What NOT to buy

[Badgersmilk]

Stumbled accross this forum / thread.  VERY interesting stuff!

http://forum.pafoa.org/pistols-41/307-most-unreliable-handgun-you-have-owned.html

Page 4 even mentions Les Baer.   

[tombogan03884]

I'd put a lot of faith in that.
They mention Glock on the first page 

[Badgersmilk]

Some of the posts are stupid (MOST on the first page).  No surprise for anyone.  But some of them (the Les Baer quote included), sound pretty legit.  All to be taken for what they are though!  

I can't say I've had anything awful with pistols...  Approximately 10 (ALL) Military issue AR's I ever got stuck with though...     Not even gonna go there.

[tombogan03884]

Only issue I've ever seen with AR's was an Olympic that double fed, and that only happened with Wolf ammo.
The most reliable Semi Auto I've ever owned is the RIA I carry now, bottom of the barrel price wise, top of the line for accuracy and reliability.
Opinion things like this aren't really worth a crap, every one knows that the Sig Mosquito is a jamming piece of crap, except for the 2 people on here who love theirs.
Every gun is different, I've heard people complain about their T/C Contender jamming, so buy whatever you like the look and feel of and then take it from there.

[twyacht]

IMHO, ammo can be the stickler for reliability. My Colt .22 Target pistol, HATES that green box Thunderbird .22 and American Eagle .22.

It will FTF, FTE, cycle lie crap and lead one to believe it's the pistol stupid,......

NOT!.

Put decent ammo in it, and it is like a Swiss watch....

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[Badgersmilk]

If you can jam a Contender...  Pretty sure you can break an anvil with an egg.

I agree on ammo quality whole heartedly!  Watched a guy at a range FTF his new Glock 17 every second shot for half an hour.  Finally started asking questions, and "my buddy gave me these reloads to shoot free!" was all I needed to hear.  I packed up and moved several benches further away.  HE ended up leaving with a case stuck in the chamber half a dozen people trying couldn't get out.

Ran into him a few days later.  Shiny new Wolf barrel, blaming the gun.

[tombogan03884]

If you can jam a Contender...  Pretty sure you can break an anvil with an egg.

I agree on ammo quality whole heartedly!  Watched a guy at a range FTF his new Glock 17 every second shot for half an hour.  Finally started asking questions, and "my buddy gave me these reloads to shoot free!" was all I needed to hear.  I packed up and moved several benches further away.     HE ended up leaving with a case stuck in the chamber half a dozen people trying couldn't get out.

It was a tight chamber.   

[Badgersmilk]

Not really an excuse for a Contender.  But in all truth I have a beautiful Mauser I hated for years because it jammed for one reason or another every other shot.  And continually got worse as you shot it!  I think it was on this forum, somebody recommended I soak the barrel and chamber in paint thinner for half an hour, then put a shotgun brush in a drill motor and run it in the chamber...  NOT something I'd ever do with even the cheapest gun, but having grown to really HATE this one...  It's just to pretty to shoot that bad!  And it's GERMAN!  "Everyone knows Germans make good stuff!"  

Not ony did the paint thinner not hurt the finish (I fully expected to pull out raw steel!), the gun shoots 100% reliable now!  The cosmoline was just that @##$@ $#@#$ ##$%@ tough to get out!!!  And I had cleaned this thing like you've never seen in your life before using this trick.

[tombogan03884]

Guy I work with has a C&R license. He often brings in "new" guns to clean in the parts washer.  Mineral Spirits. and scrub like hell.
That Contender chamber was just tight enough that the ejector spring couldn't over come it. He traded it for another barrel in the same caliber and it was fine.

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not shockingly, lots of "knock offs"  and super cheap guns on that list.  Lots of 22 autos( of which we all know the ammo and mags are every thing)