Wild Romanian
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After my suprising test of 3 Glock pistols for ignition reliability all of which failed the test I began to wonder if all striker fired weapons were inferior and if all hammer guns were superior in terms of ignition reliability. Well I decided to find out before trusting any of these weapons with my life any more.
Unlike many of the egotists on this thread I am willing to learn new things and admit to everyone that I do not know it all and that I too can be wrong or come to wrong conclusions. This is exactly why I choose to conduct this test.
Was I wrong in thinking that it would be wise to stay away from all striker fired guns. Yes I was and here is the proof.
Here are the results of weapons tested using primed emty cases deliberately seated high and not bottomed out in the case.
Those that failed.
1.Glock 19 9mm
2. Glock 17 9mm
3. Glock 21 .45
4. CZ75 9mm
5. German Luger 9mm
6. Seecamp .32 (both passed and failed). Failed when trigger was pulled slowly but passed when trigger was pulled quickly. This was due to the nature of its double action design.
Those that passed
1. Browning High Power T Series (2 examples) 9mm
2, Browning High Power MIII 9mm
3. Star Model 30 9mm
4. Star starlight 9mm
5. Beretta 92 Italian 9mm
6. Beretta 92 American 92 9mm
7. Walther p5 9mm
8. Walther p39 9mm
9. Walther German .380
10. Walther P99 9mm (striker fired)
11. Seecamp .32 ( failed when trigger was pulled slowly but passed when trigger was pulled quickly. This was due to the nature of its double action design.)
12. Colt 1911 .45 acp Series 70
13. Sig p220 .45 acp
14. Sig p226 9mm
14. Browning .25acp (striker fired)
IN the case of the CZ 75 I think that the factory wanted ensure that their guns had a light trigger pull but did not want to do it the right way by hand fitting the sear and hammer. The trigger pull is pretty gritty on most of the CZ's stock guns (not race guns) that I have examined or fired. Instead they chose the easy way out by lightening up the main spring. Let's face it their is plenty of room in the CZ to lengthen the mainspring or even increase the diameter of the coils which would ensure more reliable ignition and still not louse up the trigger pull.
In the case of the P99, Walther proved that you can have a striker fired gun that has a good trigger pull and still be reliable enough to detonate a weak or high primer.
The firing pin engergy of the Walther p99 seemed to be weaker
than some of the stronger hammer powered guns like the 1911 but it was still strong enough to do the job and ignite the primer.
Time did not allow me to test more ( I work for a living) but I thought that some of you out there would find this test most interesting.
Lets face facts a weapon that will function with defective ammo is a much better weapon to trust your life to than one that has marginal reliabilty of ignition and must be used with perfect ammo in order to function. W.R.
Unlike many of the egotists on this thread I am willing to learn new things and admit to everyone that I do not know it all and that I too can be wrong or come to wrong conclusions. This is exactly why I choose to conduct this test.
Was I wrong in thinking that it would be wise to stay away from all striker fired guns. Yes I was and here is the proof.
Here are the results of weapons tested using primed emty cases deliberately seated high and not bottomed out in the case.
Those that failed.
1.Glock 19 9mm
2. Glock 17 9mm
3. Glock 21 .45
4. CZ75 9mm
5. German Luger 9mm
6. Seecamp .32 (both passed and failed). Failed when trigger was pulled slowly but passed when trigger was pulled quickly. This was due to the nature of its double action design.
Those that passed
1. Browning High Power T Series (2 examples) 9mm
2, Browning High Power MIII 9mm
3. Star Model 30 9mm
4. Star starlight 9mm
5. Beretta 92 Italian 9mm
6. Beretta 92 American 92 9mm
7. Walther p5 9mm
8. Walther p39 9mm
9. Walther German .380
10. Walther P99 9mm (striker fired)
11. Seecamp .32 ( failed when trigger was pulled slowly but passed when trigger was pulled quickly. This was due to the nature of its double action design.)
12. Colt 1911 .45 acp Series 70
13. Sig p220 .45 acp
14. Sig p226 9mm
14. Browning .25acp (striker fired)
IN the case of the CZ 75 I think that the factory wanted ensure that their guns had a light trigger pull but did not want to do it the right way by hand fitting the sear and hammer. The trigger pull is pretty gritty on most of the CZ's stock guns (not race guns) that I have examined or fired. Instead they chose the easy way out by lightening up the main spring. Let's face it their is plenty of room in the CZ to lengthen the mainspring or even increase the diameter of the coils which would ensure more reliable ignition and still not louse up the trigger pull.
In the case of the P99, Walther proved that you can have a striker fired gun that has a good trigger pull and still be reliable enough to detonate a weak or high primer.
The firing pin engergy of the Walther p99 seemed to be weaker
than some of the stronger hammer powered guns like the 1911 but it was still strong enough to do the job and ignite the primer.
Time did not allow me to test more ( I work for a living) but I thought that some of you out there would find this test most interesting.
Lets face facts a weapon that will function with defective ammo is a much better weapon to trust your life to than one that has marginal reliabilty of ignition and must be used with perfect ammo in order to function. W.R.
