What is the most unreliable semi auto you have shot ?

[Storm]

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3) Mauser HSc-my brother's gun, this well made German design had trouble feeding FMJ ammo.
I've heard similar stories from other owners.
They traced it to the magazine spring.
It was replaced with a makarov mag spring and it fixed the problem.
Might be worth a shot to those who haven't tried it already.

Although mine runs just fine I have also heard that some smoothing where the ramp meets the chamber has fixed the problem. Maybe the Mak spring lifts the round above this problem area. I'd prefer the spring as the fix over monkeying around with the ramp.

My only jam-o-matic was my P22. I am a Walther shooter and collector and it's the only Walther that I have parted with, and without regret.

 

[Mello]

AMT Hardballer longslide stainless steel 45acp.

 

[Billy Shears]

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3) Mauser HSc-my brother's gun, this well made German design had trouble feeding FMJ ammo.
I've heard similar stories from other owners.
They traced it to the magazine spring.
It was replaced with a makarov mag spring and it fixed the problem.
Might be worth a shot to those who haven't tried it already.

Too late. I had one with exactly this problem. It couldn't make it through an entire magazine of FMJ without at least one, but more likely two or three stoppages. And this was with two maazines. It also bit the web of my hand worse than any other gun I've ever owned, and the trigger had a sort of sharp rebound that slapped the trigger finger with every shot -- not painful in any way, but certainly irritating. Combined with the hammer bite, it made for a distinctly unpleasant gun to shoot, and not one I cared to spend any money on to fix the jamming problem. I put it up for sale after a single range session.

 

[Claude Clay]

a mid 70's walther ppk/s--the only thing it didn't fail to do was exist
a colt pony pocket lite--factory, factory, replaced, factory, refunded

 

[Gtone]

Walther PPK. even after break in, I never got through one magazine full of ammo without a FTF or FTE. traded it.

 

[Boats]

I once had a Tokarev that seemed to have been built by some comrades on a bender. That thing was dangerously unreliable, and then just when you were about to give up on getting two shots in a row out of it, the thing would double fire.

 

[SuperNaut]

Baby Browning.

It would constantly FTF, usually because it had a bloody patch of skin pinched between the slide and frame.

 

[Steve_in_Marietta]

Phoenix Arms HP-22A. Haven't gotten through 50 rounds in a session without a FTF, but compared to some of these stories that doesn't seem too bad. It's fun to shoot though, especially with the 5" barrel.

 

[pith43]

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Jennings 22
Would go full auto at its own will..

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Jennings J22, hands down the most unreliable POS I ever wasted my money on.

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Jennings J22

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Went full-auto a few times, jammed when it wasn't going full-auto.

Ditto.

Gawd, what a waste of metal.

Pot Metal you mean. Biggest POS I've ever seen in my life. On the rare occasions when it would fire, it would take a big chunk of hide off the web of my hand.

My wife threw it in the trunk of her car, and this is what it looked like after only 6 months.

 

[gb6491]

Beretta 21, actually two of them; surprisingly accurate, but rarely would feed and eject three in a row.

 

[chriske]

Strangely enough, of the ones I own, a .380 acp Walther PPK (bought new)
Of the ones I shot : various 1911-types : Colt, Springfield, Para Ordnance

 

[Whitman31]

My Dan Wesson CBOB 10MM. I think they just made the thing too damn tight. It's got around 600 rounds down it and is finally starting to act reliable...

 

[Bill_G]

a Browning High Power with ANY type of JHP. seems they only feed hard ball.

 

[LeonCarr]

Pre-Kahr Auto Ordnance 1911 .45. Trot Line Sinker, even after gunsmithing it still wouldn't finish a magazine with a malfunction (FTF, FTE, stovepipe, double feed, etc etc).

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[jgooderh]

Turkish PPK knock off called an MKE. 380 and jammed after two rounds.

 

[aHFo3]

Walther P22 - it only likes MiniMags

 

[Mak92fs]

accu tec .380....it was cool stainless and all....but it was about as good as a paperweight

 

[saturno_v]

Tanfoglio Witness 10 mm Auto

It was jamming so much that I would get embarassed at the range.

Good riddance.

 

[walker944]

Okay, so I realize my choice for unrealiable semi-auto is a rifle...

Ruger 10/22 with 30 round Ramline magazine. The Ruger shoots fine with the factory 10 round installed, but LORD those Ramline extended mags really are terrible....the shooting experience goes something like this:
1) Shoot two rounds
2) Pull magazine and clear jam
3) Adjust shells in magazine
4) Reinsert magazine
5) Repeat steps 1-4 through the end of the magazine

Oh, but it's really fun! :banghead:

 

[kitsapcharly]

Taurus 25 caliber. Bad beyond belief!! Oddly enough, I have the same gun in a 22 and it works fine despite the fact that 22 is usually much harder to feed accurately in most guns. Customer service takes months and is only partial. Avoid Taurus.

 

[Seven©]

For me, it's a tie between a couple I've had. A Tec-22 and an Iver Johnson .380.

 

[paradox998]

Beretta Tomcat -- had two new ones suffer cracked frames in the first 60 rounds

 

[tango2echo]

Browning BDM 9mm. After 3 trips back to the factory it would still FTF/FTE about 35% of the time with ball ammo. Also had the worst trigger on any factory gun I've ever felt. The mags would also stick in the well and you would have to manually extract them. Needless to say, it belongs to someone else now.

T2E

 

[blasternaz]

New Witness Match "Elite" in .45. Haven't gotten around to looking at it since the first (and last) range session. Had high hopes for it, as I've had good experiences with other EAA products. Tears up the brass on insertion, sometimes to such an extant that it won't fully chamber. Factory mag gave nothing but nose down jams.

Gun ran well with hand cycling it at home with my usual SWC ammo, but really dissapointed me on the range. Sweated thru three mags, two new MecGars and the factory original, boxed it up and went back to my carry gun for the match.

Second is a Ruger Mark II with Gemtech Quantom integral. Finding ammo it likes, and keeping running is a real PITA. But a quiet one...

Blasternaz

 

[model of 1905]

Any Kimber.