2 tone color to the feed ramp, its been painted! and the jams have chipped the paint, well this is an obvious feeding issue, then I found that acetone removes the paint
so its not a baked on cured finish....I removed the chipped paint off the feedramp & I gun-koted the guns exterior then baked it. barrel & reciever are now chemically impervious. :roll:
the plastic Iron sights are horrendous, the foregrips/frnt sights clamp to the barrel with 6 tiny screws so the foregrips/frnt sights can twist on the barrel with very little pressure which caused a wild 10" grouping, I tore it back down again & used rubber tape to shim up the barrel, this now clamps down tight on the barrel and greatly reduces the front sight movement and the gun now shoots dead straight , Im dancing milk jugs at 130 yards now. INDEX YOUR BARREL TO THE FORGRIPS once you are satisfied....its going to change the sights each time you tear down to clean your gun, this bugged me and I have a cheapo NC Star 3 power sight I dont use so I installed it on the gun for the kid so he would not get too discouraged if he knocks the iron sights out of whack
I also felt the front sight was too big, with long shots the target is so small I cant see the bullseye, so I filed down both sides of the front sight till it was 1/2 the thickness it was and now have far better bullseye aquisition
the picatinny mounting plate thats mounts in the handel is off, I couldnt get the sights down low enough to use them, I had to shim the scope, & its not the scope, it works fine on my other guns.
after all this work, Im looking at it thinking, it STILL LOOKS LIKE A TOY, so I tore it apart 1 more time and painted it for the kid , robbed a couple goodies off other guns I have and he now has a sporty looking 22 thats a tack driver @ 100yds, & I have a new shooting buddy :mrgreen: you never saw a 14yr old kid so happy
All that being said I feel Mossberg has made a tremendous error in contracting this manufacturer, a single model can destroy the rep of an entire company.....look at Century Arms and thier AK-47 WASR10...people actually hate Century Arms and they never have owned one of thier weapons
If your willing to spend 1/2 a day tuneing up this plinkster, then its a straight shooter, & cheap enough to have fun BUT BUY THE NON HANDEL MODEL....you can still buy a picatinny mount AR handel in aluminum if you must have the handel and you eliminate the phony iron sights this gun has