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  • arbud

    Active Member
    Jan 27, 2008
    809
    Towson
    May buy one of these for around the house. When you order one that comes with a 15 or 17 round mag, does the dealer you bought it from replace it with a 10 round mag or do they ship it and your ffl takes it out and keeps it? Thanks.
     

    Shazam

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    Dec 20, 2012
    731
    Some dealers will modify mags to only take 10 rounds. Ask them what their policy is.
     

    arbud

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    Jan 27, 2008
    809
    Towson
    I hate the sites. I think breaking in half is stupid. Just think I will like more power next to the bed at night that isn't a shotgun. Not getting it for shooting matches. They do fire when you pull the trigger.
     

    hobiecat590

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    Feb 2, 2016
    2,412
    I don't want to start a flame war but once upon a time Keltecs had reliability problems and would never be considered for self defense by i-net warriors. Keltec has some innovative designs but are they reliable? Taurus was in the same category but have gotten better so long as you don't try to use hot Buffalo Bore Bear 45LC rounds in any of the Judges. Asking for a friend. :-)
     

    plinkerton

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    Dec 30, 2012
    1,441
    Abingdon
    I don't want to start a flame war but once upon a time Keltecs had reliability problems and would never be considered for self defense by i-net warriors. Keltec has some innovative designs but are they reliable? Taurus was in the same category but have gotten better so long as you don't try to use hot Buffalo Bore Bear 45LC rounds in any of the Judges. Asking for a friend. :-)

    Mine goes bang every time.
    I don't take it out very often but when I do it's usually with 200-300 rounds, and sometimes more than that.
    I have a couple of non gun owning friends who are in love with it. They'll bring 150 rounds each and blast away for hours.
    I'm not a fan of the sights either, I got a $25 Amazon green laser for it. I have to check zero it every time I take it out, sometimes it's in, sometimes it's not.

    I got mine with Beretta mags, I also have an M9 and CX4. One set of mags, 3 guns
     

    Bullfrog

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    Oct 8, 2009
    15,077
    Carroll County
    I hate the sites. I think breaking in half is stupid. Just think I will like more power next to the bed at night that isn't a shotgun. Not getting it for shooting matches. They do fire when you pull the trigger.

    Why not go for something else like a Ruger PCC then? The folding ability would be about the only advantage to getting the Kel-Tec over any other one.
     

    DontTreadOnMe

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    Dec 10, 2016
    638
    You might want to try one out before you buy. I thought I had to have one, but it was a “blah” shooter and it was built cheaply, in my opinion. I sold it and don’t miss it.
     

    grimnar15

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    Jul 21, 2019
    1,645
    May buy one of these for around the house. When you order one that comes with a 15 or 17 round mag, does the dealer you bought it from replace it with a 10 round mag or do they ship it and your ffl takes it out and keeps it? Thanks.

    Use a PA FFL. This is mine, the M Series by MCARBO. They replaced all high wear internal (and external) plastic parts with high quality MCARBO metal parts, so no more high wear parts.
     

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    John from MD

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    May 12, 2005
    22,641
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    I carried a P3AT for 10 years as a back up gun. I also competed with it in IDPA Bug Gun and other range activities. I never had it fail and I still have it today.

    I had a Sub2000 (sold to a fellow member) and it too never failed. Did an aftermarket trigger help, absolutely it did but you can say the same about a Colt, Sig S&W etc.

    Kel Tec is work the skinny money and they are reliable.
     

    Blaster229

    God loves you, I don't.
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    Sep 14, 2010
    46,339
    Glen Burnie
    What's not to like about a folder than can fit in a sling bag? Mine typically resides as the kitchen door gun. I have about 400 rounds through it with Magpul mags. No hiccups.
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    IronEye

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    Feb 10, 2018
    788
    Howard County
    I have had numerous failures with CCI aluminum-cased Blazer ammo with mine. I should have known better than to even try that.
    Wolf FMJ steel-cased ammo runs fine but is pretty dirty. I shoot left handed; my white beard looked like a "Just For Men" commercial afterwards.
    I did a bunch of M*Carbo upgrades. Much improved trigger after that. If you're not detail oriented don't try it; it is tricksy getting it all back together.
    The Keltec is a bit clumsy feeling but that's the price of being able to put it in a laptop bag.
    The recoil is a bit surprising for just a 9mm. The bolt is about a pound and slams back into the plastic butt stock After a couple of hundred rounds it can leave a mark. It's not horrible but it is noticeable.
     

    DaemonAssassin

    Why should we Free BSD?
    Jun 14, 2012
    23,953
    Political refugee in WV
    I don't want to start a flame war but once upon a time Keltecs had reliability problems and would never be considered for self defense by i-net warriors. Keltec has some innovative designs but are they reliable? Taurus was in the same category but have gotten better so long as you don't try to use hot Buffalo Bore Bear 45LC rounds in any of the Judges. Asking for a friend. :-)
    They have gotten better. I remember back in May 2014 when boundlessdyad picked up his Sub2k at Engage. I was there when he did it, purely by chance, because I needed to get some AR stuff. He let me fire it on Father's Day weekend, June 2014. It ate Freedom Munitions reman without many issues. The issues I remember it having were the fault of the ammo, not the gun.
     

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