I bought it many years ago knowing they had reliability problems. The reason I bought it was that I had two early generation OD frame P99s, one in 9mm and one in 40sw. The P22 rounded out the OD frame P99 collection.

I took it out a put a mag through it. It wouldn’t extract the spent casing but maybe twice. We all know what happens then. Anyway, I put it back in the safe and there it sat for ten years. I did buy a Volquartsen upgraded extractor and put it in my box o’ parts to be replaced some day.

Over the weekend I decided to swap in the extractor which took about ten minutes. Much of that time was finding the right punch. Put it all back together and stepped outside to try it. I was pleased to find that it fired and cycled perfectly. I put 50 rounds through it.

There are reports of other problems these guns can have but this one doesn’t seem to have them….yet. It’s gratifying in the same way that sometimes you find a gun in the back of the safe you forgot about and then get to reacquaint yourself with it.