Range Report: Walther P22

Posted on August 5th, 2007 in Guns, Range Reports by Justin

The more I shoot this gun the less likely I am to recommend it to anybody else.

I hit the range with one of my brother’s today to play with some pistols. I ran a mag through the Walther, had a malf in the first 10 rounds, handed it off to him, and he got at least 5 in the first mag.

Bleh.

The gun ran around 40-50% reliable today through 100 rounds. I suspect the failures are because I grabbed a bunch of Federal Lightning instead of the Remington bulk packs that I’d been running through it so well in for the last 700-ish rounds.

What’s happening is the slide comes back hard, too hard perhaps, and rams into battery before the magazine spring can get the next one in place. Gah! I’d try a different mag but of the two that came with it I managed to destroy one.

Further, the faux ported barrel weight (I have the 5″ target model) worked itself loose again.

I’m gradually starting to regret ever buying the thing. The similarly priced Ruger 22/45 that I originally intended to buy might have been a far better deal.

More Laptop Woes

Posted on August 5th, 2007 in Personal Life, Tech by Justin

Thursday the Apple Store technician got my laptop bootable again. Upon returning home I found that there were still some issues, and I’d probably need to restore the whole OS.

Then I got the feeling that the underlying disk really was damaged at the physical layer. I wasn’t able to do much of anything with it when booted into multi-user mode.

So, back to single user mode, manually load in drivers for an external USB disk, mount it up, and start copying over. Multiple errors on reading from my original disk, but that’s not too big of a deal — I’m still getting 99% of my data over.

This evening I thought I’d give it another pass, quite happy with myself, when Chuck followed a cat under the table where everything sat. I yelled at him, he jumped up, and magically found a way to knock the laptop and the external hard drive off the table.

Hard.

Guess what? Now my fucking external hard drive is unresponsive. So, a cat kills the laptop’s disk and then Chuck kills my backup disk.

Fuck me standing.