What is the most unreliable semi auto you have shot ?

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I love CZ's but the NEW CZ P-07 SUCKED!!!! It was eating up the guide rod , chewing it up badly , it's trigger would not reset , and the mag would not eject and drop free wheather full nor empty . This happened to a lot of them . All other CZ's are GREAT!!!!
CZ sent me a whole new gun and I appreciated it , but could not trust my life to it after all the defects it had . I am LEO and was gonna use it as an off-duty gun , but no way after that all that crap , plus many others were having the same issues . I took my new P-07 sent to me unfired and traded it in on a NEW Springfield Armory XD-9SC . It is AWESOME .
CZ is great but they need to refine their polymer guns I think .
 
Charter Explorer II .22 Wouldn't feed even the first round from the magazine, much less any other.
 
High Point C9

Nearly brand new when I got it 5 years ago and you couldn't get through a mag of any kind of 9mm without at least one failure (and yes, it was properly cleaned and lubed). Since it was my first pistol and was given to me as gift by someone dear, I could not bring myself to sell it.

After I put around 200 rounds through the pipe it stopped jamming, and has since been 100% reliable with both FMJs & HPs. Shes a fun little range toy now. Its great fun to surprise people with how accurate it is. I suspect it just needed to be worn in.

P.S.
The grip feels 7 times better with a Hogue handall on it :D
 
Probably a tie between and Erma .22LR and a Ruger Mark III Hunter.

I think I got the Erma fixed. The constant feeding issues with my buddy's Ruger prompted me to buy a Buckmark instead.

But really the worst was probably the Tec-9.
 
The least reliable autos I have shot are the Kel-Tecs we fired while looking for a gun for my wife. So I never bought one. Least reliable auto I have personally owned was the Walther P22 I bought on impulse when they first came out. The one that came with two different barrels .
 
The most garbage pile o junk ever shot Hi point .40 cal slide was machined way off had to line up the out side edge of the rear sight w the side of the front sight.

complete crap my buddy sent it back twice till the slide was replaced.

now its just a crap pistol his father in law gave it to him and i told him to turn it in the next time the sheriffs office has the gun hand in they give you a hundred buck as incentive.

that he could use for another pistol...
 
Kimber Pro Carry II, though they were good about the warranty work.

Walther PP in .32, had three of them, they all stovepiped at least once every other magazine.
 
This thread is hilarious... I've owned and shot LOTS of ammo through almost every one of the guns that are listed as jam-o-matics, and never had a problem with them. I've sent a couple of guns back to the manufacturers when I did have problems, but evidently you guys are either expecting miracles from every gun you buy, or I've just been so lucky that I got all the guns that worked.

Beretta Tomcats work fine with CCI stingers, but are a little testy with some Remington loads... but as for being a POS... nah...

SR-9... only problem I had was being without it for two weeks while they fixed the trigger. Runs like a Swiss watch.

Tanfoglio Witness and TZ-75... never a hiccup. A small problem with one slamfire in the TZ, but it was an anomolie, and never re-occurred.

Baby Eagle .40 cal... never a burp. One of the most accurate guns I own.

Llama Minimax and Micromax... a few hiccups in the .380, but nothing that wasn't fixed with a little cleaning and polishing the feed ramp. The .45 ran like a clock.

Smith and Wesson 4006, Model 39, Model 19, Sigma... never a problem with any of them.

I carry a Para P-12 (which has saved my life), and own six other 1911 platform guns that all go bang every time I pull the trigger... no problems at all... both regular and high-cap.

Springfield XD-M, 1911, never a problem...

The only gun I ever really had problems with was a FEG Hi-Power clone that constantly stovepiped. I have an FEG .380 that the extractor pin flew out of when I was cleaning it, but it ran like a watch during shooting... I'm still looking for the pin...

Since I work in a gun store now, I'm really loving hearing that the Kimbers and Glocks are junk too... I have to set aside time every day to listen to the customers come in and moon over the Kimbers and Glocks like they were women, and then show up three days later (after buying them) to trade them off.

What I've found, for the most part, is that when people have problems with guns, it's a combination of not breaking the guns in properly, not running them oiled or lubricated enough, using bad ammo, or the wrong ammo (nightmare stories there), or simply not educated enough in shooting to know what the hell they were doing with the guns. People trade in guns for all kinds of reasons, and luckily, I can keep playing with most of them until I see if they really have a problem or if it's imagined... but thanks to all you who have bought all those terrible guns and turned them back in so I could get them cheaper... a little TLC goes a long way toward making anything mechanical work, and a gun is just a little machine for making bullets go bang... :D

WT
 
The first pistol I ever owned, Springfield XD .45 first edition, was my biggest problem gun. It cycled any ammo I gave it. Never had a jam, stovepipe, nothing like that. The problem was that it wouldn't hit anywhere near where I was aiming. I had several people try it, all with the same results. Sight adjustment didn't work, so I sold it off to someone who didn't believe a word of warning I told him. Took that money and bought a Kimber TLE. A lot of people say Kimbers are not that good, but after over 8K rounds mine is doing just fine. I hit where I aim, and it goes bang every time. I guess it's all just luck of the draw.
 
Llama .380, Colt Pocketlite-

Returned the Llama for a Mustang Plus II- it jammed, too. Mustang Pocketlite was nothing but a bottom-feeding auto-jammer. No more Colts.

Current carry S&W Mod 42 or a Kel-tec .380 or .32. Haven't had any issues with the Kel-tec's using hardball except the .380 had a bad habit of the mag coming loose- sent it back and they fixed it. Did have some jams with HPs, though.
 
wristtwister said:
This thread is hilarious... I've owned and shot LOTS of ammo through almost every one of the guns that are listed as jam-o-matics, and never had a problem with them. I've sent a couple of guns back to the manufacturers when I did have problems, but evidently you guys are either expecting miracles from every gun you buy, or I've just been so lucky that I got all the guns that worked.

Beretta Tomcats work fine with CCI stingers, but are a little testy with some Remington loads... but as for being a POS... nah...

SR-9... only problem I had was being without it for two weeks while they fixed the trigger. Runs like a Swiss watch.

Tanfoglio Witness and TZ-75... never a hiccup. A small problem with one slamfire in the TZ, but it was an anomolie, and never re-occurred.

Baby Eagle .40 cal... never a burp. One of the most accurate guns I own.

Llama Minimax and Micromax... a few hiccups in the .380, but nothing that wasn't fixed with a little cleaning and polishing the feed ramp. The .45 ran like a clock.

Smith and Wesson 4006, Model 39, Model 19, Sigma... never a problem with any of them.

I carry a Para P-12 (which has saved my life), and own six other 1911 platform guns that all go bang every time I pull the trigger... no problems at all... both regular and high-cap.

Springfield XD-M, 1911, never a problem...

The only gun I ever really had problems with was a FEG Hi-Power clone that constantly stovepiped. I have an FEG .380 that the extractor pin flew out of when I was cleaning it, but it ran like a watch during shooting... I'm still looking for the pin...

Since I work in a gun store now, I'm really loving hearing that the Kimbers and Glocks are junk too... I have to set aside time every day to listen to the customers come in and moon over the Kimbers and Glocks like they were women, and then show up three days later (after buying them) to trade them off.

What I've found, for the most part, is that when people have problems with guns, it's a combination of not breaking the guns in properly, not running them oiled or lubricated enough, using bad ammo, or the wrong ammo (nightmare stories there), or simply not educated enough in shooting to know what the hell they were doing with the guns. People trade in guns for all kinds of reasons, and luckily, I can keep playing with most of them until I see if they really have a problem or if it's imagined... but thanks to all you who have bought all those terrible guns and turned them back in so I could get them cheaper... a little TLC goes a long way toward making anything mechanical work, and a gun is just a little machine for making bullets go bang... :D

WT
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[Edit= So you did answer the question after you buried it in holier than thou.]

So what's the most unreliable semi-auto you have ever shot?

That WAS the question, not a lecture down the nose.
 
Good Grief! Someone said a Sig 220ST! Mine has been absolutely superb. If it had been a POS I would have gone slam off too...

My biggest POS was a Kel Tec 40 and a Jennings J22 bought when I was young and stupid. Mine would go full auto also. Kind of cool with Stingers actually... Had it cut up by a machine shop guy I know. Did not have the conscience to sell it to anybody.
 
Every 1911 I've owned except for a sweet Les Baer TRS (Kimber custom II was the worst of the bunch).
 
Chiappa 1911-22. Stove pipe city, What really chaps is I had to pay shipping to send it back to them and it came back worse!

Even my Jennings works better.
 
Brand new Seecamp 25 Auto when they first came out in the 80's. It was a total piece of junk that was a JAM-O-MATIC from the start! :barf: I followed all instructions and used the cartridges they recommended, then when they would jam about every other or third shot, I tried a variety of others which did the same thing, get hung at the feed ramp. :uhoh:

I sent it back, they had it like a month, they sent it back to me and I thought it would be great and it was still the exact same, I called them and had a hard time getting in touch and gave up calling them.:mad: On the repair slip it stated something like mill feed ramp.:barf:

I immediately sold it and the person who bought it had the firing pin break on him the first day he owned it.:confused:

I should have listened to several people who tried to tell me to spend over $100 LESS and buy a BERETTA.
That decision to buy that **** was ONE BIG MISTAKE! :banghead:
 
Glad my late father never had to use his Bryco.32. I inherited it, never fired, took it out to shoot it. Pulled slide back it came off and parts flew everywhere in the grass and couldn't find some of them!:banghead:
JT
 
No surprise, but a Jennings J-22. Was offered to buy it for $50, wanted to fire it first, first magazine fires flawlessly and to point of aim at 10 yards. First round of second mag, the slide shears off the frame and hits me in the chest. it was given to me, and i still have it as a conversation piece.
 
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