Art
05-24-2023, 12:09
A few years ago our son bought an FN "M4-gery." Beautiful M4 clone and it should have been at $1,800.00. After a few hundred rounds he noticed pieces coming off the flash suppressor/muzzle brake. Well off to FN who acknowledged the problem and told him that because the muzzle brake assembly was welded to the barrel the barrel had to be replaced. The problem was fixed.
A couple of months ago he bought a new in the box Walther PPK/S. This is close to a $1,000.00 pistol drive out. I was with him when he took it to the range. At least one click-no bang on every magazine. Well back to Walther in Arkansas. They informed him they couldn't find anything wrong with the pistol but tinkered with the springs. The Walther rep told him that the pistol might not work right if it wasn't "held properly" during firing which is the biggest bunch of horse manure I've ever heard from a firearms company rep, especially with this particular malfunction. Well the pistol came back and we took it to the range. If anything it was worse. There were sometimes multiple no bangs on one magazine and he had to drop the hammer on one cartridge three times to fire it. If you're thinking this was possibly limited to one kind of ammo, well probably not. The problem is there with Winchester, SIG, and Monarch (Academy's budget ammo.) It did fire a full magazine of Hornaday Critical Defense high end self defense loads and seven shots probably isn't a good test. The other day I took it out and dropped the hammer double and single action and the hammer fall felt very light to me. Now that isn't scientific but both of these situations on expensive firearms is really disheartening. I talked to a buddy who had once carried a PPK/S as his backup gun and asked if he'd had problems. He immediately asked whether the gun was US or German manufacture. Of course its US. He said in his experience US made PPK pistols tend to be iffy (current wisdom on these guns.) If you get a good one they're real good if you don't get a good one they can be...well....iffy.
Anybody else have similar experiences to our kid's.
A couple of months ago he bought a new in the box Walther PPK/S. This is close to a $1,000.00 pistol drive out. I was with him when he took it to the range. At least one click-no bang on every magazine. Well back to Walther in Arkansas. They informed him they couldn't find anything wrong with the pistol but tinkered with the springs. The Walther rep told him that the pistol might not work right if it wasn't "held properly" during firing which is the biggest bunch of horse manure I've ever heard from a firearms company rep, especially with this particular malfunction. Well the pistol came back and we took it to the range. If anything it was worse. There were sometimes multiple no bangs on one magazine and he had to drop the hammer on one cartridge three times to fire it. If you're thinking this was possibly limited to one kind of ammo, well probably not. The problem is there with Winchester, SIG, and Monarch (Academy's budget ammo.) It did fire a full magazine of Hornaday Critical Defense high end self defense loads and seven shots probably isn't a good test. The other day I took it out and dropped the hammer double and single action and the hammer fall felt very light to me. Now that isn't scientific but both of these situations on expensive firearms is really disheartening. I talked to a buddy who had once carried a PPK/S as his backup gun and asked if he'd had problems. He immediately asked whether the gun was US or German manufacture. Of course its US. He said in his experience US made PPK pistols tend to be iffy (current wisdom on these guns.) If you get a good one they're real good if you don't get a good one they can be...well....iffy.
Anybody else have similar experiences to our kid's.