22/45. Holy crap what a pain.

[buffalobo]

Lots of "unloaded" guns go boom.

Truth.

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[Great-Kazoo]

yeah, that "function" threw me off the first time I took it to the range, glad there's a fix.

On another topic, am I the only one bothered by dry-firing a .22? I know the 22/45 has to be dry-fired for disassembly, but it still bugs me. As a youth, I really boogered-up the chamber of a .22 by dry-firing (before I knew better) - put a nice divot into the rim that affected chambering and extraction. Knowing that the firing pin is slamming into the rim of the chamber with dry-firing feels like nails on a chalkboard to me. I guess since the manual instructs you to do it, it should be ok, but it still seems sacrilegious.

Ride the slide while releasing the trigger. AFTER verifying a few times the chamber is empty.

[Irving]

Lots of "unloaded" guns go boom.

I don't think I've ever heard a range safety officer that has NOT had that happen to them at least once before.

It seems to me that an open action with a visibly empty chamber would be better...

or even a chamber flag

The problem is that people don't like to listen, and/or they grow complacent. They know the drill at the end of each stage and rush through the procedure before the safety officer has a chance to verify. Add in malfunctioning guns and it gets worse. The latest example from a range officer was a guy dropping the mag, racking the slide, then manually dropping the hammer. Guy went to turn around and the range officer said, "Your round never came out."
Guy: "Sure it did, I racked the slide."
RO: "Yeah I saw you, but where's your live round? Better check your chamber."

Guy had a broken extractor and the round was still in the chamber.

[stevew]

Guess I haven't shot mine enough to foul up the inner workings and need to pull my 22/45 or Mark III apart yet. Maybe I will this next year since I plan on shooting them a bit more since I'll be out next to the forest anyway.

[bczandm]

I have two of these "fine" pistols. One I've owned since 1990 or so and one that was given to me in 2004. After several attempts to disassemble them I've given up. I don't shoot them much but I am sure they will quite firing at some point. I am a very handy guy, but have given up on these.

[StagLefty]

^ there's some you tube videos that are very helpful in the re-assembly,which gave me fits the first time.