I really want to like this gun. I really do. It keeps trying to make me hate it.
I've got 700 rounds through it now, and mechanical problems are setting in. First and foremost, it won't chamber a round unless the slide's locked back. If you try to rack the slide to chamber, in other words, it'll fail to return to battery, the round getting caught by...something. I don't know. Clean gun, dirty gun, doesn't matter. I can replicate this sitting here right now with snap caps, hollow points, and standard ball rounds. Put a round in the magazine, insert the magazine, rack the slide...and watch it jam. Same for all three of the magazines. Clean magazines, dirty magazines, doesn't matter. In order to actually load the gun at this point, you need to have the slide locked back, and slingshotting it won't work - do that, and it FTRB.
It'll also occasionally fail to return to battery during actual shooting. The range master at the place I normally shoot thought I was just limpwristing it, but I let him run a few rounds through and it did it to him as well. Interestingly, it always seems to be the last round in the magazine. All three magazines.
And, speaking of magazines, it threw in another neat trick today - dropping the mag during firing. Fingers were nowhere near the mag release. Squeeze off the first round, out pops the magazine. Happened twice in 200 rounds.
If all of this is me, I'm more than happy to be called an idiot who doesn't know his gun, 'cause then at least it's me and not the gun. At the moment, though, I'm pretty sure it's the gun, and the wish that I'd just bought something else is pretty strong.
I've got 700 rounds through it now, and mechanical problems are setting in. First and foremost, it won't chamber a round unless the slide's locked back. If you try to rack the slide to chamber, in other words, it'll fail to return to battery, the round getting caught by...something. I don't know. Clean gun, dirty gun, doesn't matter. I can replicate this sitting here right now with snap caps, hollow points, and standard ball rounds. Put a round in the magazine, insert the magazine, rack the slide...and watch it jam. Same for all three of the magazines. Clean magazines, dirty magazines, doesn't matter. In order to actually load the gun at this point, you need to have the slide locked back, and slingshotting it won't work - do that, and it FTRB.
It'll also occasionally fail to return to battery during actual shooting. The range master at the place I normally shoot thought I was just limpwristing it, but I let him run a few rounds through and it did it to him as well. Interestingly, it always seems to be the last round in the magazine. All three magazines.
And, speaking of magazines, it threw in another neat trick today - dropping the mag during firing. Fingers were nowhere near the mag release. Squeeze off the first round, out pops the magazine. Happened twice in 200 rounds.
If all of this is me, I'm more than happy to be called an idiot who doesn't know his gun, 'cause then at least it's me and not the gun. At the moment, though, I'm pretty sure it's the gun, and the wish that I'd just bought something else is pretty strong.