Love my new Kel-tec 9mm P11
Finally got to the range with my new ccw Kel-tec 9mm P11. I was a little worried about a small firearm manufacturer like Kel-tec and the low price and all. For a "save my life" carry firearm I normally would have gone with a high price major brand firearm. But I loved the low price (blued model little over $200.00 although I got the hard chrome slide) and the lightness of the polymer frame. Although Kel-tec says the frame (where serial number is) is actually alloy aluminum and only the "grip" is polymer.
DAO trigger pull is long and heavy, but that is OK since the is the only safety. Kinda like a double action only revolver. Still, I had no trouble hitting a paper plate at 20 feet each and every time. I really like having a small, inexpensive, polymer frame (grip) semi-auto in a respectable caliber with a last round slide stop. Mag holds 10 rounds and with the slide stop you can have quick reloads.
I was really worried at first because I started out shooting the FMJ Selliour and Bellliot brass 9mm rounds. Almost every round would fail to feed. Seemed the slide would go back just far enough to eject the spent round, but not far enough to cleanly pickup a fresh round or far enough to pickup the fresh round with enough space left over for a clean load in the chamber. I switch to some aluminum cased 9mm FMJ and each and every round fired and funtioned fine. This even though I had been warned about using aluminum cases. I had been warned that the Kel-tec is pretty particular about what kind of rounds it likes. So only then did I break out the expensive stuff. The Federal Hydro-shock hollowpoint in both 124 and 134 grain. Each and every round of that fed fine.
So I now have the Kel-tec loaded up with a mix of the Federal Hydro-shock 124 & 134 grain bullets as well as a backup mag holding the aluminum cased ammo.
DAO trigger pull is long and heavy, but that is OK since the is the only safety. Kinda like a double action only revolver. Still, I had no trouble hitting a paper plate at 20 feet each and every time. I really like having a small, inexpensive, polymer frame (grip) semi-auto in a respectable caliber with a last round slide stop. Mag holds 10 rounds and with the slide stop you can have quick reloads.
I was really worried at first because I started out shooting the FMJ Selliour and Bellliot brass 9mm rounds. Almost every round would fail to feed. Seemed the slide would go back just far enough to eject the spent round, but not far enough to cleanly pickup a fresh round or far enough to pickup the fresh round with enough space left over for a clean load in the chamber. I switch to some aluminum cased 9mm FMJ and each and every round fired and funtioned fine. This even though I had been warned about using aluminum cases. I had been warned that the Kel-tec is pretty particular about what kind of rounds it likes. So only then did I break out the expensive stuff. The Federal Hydro-shock hollowpoint in both 124 and 134 grain. Each and every round of that fed fine.
So I now have the Kel-tec loaded up with a mix of the Federal Hydro-shock 124 & 134 grain bullets as well as a backup mag holding the aluminum cased ammo.
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The feeling is quite typical with these pistols. I trust my life the life of those around me to a P3AT sometimes. 0 -
they are a nice little carry weapon 0
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