Wow I did not realize how long I was looking for a 22 pistol. My suppressor stamp won’t be here til December or January, so that’s one excuse for dragging my feet.
I decided on a Mark iv 22/45 Lite. It took this long because I wanted to purchase in person and I was pretty skeptical about the color scheme all the way down to the color of the trigger and bolt. I ended up with a Bill Hick's version that is the model number # 43942.
I had purchased a holosun 507c-x2 with pic rail attachment from a member here. It was sitting in a drawer waiting on the pistol to be acquired. So the sight was installed immediately after getting the pistol home. Believe it or not, the sight was aligned perfectly when looking through the barrel bore.
I got it to the range yesterday and shot about 250 rounds of various ammo. The only ammo I had issues with was some Norma subsonic stuff that would not eject about 1/4 of the time. Everything else, Rem 1280 fps gold hollow points, Win 1280 fps target lead round nose and Win high velocity 1455 fps all worked flawlessly besides one of the Win target rounds did not feed all the way into battery. I think the bullet was angled in the case and that's why it did not chamber.
The trigger take up and break are fine for my skill and accuracy, but it gave me "trigger bite" worse than any other handgun I've ever shot before. That list consists of but not limited to: many glock 9mm's, beretta and sig 9mm's, glock and sig 22lr's, S&W shield 40, ruger 357 mag, several 38 specials, S&W 500 (never shot 250 rounds in a day with that one) and I'm sure there are more. But like I said this mark iv made my finger feeling a little pinched yesterday after the range. So I think I'll be looking into the TK flat faced trigger. I would get the whole trigger kit, but most seem to be recommending the trigger kit from Volquartsen and I want the red flat faced trigger to match my red barrel. I asked in another thread; I think I can get the VQ kit without the trigger and just get the TK red trigger as long as I use the OEM plunger and plunger spring. Will someone please correct me if I am wrong?
This pistol is going to host a Dead Air Mask suppressor. Anyway, I played around with a standard birdcage and an AAC brake AR-15 muzzle devices yesterday while plinking around. Holy cow did those make excessive carbon build up on my muzzle. I could tell it was because when the device shouldered up the the barrel shroud, the threads were not bottomed out so the muzzle was still "exposed" within the confines of each device. Neither of those two .223 /5.56 muzzle devices made a big difference in total perceived recoil, but the brake did make the report louder and the recoil felt shorter lived, more of a pop than a push and the birdcage made the recoil more straight back with a little less muzzle flip. But the carbon build up is not worth the outcome.
So two questions:
Is the suppressor going seat properly against the barrel shroud on my Mark Iv and the carbon will go mostly into the can?
AND
If I ever get a compensator for the mark iv, do those seat properly and not allow so much carbon build up on the barrel's muzzle?
Last edited by matemike; 09-30-21 at 23:32.
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