My First K22

by FOG, Friday, March 01, 2013, 06:07 (4231 days ago)
edited by FOG, Friday, March 01, 2013, 06:21

(Edited for grammar.)

I wanted one for at least 20 years before I finally wised up and got this one back in the early Nineties.

It's worn a dot scope almost since Day One, here the long-discontinued Tasco 'ProPoint 4' with a 10" dot. That might seem large, but it isn't really, inside that 45-mm (!) tube.

IIRC, the base is a Weigand, and while the scope does sit rather high, this presents no difficulties in actual practice.

If the cans are that close, you just point-shoot them.

As seen here, the 'BIG DOT' does not preclude accuracy. On the contrary, I have always found it a significant aid in that department.

At the time this group was fired (5/10/96), the best I could hold with iron sights at 50' were five-shot groups right around 1⅛". This one is less than half that, and it was not a fluke. (It was fired from a sandbag rest, though.)

The only strange thing was the ammo the gun liked: PMC 'Zapper', which was as cheap as it sounds. In addition, it shot about as well with the similarly discontinued CCI 'Mini Mag +V', a hyper-velocity round.

A dot-sighted K22 might not seem very 'practical', but you can be sure of one thing: It is a heck of a lot of fun!

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