most shots fired without a malfunction
What was the most shots firedfrom a pistol with out a malfunction and with out cleaning it. many thanks
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I can only answer from my own limited experience, and that might not help much! With my S&W CS-9, I usually shoot 200 or so rounds through it each time out. No misfires or misfeeds, but then I clean it when I am finished. So I guess I am safe in saying it will go over 200 before fouling becomes a problem. With my wife's 38 spcl, it will shoot and shoot and shoot and never foul, but it is a revolver and it too is cleaned after each shooting session. I know that doesn't help, but it is all I know!
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I seem to recall that John Moses Browning fired 5000(?) rounds through the 1911's that were submitted for testing to the US Gov. These were dropped into a buckets of water to cool them off and fired continuously to meet the criteria of the day. I'll do some more checking tonight after work and see if I can find some details. I'm sure some military battles pushed the limits of what a firearm could take....but who's counting rounds?
Edited by - Rembrandt on 12/09/2002 13:25:370 -
when my brotherinlaw got his first pistol 10 years of so ago we shot it all day with lead reloads. 2000 rounds. 1 fail to fire from the dummy who loaded them loading a .380 case and dumping it into the box of 9mm. we stopped not because the gun had problems, but because our thumbs were too sore to load any more clips.
The gun? Ruger p-89........ Cleaning the barrel, that is another story in itself.
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I tried that once with my Colt Mk IV series 70 years ago. I made it up to 2800 rds. The reason I quit was because of me and not the gun. It could have gone farther I am sure but at the time I needed it for a detail and had to abort the experiment. Never did it again. 0 -
There was a post here a while back ... some troll ... I mean guy ... and his brother shot something like 5000 rounds of 9mm in one afternoon with a Jennings ... but he got laughed off the board and I don't think he's been back
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"5000 rounds of 9mm in one afternoon with a Jennings ..."
Yeah, sure they did. No wonder they got laughed off. Even with a reliable gun, would that even be possible? Pulling the trigger 5,000 times in one day is, but what about loading the mags? No way that happened with a Jennings and only two people to load mags.
Besides, 5,000 rounds of the cheapest bulk 9mm would cost twice what a Jennings is worth. You could buy a quality pistol for what 5,000 rounds will run you.
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I have a magazine called Glock Autopistols from a few years back and Chuck Taylor had an article about a Glock 17 in which he fired a full 157,000 (yes 157,000) rounds through it with only 2 stoppages early on, and all the while the gun was cleaned sparingly submerged in water and sand, frozen, run over and everything else. Normally i would find that hard to believe but Chuck Taylor is the real deal so would imagine its all true. 0 -
I believe that record is held by the invention of John Browning with a 1911. But John was not doing the firing.
John Browning also set continuous fire machine gun records and he was the one doing the firing.
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Taken from "Browning Sporting Arms of Distinction" by Matt Eastman
At the competitive trials held on March 3, 1911, under the supervision of the Ordnance Command, the following stipulations were set down: Six Thousand rounds were to be fired through each type of pistol under consideration. Firing was to take place in a series of 100 after which the arm was permitted to cool for five minutes before the next series commenced. After 1000 rounds each pistol was to be cleaned and oiled. (to cool the pistols, they were dropped into a bucket of water)
The Browning model completed the test without a single malfunction. Then freak loads were tested including underloads, overloads, and cartridges with thin primers. The model was then made to rust and finally subjected to fine sand and grit tests. Through all this, no failure to operate ocurred and upon careful inspection not a single part showed signs of deterioration. It was the first time a small arm had completed an official government test with a perfect record.
The report of the examining board submitted 3/20/1911, reads as follows: "The Board recommends that the Colt Caliber .45 Automatic Pistol of the design submitted to the Board for tests be adopted for use by foot and mounted troops in our military services in consequence of it's marked superiority to the present service revolvers, and to any pistol, of its extreme reliability and endurance, of its ease of disassembly, of its accuracy and of its fulfillment of all necessary requirements"
Orders from the Cheif of Ordnance of the General Staff and Secretary of War dated March 29, 1911, made the adoption of the 1911 official.0 -
OK I'll bite; why would you want to abuse a gun. Firing without lube or cleaning might be a test but in reality has no real purpose.
I have a ruger P89 that has passed 10K rounds without a malfunction, however it has been cleaned and lubed.
Don't abuse your weapon and it won't let you down when you need it.0
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