Which is your most reliable pistol?

FEG Hi-Power believe it or not. Second is my 1951 Colt Lightwieght Commander.

Ive seen every make of gun jam/misfeed/gum up in a match. Its usually a magazine failure (tap rack bang) or a weak spring. Springs wear out.. replace them once in a while.
 
To date, my most reliable pistol has been my Czech CZ-52, in the 7.62x25 chambering. Of course, it's a bottleneck cartridge, zipping along at a brisk pace. Whether it's the Chinese or Bulgarian surplus ball, or my Starline-Sierra handloads, the darned thing has NEVER hiccupped in thousands of rounds to date. My 3 custom carry 1911's run a close second, but every now and then I get the odd stovepipe where the brass somehow fell back into the open ejection port. For a close third, and you'll laugh at this, try running 115gr 9mm Winchester Silvertips through a WW1 P-08 Luger! My 6" Luger LOVES them, it gobbles them up and asks for more! Not the best concealed carry gun, I think it would print even if FUD was wearing it, but definitely smooth and accurate. (Sorry, FUD, had to get that in there!) Now, once I get some Silvertip handloads assembled for my 9mm 1912 Steyr-Hahn, I'll see how it does in the long-term reliability department...
 
I'd have to say my first Sig 229 is the most reliable, 28,000 rounds over 6 years, no problems at all (worn disconnector but still fired) not even during break in or when I change the springs. My #2, you ask? My other 229....Whit

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No malfunctions: P7M8 and Glock 21. Now, my aim isn't the most reliable, but at least it does go down range.
 
My Makarov has had zero failures of any kind. My Ruger MKII Govt. Model has been similarly reliable. Only one FTF and that was ammo related (had a good strike mark).

-Makarov
 
Maybe your revolvers don't count!

Colt's SAANF .44Special.

Click, click, click, click, bang.

Click, click, click, click, bang.

Click, click, click, click, bang.

Click, click, click, click, bang.

Click, click, click, click, bang.

Click, click, click, click, bang.

(Reload.)
 
WOW! you guys have shot many more rounds than I have. I guess I'll have to try and catch up :). My Glock 23 has almost 6000 rounds through it with no malfunctions. Splendid performance, and no I don't put mine in the dishwasher, I don't have one, I just wash it in the sink with the rest of the tupperware and plates :D.
 
Hey Will,
It's no joke. When I was a rookie LEO, back in the days when we carried wheelguns, the good old S&W stainless model 66 was dishwasher safe. Just be sure to oil it afterwards!! :D But even so, my Ruger Security Six or Python was usually in the holster instead!! Both were more accurate (for me anyways)


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Sig 220, in ten years (I dont count rounds) it failed to go into battery on me once during a week long course when I was REALLY lighting the thing up(shooting approx 1000 rds a day)with nasty Range ammo.

I've worked with guys that had Glocks that wouldn't drop a mag or release the slide because they were dirty. I've seen guys try to be as fast with a 4506 but when they had to shoot/decock re-engage the target they couldn't beat me because the ergonomics werent working for them.

All in all I gotta say sig, I own two now and that's saying alot for me because I dont have a big collection like some of you guys (6 handguns total).
 
My 1982 vintage, all Belgium, Browning Hi-Power! Eighteen years without a bobble, and I have lost count of the number of rounds.
 
Any of my Glocks.

And my CZ75B is looking as good, 500 rounds since new with zero failures.

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My series 80 colt has 40,000 + rounds thru it with 2 stovepipes. The front site came off, but that did not render the gun un-shootable. My sig P220 has no stopages ever. My glock's have 1 stopage due to a squib round w no powder.
 
I will tell you Glock-o-phant’s a true story about a Glock 19. We picked up a fugitive in Burbank-Glendale over a year ago. And upon searching his apartment, we couldn’t uncover a weapon we knew he had. We looked and looked and looked. Finally one of our Deputies found it a day later in his fishtank covered with rock gravel! It had been in there for weeks. The CHP need a ballistics recovery test from it so we took the darn thing to the range and it worked, 10 rounds w/o a jam, hiccup or fish scale flying out of it.


Fish
 
I gotta ask, who thought to look in the fish tank? was there a strange "glock-like" mound of gravel in there or what?
 
Ruger P95. Have not owned it long, but it behaves nicely, and every other P95 owner I have heard from says it's a rock.

I used to have a Firearms Industries Model D .380 (same as a Star DK) that, amazingly, never malfed on me in about six years of ownership. I even fed it the product of my first ventures into handloading, and it shot whatever I fed it. Some people have told me that this gun was bascially a POS, but I have seen guns with glitzy reps and high price tags do worse. Go fig.
 
I have a Glock 17 that has been absolutely reliable, for several years and thousands of rounds running. I used to have a Glock 22 that digested everything without a hitch, too.

I have a SA 1911 gov't that has somewhere between 2 and 3 thousand or so rounds through it that has performed flawlessly.
 
I've got about 6000 rounds through my USPc9 without a single failure.

I think I could load a Pepsi can in the magazine and it would still fire...

CMOS

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Bulgarian Arsenal Makarov: 500rnds/0 malfs
Sig P226: 500rnds/0 malfs
G17: 900rnds/1 fte
CZ 75B: 1000+rnds/1 stovepipe(FMJ) (2 ftf with that cheap 3D LRN ammo)
CZ 97B: 500rnds/2 ftf (I attribute to limpwristing while firing one handed during a local timed competition, 1 left handed and 1 right handed)
 
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