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I'd be easier to list the ones I wouldn't trust.
Ruger Redhawk (CCI magnum primers +double action= light strikes)
1894 winchester 30-30 actions pretty loose she'll jam if you don't cycle her the way she likes.
1894 marlin 44mag doesn't like short ammo(no Special)and I really havent shot it enough yet,BTW I bought it recient and sombody did extensive mods(takedown)
original 1897 winchester I trust I can get 5 shots off but I might have to shuck it more than 5 times,I got a bad habit of short strokin' it.
and the Walther P-1 is golden as long as its not full (8+1) of hollow points.
Most of mine (antique collectibles excluded), but I absolutely know the BHP 9mm, P-12 & P-14 .45s and Witness .45 will run and the Doublestar and Colt ARs and the Saiga and Bulgy AKs and the FAL and M1A all will as well.
Actually at this point I don't have really any super reliable firearms which is kind of sad. My High Point carbine jams alot (even after a thorough take down cleaning,) my Beretta Bobcat would be my best bet as the most it ever does is stovepipe and thats quite rare, i just purchased a Noble pump action 12 gauge but ive yet to fire it, my jc higgins revolver misfires about 4 out of 9 shots (possibly bad ammo?) so in an emergency i guess id just grab one and have hope and a prayer as a sidearms ive got a lot of bad ammo lately, thats another factor that'd screw me over
right now the only one I couldn't trust is a marlin model 60 and even less now because I lost a spring trying to find the cause of a constant jamming problem.
Any/all of them except the Marlin 60 .22 I need to put a new recoil spring in and clean.
I would say one of the Glocks, probably the G19, if I had to choose just one. Hard to pick it over one of the bolt actions though. Or the 870 or the over/under.
Seriously, I could close my eyes, reach into the safe, and whatever I pulled out I would trust and know it would do it. There's no room in my safe for a gun that doesn't work. Reliability trumps everything else. Everything.
All of them. But, more so after they are a tad more clean. I buy guns that don't need to be totally clean to operate really well still (SKS, etc.). I like to spend more time shooting .
All of them, if I had to go with 1 to function and have absolutely no issue with feeding or anything it would be any of my Remington 870 Wingmasters. Other on teh list woudl include a Marlin 336, AR-15, Tikka T2 .243, Stevens 200 .223, various Marlin .22's (excluding the 60 and excluding ammo fail to fires), and I have never experienced an issue with my Beretta 391 Urika 20 gauge.
But if I had to pick on to bet mylife anytime on that it will go bang it would be my Wingmaster 12 gauge, you can sort of say we have a bond based on experience.
Yeah, not the Mortimer flintlock, but I'd trust pretty much any of the others. What would I grab? Depends on where I was in the house . . . What would be my pick? The Para 14.45 - too big to comfortably carry, but one sweet sweet shooter.
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