posted September 12, 2000 12:35 PM                          

I am lubing and cleaning and trying again. But so far I am not amused. The SN is in the 22,000 range, so I thought they had the bugs worked out by now.

The P32 is not, so far, the best thing since sliced bread.

Any suggestions?

posted September 13, 2000 03:59 AM                       

My P32 was a little unreliable the first time I fired it right out of the box with no cleaning or lubing. Has been 100% after a good cleaning...have about 500 rounds through it. I love this gun for carry when my Glock won't work.

Hope everything works out.

posted September 13, 2000 02:20 PM                          

So we'll see, with baited breath and fingers crossed.

posted September 13, 2000 10:16 PM                       

I'd be interested to know how things finally come out. Also, got a good chuckle out of your name.

posted September 16, 2000 03:34 PM                          

- Frequent failure to feed with various ammo
- Rim lock in the mag on the new Corbon ammo, which jams the slide open
- Barrel retention pin works its way out
- Slide locks up after a failure to fire
- Some failures to extract
- Various ammo groups low, high, left, right, or some combination.
- And most recently,failure to fire with various ammo due to light primer strikes

Hoped some of this would go away as the gun broke in, but the problems have become MORE frequent. Even as a long-time IPSC shooter who builds his own 1911s, I can't figure out why the problems are occuring.

I realize some folks get guns that run flawlessly, but they're apparently the lucky ones. Keltec gun problems seem to resemble the ParaOrdnance quality problems -- some guns are great right out of the box, others need hundreds of dollars of custom work or many trips back to the manufacturer to make them work properly.

Sure, Keltec claims theyll fix it -- but with the new UPS price gouging, $25 to ship an early gun (from what seems to be a run of lemons that are NEVER going to work right) back and forth a few times isn't very appealing.

Too bad, too -- if this little gun worked right, I could really get to love it...

Michael Burke
Section Coordinator
Linea de Fuego Section
Area II, USPSA

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Originally posted by Chairborne Ranger:
Picked up one of these dinky little things over the weekend. First range session didn't go so well. Light hits on PMC and Silvertip ammo, so I have failed to get even one round to fire. There is a tiny indentation on the primer, so I am at least making contact.

I am lubing and cleaning and trying again. But so far I am not amused. The SN is in the 22,000 range, so I thought they had the bugs worked out by now.

The P32 is not, so far, the best thing since sliced bread.

Any suggestions?

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posted September 19, 2000 11:59 PM                          

As soon as I can coordinate with the gun control collaborationists driving the brown trucks I will report whether the Kel-Tec smiths worked their magic.

posted September 21, 2000 09:22 PM                          

I add to the chorus. Send the lemon back to Kel-Tec and they'll send you lemonade. If you're lucky maybe you'll get the lemonade straight out of the box.