Most reliable and dependable duo.

My personal preference would be an AR and Glock 19.

To each their own, though.

Pat Riot said:

My Ruger PC Carbine and my Glocks. Yesterday I took my G45 and my PC Carbine to the range on my motorcycle. I combined two things I love for a nice morning. My motorcycle and shooting.

Here’s a random pic from yesterday.

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@Pat Riot, I want to see the bike!

I do like my 1911's for reliability, even the old GI "Battle Rattles" were dependable for me when my life depended on them. And of course it's hard to beat a good dependable revolver either. The M16A2 always worked for me in all types of environments that I was in. While I don't care for the ergonomics of the AK platform, I wouldn't hesitate to use one if needed. For other types of rifles a good bolt action or lever action.

Legionnaire said:

@Pat Riot, I want to see the bike!

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....and I want a better look at that carbine.
(I'm a carbine whoower)

Legionnaire said:

@Pat Riot, I want to see the bike!

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2016 Kawasaki Versys 650 LT. The saddle bags lock for secure transport to the range. I have a pack for takedown long guns.

Very nice; thanks! I haven't owned a bike for quite a while but still get spring fever. Good looking ride.

I have several long guns that have never malfunctioned. The one that has malfunctioned, a Remington 870P, was due to user error, when my pumping arm started aging, combined with losing my rhythm, resulting in short-stroking. A shorter stock, to bring the whole weapon closer to me, and really working on my timing and rhythm, fixed the short-stroking, but I transitioned to a Benelli M2, because my long arms “like” a stock with a long LOP. My 870P now has a Pachmayr Vindicator pistol grip, to enable it to fill a niche role, involving very-close-range defense. My Benelli has never malfunctioned. They can be finicky, if fed light loads, but I have fed it heavy-enough loads.

I know that my right hand has bad days, and that on those bad days, my right hand may not provide the firm, stable platform that an autoloader needs, for reliable cycling. That being said, the Glock Gen4 G17, that was my duty pistol, for a while, has never malfunctioned, even though I bought it in 2015, after my right thumb/hand/wrist had already developed the problem. So, I can nominate this particular G17, with the understanding that it is best practice to shoot it lefty.

Older Ruger GP100 revolvers used to be made with grooves, under the extractor, to enable the weapon to “eat” quite a bit of fouling, from such things as unburnt powder. I have two such GP100 sixguns. Revolvers do not require me to provide a stable launch platform. GP100 revolvers rarely break parts. If I absolutely need a handgun to be reliable, if fired right-handed, the GP100 wins.

So, I can nominate my Benelli M2, and a GP100. If both members of this duo can be handguns, well, my first GP100, and the Gen4 G17 have far more rounds through them, than the Benelli, but I do trust the Benelli.

I do not shoot repeating rifles very much. The Colt AR15A2 Govt Carbine, that served as my patrol rifle, had plenty of rounds through it, with zero malfunctions, but I sold it to a colleague with younger eyes. I recently added several AR15 weapons, starting before the panic-demic, but they have not yet established a track record, so, I will not nominate them.

I like single-shot rifles, so, have several. Unless something breaks, there is not much that can go wrong. The “feedway” is wide-open, so, unless I make a significant error, there cannot be an “FTF” malfunction. I will keep these single-shot rifles out of the equation, and let my Benelli M2 remain the long gun member of the duo, for this thought exercise.

So, final answer: My reliable handgun duo is the GP100 and the Gen4 G17. My reliable handgun/long gun duo is the GP100 and the Benelli M2.

I have plenty of other firearms, that have been 100% reliable. These simply rose to the top, due to seniority, their track records, and, in the case of the older GP100, the grooves that could eat powder, if I had to use dirty-burining ammo.

Maybe I have shot my guns too much and/or in too many weird situations but I can't think of hardly any guns I own that have not malfunctioned at least once or twice. Most of those have been fluke occurrences, bad ammo, and/or user induced. The occasional fluke or user induced malfunction also does not cause me to worry about a particular gun either. I have certainly had malfunction that were repeated and not acceptable but was always rectified by repairing or replacing parts but even that has been pretty rare for me.

None-the-less:

This was my go two pair for the past four or five years. An early 90's Model 10 Heavy barrel and an AR pistol in 300 BO 9-inch barrel. These two have been reliable despite the abuse on rattling around on tractors and UTVs and have killed a heap of armadillo and one slitherin' nest of rattlesnakes.



Staring this summer I have transition to this pair. A Webley Mark VI in 455 Webley (unshaved) and a new 5-inch 300 BO upper on the AR pistol. So far both have been reliable but they have honestly not be tested for real yet and there is still time for a good failure to crop up.

Just a favorite pair here. CDL is 30-06,1911 is a Colt slide on a Caspian frame. Both are stupid accurate.....

Chuckie Schumer, Diane, Bloomberg etc would love to dispose of Commie guns.

But wait a second ...Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland ..are No longer Commie, and they still produce semi-auto rifles for commercial export to the US.
* Did the Iron Curtain get "repaired"? Re-Communized? A few of us totally missed that.

Those Antis' perspectives are reported to be based upon emotion -- not facts.
..the Antis -- Only the Antis? --fail to see that equipment is equipment.
Let's assist Diane, Chuckie, AOC, the esteemed Governor Newsom in banning all of them - but not our Non-Taliban AR-15s, AR-10s, FALs, HK.....

Now that the Taliban and many Al Qaeda have thousands of the US-designed rifles, those M4 (etc) ....If many get sold to China, they will then also be Commie guns.

Old Dog said:

Well, for conventional firearms I'm gonna go with the Marlin 336 and the S&W Model 19.

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I can definitely agree with this.

sarduy said:

I would like you to share more on that comment. Is there a particular reason for you to despise the gun itself or something else?

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Simple matter of principle, as I thought I'd clearly stated. Having served in a handful of conflicts (during a quarter-century on active duty in two branches) where my enemy's primary arm was an AK variant, and they seemed to be trying real hard to shoot me with them, I have zero use for the platform. I fully understand the AK platform is considered highly reliable, but it's a tad heavy, suffers from fairly mediocre accuracy and doesn't do anything spectacularly better than several American-made rifles, ergo, I don't care for it, never will. And further, I understand that we now have a cult of AK-adherents abounding these days, but frankly, that don't mean **** to me. You know how the saying goes, "Opinions are like .........., ............ ..... .... "

sarduy said:

Not at all, revolvers are one of the most reliable guns ever created

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Ignition Override said:

Chuckie Schumer, Diane, Bloomberg etc would love to dispose of Commie guns.

But wait a second ...Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland ..are No longer Commie, and they still produce semi-auto rifles for commercial export to the US.
* Did the Iron Curtain get "repaired"? Re-Communized? A few of us totally missed that.

Those Antis' perspectives are reported to be based upon emotion -- not facts.
..the Antis -- Only the Antis? --fail to see that equipment is equipment.
Let's assist Diane, Chuckie, AOC, the esteemed Governor Newsom in banning all of them - but not our Non-Taliban AR-15s, AR-10s, FALs, HK.....

Now that the Taliban and many Al Qaeda have thousands of the US-designed rifles, those M4 (etc) ....If many get sold to China, they will then also be Commie guns.

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What exactly is it that you are attempting to say? I admit to an animus toward "commie guns" but that doesn't mean I support any efforts to ban or discriminate against firearms from a particular country. Just because someone doesn't care for a specific gun doesn't mean that one wants that gun banned.

If your comments were directed at me, I stand on my seventeen years worth of recorded opinion on this forum.

Most reliable are the ones I haven't shot to malfunction yet. Now what is the reason for that??? 0 rounds down the pipe over 40 yr span? 500 rounds out of a NIB gun today? or tens of thousands of rounds it doesnt really matter.. shoot them all enough they will malfunction, sometimes in spectacular ways.

Old Dog: No sir, it was simply meant indirectly, to highlight to everybody, that mass media and Hollywood always portray certain weapons as terrorist guns.

And this has been aid and comfort to so many Anti politicians, in their crusades, helped by a public indoctrinated by what they saw in Chuck Norris, S. Stallone and hundreds of other movies and tv shows.

Also, most of us joke about 'Commie guns', however my Czech VZ-58 (and CZ PCR/ 75 D handgun - which seems to avoid the same "paintbrush"...) was exported by a country nothing like its previous govt., along with Serbia, Hungary etc.
Let's not forget that several former Warsaw Pact countries are NATO allies, and sent troops to assist in Afghanistan.

Handgun, pretty much any of my single or double action revolvers. Although I suppose my TC Contender might edge then out. Rifle, Lefty 30-06 Remington 700.