Gun Tests just gave the funky little Phoenix 22 an A+, beating out the Beretta Cheetah 87 and the High Standard Sport King which both cost about 5X as much.
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Three .22 Autos for the Trail: Phoenix’s HP22A Earns an A+
How much does it cost to get a decent .22 "plinker," or whatever you’d like to call a .22 pistol for shooting fun in camp or on the trail? Can you get one for under $150? Or will you have to spend many hundreds of dollars? The answers may depend on your proposed use for the gun, but if we limit the use to simply having low-cost fun with a semiauto handgun, the ground has been laid for our current test.