Posted on 03/14/2015 5:24:28 PM PDT by DonPaulJonesII
Freepers, please accept this as a warning to avoid purchasing firearms manufactured by Cobra Enterprises of Salt Lake City UT.
I will summarize my experience in the hopes that you will not repeat my experience. In early February 2015 I purchased a Cobra Enterprises Big Bore derringer (CB9) in 9mm. After completing the purchase through my favorite FFL dealer I took my new pistol home only to discover that once loaded the barrels would not lock into firing position. Unable to trouble shoot the problem myself I had to spend $68 to send the pistol back to Cobra Enterprises for repairs. Keep in mind that this had to be done on the same day of purchase.
Five weeks later my pistol was returned to me. Now if this was the extent of my experience I would have let it be but it was not. During the very first time that I loaded and fired the weapon I found, much to my chagrin, that I could not extract the spent casings. No amount of effort succeeded in removing the spent casings.
I try my best to buy American whenever possible but it is my duty to inform the general shooting public that, for whatever reasons, Cobra Enterprise firearms must be avoided at all costs.
At one time I owned well over 200 guns, most of them handguns.
I would guess in my lifetime I have probably had over a thousand. I did a lot of trading and swapping.
I have owned several Jennings and every one was totally reliable tho it would not surprise me if someone had one which wasn’t.
My carry gun most of my life has been either a 1911, a Browning Hi-power, a Sig P226 or a Glock 17 or 19. Many others would do as well.
I am getting to where I don’t do much hiking but when I did, I usually would just put a Walther PP in .22LR in my pocket. It doesn’t hit hard but it hits hard enough.
There are plenty of reasons to carry a tiny gun, most of them being for back up.
If someone was holding a Beretta Jetfire in .25 auto on me, the last thing I would try to do is take it away from him. If I did, he just might put 7 bullets in me for my efforts.
You didn’t use +P ammo, did you?
I think honing the cylinders might work. Try measuring the depth of the cylinders first to make sure they’re deep enough.
Interesting that you would mention the Sterling .22. If I had to name the worst gun I ever owned it would probably be the Sterling. I bought one after reading an article in one of the gun magazines praising it to high heaven.
Also the fact that I had owned an Italian made .22 auto which the Sterling was a knock-off also influenced me. That little Bernardelli was a jewel.
My Sterling never fired more than one shot at a time. That is right, it had a 100% malfunction rate.
**That is right, it had a 100% malfunction rate.**
Same for mine. Even sent it back to the company and they did not fix it.
Load a magazine, place it in the pistol, pull back the slide, let go and an instant jam every time.
Probably the second worst gun I ever owned was a Parker .45 auto. New, it had about an 80% jam rate. I returned it to them and I noticed they did a really high polish of the stainless steel barrel where it touched the barrel bushing or slide. I can’t remember now if it had the standard bushing or not.
Anyway after they had worked on it, it was much more reliable. It then only jammed about 10% of the time. It would sometimes go through an entire mag without a malfunction.
Try steel cased ammo. It doesn’t expand like brass cased ammo does in an ill-fitting chamber.
Steel-cased solved an extraction problem with a friend’s Indian army surplus Enfield where it took excessive force to eject brass cases.
Academy Sports (local here in Texas) carries Monarch ammo as a house brand. It’s Russian made, steel-cased and uses a copper-washed, steel jacketed round that worked perfectly in my S&W 9mm (until it fell out of the boat.)
Caliber is 9 X 19 mm
Ammunition used was Winchester white box 115 grain FMJ target rounds. Not +P.
Hammer was in the half cocked position so that the safety could be engaged to unload the weapon.
No, I did not use +P. I used Winchester white box 9mm 115 grain FMJ.
Several people have told you what to do to correct it.
First make sure there are no burrs etc on the mechanism which extracts the shells.
Next wrap some 600 grit polishing cloth around a wood dowel. Constantly turn the dowel in the same direction until you have a high polish on the inside of the chamber, being very careful not to lengthen the chamber at all.
If you have a cratex tip and are careful you can polish the chamber to where the inside is just plain slippery.
Also be careful not to polish to long at any one spot.
The 9mm has a fairly sharp taper so should be pretty resistant to sticking already so I would guess you have a really rough chamber or really hot ammo.
I gave my wife a PP in 32 My son took the H&K P7 I am a smith revolver person
Stick with proven products, there’s a whole graveyard of US gun makers who produced nothing but crap.
Your Son made out like a bandit, but I too am a Smith guy.
“If someone was holding a Beretta Jetfire in .25 auto on me, the last thing I would try to do is take it away from him. If I did, he just might put 7 bullets in me for my efforts.”
I got one of those for my 16th birthday. 50 years later I still use it as a BU gun in my car. Fine little firearm.
The Hi-Standard 22 LR semi-auto is a really accurate firearm. Used to train OSS back in the day, and then later models well into the 60’s. But... they are not small like a close in derringer.
Alternatively, a Walther 380 with special rounds is small and quite deadly close in.
Its concealability,multi shot capacity and surprise value are better than nothing. If you want a step up in quality go to the Berreta 21A Bobcat. I called it my ATM gun at least until that damn canoe tipped over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpRM-IKl8-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsrE8wpuEw
Wait, you forgot about the Lorcin. Yeah, the Lorcin it was REALLY the worst.
Bersa makes a very good copy of that PPK 32acp. It has never jammed or failed in any way in the first three hundred plus I’ve put through it. But get good ammo for it if you intend to carry it. I like mine so much I bought a laser to fit under barrel for it. As an aside, the CZ82 is the best small gun I own. And I won three of them and have given several to family members.
I like my small Beretta Tomcat in.32acp - very concealable. And also the flip barrel is a great feature making it easy to clean.
PS - it’s loaded alternately with Glaser Safeties and Hydra-shocks.
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