Posted: 11/6/2006 7:40:12 AM EDT
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I finally got around to taking my new SW-5 out after waiting months for Allied Armament to ship it . After a complete cleaning and lube, Loaded with WCC 115 grain 9mm FMJ, I inserted a straight 30 round mag and sent a few rounds down range. So far, so good. On the tenth round I had a failure to feed, eleventh and twelfth failure to eject. It was all down hill from there. I finished the straight mag and inserted a curved mag that did not do any better. I could not get this weapon to fire more than five rounds befor it would stove pipe, double feed, fail to eject/extract. At the third magazine it became a single shot and would have any of the above mentioned malfunctions with each pull of the trigger. What a sad example of a firearm. prib |
A couple of name changes and people not doing their homework before laying out the cash. We have a local guy who sells them, I would love to hear what he actually knows/ says about them. |
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If you looked at toad's web page, and still ordered after seeing the lame 6th grade look of it, you deserve a malfunctioning weapon. I wouldn't order a sheet of notebook paper from a business that has a page like that. To the original poster, don't fear. Just send back in for warranty. 
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I've had no problems!  Here's my review of my Coharie Arms CA5-10 10mm SBR. |
Right. You got it from Vector:
I'm glad you got a good weapon, in the end. |
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Interesting stuff on Todd Bailey and SW from ripoffreport.com ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff55501.htm Check out this product review on the SW5. Scary!!! arizonaresponsesystems.com/notes/sw5/pagesw5.htm Here's a range report I found a while ago. The link is now not working. Check out this thread on a guy that ordered a SW45X from Tactical Weapons* Inc : http://www.awbansunset.com/forums/vi...id=5888&page=1 Range Report 1: My SW45x may be more valuable than I thought! Not only does it have the collectible distinction of the TB signature 'boot cut' in the receiver, it may be California legal as it appears to be bolt action! Out of 100 rounds, this thing correctly cycled and fired two rounds in a row three times. Every other time I had a FTF. I plan on polishing the magazine lips and the feeding ramp to see if this improves things. I'm sure as Hell not sending it back to the moron that made this. If he can't make it right in the first place and thinks it's alright to ship a firearm that has a random cut through it's receiver then I don't trust him to do the job right given a second chance. On the up side, the Full Sized pistol he orignally shipped did function, but was all over the target. I had the trigger pack for the correct gun (the one I now have) done by Bill Springfield who I found through HKPro.com boards. There is no take up, no over travel, reduced pull weight, and a crisp break. Even though I had to load each round individually, each round hit the bulls-eye. I credit Bill's work for this as it's almost a precision rifle grade trigger in that thing now and it sure took a lot of wobble out of the firing process. My Suppressed (AUTHENTIC) HK USP Compact .45 fired like a champ. No malfunctions and eerily quiet (I used Break Free CLP as a wet medium at the range this time). I went from having one of the loudest guns on the range (the unsuppressed .45 USPc) to the quietest. I couldn't stop laughing maniacally. So yeah. SW45x-k? Shipped with a machine cut through the receiver and doesn't function in semi-auto. Pretty much speaks for itself. Range Report 2: Same failure to lock-up properly, only worse. Now the bolt jams so far back the extractor spring is almost centered in the ejection port. Also, I'm now having the occational stovepipe. The casings are still getting scarred to hell and I have to load one round at a time from the top of an empty magazine which sometimes goes properly into battery. This thing is the biggest piece of S*** I've ever owned when it comes to guns and the most expensive piece of S*** I've every paid for in any category. At least the full-sized pistol he sent ran. I would give this gun to my worst enemy for a dual and feel perfectly safe. Another fun observation: So I'm going over this thing in detail tonight and I notice a few things I can't believe I missed before 1) The metal 0-rings that the top Receiver/Stock pin goes through are welded to the receiver on the top, but not on the bottom. There is a 180 degree gap in which you can see into the receiver (and out the other side through the moon shaped gap of the other ring). I'm fairly certain there are supposed to be WELDS there. 2) The inside of the receiver looks like it has herpes in strips. These are where the rear sight was welded on so poorly it created bubbling damage inside the receiver. 3) There is a 10th of an inch play up and down at the front of the triggerpack when in use. This is resulting in triggerpack function failure (the hammer sear fails to properly be released from the trigger to engage the hammer: A triggerpull feels normal, but the hammer doesn't fall). 4) The inside of the receiver has rust spots all to hell. I know I've been taking care of this thing so they must have been there when it was made and shipped. Only the exterior of the receiver is finished, the inside has flecks of paint that made it in through the ejector port or when the lower portion of the exterior was finished. 5) Some of the trigger pack components are bowed, rough as a mountain range on contact points, or rusted. In short, I'm amazed that I've had this thing this long and continue to find defects in it. It seems to me a good gunsmith couldn't make a firearm this poorly if he tried. |
| I've got a rare one that works. If you want to sell it cheap drop me a pm or if your so inclined head over to HKPro.com you will find the answers you need to make it run. Usually an extractor spring and ejector arm fix'em up right up. Sometimes you have to shim the trigger pack and occassionally you need to replace the extractor. As always YMMV. Jeff |
All under the corporate guise of BOHICA international. |
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I really like the looks of the S&W 76 subgun clone they make. I was all set to purchase one, but as always, before I buy, I do some reading. The forums had nothing but horrible, horrible comments on this company and their products. Too bad, I'd like to buy that gun... but to worry it'll blow up in my face everytime I pull the trigger, how much fun is that? |
Naw, not a fair comparison. I don't have any more concern firing a Glock than I do an AR. And I don't know why, I guess that Glocks just feel solid enough to me. With so many in use, you'd have to expect a couple failures, even the AR is guilty of that. Maybe Kel-tec would be a better comparison? Now those things scare me. As for the SPESHUL WIPPONS guns...  To call them "semi-auto" seems to be blatant false advertising. I can't really find anyone who hasn't had feeding problems, and we're not talking one model, but anything they've ever made. Thats an amazing track record. |
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I have SW5 that Jayson at IGF built. The cocking tube is a little off but NO FTFs, NO FTEs, nothing. It will digest everything. The only thing that pissed me off was that Jayson used his sear on it and fired 300 rounds on full auto through it. At least he told me he did it I guess. 
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Quote over at HK54.com Todd Bailey: "Our parts are closer to spec than HK themselves!"  I have several HK pistols and such. Only one, the MP5, is ever stopped working. It broke a roller retainer plate once, after 6 or 7k rounds. Once I cleared the plate out it ran fine. Thats it, nothing else. My failure really didn't even effect the operation of the weapon. I haven't bought any SW crap and don't plan to. Frankly, I think he has a worse rep than Hesse Arms. Go ahead and sue, Toad. When your shit actually works more often than not, then you might stop reading these posts slamming your trinkets. I mean really you have nothing to stand on. Let say everyone in the industry has build issues like you do. Parts out of spec, vendors and subs can't build a part to the drawing, etc, etc,- fine. If that's the case then that sucks but your Quality Control folks should catch it before you send it out- its that simple. From the number of posts with the same comments I would wager that SW doesn't even have a QC department. If they do, they should all be fired. SW is a comedy for everyone except the poor saps that get stuck buying them. |
It's the whole MP5 look. Hell I almost brought one and I know they suck. Still wanted it anyway....took every ounce of sanity I had to finally say no. EVERYONE wants an MP5, they are probably the "coolest" looking guns if you took a poll. So no matter how much they suck, unfortunately that jerk off will always have a buyer who cannot control the urge/impulse to own a knock off MP5 at a fraction of the cost. I also think everyone that buys one thinks they will finally get "the" one that works. I still can't figure out why someone hasn't cornered the market on this weapon and made one that actually works. They'd make a friggin bundle. |