Which semi-auto pistol would you bet your life on out the box?

any 1911. or a browning hi power.

nahhhhhhht.

For me, it's pretty much any fullsize or compact Sig. Only model I'd skip on would be the P220 with the internal extractor. I've heard bad things about that particular design.

I have 2 sigs (P239 and P229) in 40 S&W. I would take the P229 into war. Accurate to 20 yds, fast as hell, holds 10+ rounds and has never jammed or misfired in 3 years and thousands of rounds (it's my "beside the bed gun"). The P239 is not as accurate but it's my carry/car gun so I don't intend to shoot very far with it....

I used to own a Glock 9mm and it jammed often unless you used certain copper coated round tip bullets. I sold it. I also prefer the heftier, solid steel feel from the Sig over the plastic feel of the Glock.

i would prefer it to be a sa xd service model if i could choose exacts. however i would trust a glock, h&k, sig and a few others.

Sig, XD or XD, Sig

From what I read about them(whatever that is worth) i'd go with a sig

Glock

Beretta 92 (M9).....super reliable!!!!! Zero malfunctions in 2000 rounds.

NONE! i dont care if you spend $5k on a pistol, there is no way i would just load it and carry it for personal protection right out of the box. at a BARE BONES MINIMUM, i would want to shoot 200 rounds through any gun, then clean the heck out of it before putting it into service. in the first place, even forgetting the chance that it may fail, how are you going to know if it shoots where you point it if you do not shoot it?! it would be really bad, if you had to shoot someone, and instead of hitting the "perp", you hit a victim, or inocent bystander! can you say, jail time?!

If extremely wierd circumstances forced me to carry a handgun "out of the box" without test firing, I suppose I would pick a 9mm Browning Hi-Power.

i would choose glock 19

CZ, springfield operator 1911's, or Glock.

Glock 22. (The full sized .40 S&W for folks who don't know the model configurations) I did have to use it right out of the box for SD, and it did just fine.

LD

Hk usp, all day.

Ruger P90 without even a close second.

Glock - I have three G-26's and a G-30 and they eat any kind of ammo.
I have a Colt and a Berretta and they are good guns but I have had more FTF's and FTE's w/them than with my Glocks.
When I go shoot I will run ~500 rds thru my guns and my Glocks rarely have issue's. I am talking thousands of rounds of the cheapest and dirtiest ammo we can get.
I CCW my G-26 everyday.
For what it is worth - I had a PM-9 and got a full refund on it due to it not functioning.

SIG Sauer P226, CZ 75, Ruger P85 and Browning HP MKIII...
Since those are the pistol never failed in my hands, ever...
Now I am giving a try to a Glock19 and it is trouble free for approximately 1000 rounds till now.

my glock 23 has never jammed

CZ P-01

I left this thing in my saltwater kayak over a week by accident...I had it on me when doing a lagoon fishing excursion for a few days in some hard core elements with my brother and his lady friend. 100+ F degree weather, wind, saltwater, high humidity. I use an umbrella for a make-shift/jerry-rigged sail and we came on some heavy winds...I was not counter balanced enough on my kayak, and I went in the drink (had to do an open water re-entry). Ended up camping out there for 2 more days ( I had stowed the gun in a drywell after trying to do a quick clean). Anyway, the next week when I retrieved it out of the kayak - the thing was caked in salt.

I tried doing a quick dirty functional test. It functioned flawlessly. I took it to the range before fully cleaning the crud off - and no failures. Went bang every time. I was sure to clean it after that incident. This thing is a swiss watch

Although I love my Springfield Armory XD9sc it has stove-piped and FTE at the range probably 4-5 times in a couple thouand rounds. My Glock 17 has been 100% in about the same number of rounds and I shoot it better (of course...it's not a sub-compact). I like them both, but trust the Glock more.

Any Glock! No doubt!

I have several autos in SIG, HK, Springfield, Keltec, Glock, etc. I would have to say Glock... simple and reliable. I've never had one fail when it was factory original. They're all good guns... just more parts to fail in the others, and I haven't fired my XDm's enough to trust them like the Glocks I've fired thousands of rounds through.

Springfield Operator 5" slide

I was a vet,I used the 1911 platform during my service in a conflict,it was one reliable weapon,I never had a problem with it,I don't understand how other's can cry that they are so unreliable,unless they are failing to maintain them properly,if so that's operator error due to laziness,not the weapons fault. This post started out sounding like a bash to all pistols from the get go as the preference of the person was his GLOCK,which has just as many problems as any other pistol and the reason so many LE agencies are dropping them,They have lost a huge amount of the sales they once had! I wonder why If there so reliable!

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I used the 1911 platform during my service in a conflict,it was one reliable weapon,I never had a problem with it,I don't understand how other's can cry that they are so unreliable,unless they are failing to maintain them properly

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From what I have heard, service 1911s were not manufactured to the same tolerances that a lot of today's models are. Their lower tolerances allowed the guns to be more reliable at the cost of some accuracy...

ECHOONE said:

This post started out sounding like a bash to all pistols from the get go as the preference of the person was his GLOCK,which has just as many problems as any other pistol and the reason so many LE agencies are dropping them,They have lost a huge amount of the sales they once had! I wonder why If there so reliable!

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Well... I won't speak to the amount of trouble one could expect out of a Glock (I've had none myself, but a percentage of any manufactured good is subject to issues) ... I would say, however, that agencies switching to other pistols has much less to do with reliability than agency politics, budget, and perhaps public relations...

I don't even own one, but I would say glock. I say this because I know some very serious collectors, shooters and LEO's who are gun guys. All of them have several guns, one guy has a HUGE 1911 collection... but... they ALL carry glocks.

NONE! i dont care if you spend $5k on a pistol, there is no way i would just load it and carry it for personal protection right out of the box. at a BARE BONES MINIMUM, i would want to shoot 200 rounds through any gun, then clean the heck out of it before putting it into service. in the first place, even forgetting the chance that it may fail, how are you going to know if it shoots where you point it if you do not shoot it?!

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Can some of you people ever get past your own narrow mind-set and make an effort to discern what the op had in mind when he started this thread? The poster posed a quandry, a "what if"? question. What IF you HAD to?

Just for the sake of argument, what IF you were being chased by a madman hell-bent on killing you. He is close on your heels, only five minutes and 500 yards separate you from him. As you round the bend, you happen upon a gunshop. You rush into the store but, strangely, no clerk is present. But, on the counter are ten brand new, unfired semi-auto pistols, each one from a different but respected company. The appropriate ammunition is situated nearby. IF YOU HAD TO-which pistol would you select? From your own experience and accounts from others, which brand/type would you pick "straight-out-of-the-box" to save your arse?

Or would you rather go out back to start test-firing pistols; making darn sure they are thoroughly cleaned before you trust any one of them with your life?