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Taurus TX22

• easy
• Shop tier 2
• medium confidence
• Rimfire Pistol
• rimfire
• blowback
• training
• high capacity

field strip ~1 min · reassembly ~2 min · detail strip ~20 min

Specifications

Model-specific safety

• A .22 LR round can be fired by a blow to the case rim, not just the centre. Keep ammunition out of the work area.
• A .22 LR case in a chamber is small and dull-coloured and is genuinely easy to miss. Use a light and a finger, every time.
• No trigger press is required to field strip this pistol.
• This is a blowback rimfire with a light slide. Do not apply centrefire takedown assumptions to it.

Under spring tension

• Recoil spring assembly

Easily lost parts

Takedown lever · Recoil spring assembly

Tools

No tools required for the field strip.

Shop difficulty

Shop tier 2 Tier 2 — moderate among pistols, for the full job: strip to the parts that get coated and put it back together working. 63 parts (about 56 without magazine and thread protector) for a striker rimfire: a fire-control housing with sear, sear trip and bushing and an ambidextrous manual safety, plus a slide with a two-piece (left/right) striker housing under a screwed cover plate. Taurus says gunsmith only past the field strip.

Parts: 63 numbered parts ('TX22 Exploded View' (p. 40) and 'Part List' (p. 41), Gen2, complete pistol incl. magazine and thread protector; Competition upper omitted.), from Taurus TX22 Instruction Manual: General Safety, Operating Instructions and Limited Warranty — Taurus International Manufacturing, Inc., p. 40–41 taurususa.com [3].

Bench time: about 20 min to strip, 35 min to rebuild (estimate). Slide (cover plate screw, striker housings, striker and block, extractor and plunger, sights) and frame (fire control housing, sear and sear trip, safeties, trigger and bar, slide catch, takedown); rebuild longer for the striker housing halves and safety springs.

Small parts: 7 pins, 16 springs, 1 detents or plungers (counted from the manufacturer's parts list (one per key number unless a quantity is given))

What comes off for coating

• Slide: slide cover plate and screw, striker housings (left/right), striker, spring and striker block, extractor, plunger and spring, rear sight, front sight and screw — screwdriver/hex, pin punch
• Frame: dowel and coiled spring pins, fire control housing, sear, sear trip and bushing, ambidextrous manual safety and spring, trigger, shoe, bar and springs, slide catch and spring, takedown lever and spring, magazine release — roll-pin punches

Special tools

• roll-pin punches — Coiled spring pins
• dovetail sight pusher (or brass drift and padded vise) — Removing and refitting dovetailed sights for coating

Known pain points

• Taurus recommends nothing past the field strip except by a qualified gunsmith. (both)
  Source: Taurus TX22 Instruction Manual: General Safety, Operating Instructions and Limited Warranty — Taurus International Manufacturing, Inc. taurususa.com [3] — “No further disassembly is recommended unless done by a qualified gunsmith.”
• The striker runs in a two-piece left/right housing under a screwed slide cover plate, so the halves and striker block have to be kept together and oriented when the slide is stripped. (reassembly)
  Source: Taurus TX22 Instruction Manual: General Safety, Operating Instructions and Limited Warranty — Taurus International Manufacturing, Inc. taurususa.com [3] — “HOUSING, STRIKER LEFT”

Fit or check on rebuild

• Function check: trigger reset, sear/striker engagement, safeties — Standard post-reassembly check on any pistol whose fire-control parts were removed; a mis-seated spring shows up here, not on the bench

This is Pew-Takedown's rating, not the manufacturer's. How tiers are rated. Forum reports are owners' experience, not specifications.

Procedures

Torque specifications

Notes: Taurus's TX22 Gen2 manual prints step 5 of the standard optic mounting instructions twice on the same page, once as 10 in-lbs and once as 5.3 in-lbs; both are shown here because the manual gives both. The Competition model's barrel-mounted plate uses 5.3 in-lbs. Taurus calls for Loctite 262 on these screws. Ask Taurus which value applies to your pistol, or use the lower one.

Materials and factory finish

As stated by Taurus Armas. Prep, masking and cure depend on these; a polymer or aluminium part, a nitrided or anodised finish, and a blued steel part are each a different job. Variants with other finishes may exist — check the maker's page for the exact SKU on the bench.

Parts list

Transcribed from the manufacturer's parts list (Taurus TX22 Instruction Manual: General Safety, Operating Instructions and Limited Warranty — Taurus International Manufacturing, Inc., p. 40–41 taurususa.com [3]) — "TX22 Exploded View" (p. 40) and "Part List" (p. 41), Gen2 web edition (Jan 2024; identical file to the archive.org copy the entry cites). Separate TX22 Competition upper list (pp. 42-43) omitted.. Key numbers refer to the exploded view in that document.

Function check

• Verify the pistol is unloaded with no magazine inserted before each check.
• Rack the slide and press the trigger. The striker should release cleanly.
• Hold the trigger to the rear, rack the slide, then release slowly and confirm the reset.
• Press the trigger again to confirm the striker releases.
• Confirm the slide locks open on an empty magazine and the magazine drops free.

Maintenance

Lubrication points

• Frame rails where the slide rides
• Barrel hood and locking lug
• Outside of the barrel at the muzzle end
• Rear barrel lug where the recoil spring assembly bears

Cleaning notes

Rimfire fouling is waxy and heavy. Clean the chamber and breech face regularly and keep lubrication light so unburned powder does not build into a paste.

Suggested inspection interval: roughly every 500 rounds. This is a general guideline, not a manufacturer specification.

Wear parts to inspect

Recoil spring assembly · Extractor · Magazine springs and followers

Common issues

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