Well, I am not a happy customer. Thusfar my kel-tec experience has not been good. The purchase of two brand new pistols resulted in hours of frustration working out kinks and dealing with manufacturing defects. Anyway, I wouldn't have bothered if the kel-tec didn't promise something I very much need - a very concelable and lightweight 9mm handgun. I just wish it delivered. I should have bought a G26. But I wanted something different. For you computer geeks out there, kel-tec is to glock as linux is to microsoft, if you know what I mean (and I'm an MCSE).
But the Keltec seems to be so much easier to carry. So I thought had I to really try to make the most of it before throwing in the towel. I had two major complaints about my P-11:
1) It didn't function out of the box. My brand newP-11 was locking open about 50% of the time. And a Kel-tec is "Made in America"! Boy, I wish they wouldn't tell anyone that.
2) The sites were a complete joke. They look like they came off of of something purchased at Toys R US.
Instead of sending to Kel-Tec for repair I sent it to Jack Fusilier and spent the $$ for a fluff and buff and nickle-plating. I then had Jack send it Kel-Tec for night-site installation ($80). I got the pistol back yesterday and only got to look at it today.
Jack does amazing work. He really transformed the "look and feel". I only wish that I had seen it before he sent to Kel-tec.
Kel-Tec CNC did a rather amateurish job installing the night sites. They came with a nice big scratch on the rear sites and the front site isn't on straight. Please see the pics. I know that sites get scratched eventually but if my sites have a scratch on them, I'd like to be the one that put it there, not the gunsmith that I paid to install the sites.
But the Keltec seems to be so much easier to carry. So I thought had I to really try to make the most of it before throwing in the towel. I had two major complaints about my P-11:
1) It didn't function out of the box. My brand newP-11 was locking open about 50% of the time. And a Kel-tec is "Made in America"! Boy, I wish they wouldn't tell anyone that.
2) The sites were a complete joke. They look like they came off of of something purchased at Toys R US.
Instead of sending to Kel-Tec for repair I sent it to Jack Fusilier and spent the $$ for a fluff and buff and nickle-plating. I then had Jack send it Kel-Tec for night-site installation ($80). I got the pistol back yesterday and only got to look at it today.
Jack does amazing work. He really transformed the "look and feel". I only wish that I had seen it before he sent to Kel-tec.
Kel-Tec CNC did a rather amateurish job installing the night sites. They came with a nice big scratch on the rear sites and the front site isn't on straight. Please see the pics. I know that sites get scratched eventually but if my sites have a scratch on them, I'd like to be the one that put it there, not the gunsmith that I paid to install the sites.