Some people say the g43 is susceptible to “limp wristing”, a term revolver guys are unfamiliar with.
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While one could show up at a competition with a gun out of the box, that’s the move of a noobie or someone that doesn’t have much care if they sit the match out.
Put a couple boxes down range, learn the mechanics.
When a failure does happen, they tend to keep happening. Until the source of failure is remedied. So, I disagree that the chance of a failure is completely random. Odds are much better after the first few boxes and problems have been identified.
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I absolutely agree. One failure is one too many. I worked on all my own guns, at least in the older days ( 80s) ALL the semi I bought other than my Ruger Mark II and Beretta 950BS were perfect right out of the box,
every single one jams in the first 50 rounds and I stop wasting bullets and started to look at what fail and fixed it. I was still new when I first bought my S&W659, the moment it jammed, I sent it back, they did fix it and I look at what they did. I notice they reshaped the extractor a little. I learned, I bought a new extractor and reshape myself, I also polished the edge of the ejector port. Together with polishing the feed ramp and chamber, I never had a failure in the next 300 rounds and I stopped shooting it.
This happened to my Colt Gold Cup and Walther PPK. The older semi, the ejector ports are very small, the extractor, ejector and the port needed to be worked on to make them reliable. Notice the new generation ones have much bigger ejector port spend from lower right side over the the whole top of the slide? This really helps.
Reliability has a lot to do with the weight of the slide. The heavier and bigger the slide, the less critical is the recoil spring. The mass of the slide really helps the cycling of the round. When guns get smaller and lighter, the slide get lighter. Then the recoil spring becomes very critical. Too strong, the round cannot push the slide back all the way and cause either FTE or FTF or both. It the spring is too strong, not only the recoil is hard, it slam the slide hard and cause trouble. So it becomes a game of balancing one way or the other. That's the reason I tend to stay away from tiny semi with large caliber. You might get lucky with one that just got it right but much higher chance to get one that jams. I did a lot of research on line and youtube to say this. Try look up all the mini 9mm and name one that you don't see a lot of complain. I would like to find one.
Even if you are lucky to buy a reliable mini 9mm, that the recoil spring is just right, it might change with age. That's the reason I thought hard and decided on Glock 26 instead of 43 as the slide is wider( bigger).
Those are JMHO, I did work on guns and that's my experience.
Bottom line, one fail is one too many. In these days of expensive and hard to buy ammo, I would take a few pictures of the first failure and send it back and let them fix it. I would not shoot another round after the first jam. Let them handle it. You can easily shoot the cost of another gun if you keep shooting and hoping it will go away.