I want to live in this world that you cats all live in where shit never fails. OMG some guy on the internet ran 3176 rounds though his pistol and may have an issue. I have three firearms I have shot 3000 rounds through, my trap gun, my skeet gun and my MP5SD. Stuff fails and if you buy from the right company they will fix it, why does everybody love to bitch and moan about shit you don’t even own? This internet thingy created a bunch of whiners.
You know why people complain because many are still in the delusion that we're in like 2005. Back then quality control among all makers was significantly
higher, yeah, there were notorious f***up mc shitty brands like Krapber etc, still, but on the whole you bought something like a Smith, a Sig, or most Glock, Ruger products and the defect rate was significantly lower on average than it seems to be now. This is because enthusiasts would hold grudges and people would eviscerate them in "real world social media". So they made
great pains to try to keep that defect rate low. We literally demanded quality and got pissed if we didn't get it.
Then Obamascare 1, 2, and sandy hook bullshit happened and all that shit went out the window, because 80% of the new guns sold after that went to people who were either noobs or buying them strictly because of political turmoil. The manufacturers realized that, to some degree, they could get away with murder, and they did... because some significant % of their guns got bought and never got fired, as well as the composition of the market composition/demographics of the average consumer changing.
A few intervals ago Sig was pretty f***ing bad, now it looks like Smith is trying to outdo them. Glock makes a non broken gun about 90% of the time but if you end up in that 10%, then you're not having a good day.
Also 3000 rounds isn't much for a 22, that's basically just getting it warm. It's difficult to gauge the defect %, though, yet, given the fact that they've dumped a bunch of these guns on
the market. These guys with exploding G44s could be a trend, or some kind of intermittent QC issue. Normally I'm so skeptical of the market that I don't play early adopter, but in this case it was too tempting. If mine blows up how much I care depends on how much they inconvenience me in the process. It was worth the risk.
Also, most of these brands are f***ing embarassing in this department compared to HK. I've owned almost as many HK pistols as I have Glock, Sig, others.... and I have a total of one "random failure" on an HK USPc that happened... (and it didn't even result in a condition where the gun would actually stop firing, it just became DAO only after that one side of the sear spring broke) their QC makes everyone else look pretty terrible in relative terms. The only reason I don't own any anymore is because they're an unmitigated ergonomic nightmare for me. Every time I start lusting over an HK I pick one up, grip it as best as I can, check the sights, and then in that prompt moment, in that space and time while examining the firearm, I suddenly hear this....
(nsfw language)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmK4_Byin0Y
because, ergonomic nightmare.
-Mike