posted March 05, 2001 10:34 AM                          

I'm packing up my new hard chrome P32 and shipping in back to Kel Tec today. In 350 rounds, using Blazer, UMC, and Silvertips, I've had:

4 light primer strikes (all Blazer)
1 failure to extract (Blazer)
23 failures to feed (all brands, UMC worst, Silvertips best)

Sat, I did the fluff-N-buff, and even corrected some of the questionable machine work that was done on the slide. Cycling by hand felt better, but yesterday I had 3 failures to feed in about 40 rounds of Silvertips.

For the record, this is my second P32. I bought the first one (sn 10XXX) about a year ago, and sold it when I got irritated with all the problems it had. After reading pretty good reports recently, and knowing just how easy it is to carry one of these things, I decided to try a recent vintage hard chrome model. The new one is in the 30XXX SN range, and actually looks to be better quality than the first one I had. Alas, it doesn't work any better. I'm optimistic that Kel Tec will fix this for me, but if they know how to fix the problems, why don't they do it right in the first place? I guess that's the part that irritates me the most. I imagine they're trying to keep the cost down, but I'd much rather pay $50 more for the gun, than have to roll the dice to find out if it's going to work.

OK, I'm done now. Thanks for listening.

posted March 12, 2001 07:15 PM                          

Rusty

posted March 19, 2001 12:50 PM                          

Any other suggestions?

Stay tuned,

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Rusty
G26, G36, G21, Kimber 1911, P32, Remington 870 Marine Magnum, Bushmaster AR-15