Your centerfire handgun/ high rd ct/ longevity

[triplebike]

The handgun that I've owned the longest (going on 9 plus yrs), have fired well over 10,000 rds without a single issue ever is my Walther PPQ M1 9MM. Taking it down for a cleaning shows absolutely no wear other than a few shiny spots on the barrel. Everything else, bore included, still looks pristine. Accuracy hasn't faltered at all. I doubt I'll ever wear it out.

Anyone else have a firearm like this?

 

[Hartkopf]

I don't have a truly high round count gun, just a Glock 17 police trade in I've put 7000 rounds through. Not sure how used it was when I bought it.

I clean it every 1000 to 2000 rounds and it's only choked once, on Russian steal case when it was VERY dirty. (and with a non OEM mag)

It's been the best used gun I've ever bought.

 

[defjon]

Sig p226

 

[FL-NC]

I have a G17 that is well over the 6 figure mark. Even after a slide rail broke off it continued to function. Glock replaced the frame and rebuilt the slide free of charge.

 

[bannockburn]

Centerfire high round count; that would have to be my Browning Hi-Power. No actual round count but I know it's up there because I always take it to the range and run about 100 rounds through each trip. Been doing that for many, many years now. Still looks about the same as the day I got it, except for replacing the factory grips with a full set of Pachmayrs.

 

[Nuclear]

I’ve got a couple with about double that range. Aside from springs, a couple of magazines and an extractor, no problems or significant wear. And one of those is a 1911.

 

[Tallball]

I have two revolvers over 100 years old that seem to have been shot a whole lot. The S&W Military and Police was shot so much that the rifling is worn shallow. It's a bit loose, but it goes bang and doesn't shave lead. It must have had a lot of rounds through it.

I bought the Makarov, the FEG Hi-Power clone, and the Taurus PT99 new or nearly new in the late 80's. They were all shot regularly for a couple of decades and I still have all of them. They still function fine. The original designs are sturdy. The Makarov in particular looks like it could run forever. Sorry that I don't know how many rounds I out through each one, but it's been thousands.

The Norinco 9mm Tokarev was shot loose by someone before I bought it for next to nothing used. The smiley face on the barrel looks like Joker venom. It still functions fine. I should really put springs in it.

Seems like my handguns that still function after a bazillion rounds though them are all coincidentally military service pistols.

Smith And Wesson Pre Model 10

• Tallball
• Dec 14, 2018

Makarov Target

• Tallball
• Aug 11, 2018

Chinese Tokarev 9mm

• Tallball
• May 25, 2018

 

[SharpDog]

I have two LEO refurb p229s that started out as .357 Sig. I bought them used 15 and 18 years ago. For maybe a decade they were my EDC and I shot them at the range 50 - 100 rds per week. about halfway through that they were converted to .40 S&W to reduce ammo cost. Then one of them (not sure which, they were identical) was converted to a 9mm with a p229 Legion RX slide and became my EDC and primary HD weapon. It is just being replaced now as I have fully converted over to p365 platforms for my main weapons. These two p229 Leo refurbs continue to have the most exquisitely broken in triggers that break like thin frozen pieces of glass.

How many rds ? I would say 25K - 30K rds through each over 15-18 years in addition to the original LEO round counts.

Here is Halfbreed, the one that was converted to p229 9mm Sig Legion RX. 100% reliability. I can put all shots into a quarter at 25'

 

[Obturation]

Not an auto but my 6" gp100 has been shot a lot. I think I bought it around 2013 and shoot it every time I go to the range. I don't count rounds generally but if I had to guess I'd say probably in the 20k range or so. No parts replaced, still tight and accurate.

For autoloaders I'd say my mk3 ruger has the most but it's a 22 and I doubt it'll ever wear out, easily over 20k but probably more like 30k+. I have a g30 that I used to shoot a lot but not a ton anymore, probably 5k through it and still functions like new- it had a trip back to glock after its first range trip and they must have fixed it right because it's never malfunctioned since and I've fed it some really ratty ammo- surplus from ww2 and whatever I got cheap, no problem.

 

[CapnMac]

My 1980 built, '86 purchased Series 70, stopped tracking round count around 8-9K
Only change from out-of-the-box as I bought it is the Pachmyr MSH (and a replacement barrel bushing, the original blue collete one having shed a "finger" long ago).


Probably ought to "letter" the thing, it being 42 years old and all

 

[AustinTX]

My 1993 Beretta 92FS has fired a little over 52,000 rounds (would need to check the logs for an exact number) since I purchased it new — or, rather, since my father purchased it, since I was well under 21 at the time. Still no problems.

 

[AZAndy]

I have a Springfield 1911 that started life as just a basic mil-spec model, though I've upgraded some minor stuff like hammer and trigger and mainspring housing (I like flat instead of arched). Barrel and internals are all original; all I've done is replace springs a couple-three times. It has ~8500 rounds through it and still shoots just fine. Still throws hot brass in my face just like it always has.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

My 1993 Beretta 92FS has fired a little over 52,000 rounds (would need to check the logs for an exact number) since I purchased it new — or, rather, since my father purchased it, since I was well under 21 at the time. Still no problems.

Wow! Have you replaced the locking block?

 

[Otto]

Have too many pistols in rotation to keep track with round counts.

 

[Jeff62]

This is a pawn shop find I scored in the 80’s. Mil spec then AND the idiot scratch came with. The round count has to be 10’s of thousands.
It rattles like a sack of scrap iron when you shake it. I don’t recall any failure ever. I’ve had three front sights pop off over the years.

 

[AustinTX]

Wow! Have you replaced the locking block?

Most definitely. I've never had one fracture or show any sign of stress at all, but I don't tempt fate when it comes to locking blocks (or recoil springs). I've certainly been curious how much longer each locking block could have gone (and, by all accounts, the third-generation blocks are generally good for many thousands of rounds beyond the 15,000-round recommended service life), but given both the trouble a broken one can cause and how cheap they are to replace, I stick with the recommended maintenance schedule there.

 

[AustinTX]

Have too many pistols in rotation to keep track with round counts.

Hmm. Never stopped me.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

My Shield gen 1 has over 10k rounds through it. And I'm being coservative, probably more like 15k.
My SR9 I bought in 2011probably has 8 k through it and still no jams of any kind. Paid $330.00 for it new.
Both guns will shoot anything I put through them.
I haven't had my PPQ Q5 Sf pro long enough to now how long that thing will last, what a beast.

 

[5-SHOTS]

Weihrauch Target Trophy .22L.R. revolver: ~9000 rounds since August 2010;
Walther P99 AS 9mm: ~5000 rounds since April 2011;
Norinco TT-Olympia .22L.R.: ~5000 rounds since October 2012;
SIG-Sauer P226 AL SO 9mm: ~3000 rounds since March 2014;
Pardini GT9-1 9mm: ~2000 rounds since February 2017;
Grand Power Q100 9mm: ~2000 rounds since December 2019;
Taurus G3 9mm: ~1000 rounds since October 2020.

Like the opener I'm very impressed with the durability of the internal finish of the Walther. It looks like it shot 500 rounds not 5000. It also never failed.

 

[Dudedog]

70K thru my Springfield 9mm 1911 PI9134, still going strong but I am afraid it may be about time for a barrel.
Replaced recoil springs, firing pin springs.
As a side note after a match I went to clean it an the FP spring came out in 3 pieces
still seemed to work ok, no idea when it broke.
(top one in the pic)

 

[Spats McGee]

I'm a piker by comparison to y'all. Most rounds I ever put through one pistol was probably my G19 at around 2k. But I'm going to work on surpassing that with my Shield Plus, dagnabbit!

 

[Ethan Verity]

It's pretty cool when you think of how much force/pressure/friction is going on inside of a gun for each and every shot, yet these things can last for thousands upon thousands of rounds with no problems at all!

 

[tark]

1911s can pile up some ungodly round counts. When I was a small arms repairman ( 45B20 ) in Germany I ran across an original, unaltered 1911. God only knows what it was doing there, still in service. It looked like it had had about a million rounds put through it. I replaced all the springs and sent it off for re-parkerization.

When I was working for Les, the girls on the shooting team would run tens of thousands of rounds through their guns every year, almost all in practice. As long as you kept the springs fresh they did fine.

 

[WilsonCQB1911]

I have a Wilson CQB 1911 in .45 with just shy of 16k rounds through it. Other than replacing springs I've had to get a new front sight as the old one shot loose. I also had the firing pin stop crack in half. Gun kept running through and I took it through a class like that.

I had a Beretta M9 with about 11k through it. No problems.

I had a Kimber 1911 in .45 with about 8k that had quite a few problems, all early on. Plunger tube separated from frame, extractor sheared... I think there was more but I honestly can't remember.

 

[rsrocket1]

M&P 40 1.0
About 85,000 rounds. For a long time, it was all I was shooting. I started out with a Thompson Auto Ordnance 1911 that I shot terribly. I figured if I wanted to get better, I need to shoot a lot more. I'd better start reloading. The 1911 was picky on ammo and so I wanted a new gun with more reliability. In 2006, I got beat out in buying a used SD40VE so I figured for $100 more, I could get a new M&P 40 so I got it.
200-400 rounds almost every week for the better part of 14 years. I kept track of the number of rounds I shot by keeping track of the number of primer boxes I went through.