What is the most unreliable semi auto you have shot ?

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To answer the question honestly, I must say a Jiminez 9mm that my friend bought. WOW that thing stunk. There's a little orange cap on the back of the striker to show you if it's 'cocked,' well that flew off with the third shot...:barf: Gun shot a foot left at 20 feet, and jammed every other round. Disgusting POS. Should be melted into an ashtray.
 
I own 6 Kimbers.When I bought the first one, I had some FTFs and FTEs. A buddy who also owns a boatload of Kimbers suggested replacing Kimber magazine with Wilson Combat magazine. I did and have never looked back. Whenever I get a new Kimber the first thing I do is buy 2 Wilson Combat magazines to go with it. IMHO Kimbers are excellent pistols. They just make and sell d**n cheap magazines.
My most unreliable pistol has to be the SIG P238. The first one went back to the factory 3 times and they finally replaced it with a new one which was also a PIECE OF JUNK.
I use it for a PAPER WEIGHT now.
 
An ENCOM .45 ACP "assault" pistol -- What a dog. An ugly, overweight dog -- which is weird, because it refused to eat anything....
AMT .380 Backup -- frustratingly unreliable, and unpleasant to shoot...
Glock (yes, a Glock!!!!) 21, .45 -- Jammed on me every 3rd or 4th shot. Blamed on limp-wristing.... never had a problem with any other Glock I've ever shot....
Ruger P97, also a .45, and also blamed on me limp-wristing... what is it with me and Limp-wristing? I've never had that problem with Sig 220's or 1911's...

The weirdest one? S&W 645. I bought it used from a police officer, who wanted something lighter. It was perfectly reliable for me -- until I myself went to work as a cop. Then, it started going downhill. I would take it into the armorer, he'd fix it, it would shoot fine, and I'd qualify... then it started jamming again. This cycled continued during my time in blue. In frustration I purchased a Glock 17 to replace it, but then I moved on to other things. Since I quit doing the cop thing, that darn pistol has NEVER jammed on me since. Really. True story.
 
Worst out of the box, AMT Government Model .45. It was a simple fix. The rough, bead/sand/vapor blasted finish appeared to carry over to the frame rails. A quick stoning with an Arkansas oilstone fixed it and it was great after that.
Out of the box, you may get 2 rds of ball to cycle before a jam. Forget HPs
After I stoned it and polished the feed ramp, it ate Flying Ashtrays like it was made for them.

Worst quality combined with unreliable was a Davis .380. Jammed a lot and the extractor pin came out after the 3rd mag. Extractor, spring, and pin flew out.
Found the extractor. Never found the spring or pin.
Made a new pin and replaced the spring with a spring from a ball point pen.
Peened the ends of the pin to keep it from falling out.
Ended up selling it soon after.
 
sadly my browning bda had ALOT of issues cycling ammo. i think it was just the steep feed ramp not taking anything but ball. but yeah....thats the one
 
Star Firestar: could get through one entire magazine without every other jamming.

Kimber Ultra Raptor II: Jammo-Matic. POS. worse than the Firestar.

Kimber Pro Raptor II: jammed once every magazine. POS

Worst? DIAMONDBACK DB9= WORST POS that money can buy

Walking pins
Chipped feed ramp
FTF/FTE/Stovepipes
Cracked frame
Poorly designed magazines


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I saw an FEG 9HP (Hungarian Browning HP copy) listed here.
I bought one for $259 back in '95. I wish I'd never sold it (darn my short attention span)
It was reliable with every round I fed it. It was also accurate and had a better finish than an FN HP.

My buddy bought a Para Ord P16-40 that was every bit as unreliable as my AMT.
At least, it was before I gave it the same treatment that I gave my AMT.
Since then, it's been great. I still don't like the Para Ord grip frame shape/girth.
It feels like I'm holding a Glock 10mm/45 or a 2x4 (Not much difference).

RE: Star Firestar. I had problems with a couple of factory mags I bought for my M45 Firestar.
The follower would stick in the bottom of the mag, when fully loaded.
I took those two mags back to the store and got them replaced.
No more problems. I probably could have polished the followers and gotten them to work, but didn't see the point of doing that to a brand new mag.
 
Mine would be a Sig P250 loaded with the Monarch/Barnaul steel cased laquer coated fmjs. Just about every 3rd round would either be a ftf or fte. Its record with brass ammo, including the same Monarch/Barnaul brand is 100% flawless.
 
Worst gun I ever had was a Randall 1911, the first stainless steel 1911 produced. It never would feed or eject properly and I ended up getting my money back from the LGS I bought it from.
 
Browning buckmark. The trigger wouldnt reset properly. youd pull the trigger, itd shoot and cycle, then that would be it. considering i was trying to shoot a rapid fire event (5 shots in 10 seconds) and only scoring a max of 10/50 for each series i gave up... good thing it wasnt my pistol!
 
The first round I ever fired (way back in 2007) from my Army-issued M9 stovepiped. From there it never had another failure.

No pistol is immune to failure; I have never owned a semi-auto that has never had a failure of some kind. If I had to say which has had the most, I'd go with my Buckmark, which has exhibited at least a few of every imaginable kind of failure. But I feed it cheap ammo.

IMHO, if you have pistol that's never had a failure it can only because haven't shot it enough or haven't tried the wrong ammo yet.
 
Henry ar-7. Could not get one to fire 4 rounds with out stove piping. Had new mags, springs and mag release. Even put some feed lips on the underside of the chamber. Nothing worked. Loved the idea to store in a boat but the rep the gun had did not work for me
 
Llama Omni in 9mm. Looked nice, handled nice,-if it would only have fired nice. Manual of arms for the Omni was:
1) Insert magazine
2) Pull the slide to the rear and release to load first round.
3) Bend over and pick up magazine that ejected as the slide pushed the first round down back into magazine.
4) Empty magazine, load 1 round into magazine, insert magazine, pull slide to the rear and release, load magazine and insert into mag well.
5) Hook little finger of off hand under magazine
6) Squeeze trigger, continue to squeeze trigger, keep squeezing trigger, BOOM
7) Repeat
8) Pick up magazine that ejected because little finger slipped.

Well you get the idea.
 
CZ Rami in .40 S&W. The early ones had weak mag springs and it caused TERRIBLE FTF problems. CZ never issued a recall but would work on them if you complained.

The same gun in 9 mm was never a problem.

I heard that they eliminated the problem in later guns but I was soured on the CZ brand forever.
 
monkyboy1975 said:
"What does this mean?"

It looked like a glock, but it definitely was not. It belonged to one of my brothers freinds, I think he said he payed 100.00 for it new. Can't remember who made it though.
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