| Caliber | 9mm |
| Size | 6.26"L x "H x "W |
| Weight | 20.5 oz (empty) |
| Barrel length | 3.01" |
| Capacity | 10+1 / 16+1 |
| Frame | Polymer |
| Action | SA |
| Trigger Pull | 5.5 lbs USA |
| Finish | Bi-tone |
| Sights | Factory |
I carry in a Comp-tac CTAC holster, which is IWB. Nice and secure. I plan to get another compact mag & Pearce extension, and then a pouch for carrying it since pocket carry for spare mag doesn't float my boat.
| Caliber | .45 ACP |
| Size | 7.3"L x 5.75"H x 1.40"W |
| Weight | 30.0oz (empty) |
| Barrel length | 4" |
| Capacity | 13+1 |
| Frame | Polymer |
| Action | SA |
| Trigger Pull | 5.5-7.7 lbs |
| Finish | Melonite treated, black |
| Sights | Factory 3-dot |
| Caliber | .22 LR |
| Dimensions | 7.20"L x 5.28"H x 1.46"W |
| Weight | 24.6oz (empty) |
| Barrel length | 3.9" |
| Frame | Polymer |
| Action | SA/DA |
| Finish | Blued |
| Trigger pull | 12.1lbs/4.4lbs |
| Sights | Fixed front (3 front blades provided) - adjustable rear |
Because I am aware many Mosquito owners have issues with certain ammo feeding/ejecting properly, I'm going to track my findings here. In some cases I'll list the same ammo multiple times due to changing the spring, oiling the ammo, or because I tried the ammo again after the initial 1,000rd break-in.
I will also say that One Shot brand case lube (found with reloading supplies) makes for a good lubricant. It 'dries', so it doesn't feel oily or seem to rub off on your hands when loading magazines. Plus, its meant for case lubrication, where-as WD-40 is a generic, sub-par lube. WD-40 works too, but I'd use it in a pinch, not regularly.
Several members of Sigforum.com have emailed me their results with various ammo in their Mosquito. These results have a visitor submission tag after them.
| Ammo | Spring | Oiled | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| CCI Mini-Mags | Heavy | No | 40 gr. solid or hollow pt., copper jacket - $5.99/100. Shoot flawlessly, 250 rds in one session, one misfeed, likely due to my wife limp-wristing it, and still in 'break-in' period. In fact it was the first time we shot it with the heavy spring. Both solid and HP shot fine. |
| CCI Green Tag | Light | No | lead ball, solid point, Competition grade - $9.99/100. Tried 20 rds at the range, no problems. |
| CCI Stingers | Heavy | No | 32 gr., copper jacket, hollow pt. - $4.99/50. Many fail to fires...appears to be too light a strike, as the case was dented a little. A second tap fired the rounds. A couple FTE's. These are a silver casing. |
| CCI Velocitor | Heavy | No | SPEER Gold Dot HP, copper jacket - $3.99/50. Not good. 3 failure to feed, mid mag, requiring mag to be dropped and round put back in mag. One round jammed in a way that the case was crimped. I could actually rotate the slug in the case. Another had the case bent badly, un-fireable round. Last round I shot, some unburned powder stung my hand when it was ejecting. |
| CCI Blazers | Light | Yes | 40gr. lead ball, solid pt. - $9.99/500. I mostly used these and CCI Mini-mags to break in the gun. As long as these were lightly oiled (WD-40), they shot fine. If not oiled, the first round cycled by the gun would often fail to eject. Oiled it was fine. - Another sigforum.com member reported 100 rounds, with no failures of any kind. |
| Federal Champion High Velocity | Light | No | 40gr. lead ball, solid pt. - $12/500. At first I used the heavier spring with these and kept experiencing failures to eject right from the get go. Put the lighter spring back in and had failures to feed. Manual said not to lube higher velocity ammo but at this point I lubed em with WD40. It fed better, but I would still get the occasional FTF (stovepipes) and FTE. - visitor submission |
| Federal Champion High Velocity | Heavy | No | 40gr. lead ball, solid pt. - $12.88/500. Shot 20 rounds, had 15 FTF’s, failed to eject, or failed to loads. Same behavior with light spring installed. This ammo does not work well at all in my mosquito. Ended up giving it away to a friend for his rifle. - Holty from Sigforum.com |
| Federal 'Value' | Light | Yes | 36 gr. copper plated, hollow pt - $9.99/525 loose-box. Shot fine with oil (One Shot case lube). Not a single misfeed in approx 200 rds shot in one session. |
| Federal 'Value' | Light | No | Had same feed issues as un-oiled CCI Blazer...first 2-3 rounds of each magazine may not eject or feed. After 3 mags, switched ot case lubed ammo and it was smooth sailing. |
| Federal 'Value' | Heavy | No | Shooting with the heavy spring and no lubricant, these had issues ejecting and a couple failures to lock slide on an empty mag. |
| Federal 'Value' | Heavy | Yes | Shooting with the heavy spring and case lube, these had a few feed issues. |
| Federal AutoMatch | Light | No | 40 gr. lead bullet - $9.99/325 loose-box. Shot very well. No problems ejecting or feeding. Pretty much on par with Green Tag, but way cheaper. |
| Federal AutoMatch | Heavy | No | Had one failure to eject out of 30 rds. I think this stuff shoots better with the light spring. |
| PMC Scoremaster | unknown | No | 10rds fired - 3 of 10 FTE.- visitor submission |
| PMC Zapper | Light | no | Over 100rds fired - No problems. - visitor submission |
| Remington High Velocity (#1522) | Heavy | No | 40 gr. solid pt. - $1.99/50 loose-box. Absolutely horrible. Out of 50rds, 3 were FTF, the ridges on the slug seems to get caught feeding, to the point it shaved off a piece of the jacket. See photo of damaged ammo I'm glad it didn't feed, or that could have been bad news for the barrel. Do not shoot this in the Mosquito! "Only 4 FTE/FTFeed in 500 rds - visitor submission |
| Remington Golden Bullets | Heavy | Yes | Lubed with Remington lubricant (graphite based?) - $10/300rds. No problems. - visitor submission |
| Remington Thunderbolt | unknown | No | First two mags went well, then on the 3rd mag, FTF, two shots, then FTE FTE. - visitor submission |
| Remington Viper | Both | No | 300rds. fired. Exact same results as "Federal Champion High Velocity" says. Very frustrating!!- visitor submission |
| Remington Eley Club Extra | Light | No | 50rds. fired. Flawless- visitor submission |
| Remington Target | unknown | No | 50rds. fired. 30 good shots, on fourth mag, 1 FTE. 5th mag was fine.- visitor submission |
| Winchester Super-X Std Velocity | Light | No | 500rds fired - I had 2 failures to eject out of the whole brick. Gun was pretty dirty at that point, so no complaints.- visitor submission |
| Winchester Super-X High Velocity | Light | No | 250rds fired - Flawless. --- 100 rounds, no failures of any kind.- visitor submissions |
| Winchester Wildcat High Velocity | Light | No | 105rds fired - Wouldn't recommend them to anyone. I usually shoot 500 rds between cleanings, but these had the barrel so thoroughly lined with lead that its was causing the bullets to keyhole after just 100rds. The leads too soft!! Had to use a hammer and tap a cleaning rod through the barrel just to remove the massive amounts of buildup. Then about 20 passes with a brass brush finally got the rest of the lead out. - visitor submission |
| Winchester Wildcat High Velocity | unknown | No | 10rds fired - FTE on almost every shot. I didn't try more than 10 rounds of this. - visitor submission |
In addition, another Sigforum.com Mosquito shooter put together this information.
FTE = Failure To Eject
FTF = Failure To Feed
| CCI Blazer |
| 500 pack round nose. Cost $13.25 ($2.65 / 100) LS: 10 x FTE, 2 x FTF LS + L: 1 x FTE, 0 x FTF HS: 12 x FTE, 2 x FTF HS + L: 3 x FTE, 2 x FTF |
| Federal Champion |
| 50 pack round nose. Cost $0.97 ($1.94 / 100) LS: 4 x FTE, 0 x FTF LS + L: 0 x FTE, 0 x FTF HS: 4 x FTE, 4 x FTF HS + L: 1 x FTE, 1 x FTF |
| Federal Value Pack |
| 550 pack hollow point. Cost $8.96 ($1.79 / 100) LS: 6 x FTE, 1 x FTF LS + L: 1 x FTE, 0 x FTF HS: 7 x FTE, 4 x FTF HS + L: 2 x FTE, 4 x FTF |
| Remington Golden Bullet (HP) |
| 550 pack hollow point. Cost $9.99 ($2.00 / 100) LS: 1 x FTE, 0 x FTF LS + L: 1 x FTE, 0 x FTF HS: 1 x FTE, 1 x FTF HS + L: 0 x FTE, 0 x FTF |
| Remington Golden Bullet (RN) |
| 500 back round nose. Cost $18.95 ($3.79 / 100) LS: 0 x FTE, 0 x FTF LS + L: 1 x FTE, 1 x FTF HS: 3 x FTE, 3 x FTF HS + L: 2 x FTE, 0 x FTF |
| Winchester Xpert-22 |
| 500 pack hollow point. Cost $9.22 ($1.84 / 100) LS: 0 x FTE, 0 x FTF LS + L: 0 x FTE, 0 x FTF HS: 3 x FTE, 4 x FTF HS + L: 2 x FTE, 4 x FTF |
The CCI Blazers were terrible no matter what I did with them. On the plus side, if you're using a Mosquito to train someone, this would be an excellent round to use for clearing drills! Lubed Federal Champion, with the light spring, were excellent. The Federal Value and Remington GB HP weren't bad in that format either with only a single failure to eject.
Remington GB RN were a big disappointment as I'd read several reports of success with them using the heavy spring. Just goes to show that even different pistols of the same brand and model can have different preferences. The biggest surprise was the Winchester Xpert-22. I was ready to hate them as I picked a couple out of the box that had deformed bullets in them (one looked as though the bullet had been sliced in half horizontally somehow). With the light spring they were flawless, and deadly accurate too. I was grouping better with these than I do with the Mini-Mags.
| Caliber | .22LR |
| Size | 6.3"L x 4.5"H x 1.1"W |
| Weight | 15.1 oz (empty) |
| Barrel length | 3.4" |
| Frame | Polymer |
| Action | SA/DA |
| Trigger Pull | 4.4 lbs/11 lbs |
| Finish | Carbon fiber/blued. |
| Sights | Fixed front, adjustable rear |
| Caliber | 5.56NATO/.223 |
| Weight | 7lbs 7oz. |
| Barrel length | 16" |
| Twist | 1:9" |
| Action | Semi-auto |
| Trigger | Stag Arms LPK trigger |
| Finish | Black |
| Optics | BSD RD30 - small red-dot scope, since my 'range' is under 100yds |
Stag lower receiver, parts kit, and M4 butt stock with standard buffer spring. Stag Arms upper, configured by Randall at www.ar15barrels.com
It was an interesting experience.
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