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I picked up this 22lr last week and went to the range on Friday. It's a pretty nice gun. Yes the price is a bit steep for a 22lr pistol, but I think it was worth it. I did have a couple of feed issues where it wouldn't go into battery, but a quick tap on the back corrected the problem. After it warmed up a bit, they went away. Is this the most reliable 22lr pistol? Probably not. But it is fun, especially suppressed! I dropped a Sig Romeo Zero for the optic and a Stream TLR-1 HL for the light. After I got it home I cleaned and lubed it up thoroughly. Looking forward to getting back out again soon.
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Looks like the 1/2x28 threads are actually part of the barrel and the barrel can be removed from the slide without messing around with removing a thread adapter as required on alot of other popular 22lr pistols. Can anyone confirm this?
Threading is part of the barrel and does not/cannot be removed.
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I finally got to the range yesterday, I shot about 300 rounds of Federal Value Pack HP rounds with zero malfunctions. The 502 feels like a 9mm pistol in your hands until you press the trigger. I was able to hit clay pigeons at 40 yards with ease. It's such a fun pistol. I can't wait for it's big brother my 509 MRD LE to arrive!!!
 
I finally got to the range yesterday, I shot about 300 rounds of Federal Value Pack HP rounds with zero malfunctions. The 502 feels like a 9mm pistol in your hands until you press the trigger. I was able to hit clay pigeons at 40 yards with ease. It's such a fun pistol. I can't wait for it's big brother my 509 MRD LE to arrive!!!
Is that the Federal white 333 pack? I bought a ton of that stuff during rona and it will not feed through my sons 10/22 to save my life.

Good to hear on the 502 though. I really want one bad
 
Just picked one up in FDE from a local gun shop. Trigger is NICE! Cleaned, lubed, attached an AAC Element. Ate through everything - CCI standard velocity & mini mags, stingers, velocitors, Winchester, & even some Remington golden bullet. A few times the slide didn't return to battery all the way, but a gentle nudge was all it took. Typical rimfire break in, no biggie. Just ordered a HS507C to put on it. Gassy with that particular can, but I always wear eyepro anyways. Might try another rimfire can when I sight the RD in later, but the Element will prolly live on it. Me likey.
 
Has anyone had any instances of failure to extract? Just picked one up on Saturday and got it to the range this afternoon. only had time to run 1 mag through it before I had to leave but had multiple instances where brass stayed in the barrel. This is my first 22 pistol so not a lot of experience shooting one. Any help or insight would be appreciated.
 
I would make sure the chamber is perfectly clean with all manufacturer rust preventative thoroughly removed. And get a couple other boxes of ammo to try. If after a hundred more shots that doesn't work, should be FN's problem.
 
Has anyone had any instances of failure to extract? Just picked one up on Saturday and got it to the range this afternoon. only had time to run 1 mag through it before I had to leave but had multiple instances where brass stayed in the barrel. This is my first 22 pistol so not a lot of experience shooting one. Any help or insight would be appreciated.
I had failure to feed, but seems to have worked itself out. It's running smooth as butter now.
 
So new to the forums, I just bought my 502 last week and was finally able to get out to the range today. Let me tell you the amount of fun pulling the trigger on this gun is just about immeasurable. I bought a 525 bulk pack of 36gr Remington Golden Bullet, and what I did shoot shot flawlessly. I tried a few shots of different types of ammo that my friend had brought with him and had no failures from that stuff either. I was maybe 7-8 mags in while doing some drills and had a failure to extract, and saw something odd go flying when that round went off. Pulled mag and tried to clear the casing out, but nothing was happening. I was able to just manually get the casing out with my fingernail. Got it back to the bench and found the extractor had broke. I went back to the spot where I saw the parts go flying and found a small metal detent and found the extractor spring about a foot away from the metal detent piece. As for the face of the extractor that hooks the round, I'm not sure where it ended up. Going to put in a service request ticket and hope the turn around is decently quick, as I had a ton of fun shooting what I did get to shoot. I hope I just have one of those fluke failures and only have to send it in this once, or at the very least get the parts to have on hand to fix when it does go down. Other than this little hiccup, I really like the gun.
 
So new to the forums, I just bought my 502 last week and was finally able to get out to the range today. Let me tell you the amount of fun pulling the trigger on this gun is just about immeasurable. I bought a 525 bulk pack of 36gr Remington Golden Bullet, and what I did shoot shot flawlessly. I tried a few shots of different types of ammo that my friend had brought with him and had no failures from that stuff either. I was maybe 7-8 mags in while doing some drills and had a failure to extract, and saw something odd go flying when that round went off. Pulled mag and tried to clear the casing out, but nothing was happening. I was able to just manually get the casing out with my fingernail. Got it back to the bench and found the extractor had broke. I went back to the spot where I saw the parts go flying and found a small metal detent and found the extractor spring about a foot away from the metal detent piece. As for the face of the extractor that hooks the round, I'm not sure where it ended up. Going to put in a service request ticket and hope the turn around is decently quick, as I had a ton of fun shooting what I did get to shoot. I hope I just have one of those fluke failures and only have to send it in this once, or at the very least get the parts to have on hand to fix when it does go down. Other than this little hiccup, I really like the gun.
Welcome to the Forum!
Congrats! and glad to hear you're enjoying your new FN 502 (y)
 
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