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TxRVer wrote:How important is reliability in a plinker? It's not like you're relying on it in a life or death situation. I like my Buckmark, but it does fail to fire at least once in fifty rounds. Other than that, it's been totally reliable. It won't feel like your other handguns though.

Good point on reliability. I want this mainly for cheap practice time, and lack of reliability would give me more practice on clearing malfunctions. So much to think about......

I would like to get a .22LR handgun to use for inexpensive practice / general plinking. Ideally, I would like to get something that has a similar look and feel to the guns that I use for carry / home defense, where I have pretty much standardized on guns that follow a 1911 manual of arms (Officer/Commander/Government length 1911, Sig Sauer P226 X5, Sig P938). I know that there are 1911 conversion kits out there, but I am a bit concerned about reliability when I am shooting a .22 in a gun that was originally designed to fire .45 ACP. What do y'all recommend?

And why in the heck do all of the .22LR handguns seem to have only a 10 round capacity? Am I missing something here?