Onward Allusion
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I am a fan of the Kel Tec pistols. At least up until this past Monday, I WAS.
I own 3 P11's, 3 P32's, 1 P3AT, & 1 PF9, so no one here can accuse me of being a brand basher or a Kel Tec hater. I have multiples because I like to shoot 'em, keep up practice, but don't want to wear 'em out, so I rotate.
Went to the range with my wife this past Monday with 3 P11's & 2 P32's.
- One P11 suffered light primer strikes (not ammo related either) - easy enough fix;
- another P11's pin walked out - um, ez fix
- my P32's slide locked back after every shot (not so easy fix)
- and my wife's P32 would jam after each shot to the point where a T-R-B would not have fixed it. It was so jammed up that I literally had to rap the locked slide on the counter a few times (shooting indoors). It did this after every shot.
These guns were not abused. They were shot sparingly and never with +P loads. Each of the guns had less than a few hundred rounds through them. They were always wiped down and oiled after each use.
What shakes us up was that the P32's were our EDC's. We're glad it happen at the range, but our faith in Kel Tec products has been really shaken. I mean, what the heck are the odds that 4 of the 5 Kel Tecs brought to the range had some kind of failure on the SAME day???!
Right now I'm carrying my P3AT (begrudgingly) and my wife is carrying a NAA Guardian in 32 ACP. The NAA is a solid albeit heavy gun but my wife's faith in bottom feeders has been shaken, hence my other post on the 22 mag revolver.
I own 3 P11's, 3 P32's, 1 P3AT, & 1 PF9, so no one here can accuse me of being a brand basher or a Kel Tec hater. I have multiples because I like to shoot 'em, keep up practice, but don't want to wear 'em out, so I rotate.
Went to the range with my wife this past Monday with 3 P11's & 2 P32's.
- One P11 suffered light primer strikes (not ammo related either) - easy enough fix;
- another P11's pin walked out - um, ez fix
- my P32's slide locked back after every shot (not so easy fix)
- and my wife's P32 would jam after each shot to the point where a T-R-B would not have fixed it. It was so jammed up that I literally had to rap the locked slide on the counter a few times (shooting indoors). It did this after every shot.
These guns were not abused. They were shot sparingly and never with +P loads. Each of the guns had less than a few hundred rounds through them. They were always wiped down and oiled after each use.
What shakes us up was that the P32's were our EDC's. We're glad it happen at the range, but our faith in Kel Tec products has been really shaken. I mean, what the heck are the odds that 4 of the 5 Kel Tecs brought to the range had some kind of failure on the SAME day???!
Right now I'm carrying my P3AT (begrudgingly) and my wife is carrying a NAA Guardian in 32 ACP. The NAA is a solid albeit heavy gun but my wife's faith in bottom feeders has been shaken, hence my other post on the 22 mag revolver.