New Buck Mark Standard

The will was stronger than the won't. Stopped by the Richmond gun show and didn't find much to excite me. Since DeGoff's was on the way to the range, I stopped by to get a set of Hogue grips for the Taurus PT1911. Had to look at the gun case and decided to seriously look at the Buck Marks. I liked the Target model and couldn't see much difference between the other models. There was something about the Target model that didn't excite me enough to drop over $400 on yet another .22 semiauto. I decided to buy the Standard.

The standard fired darned well out of the box a bit later at the range. I shot it a bit high and left. it took about 9 rounds to get it on center. The pistol grouped well with CCI SV, Federal value pack and Remington Golden Bullets. Not complaints about the trigger, sights, feeding ammo or accuracy and precision.

Cleaning was interesting. The two screws holding the sight base were put in with a threadlock. I thought I was going to bend the allen wrench getting them loose. I also had problems with the recoil spring. I couldn't get it out. The pistol definitely needed cleaning to remove the packing oil and grit inside the action.