Diamondback 9x19

[SonnyCrockett]

I like Jeff Quinn take on them " Don't use cheap ammo and cry cause your gun don't work" LOL

FACT

[packingvol]

Update on my DB9...

After doing a lot of reading about feeding problems (primarily the nosedive issue), I decided to clean up the DB9 give it another go. Most people suggest that after firing (or fighting to fire) about 200 rounds, these guns appear to break in and have fewer failures with feeding. I even read suggestions to cycle the slide manually a few hundred times to help break in the recoil spring. I did a little of that, loaded up some ammo that appeared to feed well (115gr Remington JHP) and some 125gr Zero JHP. I also took a box of 124gr HST and 124gr Gold Dot. These are ALL standard pressure loads, the handloads were loaded as lightly as I can with Unique.

I got through 100 rounds of hand loads, no feeding problems, flawless performance. I was getting excited.

Shot through most of the HST and Gold Dot, again, no feeding issues. The trigger pins did some walking, but that was expected since I haven't put loc-tite on them. After getting pretty amped about a failure free DB9 range session of close to 200 rounds. Click, bang, mush.... no trigger!

Trigger failed to reset, and will not reset by pulling back on the slide. I couldn't field strip it easily at the range, and CC's range is so dark I can't really see anything on their firing benches. It's in the bag waiting for inspection and cleaning when I get home. I was on my last magazine of HST when this happened. I'll be calling Diamondback, and it will be making a trip back to them. Looks like a lot of other reports of trigger problems are popping up around the interwebs (I just spent almost 30 mins reading multiple threads about this issue on DBs own message board). Dunno. Be nice if it worked, but this trigger issue has really put another major damper on ever being confident enough in this design to carry it.

[Guest RandomHero]

Grip reduced and a comfortable shooter. Zero failures to feed after 100's of rounds. No stovepipes or failures to eject... only has light primer strikes with cheap CCI primed aluminum cased TulAmmo. Primers are overly thick/hard if I had to guess. Cheers guys.