I did slip away to the range today and took only two pistols.
My new S&W Victory and my first rimfire pistol Ruger SR22.
I haven't shot the Ruger in a while and honestly have considered using it as trade for quite a while on something new. But every time I do shoot it I smile.
I can't explain it, it is just fun to shoot. Not terribly accurate for target work and the sights and trigger are simply okay. I think if I had a patch of woods to go out plinking in and some tin cans to shoot at short range just for fun plinking. This gun would be hard to part with. But even after shooting it today and enjoying every minute.... It is still on my list of guns to trade.The Victory on the other hand is going nowhere. This is a sweet shooting pistol with a great trigger. I put my TRS 25 on it after the last range trip using the stock sights. I thought that I would have to spend a little time dialing in the red dot. It was last sitting on my Henry Mare's Leg. My first round went 1/2" right of my point of aim and I knew that was me not the red dot. My second shot was in the black diamond of the 2" target spot I aimed at.
I only spent 30 minutes shooting these two and sent 120 rounds down range. 50 with the Ruger 70 with the Smith.
Okay details if you want them:
All shots from a distance of 7 yards (21ft)
All Federal Automatch 40 grain solid round nose.
Target spots are 2"
The bottom three target spots were shot with the Ruger. The really bad looking one on the left was not my first target.
The center was first and not bad if you deduct the three that went way low. Next was the left spot with ten rounds first that all went way left. Then I shot the right spot with ten rounds and was not happy but not discouraged. Total spread in the group was 2 3/8" not good but better than missing the target as I had on the left. So back to the left to see if I could at least hit the orange spot. Not good 
In total I sent 35 rounds at that spot and only hit Orange with 7 of them. I don't know why shooting to the left was not working for me with this gun. I put the Ruger away and was happy to see that the S&W was working much better for me. The first ten rounds were in the center spot and if I hadn't thrown one high right I would have been doing a happy dance. That one high shot made a 7/8" group become 1 3/8".
The rest of my shots were not bad. A few misses but all at least on target or close misses.
Overall very happy with the Smith and not unhappy with the Ruger. I need more trigger time and one of these days I will shoot the Smith from a rest to see what it is really capable of.
