What is the most unreliable semi auto you have shot ?

[Master Blaster]

My SIG P220ST.

Unreliable, inaccurate, heavy, expensive, Jammomatic piece of crap.
I had to jump up and down and call the president of SIG ARMS to get them to fix it.

It still aint fixed.

 

[bigmedicine]

A Kimber TLE II and a CDP. Worthless as a weapon unless thrown. Never to be burned by Kimber again! Their factory service did not impress or fix either gun. Oh well, I am happy with my Dan Wesson Bobtail - it is 100%

 

[MrIzhevsk]

My dads old SA 1911. Although it only stove-pipes if you use anything other than Federal American Eagle. Anything else, fiocci, winchester, CCI, always stovepipes on the 3rd or 4th shot.

 

[Matrix187]

Old llama .380 pistol. Everything else I have is completely reliable even when dirty.

 

[grizz5675]

there's most likely kimbers mentioned here because you cant limp wrist a kimber and in most cases this is the problem and because of fairly tight tolerances the kimbers need a longer break in period about 4 to 500 rounds.

 

[offthepaper]

Can't beleive nobody else has mentioned a Raven 25. It should be against the law to sell these.....Oh wait, in my state (Md) it is. That's actually a good public safety policy. The thing literally fell apart after 150 rds.

 

[Deanimator]

The Tanfoglio TZ40(s) that a friend bought when they first hit the market.

That's the only handgun I would feel completely comfortable with leaving loaded around unsupervised children. Even if they COULD pull the slide back against the force of the 25,000lb. recoil spring, they'd probably never get a round chambered, since they all seemed to hang up part way into the chamber. The surface of the chamber looked like the outside of the barrel of a Chinese SKS, covered in fine, annular rings. I suspect these were added to create friction between the case and the chamber to slow the premature opening which some magazine reviews noted.

I don't think he ever got more than two consecutive shots from the first one. He sent it back and PERHAPS got three consecutive rounds, a few times, from the replacement they sent him.

He eventually punted and got a Glock 22, which has served him well for nearly twenty years.

 

[Ironballs]

Tek-9

 

[easyrider604]

para double stack 1911. i think it was anorexic. wouldnt eat a thing.

Such eloquence!!! Ironic that an anorexic 1911 can be so fat

 

[Claude Clay]

70's PPK/S that i could count on the chambered round and was a accurate thrower.
colt pony pocketlite--[#17xx] 2 trips to factory & was replaced --it went back twice also and i requested and got a factory credit.
KT all very low #'s and all [p11,p3at, p32] have been back to the factory soo many times the only thing left original on them is their serial #. yet all gave early signs of impending failure.

cars, guns--even the 'best' brand names have some problems. thats what warranties are for. and unlike cars i have found that gun mfg'ers are the best and easiest to deal with.

 

[CoRoMo]

Dang! Kimber's taking a beating here. A couple Colts also?!?

I've been lucky with everything I've ever shot except for a Haskell 45 that must have weighed in close to twenty pounds.

 

[sturmgewehr]

Another vote for Kimber. I had two of them, and both were complete jam-o-matics. i sent the first one back to Kimber for repairs, and it came back in worse condition that it left in. I figured I would give them another try later and once again I got a lemon. Instead of dealing with their customer service (or lack thereof) I got rid of the gun and won't bother buying their products again until I'm confident they've rectified their quality control problems.

 

[searcher451]

Beretta Tomcat -- it's hands-down the worst of the name-manufacturer firearms I've had the displeasure to own. It was like a blind date with an ex-wife; no way could you win.

 

[atblis]

Easily the Walther P22. Multiple examples, all were remarkable in their suckiness.

 

[rbernie]

KelTec P32.

 

[caleb]

HK .45 C. The only gun I've traded or sold.

 

[Geneseo1911]

I'd like to know how many of the above Kimbers had external extractors. I've heard those were the root of many of their problems. Notice they no longer use them. Maybe JMB knew what he was doing.

 

[ronto]

Taurus PT-22...FTF,FTE with every ammo I could think of...A good paper weight however.

 

[gun4funtime]

kimber and colt have more than Taurus, Hmmmm.

 

[hemiram]

That I personally owned:

The most expensive gun I ever bought, until very recently, the Colt Combat Commander I bought in 1980 or 81. Horrible. Not one straight part in it. Jammed on the first shot most of the time. No, mags weren't the problem, it was the gun. Sent it back to Colt, who just scratched it up. Sold it to a local Colt fanboi for only a slight loss. If Colt "service" hadn't messed it up, I could have broken even.

That a friend owned:

Wilson Custom 1911, don't know, or care, what model it was, except it was full sized. Slightly better than my old Colt above, but rarely would it make it through an entire mag without a problem. It was well over $2000, and was very pretty. My friend was told it just needed to be "broken in", but 1000 rounds through it changed nothing. My $350 EAA Witness .45, and another friend's $550 CZ97B made it look very bad, sawing through mag after mag of the same ammo, without a single hitch. It got to the point I was purposely trying to "limp wrist" my Witness, and failed, it doesn't care how it's held. It impressed my friend greatly, who had a lot of custom/semi custom 1911's to come back down to earth and get some "cheap guns" that actually SHOOT. The Wilson went back, and came back and was a little better, but still hung up about once every other mag. Ridiculous.

 

[mongo4567]

Raven .25 is my winner! I think I made it to three consecutive rounds one time. Tried a different mag with no luck and gave up on it. Glad it was free.

Had a friend with a Keltec P3AT, giving him problems stovepiping. I shot it and it worked 100% for a few clips. Turns out he wasn't holding it tight enough.

I love my two Kimbers!

 

[jcwit]

Stoger .22 Luger lookalike

 

[Runningman]

For me its about a 3 way tie with a Colt Huntsman 22, Colt 1911 Delta Elite 10 mm, And a Colt 1911 Gold Cup. Needless to say I think very little of Colt pistols these days. Rare to make it thru a magazie with all three pistols.

I see Para-Ordnance P12 mentioned here. A coworker got one new years ago. It would not make it thru a magazine without choking.... ever. He sent it in to get fixed a couple times nothing changed.

 

[punkndisorderly]

I've had very good luck with autoloaders. The only one I've had an problems with was my Ruger MKIII which jammed like crazy straight out of the box. Ran 10 different .22 loadings from standard velocity to superhyperscreamer. Ran it with no lube, a little lube, and a lot of lube. Cleaned it several times. Tried 4 different factory magazines.

Sent it back to Ruger on my dime, waited 3 months, and now it runs like a champ. Has several thousand rounds through it now with no problems. Now I love it, but still ticked at Ruger for not even apologizing for my trouble, telling me what they fixed, or giving me a freebie.

 

[oweno]

AT-84 ... CZ knock-off, supposed to be Swiss made...yeah right...really made in Italy.
On its best day would actually fire 2 rounds in succession but then again, it would fail to extract round #2.
And thanks for the great review G&A and yes, that's why I no longer subscribe.