traced to one of the two provided
magazines. The follower seemed tobe
binding inside the body of the mag.
We set the problem magazine aside,
and the pistol went back to running
per fectly.
Later, when I got home, I pulled the
problem magazine apart and banged
it on a hard surface, and all sorts of
particulate matter fell out—some
sand, but mostly bullet shavings. Af-
ter reassembly, the magazine worked
just fine. There’s a lesson in this:
Don’t lube the inside of this or any
magazine because the lube will sim-
ply attract grit, and this is especially
true with .22 Long Rifle ammo, which
is notoriously dirty.
The magazines for the TX22 are
manufactured of polymer compo-
nents, except for the spring, and I
think polymer magazines don’t shed
the grit as well as metal magazines
do. You might have to stay up on
magazine maintenance to keep your
pistol running smoothly, especiallyif
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you’re shooting in the desert.
Disassembly of the magazines has
one step more than usual. Use the tip
of a pen or similar tool to push in the
detent on the magazine base pad. The
base pad will then slide off, and you’ll
see a small plastic insert that fits to
the bottom of the spring and acts as
the detent holding on the base pad.
The plastic insert and spring pullright out of the bottom of the maga-
zine. The follower will slide down to
the bottom of the magazine body, but
like many .22 magazines, there are
tabs on either side of the follower
to help you load it. Those tabs are
actually a cylinder of plastic, and
when the follower is all the way at the
bottom of the magazine, the cylinder
slides out to either side, allowing< The TX22’s grip fits the hand nicely, has good texturing and even features
cutouts at the bottom of the grip to help you strip out magazines.