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USFA ZiP .22 Review
Petersen's Hunting ^ | January 11, 2013 | Mike Schoby

Posted on 01/20/2013 5:26:35 AM PST by Jed Eckert

I first saw the USFA ZiP .22 on USFA’s website and it immediately caught my attention. Why? Well, for starters it is unique—very unique. It captures the imagination, finding something truly new in firearms development is a bit of a rarity. John Browning and Paul Mauser can still say that most firearms are mere modifications of designs they pioneered 100 years ago. So on that merit alone, I wanted to check out this pistol.

Secondly, being mainly polymer and uber-lightweight, this gun fills a niche for the survival crowd. It would fit easily in a backpack, truck or tackle box, and could be carried as an emergency survival gun without any undue weight.

Finally, it is versatile. It takes Ruger 10/22 magazines (I mean, who already doesn’t own a 10/22 and a plethora of mags?), and with the Ruger 25-round mags, it makes this pistol one of the few handguns on the market with a 25-round capability. In light of the recent fervor coming from the gun-grabbers in Washington, owning multiple guns that take the same high-cap mags might not be such a bad idea. This gun can also be converted into a rifle, and can be used in conjunction with other firearms with a standard 1913 Rail—all NFA rules do apply, of course.

So I literally begged Douglas Donnelly, USFA CEO and inventor of ZiP, for a test sample before the masses could get their hands on it at SHOT Show. He came through, so here is my brief review.

(Excerpt) Read more at petersenshunting.com ...


TOPICS: Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Sports
KEYWORDS: banglist; firearms; pistols; secondamendment
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Stumbled on this review while looking for something else. It looks like an interesting little handgun made mostly of polymer. Be sure to check out the manufacturer's web site too.
1 posted on 01/20/2013 5:26:39 AM PST by Jed Eckert
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To: Jed Eckert

For if I ever go to a skeeter shoot.


2 posted on 01/20/2013 5:35:21 AM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: Jed Eckert

Ok, pick the round you want in an emergency.

3 posted on 01/20/2013 5:42:49 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jed Eckert

Make it full-auto and they’ll have something.


4 posted on 01/20/2013 5:45:46 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Jed Eckert
Saw several YouTube reviews from SHOT Show 2013, and I must say I don't get it. It's an ergonomic nightmare as a handgun, and I don't get the fun factor or practicality of paying an SBR stamp to hang it under your AR.


5 posted on 01/20/2013 5:48:26 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Jed Eckert

Can’t see this 22 in the field. The Marines switched back to the 45acp. Try and take down a raghead high on pot with a 22LR.


6 posted on 01/20/2013 5:50:36 AM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: Jed Eckert

Price?


7 posted on 01/20/2013 5:51:23 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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Price?

Looks like the MSRP is $199.00

8 posted on 01/20/2013 6:00:37 AM PST by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: Jed Eckert

If I think of it as an updated version of the Henry “Survivor” .22, then it makes sense. Sort of a “better than nothing” weapon to keep in the backpack/BOB. They are relatively cheap too ... just over $200 with a 10/22 25 round mag.


9 posted on 01/20/2013 6:06:54 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Price $200.

It’s rediculous. I want one.


10 posted on 01/20/2013 6:07:32 AM PST by ctdonath2 (End of debate. Your move.)
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To: central_va; Yo-Yo; Rappini; HomeAtLast

I don’t see this a self defense gun by any stretch. Looks to be more useful for stuffing in a backpack or as a survival gun where weight is a factor. If it’s reliable and accurate it would probably be as good a choice as the old Armalite AR-7 (now made by Henry Firearms).


11 posted on 01/20/2013 6:17:59 AM PST by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: Jed Eckert

looks like a 22 blowback pistol with a lot of plastic wrapped around it.


12 posted on 01/20/2013 6:24:01 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: Jed Eckert

Not sure what the advantage of this thing is. It weighs twice as much as the Kel-Tec P-32 and isn’t that small.


13 posted on 01/20/2013 6:43:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Yo-Yo

I’m gonna call it “The Conundrum Gun”.

Can’t figure out which way you hold it.... /S

I want one.


14 posted on 01/20/2013 6:43:23 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Hardraade
Amen to the full auto.

We have been suffering with the infringements of NFA for far too long. Suppressors are mainstream now and cost a bundle to save ears, among other things.

The farther we travel from 1986 and the impact of the govt picking winners and losers in the machine gun game, the higher the prices of machine guns will go and the fewer manufacturers there will be.

Not to mention the now yearly reduction in the severely limited number of available machine guns for public purchase. Or to put it better, we the people are now outgunned in small arms, by the mere passage of time and those the second amendment seeks to protect us from, grow ever stronger in relation.

15 posted on 01/20/2013 6:47:22 AM PST by wita
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To: Jed Eckert

Can this thing be 3D printed? Just thinking but, you buy the metal parts and print up the frame, a do-it-yourself “freedom gun”.


16 posted on 01/20/2013 7:21:29 AM PST by nomad
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To: nomad

Butt ugly, but it does the job.


17 posted on 01/20/2013 7:23:21 AM PST by nomad
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To: Yo-Yo
Saw several YouTube reviews from SHOT Show 2013, and I must say I don't get it. It's an ergonomic nightmare as a handgun, and I don't get the fun factor or practicality of paying an SBR stamp to hang it under your AR.

YES! YES! and YES! This is the answer to a question NOBODY asked! Useless as two rows of teats on a boar hog! It sucks hard as a "handgun" and even harder as a Federally licensed short barreled rifle. Everybody is an "operator" now days and you've just gotta hang some kind of worthless crap off of all those rails you paid extra money for. Someone ought to invent a set of wheels that attaches to a Picatinny rail...at least that would be useful to roll that mobile garage sale you call a rifle to the range!
18 posted on 01/20/2013 7:25:27 AM PST by 762X51
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To: Jed Eckert
It's been done before and in a FAR more useful package. You can actually shoot this one without clamping it to a 2X8.


19 posted on 01/20/2013 7:37:35 AM PST by 762X51
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To: Yo-Yo

Don’t know about the ergonomy, but it’s kinda reminiscent of what the FN P90 was meant to be (the original design had a 100rd throwavay box mag w caseless rounds), and the p90, I’m told, is pretty good.


20 posted on 01/20/2013 8:08:55 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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