I was in a gun shop back around 2003 and saw a few of those $100 Hi Points, 9mm's and .380's. So I was thinking that they would make a great floor board gun, and could also double as a boat anchor when fishing, so I bought one of the 9mm's.
The next weekend, my Son and I were out shooting rabbits with our bows, but we were using regular field tips, not broad heads. I shot this one big old jack and he ran into a wash and laid there squealing, so feeling bad about it, I handed my son the 9mm and told him to dispatch it. He was standing up on the edge of the wash, probably 10' or so above the jack, maybe a tad higher, and fired the first shot, which missed. Hmm, I laughed at him for missing it, and he then took careful aim and missed again. A third shot, same thing. So he handed the pistol to me, to which I too missed. I finally had to get down in the wash and had to practically shoot the rabbit point blank to hit it.
The next day I went out to my shooting spot and set up a target to see just what was going on with this 9mm. At 15' it was all over the paper, and the holes were showing evidence of tumbling also, seriously I mean like 6" or 8" in any direction, completely unpredictable. Just accepting that this gun was terribly inaccurate wasn't enough for me, so I decided to shoot a couple of cartridges into some water filled containers so I could take a look at the lands and groove transfer. What I discovered was that one side of the bullet had good barrel transfer, but the other side was almost completely smooth. I managed to shoot 3 rounds before the water container was too empty to serve as a stop, but all 3 had the same transfer marks, or rather the lack there of. These were my reloaded JHP's that have been accurate out of all my pistols. I gave the gun to my son to try out, so he shot a few factory Federal Hydra Shocks through it with the same exact results on a phone book, from point blank range of course.
So I would have to definitely say that my 9mm Hi Point is the worst gun I own.
GS