Name your biggest POS handguns.

[spoofer]

amt back-up 380 =Jam

 

[stevereno1]

pheonix 22. what a piece of crap!

 

[stevereno1]

also had a p-85 you could pull the trigger with the safety on, and the hammer would move 1/2 way back, then drop hard. It also shot chronically low. traded it and $100 for a glock 17, and havent looked back since.

 

[mpc12]

Early Taurus Millennium PT-111 9mm pistol. Not the pro model, not worth my time. It was a reliable pistol, if you could pull the trigger...

 

[GaryP]

The worst for me was a Wesson Arms 738P made in Palmer, Mass. I would not go as far as to label it junk but it was a poor design.

 

[KelTecian]

I owned a Sig 1911 Evolution and a Kimber 1911 Raptor...both of which I had the highest of hopes for, but after a thousand rds or so though each and a couple hundred dollars in gunsmithing, I sold them both...bought an AR-15 instead and a diamond ring for my old lady :-\

 

[Ala Dan]

My First Handgun Was The Only POS I Have Ever Owned

Arminus 8-shot .22 LR snub nose revolver, called the "Burgo model"

An inaccurate, heavy piece of pot metal~!

 

[Rexster]

ODI Viking, Kimber Classic Custom, Kimber Classic Custom, Kimber Stainless Gold Match. The Kimbers were the "early" ones, not the later ones with the extra internal safety. The first two Kimbers were made right, with large applications of time and money. The last Kimber was just horrible. Needless to say, I will never waste money on a Kimber again.

 

[Bowwave]

Springfield 1911A1 (Un)Loaded

First foray into 1911s. Thought it would be last. Special order - upon inspection, tool marks abundant. Addressed that. Extractor improperly tensioned. Fixed that. Cranky with various mags, including factory. I got concerned. Customer service non-existent. Sold it.

 

[DENALI]

S&W 360 PD, 5-rounds through the brand new mini-mag and the cylinder flew off the cylinder crane when I ejected the brass, I mean a 770.00 POS......

 

[steak-knife]

Beretta 21a. I suspect that I got the lemon in the batch. It was a jam-o-matic....blah, blah, blah.

Fortunately, I got my money back, and thereafter I could not get myself to trust a gun that doesn't have an extractor.

 

[dhoomonyou]

Kimber pro carry2, POS
jam o matic, cracked frame, lousy cust service, DENNIS is a nasty person.

 

[lance22]

Only one POS - S&W Sigma from the early 1990's. Ergonomics were great, just too bad it falsely called 'semi-auto'.

 

[Vanzpp]

While they have improved considerably over the years, my vote would have to go to the first generation Smith Sigma series.

Total garbage.

 

[Vanzpp]

S&W 360 PD, 5-rounds through the brand new mini-mag and the cylinder flew off the cylinder crane when I ejected the brass, I mean a 770.00 POS

Did Smith repair it under warranty?

 

[The_Shootist]

Bersa Thunder .380

I must have gotton a lemon because after a couple trips to the gunsmith STILL either jammed - trigger mechanism wouldn't engage, etc.

Tossed it in the safe, bought a Makarov, haven't looked back.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

SIG-Sauer GSR Revolution Carry. The problems started with the second shot ever fired through it - a nose-down failure to feed. Wilson 47D magazines fixed this, but it still had constant failures to return to battery. I sent it back to Sigarms and they polished the feed ramp. This helped some but did not cure the problem. Then it started failing to extract. The hook broke off the extractor. I sent it back a second time. Then I shot it some more and suddenly noticed the "manhole cover" (a little threaded circular plug in the slide) was missing. Further examination revealed that the firing pin safety plunger in the slide was also missing. I sent it back a third time. They gave me a new one.

The new gun (sans "manhole cover," I noticed) was much better, functioning OK with hardball and Winchester Silvertip, but would not feed any 230-gr. JHPs. The insert in the Novak front night sight went out. And the thumb safety engagement became compromised - the hammer would move forward slightly if I squeezed the trigger with the safety engaged, then, when I thumbed down the safety, the hammer would fall to half cock. Back it went. Through the last 200 rounds it has not had any more problems provided I use the Wilson magazines - BUT - if anything else breaks I am going to declare "enough is enough."

I will give Sigarms credit for replacing the first gun without my having to hassle them, as well as for sending me prepaid shipping labels for all the repairs except the first one.

 

[Pat S]

A Colt Mustang plus 2. What a horrible gun! Continual failure to feeds with any ammo I tried. Sent it Colt for repair and it was no better when it came back.

 

[outdoorman63]

a smith model 915 in 9mm, it was junk,it jammed all the time and had bursts of full auto

 

[jr4521]

kel tec 380 a very stinky POS!

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Any gun made on Monday or Friday.

Seriously though, I had a late production Grendel P10: the tack welds holding the right frame rail to the block gave way, cracking the polymer frame. I know of three other Grendel P10s that ran fine: all lower serial numbers than the one that failed on me.

Change that caveat to: any gun made by a company with a new owner only interested in making fast money on the cheap.

 

[Werewolf]

Any gun made on Monday or Friday.

You are joking but I can tell you from having worked in QA management for 7 years that there is much truth in that statement.

 

[kermit315]

Smith and Wesson Sigma .380. couldnt hit the broad side of a barn from the inside

 

[kentucky bucky]

REI? .41 mag revolver (wouldn't revolve reliably, shot shotgun patterns )
RG .22 revolver (real stinker)
mid 80's S&W mod 60 (shaved lead like crazy which caused it to lock up)

 

[tinygnat219]

Anything Taurus.