Lets Be Honest

roy reali said:
Who has a semi-auto that has never, ever malfuntioned? 1000 batting average.
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I have a 1904-vintage Colt Pocket Hammerless that is flawless in operation over the 80 or 100 rounds I've put through it.

roy reali said:
Who has a revolver that has malfuntioned? Even once?
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I have several revolvers that have malfed. The most recent being a 49 that got a spent case hung under the star...
 
I have a Springfield XD9 that has never malfunctioned, even with handloaded hollowpoints or exposed lead ammo. I've even gone 500+ rounds through it with the lead stuff. No malfs. Ever.

All my revolver malfs are user-induced via high primers during reloading... but I've had several in my SP101, Smith 65, and pair of Redhawks. The Taurus 94 is a malf-o-matic.
 
My H&R 622 is so temperamental it is basically useless for any purpose. Looks alright though.

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Who has a revolver that has malfuntioned? Even once?
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Charter Arms. Repeatedly. 2008 Police Undercover in .38 Special. My Charter Arms almost matches the above H&R.

That said, I have never had a Colt, Smith or Ruger revolver fail unless my reloads had improperly seated primers or the revolver was damaged by a previous user.
 
The only revolver issues I've had so far is that my first gun, a Taurus 83, a total POS, had an amazing amount of issues, and I bought a really banged up S&W 19 that would get "stuck" with the trigger back, and it took a smack on a desk to get it to fire again. A trip to S&W and it came back looking like new, and I sold it for a decent price and broke about even on the whole deal.

Semiautos are an entirely different story, I had a lot of problems from about 1979 until 1986 or so with them. Between out and out junk, and expensive guns with major QC issues, I had a run of duds that I thought would never end. I never had one blow up though, so I guess it could have been worse.
 
All of my Kahrs, Sig's, Kimbers and Taurus revolvers have failed me at some point.

The only gun I've never had fail on me was a S&W 342.
 
I've owned 3 Hk P7's that have never failed in any way. I currenly own a P2000 and Hk P9s that are lower round counts but are 100% so far.

I had 3 Sig 225's, not P6, that worked 100%.

I have a low round count Walther P99 AS with zero failures.

I've had Glock, CZ, Taurus, Walther, Detonics, Ruger, Beretta, that have all had malfunctions.

I keep my weapons and mags well maintained, properly lubed, and shoot only Speer or Federal ammo in them.
 
I've had my 3913 for almost 10 years and put over 5,000 rounds through it without a malfunction/failure of any kind. Same, same my Glock 23, but I've only had that one for 5 years and about 2,000 rounds.
 
I still have my S&W model 19, .357 cal. A little over a 1000 rounds and all were magnum rounds, hollow point. Our other handguns are too new to qualify for this discussion, but neither has misfired.

Actually, we don't fire that much.
 
I have a Glock 23 – Gen. 2 - over 2,000 rounds with no malfunctions.
I have a Glock 27 - Gen. 3 – over 500 rounds with no malfunctions.
also Colt 1911 to many rounds to count with no malfunctions
 
I can't remember ever having a malfunction with my P226 unless it was a failure to cycle from weak reloads.

My XD hasn't malfunctioned on anything but SWC.

I can't remember my 22/45 ever acting up unless you count the front sight coming loose.

My 1911's have had many problems that were mostly ammo, magazine, or amateur-gunsmith related. I've found that just because a gun is easy to "upgrade" doesn't mean you should....

No failures of any kind with revolvers except for a light hammer problem with my Redhawk that Ruger has since fixed.

My carry gun (if that's the true intention of this thread) is a S&W Model 36 that has never malfunctioned or failed to ignite any cartridge.
 
plenty stock 9mms go 1000 in 1 day problem free

Use quality ammo, keep your gun Sig or Glock stock, proper lube & maintenance and as long as you don't limp wrist it; 20 to 30 thousand rounds problem free. Why why why do newbie gun owners think jams & malfunctions are normal or acceptable?

Would you like malfuctions? Buy off brand guns like T....., futz around with a good gun with a pair of cutters and file, re-spring your gun...awwwooooh, use experimental reloads, use unproven lubes and oils, and do not under any circumstances listen to shooters who go for years and thousands of rounds of problem free shooting.
 
I use Glock 19s for CCW, and IDPA Matches, factory, or reloads from small company's that reload 115g & the last couple of years 147g hard ball type rounds.

They just work all the time. I watch the 1911 expensive Colts, a couple of tho,$ of hand built pistols, stove pipe, many years ago, my 1911s, stove pipe.

My Glocks, load and shoot, all the time. New Gen4Glock19, a few failure to feed, with reloads, replaced spring, with old style spring (Main Spring) by using the wee grommet from Glock Werx, perfect now. Use factory +P+ with Gen4 Glock 19s, out of the box, flawless.
 
I know a lot of people here choose a revolver over a semi-auto for SD. Their reasoning being that with a revolver you're at least guaranteed five or six shots, a semi-auto is more likely to fail you for whatever reasons.

Having followed this thread (and in my own experience), however, it does seem that revolvers fail on occasion. And when they do it is more likely to be something that you can't take care of quickly. The few failures I have had with semi-autos were able to be fixed within seconds. The few failures I have had with revolvers....well, let me put it this way: if it was a shooting in self-defense, I would have been up a certain creek without a paddle.
 
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I have two Beretta 92FS's, three HK handguns (P30, P30L and P2000 SK), a Sig P220 and P226 and two T-Series BHP's that have never failed. :D

And a Walther PPS which has been perfect so far, almost forgot.:eek:
 
Except for duds, my colt tagetsman has never had a hicup. My M&P9 pro, it's too new, but has 400 rounds so far with 3 different kinds of ammo through it.
 
Most of my autos have had one type of failure or another. Some were easily fixed or just wore in by themselves. Others took more work. I have had some autos though, that worked fine straight out of the box with no issues whatsoever.

Ruger P90 = This thing just kept going and going and going.......
Glock 23 = shot flawlessly up to the day I traded it in for something else.
Browning Hi-Power = flawless up to about 1200+ rds until the day I had to sell it (was strapped for cash).
Cold "Enhanced" Gold Cup = Still have this gun. Has been chirping along flawless since I got it back in '94.

With regards to revolvers, I only had one "failure" and it was a pretty major one with my issued duty weapon at the time (2 inch snub, SW Model 19). The cylinder rod (sorry, not sure about the nomenclature) loosened and this caused the cylinder to bind. I could not release the cylinder to reload/unload the rounds. Luckily, this was during a shift change and not a situation where I actually needed to reload the weapon after firing it. Since then, I've always made it a point to check and put a little loctite on the threads.
 
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