New PF9 with new issue

[TOGO]

Last weekend I bought a new PF9, after a detailed cleaning I took it to the gun range to run 250 rnds through it. I brought a box of American eagle 124gn, a box of winchester white box, a box of Federal from wallys and a box and half of my reloads with hornady xtps. In just about every mag change my first round in would FTF, in every case there was a very light primer strike, think I had about 12-13 of them total. I guess it needs to go in for repair. I really hate baring the cost of shipping for a manufacturing flaw. Ok I am done whining.

[Graybeard]

So ask them to issue a call tag for it. Nothing lost by trying and who knows they might. I've found most times with a brand new gun if I ask they send a call tag and foot the bill on the shipping.

Sounds like a magazine problem more so than a gun problem. If you have two mags does it do it with both? If ya don't have two why not? Seriously I would try another mag before shipping the gun.

[spruce]

From reading your post I'm assuming in your case FTF means failed to fire, not failed to feed?

If so, it may not be the magazine causing the problem.  Before I sent it in I'd look around on the ktog site and maybe post the problem there. 

I have no first hand experience with the PF9, but from what I gather they sometimes need some break-in time and/or what the ktog'ers refer to as a "fluff and buff" to make them 100% reliable.

If you'd rather not tackle working on it yourself then I'd definitely call and ask for a shipping label.

[Spirithawk]

Two things come to mind right off the bat. Kel Tec usualy recomends a 200 round break in period. After firing 250 rounds, through a brand new gun, have you tried recleaning it before jumping to conclusions that something mechanical is wrong? Second, is your mention of using some reloads. Kel Tec says that the PF-9 can handle +P loads but in moderation. Just how hot were those reloads loaded? If pretty hot then firing a lot of them through the new, barely if broke in at all pistol, could have possibly caused damage. First thing I'd do is clean it again, cheap shells or reloads easily could have crudded it up fast, and try again before jumping to conclussions. If there is a real problem then Kel Tec will definitely treat you right. Let us know how things turn out.

[TOGO]

I fixed the issue I was having after doing a little research on KTOG. I pulled the firing pin and spring out of the slide, I ran pipe cleaners in the channel, there was a fair amount of machining trash in the firing pin hole, I could see why I was getting light strikes on some of the primers. I re-cleaned the entire gun, went to the range yesterday and ran 100 round out without a burp.

Yes, I meant to say failed to fire.

GB, I have 3 mags for the pistol