UTAS 15 major failure

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I have had a uts15 for a couple years. Unfortunately I don't have the time to shoot all that often so I've only taken it out about 3 times. It has always had an issue with not extracting low brass shells. High brass shells it cycles ok. Today I was at the range with a friend, I brought some old CIL Imperial 2 3/4 #4 and it was cycling fine. My friend brought some Federal Canadian Tire on special low brass shells that jammed all the time. So badly that we gave up on the Federal after only 2 rounds. The federal did work faultlessly in my friends Mossberg 500. While my friend was shooting the tiny welds that attach the lower slide assembly to the barrel broke! So the gun effectively split in half. Fortunately no one was hurt but I'm a little up set that a high dollar "tactical" shot gun failed so miserably.
Has any one else had problems like this?
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I picked it up at my local club CRAFM. I don't have anything negative to say about them, always have great service over there. The failure happened at an outdoor range. I will probably bring it to them to see if something can be done. Its probably out of warrantee but I find it ridiculous that a basically new gun would fail so badly. It also looks like the chamber is a little deformed, perhaps that explains why it would only cycle high brass. Ive seen posts about them not cycling well but haven't heard of barrel / slide separation before.
 
Sorry to hear about your trouble with the UTAS. I would take it back to where you bought it and ask them for help. That is what I did with mine ;)
 
UTAS are known for being bad! Even FPSRussia says it's the worst gun he has ever had the displeasure of knowing!
Sorry about what happened. Hope the store makes it right, then sell it or trade it for a Mossberg, Benelli or Rem!
I was eyeing one at my LGS as I like weird and unusual guns but for over $1200 and its track record, it can stay on the shelf. If I want a 2x4, I'll get a 2x4!!
 
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No experience with these but what I've heard something about a faulty welder at the factory and the early batches having weak joins. I'd imagine that you'd have to take it up as a warranty issue.
 
I had the exact same thing happen to mine, I have it on video :).
If you contact the nice folks at Wolverine , They should be able to help you out.
There were a bunch of bad wields in the batch that mine came in.
 
I went to CRAFM today with it and they said the person in charge of warrantee claims wasn't in but she would get back to me soon. I have never had any problems at the club so I believe them. I believe that the club bought a batch from wolverine when they imported a lot of them. They also tracked the exact date of purchase and found that it has been slightly over a year since I purchased it. Hopefully Utas won't cheep out and refuse service because it's out of warrantee by a few days.
In any case I am still disappointed with the gun. In my opinion a tactical shot gun should be like a commercial toilet, accept any crap you put in it. I should have been more insistent on having the failure to cycle some types of shells resolved when the problem was evident since day one.
I must have one of the early ones with bad or nonexistent welds and the chamber must be mis shaped as we'll. Lets hope customer service is a whole lot better than quality control.
 
To be honest I've never heard a good thing about the UTAS. None of the reviews have been good and the only time I've been at the range with one it jammed up and broke before I had walked over to see it in use. I guess it isn't exactly constructive but I'm just kinda surprised by their track record.
 
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There were a bunch of UTS that were only tacked , and not wielded.
Wolverine is aware of these . Just phone them and I a sure they will make it right.
They gave me a full refund , no questions asked.
I had a second one that I tried out . They sponsored a UTS road show.
But buy that time I already owned a KSG.
Just give Wolverine a call.
 
Thanks Slowpoke,
I bought a 1911 long slide from Wolverine a few years ago they had great service. I will wait to see what my local club can do for now but its nice knowing I may have a plan B. At this point a refund sounds really nice. Could put the money towards a KSG, Black Aces or that one that Kevin M just reviewed.
 
I have a few KSG's and I have yet to have issues and I have put them through allot of tests. Just one thing I would say is just try to get the second production model because they fixed the issues from the first production run. Having said that I'm definitely not saying the first run is bad, but they weren't perfect like the second run.
 
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