 Hey there friends, thanks for checking in today We're going to discuss four handguns that completely let me down in a big way These are handguns that I wanted to keep and enjoy for years and a couple of them started out great But over time they just didn't work out So let's take a look the greatest disappointment I had was from a Smith & Wesson performance center model 19 carry comp K frame revolver with a three inch barrel The features are great. It has a compensator on the end of the barrel that decreases the recoil It has a tritium front dot a Adjustable rear sight rosewood grips beautiful looking revolver and when it shot it was a great revolver But what happened was the trigger locked factory loads It was off-camera the trigger just locked the hammer was locked if I release the cylinder a little bit that would That would unlock the trigger, but this revolver clearly had a problem, and I'm not a gunsmith I don't know how to Hey, I don't have springs laying around. I don't have a bunch of parts laying around where I could Get it all working right and say oh I fixed it It was something that was foreign to me the trigger locked up I've never had this happen on any revolvers that I owned I was so excited to get this revolver Loved the rosewood grips loved the way it looked loved the way it shot when it shot So what happened was I contacted Smith & Wesson said hey, I've got this problem here. It was off through email I was totally ghosted, and I figured for a revolver of this quality and this price That it should perform a little better, but I wanted to give them a chance to fix it That's the fair thing to do and I was ghosted and I did not receive a Contact back it was Disappointing to me and I eventually just sent it back to them and said here you deal with it And it was a disappointment for me This was the revolver that I wanted to hold on for a long time It was the revolver that I felt met all my needs You know I love that compensator on the end and I thought it really did decrease recoil But the way this performed for a performance center it was a performance let down and I was so disappointed that I Could not I could not wait to get it that I could not wait to get rid of it and Smith & Wesson's quality control has really dropped in my opinion, and that's why I'm down on them And I know for fact I'm not the only one that feels that way This has been going on for a while, and I think they really need to clean up their act I've always appreciated sky for making decent handguns at budget prices It hits that market where people want a handgun, but they don't want to pay a lot of money They may just be getting into this and they decided to go with the sky and I've had decent luck But when they came out with the DVG one David versus Goliath I was excited that came out with their first Striker fire hang on opposed to the hammer fire with the long trigger pull a flat trigger and a ten-round magazine and I thought it was cool, and I wanted to get a hold of one Well, I got a hold of this and it was a bit disappointing first off the trigger measures right at six and a half pounds Sky says it's a five and a half pound trigger. All right, whatever the sights were off to the left a little bit All right, I can live with that too. They are adjustable But what I can't live with and what really bothers me is that the slide will not lock back Even if I force it back like that it won't lock back you can see a big gap right there and 95% of the time when a sky handgun has issues It's with the magazine and I wish sky would make the investment possibly work with Metgar to make better magazines because I think guns function fine It's just that the magazines are most of the issues that I have seen and experienced And I think it is with this now if I push this up You can see the big gap there if I push it up with my pinky there It'll lock back. I wanted to love this handgun I just don't because of this issue now on occasion at the range it will lock back but sometimes it doesn't either and Some may say it's a minor issue, but I don't think so. You know, it's Something that we rely on for mag changes. So that's my beef with the DVG one. Maybe I got a lemon, but That's what I'm talking about today. It just doesn't function the way it should. I'm a huge fan of Beretta I love the Beretta handguns. They do a great job. There's no question about that And I was super excited when they came out with the APX line I had a couple shot some friends and they all performed really well and I picked up the Beretta APX carry the little subcompact 9 millimeter that was great when I first got it it fired excellent I was like this thing is awesome. I love this and many people said well That's just a nano rebranded and I said no, no, this one's actually better. It does this it does that Well, it sat in a safe for a little while I took it back to the range and I had nothing but light primer strikes people said well You should have cleaned out the striker channel. You should have done this You should have done that perhaps that's true But if a gun is considered a carry gun, which this is then I think if it sits for a little while It's gonna sit in the holster. That's for sure You know until you actually need it or you decide to take it to the range The light primer strikes were excessive to a point where I had zero confidence in the gun now The other APX that I have owned and that I currently own have performed great So I'm not down on the entire Beretta APX line and I'm not down on Beretta But the way the APX carry performed when I took it to the range. I lost all confidence in it. I Changed up the ammo. I tried it with other guns that same ammo and it worked fine with Other handguns when I put it back into the Beretta APX carry. It was flawed. It was horrible So I contacted Beretta had a little issue with their customer service Okay, it was during COVID time and everything else But that was another gun I could not wait to get rid of because when you lose confidence on a Gun that is supposed to be a carry gun Then that's an issue and there is no way you could carry that or even think that It's going to perform reliable in the future with such a background as Continuous light primer strikes. I often consider this star BM9 a mini high power similar controls steel frame Has a four inch barrel similar takedown Single stack mag and it's it's a nice handgun when it works the problem I had with this and it started out great. I was raving about this. I was saying people are picking this up for 200 bucks It's a steel for the everything that it offers with the metal handgun accurate shooting Military surplus never in the hands of the civilians. It's a Spanish gun but I had Ejection issues and major league and I tried different types of ammo and so forth But these ejection issues persisted and so in order to Get this taken care of I would have to Essentially buy another BM9 and pull out the ejector and put the new one in I'm not sure. There are a lot of replacement parts for these And it 200 bucks. It's kind of a throwaway gun. So that's my beef with the BM9 It started out great that all sudden ejection issues. You say, well, why don't you just handle it? Well, I'm not great at that stuff I wish I was but I'm just not and For me, this is a let down those were four handguns that let me down the smith and weston model 19 performance center Awesome features, but it just didn't work out with that trigger locking up the sky dvg one Nice concept for some reason. I think I got a lemon the burrata apx carry started out great like primer strikes Just didn't work out and the star BM9 military surplus I get it, but I can't trust it. 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