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Traded into a KelTec Sub 9 carbine lately. Takes the Glock 17 and longer mags. It is a little heavier than a Sub 2000. Does anyone know if it takes many of the same parts, extractors, etc? How durable are they? Had been thinking of building an AR to take 9mm glock mags, but if this works well i may not. Anyone familiar with these models?
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I had a Sub 9 for a few years. Sold it to a guy who really wanted one. What is there to know about it?
Good stuff:
1) Far better carbine than the new plastic Sub2k, no comparison
2) Yes, its heavier....should be... its made out of real metal and not cheap plastic!
3) It has a last round bolt hold open (or at least my S&W59 series did)
4) Much better trigger than new plastic models
5) Better sights than the new model.
Bad stuff:
1)They quit making them over 15 years ago. They don't really sell parts, they hold on to what they do have for warranty repairs. (Life time warranty for original owners I guess).
2) Check your firing pin for wear. They did wear out and when they do your KelTec can earn its name "Sub" as in
"Sub-machine gun" (The firing pins can wear and jam protruding out making this thing go full auto.) Nice thing is you can still get a new firing pin, it must be the same as the Sub2k)
3) Check for wear on the bolt.
4) Check serial number. They didn't make a lot of these. ( I think mine was like #300 or something low like that). The early ones had some issues with feeding. The ones that got sent back had a taper cut into the back of the barrel to make it feed better.
Oh, and use good magazines. Factory Glock mags are always the best choice. Also, some bullet designs feed much better than others.
Enjoy your Sub. I liked mine and it was 100% reliable. I just had five or six other PCC's and couldn't shoot them all. A nice guy in the Marines was looking for one for his wife for HD use while he was away and I sold it to him. He liked it a lot also.