Betty

I've had three incidents I'll never forget, but luckily, they were all at the range.

The first was when my Interarms Walther PPK/S suffered a cracked ejector, locking the slide up tight. That was my very first carry gun and that happened a day after I got my permit! With that problem, only Plan B like a second gun would've saved me from having a bad day.

The second incident was a squib while shooting an aquaintance's 1911 with some reloaded ammo he bought from who-knows-where, which is exactly why you don't buy weird reloaded ammo from who-knows-where. Again, there would be no immediate fix to the problem if I was using that gun in defense, unless I wanted to use it as a bludgeoning tool or grab an alternate weapon.

The third is a combination of two incidents with the same pistol: the magazine floorplate fell apart while shooting my Para C6.45 LDA, sending ammo dumping all over my feet. The other incident was when the recoil rod assembly literally shot out the front while shooting. Both incidents resulted from poor welding at the factory. Para immediately sent out replacements and said the recoil assemblies were beefed up (most likely due to similar complaints from customers). As much as I loved that little gun, my trust in it went out the window, and I no longer have it.

Here's a couple pics from my archives - the left being a stovepipe combined with rounds stuck in the magazine (Walther P1), and the picture on the right being a double feed in my SU-16.

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P95Carry

Ron and Betty - thx a lot for your posts - knowing of other's odd malfunctions helps expand my thinking a lot. Too easy to just think of the ''usual'' problems only, thus reason for the thread.

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If a BG dies as the result of pointing a gun at me, then he has merely succumbed to an occupational hazard of being a thug