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Automatics that just don't "do it" for you

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A few come to mind for me.

SA XD/HS2000: I'm starting to love polymer pistols, particularly HK and Glock, but the XD is something I never clicked with. It points fine,shoots fine, but theres just something I don't care for. Fo a point and click gun, the Glock fills that niche for me. It's a heavy sucker for a polymer pistol too, the thing is really front heavy.

S&W Autos: With all the other great platforms out there, I never warmed up to the S&W Autos. They look cool admittedly, but when I went to hold one out of curiousity, it didn't feel very refined.

Kahr: I LOVE to concept of a PM9, but reports of non-metal reinforced polymer frames, I can't chance it at a gun that costs more than a Glock but less value than a G-lock.

Taurus: I view them as the clone company. They copy all the good designs out there innovated by other companies. The PT92, PT1911, etc... no thanks. I rather get the real thing

CZ: This may be surprising since I'm pretty open to good platforms, but for some reason the CZ line never sparked my interest. I think they're fantastic pistols, but the urge to buy one never came. I shoot them OK, but I have other platforms I prefer.

Makarov: Cool little pistol, built like a tank, but kinda unrefined. Gotta pass.

Ruger Autos: Ugly, clunky, unrefined, brute. It's not that I can't warm up to it, I'm not even gonna try with a Ruger pistol. Again, other platforms I'd MUCH rather have than anything Ruger offers for their centerfire line. I might pick up a MKII/III someday, those are cool. Probably the platform it's safe to say I'll never own.

Steyr: The trapezoid sights are NOT an innovation. I scratched my head wonder *** the engineers were thinking when they decided to put those sights on the pistol.
 
XD doesn't fit my hand well at all. Not a fan of the look, either.

HK doesn't fit my hand well either, though I like the looks.
 
Glock. Butt ugly, that weird trigger, and I hate the grip angle. I own a Glock 20 because it's a good platform for a fighting 10mm. And I do love 10mm.

Sig. Yawn.


All S&W autos. Horrid things.
 
The Five-Seven.........

good caliber/good concept, but the platform, I mean geez, could it be any uglier? Plus the design overall looks like a bb gun or something from a low budget sci-fi flick on USA's Rhonda Up All Night.
 
Another one that just can't warm up to a Glock...I got a G19 and it is a fine gun, but just does not fit me as well as my 1911's or a Sig 228

I like the idea of the XP, but again just does not feel right in my hand. Most Smith Autos except the original Model 39, I did like that one.

P89/90 series of Ruger, just do not fit my hand.
 
I guess I just don't get any autoloader with an exposed hammer.

I like a lot of revolvers, and I have to respect the 1911, but other autoloaders with hammers just don't do it for me. Even if you want a light trigger, there are plenty good designs without an external hammer. If you grew up shooting a 1911, then a hammer is natural, but otherwise it's just a useless extra step.

I've had so much more practice with DAO / striker guns that I feel perfectly safe with them without a safety, but if I was going to carry a 1911-style gun I'd just leave the safety off and maybe leave the chamber empty.
 
Even if you want a light trigger, there are plenty good designs without an external hammer. If you grew up shooting a 1911, then a hammer is natural, but otherwise it's just a useless extra step.
Until one gets very familiar with the internals they'd say that. Once you understand how the 1911's trigger assembly directly trips the sear you'll understand how nothing can have a comparable trigger.

As far as autos that don't "do it" for me the HK full size USPs have always been intereesting to me on paper, but that interests dies upon handling them. Large frame - as in 45 ACP/10mm - Glocks are just too big for me. Rugers, other than the P345, are great guns, but they're just too bulky - particularly the metal frame ones. Taurus poly frame autos have also never done anything for me.
 
Kimber Series II
Sigs
Ruger automatics
Any pistol with MIM parts
Any pistol with needless parts (firing pin blocks, etc)
Any manufacturer that jumps on trends, fads, etc.
 
More than I can list ...

... but a few come to mind.

- Ruger Mk Is and its descendents with tapering barrels. Tapering barrels annoy me -- they make me think of the point at which the barrel sides, extended further, could converge. I want a barrel to be close enough to a perfect cylinder that my eye doesn't know otherwise :)

Yes, this means I can't appreciate the perfect and true beauty of Lugers -- the .45 prototype had a straight barrel, though, right? :)

- Many S&W 9mm autoloaders of the (1980s?), the 910 in particular. They just look awkward to me, like someone heated the prototype and torqued the grip too far forward before it was set up for production.

timothy
 
FWIW, I have never seen the attraction to Glocks & HK's. I've shot a Glock rental and was unimpressed & handled an HK and it seemed to have strange ergonomics to me.

You can put Kahr's on this list too. Expensive and bland looking, not to mention the owner of the company being a cult leader.

It's funny, some of the auto-loaders that other members have put on this post as disliked, are the very guns that I like the best.

"One man's meat is another man's poison", I guess.
 
S&W and Ruger autoloaders. S&W should stick to revolvers only and Ruger, well,nevermind.
 
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