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KelTec .40 cal - Not!

gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in Ask the Experts
A while ago I posted a question for feed back on the KelTec .40 cal. Got to shoot it today: 8 rds = 3 malfunctions, barely used as new condition. For whatever reason this KelTec is a dud. I think I will pass. Please Bill, Jr., make a compact pistol.

Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry for your bad experience. I really wish I was there to trouble shoot.

    Sometimes, when you try before you buy, and the owners there to witness major malfunctions, you can get the gun alot cheaper. And its usually something very simple and cheap to fix or replace like a magazine with deformed feed lips.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The older kel-tec magazines did have a few problems there oe was bad feed lips and another was it would leave the last round in the gun and lock the slide back there are also a few rounds that shouldnt be shot in them.The first gun I purchased was a Kel-Tec P40 and it has the newer mags with modified lips and after 500+ rounds it never malfunctioned on me.Get it and try a new mag and visit the Kel-Tecs owners group.If you buy it and still dont like it you will be able to make your money back.Also check to make sure it has both of its re-coil springs oe might have been removed.They are good guns you probably just need a newer manufactured mag.

    Eric S. Williams

    Edited by - E.Williams on 07/23/2002 00:47:40
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It amounted to two simple problems that were easily resolved, but it was just a poor first impression. Did get some fair accuracy at 10 yards so it is OK in that department and it fit and handled nicely. Didn't really need it and the malfunctions foiled the temptation. The fellow selling it said Kel Tecs are back-up carry guns and are not designed to be fired regularly. That was not a good motivator for purchasing the gun either as every gun I carry gets shot several hundred times per year at a minimum. PS: this gun had the new mags.

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.

    Edited by - gunpaq on 07/23/2002 00:51:26
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thats not really true. The Kel-Tec can endure several thousand rounds before anything really breaks on it, and its all easily and cheaply replaced from the factory. I think the only thing I've ever seen break on a kel-tec was a broken trigger axis.

    Backup guns should be able to be shot anytime anywhere. Key thing being relaibility. It should be able to shoot even after its been sitting for several months without ever being touched, oiled, and is full of gunk. Thats why my backup is a DA revolver, a S&W model 60.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can agree with the not too shoot too much it is a last ditch back to the wall do or die piece.I dont know what the problem would be other than it missing a re-coil spring if it had the newer mags.I asgree with Ruger needing a sub-compact auto-loasder I posted on general a week or so ago about that.Either thy cant make their designs work in it or they dont care they would sell a ton of them.They need one desperately though I know I would buy one as long as its not 9mm.I agree with leeblackman about the revolver
    if its my * asbout to face it I will face it with my .357 mag 6-shot.Which happens to be what I traded the Kel-Tec for.Butthe Kel-Tec didnt do me wrong Im just more comfortable putting my faith in revolvers.
    Eric S. Williams

    Edited by - E.Williams on 07/23/2002 01:13:06
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  • azgunnut2@yahoo.comazgunnut2@yahoo.com Member Posts: 305 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I reraslly hate to har of your bad Keltec expriencs , I on the othr hand have "carreid" one of thse "off duty" now for a good three (3)
    years or so , have shot apx. 1500 rounds thru mine with only ONE (1)
    malfunction ( @ apx. 300 rnds) due to a stuck (dirty) mag follower.
    I will continue to carry and reccommend these to all who ask ...By the way if you decide to sell , contact us ....
    Thanks !!!!!
    & Good Luck !!!!
    azgunnut2@yahoo.com
    d.a. stearns
    L.E.O. & Gunsmith
    sweetwatr , tn

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    Guns are my friends !!!
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  • cliffdropover1cliffdropover1 Member Posts: 136 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    FYI Kel-Tec has stopped production of the .40 cal. They wrote me and said it constantly jammed because people kept limp wristing the .40, thus causing the jam and that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the gun itself. However, keep in mind, they have stopped making it. They still make the 9mm and it has had no problems.
    Hope this helps.
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  • ATFATF Member Posts: 11,683 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you limp wrist, it will JAM !

    ATF
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