Anyone know how long a new Jennings would last?

I wouldn't buy a Jennings. The hipoints are cheap like jennings but the difference is that they are well built with a great wearranty at the expense of looks.

The jennings will get you laughed at the range.

Seriously, how much are you wanting to spend? If you want to spend like 130 dollars, I would much rather go with a PA63 or something like that over the jennings.

 

Top end maybe 750 rounds. I had a jennings in 380 years ago and after 500 or so it was falling apart. Total trash. Spend the same money on another hi point and have something.

SW

 

+1 i refuse to bash a jennings, because who knows, they may have a larger forum than this one dedicated to the firearms... maybe they have found the flaw, remedied it, and have dependable mouse guns. I believe jennings cannot be sold here in SC due to the melting point, but i may be incorrect. There's my $0.02

 

The difference being that the hipoints are built well even though they don't look all that good. The jennings do look ok but are failure prone. Even the people who own them admit that they aren't the best of guns.

 

My whole point is that if you are looking to spend about 150, there are a lot of decent low-end guns out there that you could get besides the jennings.

 

Get a CZ82....

 

I would choose that cz82 any day over a jennings.

 

The HP can be repaired for free, if you ever have any problem with it, and the Jennings might be able to be fixed by Jimenez arms... maybe.

 

CZ 52's are cool...got one of threm also.
Got mine back when they were $89 before shipping...

 

I may have missed it in this thread, but what exactly is your budget for the gun?

One nice thing about the CZ52 is cheap ammo if you buy mail order.

http://www.aimsurplus.com/acatalog/1980_s_Brass_Case_Romanian_762x25_Surplus.html

119 dollars for 1224 rounds.

 

Oh man, say away from those Jennings!! The other day I was at the range and a guy a couple of lanes over was shooting a Jennings. He only got off a couple of rounds before the slide flew off and bashed him in his forehead. :shock:

 

For 200 bucks you could get a nice CZ52 and ammo to go with it. They are built like a tank and except for the firing pin will last practiclly forever.

Nice pistols, I had owned two of them still have one and loved both of them.

(I would buy a spare firing pin or two if it were me)