How many chances do you give a gun or manufacturer?

How many chances do you give a gun/manufacturer?

  • 1

    Votes: 25 37.3%

  • 2-3

    Votes: 39 58.2%

  • 4-5

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • 6 or more

    Votes: 2 3.0%
  • Total voters
    67
  • Poll closed .
Three strikes.

Colt fixed my H-BarII with out issue and gave me a few spare parts that I asked for. Good on them. 0 strikes

Ruger basically sent me a brand new GP100. It was the same frame and cylinder but they replaced just about everything else and refinished it. The problem was, all I wanted was the gun rebarreled. The nice smooth trigger I had developed by shooting the crap out of it was gone. 1 strike.

S&W automatics. Never again. Not unless I get a lot of trigger time on one and it 1. Feeds correctly. 2. Shoots straight. 3. Works after 150 rounds.
I kept going back to S&W and I kept getting burned. 3 strikes. No more. I like the revolvers, even the "zit" ones.
 
New guns cost too much to get rid of if they aren't perfect out of the box. Even brands known for quality have a bad run on occassion it's the rule of percentages, law of averages, or just due to human error.

I will give them a chance to make it right. Now if it happens regularly or if they are known for problems I stay away from those guns.
 
I'll give a manufacturer one chance to sell me a lemon and then make it right.The only one who totally failed was Taurus. I owned one 15 years ago and haven't owned one since.
 
I gave Springfield two chances to get my brand new 1911 (GI) runnin, they didnt and it left a bad tast in my mouth for Springfield.

A while ago I had a S&W Sigma 9mm and it broke, I called S&W and they sent out a pre paid shipping box right away, little more than a week my gun was in my hand working :cool:
 
Only one.

"Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me!"

That's the only way to make sure that all my guns work properly.
 
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Where is the option for ZERO?

If a particular gun in question is for my CCW use, there are no second guesses. One bad gun would end that company's creditability to be my ccw gun.

That said, it can still produce a wonderful handgun that will be part of my collection.
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From what you said, your vote would be 1, because if your choice is 0, then it would mean you don't own any guns at all. By buying a gun, you're giving it chance #1.
 
I voted six. Things break, they need breaking in. I just make sure if it's something that I am going to carry that it works 101% of the time. If it's a range/target gun, if it continues to not function I can deal with that to a certain point. I like to try to fix them myself. If I can't off they go.
 
Only real lemon I've had was my Security Industries of America .38 snub.
Lock up poor, rifling almost straight. They didn't stay in business long. I had to send the slide of my AMT Hardballer back, shooting way low, don't know if they sent me a new slide or what, but fine ever since. My experience with gun manufacturers is that they could teach Detroit a lot about quality control.
 
Part of it is customer service, too. Every company will make a few lemons. If they go out of their way to fix it, for one, and it comes back actually fixed, for two, then I'll call it square. If there's no reply or getting it back fixed requires multiple trips, then I won't buy that model of gun ever again.
 
I had the Beretta M9 issued to me in the Marines, it did nothing but jam on me. I'm not sure if my weapon was just too old, had been misused by the jarhead before me, or mine was just a lemon. But I'll have a hard time buying one when the money's comin outta my pocket.
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firemed, most of the problems with the M9 was with magazines. There were some other issues specific to Beretta, but far less common. The barrel linkage was kinda prone to breaking, and when it did fail often times one of the hoods on the slide would crack as well. Other than that, Berettas are accurate and reliable weapons when used with decent magazines.

As far as the question in general, I'm usually willing to give up to 3 chances. Every gun MFG in the universe has turned out 1 lemon in it's career. Some do so more than others. There are hundreds of thousands of taurus owners in existance that love their weapon and swear buy it. It seems like taurus is hit or miss, but usually problems deminish greatly if you wait until a certain design has been out for a few years and is in the 2nd or 3rd generation. I would trust a taurus as long as the design has been around long enough to be reasonably proven.

For the most part though, I will give a MFG 3 chances with 3 different weapons... and I mean 3 "other than total satisfaction" chances. If I buy one springer that's a lemon, I may give them another chance. If the next one is a complete lemon, I'm done. OTOH, if I have minor breaking in problems with a S&W but the gun is repaired with no other issues, I'll give them a few more chances to get it completely right the first time.

Everything is relevant, and it depends on the severity of the problem. For me, anyway.
 
Mine was a Kimber. Wasn`t the malfunctioning pistol as much as the CS that soured me on them. That was about 8 or so yrs. ago . I`ve been thinking about giving them another shot or just going to a 1911 custom. Haven`t made mind up yet
 
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