Or .40 caliber glocks
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I agree but expand to anything in their product line. It is always funny to see the kel-tec sponsored shooting team use glocks/m&p9/1911 for pistol and bring spare shotguns and rifles for when their guns fail. Multigun Saturday is always funner when they're shooting, I won't be in last place!
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Their little P-40 was practically uniquely ill-conceived. I mean, consider that the P-11 was a rework of the Grendel P-10 and was already marginal for a 9x19... Just because you can squeeze a .40 in there doesn't mean you should. Those things had service lives shorter than fruit flies with ebola.
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I think most of the 22 pistols on the market are crap. The M&P 22, Browning Buckmark, and the Ruger MK III seem to be pretty decent and the Browning 1911 22 I shot was a nice little pistol.
Yesterday there was a guy at the range with a Ruger SR22 and a box of bulk pack Federal. Every other mag that thing was failing to feed or eject. Last year I saw one snap a part off while the first box of ammo was run through it. If Ruger was trying to take the Walther P22 market they succeeded as I can't tell which is the better piece of junk.
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Years ago I worked with a guy that had a Bryco Jammings. The trigger pin broke at the range so he took it home and found a finishing nail that fit snug. Tapped it into place and cut the excess off with a hacksaw. After a running a couple mags through it, he put it in the local classifieds and sold it within an hour for $100. He took the cash and put it toward a 70's Series Colt which I now have because his hands were too meaty and he got hammer bite.
Hi Points on the local classifieds last less than a day.
My late shooting buddy loved to play with Kel-Tec pistols, but always used to remark that they routinely and continually use their customer base as beta-testers.
Seems like a really peculiar niche for a company to wish to occupy in the gun market; "pay lower prices for our finicky unreliable plastic-framed pistols, and eventually we'll get them to work for you if you send them back enough times".
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It's working well enough for Kimber, less the "lower prices" part. Most buyers are gun accumulators who only occasionally fire their purchases. A firm which has a 100% failure rate can safely bet maybe two buyers actually shoot it enough to detect issues -and if the company's CS is on top of things, one of them will think "it's a piece of kitten, but the company stood by me and paid for the five trips to the support center.... maybe the next one ain't so bad."