The plier trick with the guide rod is a game changer. I love shooting the XT22, but manipulating the guide rod/recoil spring during cleaning has been a real headache. Thanks for the tip.
Nice video. I too along with many others had to have my dealer return mine due to failure to eject, failure to feed and enter battery along with light primer strikes on various ammo. RIA sent me a new gun which seems to be much more reliable for a couple of years now. I'm a big fan of the .22 WMR. 2 boxes of Punch arrived yesterday. I also like the Federal Game Shok 50 grain loads. Appreciate the tip about the adjustable trigger. Learned something new today after nearly 3 years ownership. All the best!!
Thanks just got one so far so good watching from Beautiful Bedford Virginia home of the National D day memorial because we lost so many patriots from this small Town come visit
I picked up one of these because I love .22 magnum. I’ve never had a more problematic pistol. About 45% of the first 150 rounds I put through it were light primer strikes. I contacted Armscor and sent it for repair. They sent it back saying it was good and it was for about 2 mags before it started failing to eject every single round. On top if that, the pin in the top of the slide that holds the extractor in place, slides little by little up and out of the slide. This is my second Rock Island product and I’m not impressed at all. I have the 10mm Tac Ops which runs okay but I think the factory recoil spring is too tight and leads to intermittent failures to eject.
I bought one of these about two years ago. It never really had an ammo feeding problem from day one with all sorts of ammo. What I found that was disheartening with the gun was the accuracy. The groups from short distances of 5 to 7 yards are what one would expect from shooting something big from 25 yards. Compare that to a RIA .22LR/.45 ACP gun that shoots pretty tight groups in .22LR but doesn't feed or eject worth a damn.
Sorry to hear about the accuracy issues. Mine has been the opposite - excellent accuracy but poor unreliable feeding/firing issues. RIA exchanged out the gun for a another and current one is very accurate and rare misfires/misfeeds. As I mentioned above, 2 boxes of Punch arrived yesterday, and I also like the Federal Game Shok 50 grain bullets. Huge fan of the .22 WMR. All the best to you!!
Sir, no disrespect. Rock Island Armory did us all a disservice, i.e., they should have put a 1" #14 Spanner Insert Bit in the box with this XTM-22 pistol. I purchased an Irwin P/N 3053057 on amazon for $2.57. Of course, a magnetic bit-holding screwdriver is also required. As you wisely cautioned, the barrel and barrel shroud will drop when the guide-rod and recoil spring assembly are disengaged. There is a tiny Return Plunger Pin and a tiny Return Plunger Pin Spring between the barrel and barrel shroud. If either and/or both are lost, the pistol is unserviceable and new parts must be ordered. Viewers should strictly mind your caution and support the barrel assembly. A Wheeler Engineering Universal Bench Block comes in quite handy to stabilize the entire slide assembly. Once the slide is removed from the frame, carefully remove the Recoil Spring Plug using the #14 spanner Bit. It is much easier to disassemble and install using this method rather than using pliers on the most critical components of your reciprocating assembly. I hope this helps all XTM-22 owners.
Whatever you do, DO NOT attempt to fix a feeding issue by beveling the entrance to the chamber. This is a rim-fired pistol, and the cartridge rim needs a lot of support under it so that the firing pin can smash the rim and set off the primer. Replacement barrels are NOT available anywhere. This one mistake cost me $190. I love this gun, it just doesn't run soft tipped/blunt nosed bullets. Use FMJ with pointy tips and it'll run all day with no modifications.
Hi Doug. I had the same problem when I bought mine. Get some nickel plated .22 mag ammo and use them for about the first 200 rounds. Get some dry lube and give a little shot in the chamber and spray the rounds a little in the magazine. After about 200 rounds of nickel plated you can go to brass. Use the CCI ball ammo in 35 or 40 grain. It works pretty well. Keep spraying the ammo with dry lube. You will have to do this for about the first 500 rounds. It does start to improve after about 200 rounds and after 500 rounds or so it will hardly jam at all.
First one i bought jammed would not fire three rounds, after many pic's and different ammo They took it back and sent me a new one. New one shot great from the start, around 500 rounds blew up two cartridges, blew clip out of gun, Maybe bad armscor ammo, waiting on word from company, 50 dollars magazine ruined
I broke mine in with the recommended Armscor 22 WMR JHP rounds. This worked out great because these are the generally cheapest WMR rounds you can buy. Unfortunately, they have become very hard to find recently. I had to send mine in for an unrelated issue after about 500 rounds (light primer strikes), but Rock Island replaced it with a brand new gun a few weeks later. I'm not sure what exactly is wrong with the first batch, but RIA seems to want them back if there are any issues. The new model does not have the plunger between the barrel and barrel shroud, but other than that I can't find any obvious differences.
I have the same problems with the one I got yesterday 9/29/20, I tested it with 7 different 22 brands, had problem with with all of them, from failed to feed to jam to misfire to fail to eject, at price of $531.00 plus the $25.00 for the FFL, I wish i did not buy this gun.
I have problems with the one I got yesterday 9/29/20, I tested it with 7 different 22 brands, had problem with with all of them, from failed to feed to jam to misfire to fail to eject, at price of $531.00 plus the $25.00 for the FFL, I wish i did not buy this gun.
Seven different ammunitions, hmm. If it is new then it should be under warranty, and something the company may want to know about, and I am sure they will take care of you. May I ask some of the different kinds of ammo you tried running through it?
It's really a lot to expect a gun manufacture to get this long thin WMR to feed and not fail. I have the PMR-30 and mine is problematic. If anyone could have made the .22 WMR work in a 1911 it would have John Browning himself. Wish he was still here to give it a try.
@@pcmountaindog John M Browning solved the rimfire reliability issue long long ago, when he designed the .25 acp center-fire cartridge and the pistol that shoots it. I think the issue with the long thin WMR cartridge has been solved with this Rock Island sliding barrel design. It just needs the right ammo type to be consistent. I stopped using HP, soft points and found that Winchester's FMJ never fails to feed.
@@timhallas4275 I'd like like to believe this is the case. But I keep reading posts of people having the same issues with the RI .22WMR as with the PMR30. Might be better but I'm hearing of enough failures that the reliability is not high enough to be worth $500 dollars. I'm not really knocking the gun makers, it just might be the cast the the .22WMR just doesn't with with a semi-auto design.
