Personal firearms that have never had a malfunction

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Just for fun I thought I would start this thread. Everyone list all their personal firearms that have never shown any malfunction (FTF, FTE, misfire and so on). I do understand that many failures are caused by faulty ammo and faulty mags but for the purpose if this thread let's keep it to firearms that have went bag each and every time you have pulled the trigger without fail. Also list the approximate round count. You can include whatever you may like....revolvers, bolt action ect.

I'll start

-Ar 15 pieced together with parts from PSA and S&W-~1000rds




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Well lets see here. My AR 15 has fired every single round, every time. Granted I just finished building it and fired 20 rounds. But it still fired all 20.

My P99 has fired every round. Never had a faulty primer, no FTE, FTF or any other failure acronym I don't know. Round count is somewhere between 32,000 and 35,000.
 
This would take too long. Of over 40 firearms I've owned, I can only recall four that have had malfunctions (all four were autoloaders; three were determined to be ammo-related.)
 
My Remington RM380 is up to around 175 rounds half we're hollow points, so far no malfunction of any kind.
 
I have six Glocks-all older Gen 3's. I stopped keeping track after a little over 19,000 rounds total in all of them. None ever malfunctioned.
Sig P220ST - 960 rounds; never malfunctioned.
HK USP 45 - 1,650 rounds; never malfunctioned.
Wilson CQB 45 - 5,700 rounds; never malfunctioned.

Back in the '70's I had a Beretta 9mm & a 380 that never malfunctioned (didn't keep track of how many rounds back then). I've owned two Colt Govt. 45's & a Kimber Gold Match 45. Both functioned 80% of the time.
 
I think Janes Yeager nailed it in one of his videos when he said if you are carrying a gun that has never malfunctioned you aren't training hard enough.

All firearms will eventually fail and that is why you practice malfunction drills...often.
 
My Ruger LCP has functioned flawlessly from round 1, no matter whay type of ammo I've run through it. :cool:
 
Ammo is usually the biggest problem to reliability in rimfire guns but one of mine, a Beretta Model 70S, has been totally reliable with any and every kind of .22 ammo over all these years.

All of my Colt 1911s (along with an older Springfield Armory M1911A1 and a Colt Mustang), and my Browning Hi-Power, have also stood the test of time in terms of reliability, thanks to John Moses Browning's design genius. Other handguns that I have (SIG P229R, SIG P238, Ruger SR9c, and a CZ P01) are doing great but I haven't had a chance to put all that many rounds through them yet. I have no doubt that they will all do great in the years to come.

In long guns my Colt SP1 AR15, Mossberg Model 9200, Maverick Model 88, Marlin 120, and my Winchester Model 1300 are all dependable performers in that they always work with each pull of the trigger.
 
M9 - 500 rounds no malfunctions
6920 SOCOM - 900 rounds no malfunctions
Glock 17 Gen 4 - 2250 rounds no malfunctions
Glock 19 Gen 4 FDE - 1767 rounds no malfunctions
Glock 20 Gen 4 - 426 rounds no malfunctions
Glock 43 - 200 rounds no malfunctions
M1 Garand - 72 rounds (from me at least) no malfunctions
590A1 - 425 rounds no malfunctions
10/22 - 585 rounds 1 malfunction. A failure to fire, I blame the ammo
Springfield TRP - 355 rounds 2 malfunctions. Both fail to feed, I don't think it likes SWC bullets
Don't have any firearms that have what I'd call high round counts, so take this with a grain of salt
 
Springfield XD9 subcompact, 2 Colt 1911's an
enhanced from early 90's and a Gold Cup.

An my currently owned S&W Shield 9mm.

All flawless, no probs.

Opps I forgot my Bushmaster AR15 only 73 rounds
but no probs.

Jimmy
 
Questions:

Is that a malfunction attributable to the gun, or attributable to the ammunition, or attributable to the magazine/clip?

I ask, because when working up reloads, many times the low end loads are too weak to cycle semi-autos. Do you think that means the gun is unreliable?

Also, I have "good" magazines, and "questionable" magazines. The only way to tell if the magazine is really good, or bad, is the use it and see what it does. If I am weeding out bad magazines, and find one, does this mean my gun is unreliable?

Then there is the question of broken or worn parts. If you really shoot enough, a part will wear out or break during a shooting session. Then it is replaced and you carry on. Does that make the entire gun "unreliable".

Then there is this - If I said one of my Ar-15 had 15 stoppages, would you think that is an unreliable gun?

Would say the same thing if I said that those 15 stoppages came during 8000 rounds over a few years.

The only stuff I have never had any malfunction with (due to all causes) is stuff I don't shoot much.

EDIT: I might add that if you are serious about training as if your life depends on it, put a few known bad rounds in a few random magazines and learn how to clear a malfunction without going into a panic-lock....
 
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My pristine 1941 byf P.08 never has malfunctioned since I got it. Of course it's the ultimate safe queen. I've never shot it! :D
 
The only gun I own that has had absolutely no malfunction is my old USSR-made double barrel 12-gauge, a few thousand rounds went through it shooting clay pigeons.
 
Look, a thousand rounds is just breaking it in. I have two ARs like that, no failures just under a thousand rounds. I have a pair of Glock 26s with well over 10.000 rounds in them, one of them is my carry. They have both had failures. My carry broke the spring on the part that locks the slide to the rear. I replaced it right at the gun store. I am not getting rid of my carry because a part wore out. If you shoot a lot you will have a failure. You don't sell your car because you had a flat tire or a water pump went out.
 
Every one of my S&W revolvers have a perfect record including one built and used heavily since 1977. All of my 1911s have had hiccups but they're all 100% now. I also have 3 Ruger MK II pistols that have never failed.
 
Gen 4 Glock 19.

3,349 rounds - absolutely flawless

That's my highest round count for absolutely flawless, no exceptions, from round 1 out of the box till current day. About 200 of those were JHP the rest FMJ.
 
People on the internet have way more luck than me. The only guns that I own with 0 failures have low round counts. The guns I've owned a long time and shot a lot have hiccups now and again.

My most reliable gun that has been properly warn in is a HK USP in .40. It's fired just over 9k rounds and I've had exactly 3 misfires.

My other guns with round counts in the thousands have all had a failure here and there as well. Maybe I'll get lucky one day and buy a perfect gun.
 
I've owned about 100 firearms - and if you take out the .22 ammo issues, I can only think of 3 guns I've EVER had any issue with. I think I have been exceptionally lucky - and the vast majority of my firearms are 70-100 year old S&W revolvers.

A Walther P1 that shed its extractor after shooting 3 or 4 rounds. Replaced the extractor and it did it again. Sold the gun.

A 1903 Colt that slam fired 6 rounds - and scared the s**t out of me

My (former) carry gun - a Bersa .380 that stovepiped a few times.

I should mention that I don't shoot large amounts like some others here. I shoot 2-300 rounds per month as I live in a big city
 
i've only got a few hundred rounds thru my S&W model 15-4.
i can't imagine it ever failing.
i've got more than 8,000 rounds thru my 22/45 n there has never been a malfunction with quality ammo, but lots of problems with bulk.
 
I have a Browning Citori around 3500 rounds without a FTF. My Dan Wesson Valor hasn't had a FTF or FTE either, although that one's only shot about 600 rounds.
 
1) Semi-auto rifles: both all-original Saigas, .223 and 7.62x39. Approx. 350 rds. each.
M-1 Garand, Service Grade, approx. 300 rds. total.

2) Semi-auto handguns, which are primarily chambered in 9x18 Makarov: EG, Bulgy and comm. Russian Makarov (.380 Auto), about 400 rds. average in each.

Polish P-83 and Czech CZ-82, roughly the same total count.
 
To me saying my gun has less than 500 rounds through it and is totally reliable means nothing. My spare Glock 26 I put a thousand rounds through it before I cleaned it. I'm approaching 11,000 rounds through that one. My carry which has 10,000 rounds through it I clean every couple of hundred rounds.
 
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