What's the MOST RELIABLE handgun you've owned

[JustinM]

glock 21 durability test

http://glocktalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=462537

Funny, I just posted that in another thread.

[phillyd2]

Beretta 92FS. Have owned it for 16 years and until the locking block broke, the gun has never failed to go bang when I pulled the trigger. No jams, miss feeds, etc.

Gotta agree here. I've had my Italian made Beretta 92FS Compact since 1990 without even a hint of a hiccup.

[JIMMYC308]

I think we are missing a few things here.

Reliability isn't just how many rounds you can shoot through your handgun with zero problems. There's more to the equation than that. How does it shoot while dirty, wet, muddy, no lube, etc...

Most guns will have a good reliability factor when all they are subjected to is a couple hundred rounds at the range, and then cleaned thoroughly once the shooter is back home.

I gotta tell you,with a price tag so high on these guns I would hope the manufacturer would do all that dirty work for us. Because for 600-900 bucks I'm not sticking my guns in the mud!

[Lucas]

Ruger MkII. I've only had maybe 4 fail to fires with this gun in the last 10 years. Those I've attributed to bad ammo, fired the rest of that brick through a couple of my rifles and experienced the same problem. The gun has been a flawless plinker.

[doug]

HK P2000 - 5K rounds w/o a single failure of any kind. rock solidl

[CavScout88]

My H&K USP 9mm. 6000rds and never a FTF or FTE. God I miss that gun.

[ithinkimamedic]

Justin and Tony have a good point in reguard to the reliability. I personally like to keep all my guns clean but I have been known to have been at the range and then return home dead tired and forget about cleaning them for a couple of days or more, I'm sure we have all ended up like this a few times. I also have not ever been deployed anywhere, nor am I in the military. I do not abuse or put my weapons through any truly harsh environment like they do.
Howevere my 2nd glock 19 that I purchaced about 8 months ago was a police trade in that looked like it had never been cleaned, complete filth inside. So I decided to shoot it (after looing it over first to make sure it would Kb) in the the condition it was in. no problems at all, accuracy was as expected with no FTF's or FTE's, I was however using new mag's as the one it came with was destroyed. I have since put somewhere around 4k though it with no problems that I can remember.
I also have a sig p220st that does become finicky somewhere around 500 rounds with varrious problems.
again I do not profess to be an expert or have any pratical military or LE experience when it comes to firearms. I'm just joe schmoe who loves to go to the range and doesnt mind tortureing his glock a little. I would really love to get to put the hammer to a HK to see how it fairs. I've always loved the Mark23's lines and feel... Just dont want to run the bank roll for one yet.

[ALS]

The most reliable handgun I own is my Browning High Power. Never jammed and feeds all types of 9 mm ammunition. Plus it is pretty accurate for a out of the box unmodified gun.

[Rule10b5]

Most reliable handgun?

Pick any one of my 20 S&W revolvers at random. With one exception (due to a worn out mainspring on a 40 year old model 19) they've all gone bang, each and every time, through tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of rounds.

Most reliable pistol?

My Springfield XD or H&K P7M8.

[st.marys]

Glock 19C. ...and I am a lousy owner when it comes to that thing, as I often neglect to clean it properly.