1000 round torture test

[Double Naught Spy]

Heck, I shot my Kimber Stainless Gold Match 5,000 times before I detail stripped it. Sure, I added oil, but it was a tight, new gun.

Ah, the excuses....

 

[Gunfighter123]

I shoot competition {IPSC/IDPA/Steel Challenge/etc} with a stock ParaOrd P-14 Limited and a full custom Para built in .38 Super ----- with proper reloads or factory ammo , both will run 1000 rds. without a hitch. I usually shoot 200/400 rds. before a match and another 200 or so rds. during a match --- sometimes I don't clean my Para's for 3 or 4 matches ---- however , I DO RELUBE them every 200 rds. or so.

 

[doubs43]

As I recall, the 1911 withstood a 6,000 round test without a single malfunction. It was done in accordance with the procedures set by the US Army and passed with flying colors.

The ONLY pistol whose reliability concerns me is the one in my hand. The 1,000 round test is good publicity for Para but that's pretty much it.

 

[Bix]

1. Any other brands out there known to be this reliable?

2. Do you guys think that this is THE test for reliability? (versus dunking it in mud, sand, being thrown from a two-story window, run over by a semi truck, etc.?)

3. What do you think of Para USA (I'm assuming that's the company) as a gun maker?

1. According to my log, I shot a little over 1000 rounds on TD2 of LFI Advanced Handgun Skills with my G34 in 2004. This was over the course of a full day, so it doesn't directly mimic the test in the video - especially with respect to heat generation. This was not a 'torture test', this was simply shooting the POI for the class.

2. I like the reliablitiy test laid out by Sean Dodson at the firearmstactical website:

http://www.firearmstactical.com/briefs25.htm

3. No valuable opinion

 

[REAPER4206969]

A challenger appears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj5Kcs4dzro

 

[Pizzagunner]

I'd bury a Glock and just leave it in the ground rather than live with its crap ergonomics.