Comments on: Kel-Tec PMR-30

By: Liberty4Ever

Liberty4Ever — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:05:59 +0000

Clean it every 100 rounds? You couldn’t shoot four magazines without cleaning it. :^)

I want one of these bad, but unlike Caleb, I’m cuckoo for Kel-Tecs. Not their pocket pistols, but everything else they make. What I really want is a PMR-30 in .22 LR, and a .22 WMR version with a 10″ barrel. The .22 magnum is a rifle cartridge and it doesn’t perform well in a short barrel. You get a lot of noise but not much velocity. With a 10″ barrel, the ballistics would exceed the much more expensive FiveseveN pistol with its much more expensive and less available ammo.

By: Caleb

Caleb — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:25:44 +0000

Yeah, .22 Magnums is/are dirty as hell. I’ll clean it every 100 rounds.

By: Shootin' Buddy

Shootin' Buddy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:11:45 +0000

Just tell us that you’ll keep it clean . . . the gun that is.

My how gun boards threads will start out “I done lost me an eye ’cause somehow this here pistol gun done exploaded all over my face. I never clean my .22lr, or my teeth.”

Groan, not looking forward to the civil litigation on this thing.

By: Hank

Hank — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:33:46 +0000

I’d like to see one in 22HMR. It should be an easy enough conversion.

By: Jay G.

Jay G. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:43:28 +0000

Uh, Alan?

By: Wolfwood

Wolfwood — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:48:56 +0000

I like the idea of bringing it to the indoor range…

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By: Caleb

Caleb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:49:07 +0000

Maybe I can leverage that into actually a T&E gun out of them.

That’d be AWESOME. This is one of those guns that I want for no other reason that it looks like it’ll be fun as hell to shoot. It might make a decent trail gun, assuming that they’ve managed to overcome the reliability issues that plagued it’s predecessor.

By: pdb

pdb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:15:37 +0000

Oh yeah, it’s got Caleb written all over it. They might as well have called it the Caleb-30.

By: alan

alan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:08:16 +0000

Show of hands: How many people KNEW Caleb would love this pistol?

By: pdb

pdb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:59:00 +0000

If it was in .22 LR I’d be down to my nearest 3 funshops to put deposits down on it, bit in .22 Mag it’s just idiotic. Why would I shoot $10/50 rimfire ammo in a gun no sane person would carry when I could shoot $11/50 9mm in my daily carry gun?