Unreliable pistols

[relichunter]

Walther P22 VERY picky with ammo. Loved the way it looked and felt.

CZ70 I've owned 3. They were surplus and inexpensive but they all had difficulty feeding ammo.

[Claemore]

Here's my three that I will never own again:

Kimber anything

Para-Ordnance anything

Taurus anything.

I also had an Astra A100 that was good for the first 100 rds, then it was an "every-now-and-then" shooter. But that was a cheap pistol, I should have expected it to be crap.

[agent-smith]

I've never really had a problem with any pistols (including Kimbers).

Actually, my Kimber 1911's required me to tune the extractors.

Total time? About 45 seconds.

[hollohas]

I've never really had a problem with any pistols (including Kimbers).

Actually, my Kimber 1911's required me to tune the extractors.

Total time? About 45 seconds.

No problems with my Kimber Ultra Carry. No modifications, well over a thousand rounds through it without a single malfunction. Trust it and carry it everyday.

[BPTactical]

No problems with my Kimber Ultra Carry. No modifications, well over a thousand rounds through it without a single malfunction. Trust it and carry it everyday.

Hence my comments on Kimbers and Paras- You get a decent one and they are good pistols, you get a lemon and you will cuss at it until you sell it....
Problem is both put out too many lemons.

As far as crappy handguns- During the 60's and 70's alot of very crappy pistols came out of Spain and Germany. Pot metal frames, crappy heat treating etc.
I had a gent bring one in to look at and he wanted to know what it was worth. I asked him if he had a box of ammo for it. He said yes and I told him by loading it he would double the value.

Lorcin-Cobra-Jennings-Bryco are right up there. Never been impressed with AMT either.

[schief]

Ditto on the Warthog. Mine could be fired with the Thumb Safety on right out of the box. Para didn't even return my calls or email to get it fixed. Traded it back in for the S&W Pro Series 1911.

[lead_magnet]

I'm going to get hung for this but oh well..

Springfield Armory 1911 "loaded" full-size model in stainless. Wouldn't feed ANYTHING, I never even had one mag go into this gun without at least one round hitting the ramp and going nowhere. Had another one bought new around (parked) the same time (2002-2003 ish) that fed, errmm...okay. Won't buy another, though my dad's 20 year old springfield runs like a champ...not sure what gives.

And yes, tried different all different types of amno and nothing worked.

[Colorado Osprey]

I'm going to get hung for this but oh well..

Springfield Armory 1911 "loaded" full-size model in stainless. Wouldn't feed ANYTHING, I never even had one mag go into this gun without at least one round hitting the ramp and going nowhere. Had another one bought new around (parked) the same time (2002-2003 ish) that fed, errmm...okay. Won't buy another, though my dad's 20 year old springfield runs like a champ...not sure what gives.

And yes, tried different all different types of ammo and nothing worked.

It probably wasn't the ammo. It is usally the mags....
I too had a Springfield that wasn't 100% reliable. This was a mid 1990's gun. Mags fixed the issue for the most part but I would get a failure to feed after 100-200 rounds. BTW this gun was tuned by the A-Zone and would feed empty brass from a mag; even slowly moving the slide by hand. I've never seen a 1911 be able to do that before this one and it still had that 100-200 round feed issue. Switched to Wilson mags and never had the problem again.

[cysoto]

I have only ever owned one gun which I regretted buying. That gun was a Charles Daly 1911 clone.

[Cman]

I was suprised to read so many comments about how unreliable paras are. I own 2 p12s and 2 p 14s. Shot them a lot and never had any problems. My p12 is my carry gun and that's the one that has been shot the most.
Great gun! Fun to shoot and (at least for me) very reliable.