This is /k/ related, but I couldn't find a handgun general thread and wasn't sure my questions merited making a thread for them.
I got a Keltec P17 yesterday. It was sort of an impulse purchase. I had the transfer done at a store with an indoor range, so I swabbed out the bore, just in case there was any kind of preservative or whatever in it, put a couple drops of oil on the slide rails, and tried it out. Slide movement felt a little bit rough and it made a sound like a tiny high-pitched zipper when I cycled the slide, which worried me, but it did go into battery.
Slowly and painfully I put 350 rounds through it. I was almost convinced it was a lemon when I left. I was getting constant failures to feed, extraction, and ejection problems, plus failures to go into battery. I thought CCI "Clean-22" would be the perfect stuff to break it in with. I had thought they'd fixed the problems with it. Stupid me. The only reason I didn't tell the store to return it as defective was that when I tried Mini-Mags, it mostly ran. It shot really low when I got it out of the box, but the sights are adjustable and I was able to get it zeroed dead nuts on at ten yards, at least with Mini-Mag solids, which encouraged me a little.
I got it home and cleaned it very, very, very thoroughly. I and put some SOTARacha lube on the slide rails, barrel hood, recoil spring, and so in, and this morning I went to the range with it and a few boxes of Aguila, Armscor, and a partial box of Federal Automatch. I put 250 rounds through it. It ran like a raped ape with the cheapest, dirtiest ammo I could find, short of Remington Thunderbolts, and I am halfway tempted to get a carton of those the next time I'm at Bass Pro Shops to see if it chokes on them. It is accurate enough that at the end I was hammering out head shots on a silhouette target at ten yards as fast as I could find the front sight and press the trigger, with 100% hits except for the ones that made oval holes. I didn't even have any duds or stovepipes, which is unusual when I shoot more than a handful of Automatch at once. It did start keyholing toward the end. The rifling looks a little shallow to my eye and there are chatter marks on the tops of the lands. When I pull a bore snake through it there's noticeably less resistance then with my Ruger Mk. III. I just cleaned it again and put more lube on it. I may go to the range with it again tomorrow.
Things I like:
trigger is surprisingly smooth for something with most of the fire control components being sheet metal stampings
front sight is fiberoptic
rear sight is adjustable for both windage and elevation