What is the most unreliable semi auto you have shot ?

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A lightly used Star BM and a like new Star BKM. Neither one could successfully feed even one magazine of FMJ. Too bad, because I liked everything else about these. Actually owned the BKM for less than 24 hours which is a personal record.
 
I have to agree with the others who said Stoeger Luger .22 LR. It was by far the worst jamming semiauto I've ever owned. Pure junk, basically was a single shot pistol. Even a Stirling .22 feeds better.
 
Can't believe all the P238 hatred. Mines got 1000 rounds... 0 FTF or anything. It's been one of my most trusty guns..
 
1. Kahr CW40 - it's extremely picky with what it likes, and even with the right ammo I still wouldn't trust it 100%

2. Ruger 10/22 - when using non-oem steel lip mags, it's fairly picky as well.

3. Walther P22 - I shoot it fairly smoothly, but for some reason it jams like crazy when I let other people shoot it
 
Of several I have owned only .45ACP Heckler & Koch was super reliable. I can't recall single failure with that gun shooting full range of ammo from Remi subsonic JHPs to Black Hills +P loads. Of the rest the Norinco 213 and S&W 457 were most prone to jamming. While rare it did happen.
 
Beretta .22

The only gun that I have had to sell, due to reliability was a Beretta Model 21 in .22lr. This was in the early nineties, but I sent it back to Beretta twice with no luck. Every time it came back, it had marks and re-blued areas on/in the slide. I have a close friend that bought the Taurus version a few years later that had a similar experience. We both tried every single brand of .22 ammo as well (yes, stingers....). They just had FTEs every two or three shots. I moved away from the round and the manufacturer and have been happy ever since.
 
well lets see its between 3 , the c9 mm and the compact 380 and the 45. all made by hi-point.. but life time garuntee !!!!! if your still liveing after the bad guy has put a couple bullets in ya.. or he (the bad guy could laugh to death after watching ya trying to get a shot off at him.
 
For me, the worst one was an old Thompson Auto Ordnance 1911A1 clone. Honestly, it was rare for the thing to fire two rounds in a row without some sort of malfunction. It ran the entire gamut of things that could malfunction on a 1911. I bought the gun from the frustrated owner for less than a hundred bucks after full disclosure. After replacing everything except the frame and the mainspring housing, I got it to run and managed to get about 30,000 rounds through it without further trouble until the replacement (Essex) slide cracked at the breechface. Being a casting, I really didn't expect it to make it that long.

Rather than spend 90 bucks for another Essex slide, I stripped the parts out of it and trashed the frame after cutting it with a torch. I'd gotten my money's worth by that time.
 
I'm sad to see that kimber is getting such a bad review, i was looking forward to getting a Kimber CDP II, but now I'm looking at other options.
 
out of guns i've shot my Wive's LCP has been the worst. if you don't have an absolute DEATH grip on it, it'll get a stovepipe or other jam. Also just plain not fun to shoot. I have no desire to carry or even shoot it again at this point.
 
Jennings .22. It's been 25 years, but as I recall, it jammed every 3 or 4 rounds. I can't imagine why...I paid 50 or 60 hard earned dollars for that thing.

I think my brother has or had one of those luger replica .22 calibers that Quentin mentioned. It was the only gun less reliable than my jennings that I've ever come across. It pretty much jammed every round. I assumed it was just broken, but after reading this thread, maybe not.
 
hi point cf 380 comp. jams stove pipes FTF FTE all of the above. its awful in accuracy. and it will be going back for service to hi point in a week or 2.
 
Jeez. These tales of horror. I was going to say my Raven .25 with the satin nickle finish 'cause it would not hit anything more than five feet away! Could have been the shooter. But what I read here makes me not want to buy another semi-auto any time soon. I'm glad that pretty much all my semi-autos are old eastcomblock. Very informative thread. Thanks.
 
I had a High Standard Duramatic that would rarely fire an entire clip. Didn't matter what I fed it. No wonder my "friend" was eager to get rid of it when he sold it to me.
 
My first centerfire autoloader was a Colt 1911. It would feed hardball about 90% of the time. My cast lead round nose hand loads about 70%. I thought all autos acted like that until I got a Glock. I have a love/hate relationship with 1911s because of that gun. I love the history and the way the gun feels, I hate the design and the function.
 
First mag through my PX4 compact worked great, but after that I couldn't get through a mag without at least 3 to 4 jams of some sort. Took it home, opened her up, and found that there was a ton of flashing left over from the molding process. A craft knife and some light sanding later, and she's been absolutely perfect since.

Before I bought the PX4, I bought a KelTec PF9 in hard chrome. Fit and finish looked great, so I was really excited to break her in at the range. Had problems with it on the first mag. Had failures to feed, fire, and eject. By the time I finally got to the 4th or so mag, the firing pin ejected out of the gun. Don't really know how that could've happened, but she's been sitting in the back of the safe ever since. I know a lot of people love these little things, but I guess I just unlucky.
 
IslandTimes said:
First mag through my PX4 compact worked great, but after that I couldn't get through a mag without at least 3 to 4 jams of some sort. Took it home, opened her up, and found that there was a ton of flashing left over from the molding process. A craft knife and some light sanding later, and she's been absolutely perfect since.
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Go on BerettaForum and look for a stickied thread in the handgun section. There was a recall on recoil springs for some Compacts. Beretta has a page that you plug in your serial number and they let you know if you gun is affected. If so, they send you a new spring (I believe).
 
bhhacker said:
S&W sigma....darn thing would not strike the primer hard enough to fire. Also it had a tendency to shoot the burning hot shell RIGHT into your face.
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Wow, I had a sigma, only put 200 rounds through it, but it shot FLAWLESSLY

*swyped from the evo so excuse any typos*
 
AMT automag III... Good for about one magazine before it gummed up. Or perhaps the Erma/excam PPK knock off that liked to come apart if you put a velocitor through it.
 
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