What is the "nicest" gun you really hated?

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HK P7 PSP. Beautiful gun. No import marks. 98%+. Accurate with a great trigger. This was an older one without the heat shield by the trigger guard. After 2 mags at the range, it was too hot to shoot any more. If I can't shoot it at the range then I wasn't interested. Too bad, I wanted one for years and finally got it. It was too nice to be a safe queen. I loved that gun but couldn't shoot it so.... off it went.
 
Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special.
Always wanted one, the one I bought was not as ergonomically comfortable in my hand as my bone stock Colt series 70 and I was nowhere near as accurate with it as my Colt. Sold it to a local Air Force airman who was foaming at the mouth to buy it.
Benelli M2 Field 20g,
great shotgun, nice and light, shot dozens of blackbirds with it, could not warm up to the black plastic and matte finish. And when shooting anything other than target loads it recoiled as much as my 12 g. The day I shot 3" buckshot loads, I decided it was time to go.....
 
I had two -

First was a Mauser Hsc in .380. I've actually owned 2 (plus an Hsc Super). They fit my hand well enough, but the recoil bit into my hand and both were finicky about ammo. And field stripping was a pain. They were beautiful guns, just didn't work for me.

The other was a early 4 digit Detonics Mk I .45acp. It was one of the nicest carry guns I ever had, just had a better chance hitting the target by throwing the gun at it.
 
Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .270 with a Leupold scope on it. I really wanted to like it, it originally belonged to my Dad's best friend.

Kicked like a mule, didn't group well, had various minor issues with it. It was one problem after another. After hunting with it for several years, I finally retired it, got tired messing around with it. Went and bought Marlin XL7 in .30-06 which has been a very good rifle so far.
 
CZ 75B .40 S&W Tutone, beautiful gun that would not shoot WWB ammo. Another CZ, a 75B Compact 9mm was just unreliable with most ammo. Now I am sure that I could get either one of these to run with the right combination of ammo and recoil & mag springs, but I never had patience with finicky guns. Traded that CZ Compact for a new Gen3 Glock 17 and this one shoots everything well, so I never looked back. I would like to get anther CZ 75B someday to prove to myself that one of these can run right for me.
 
I have to say my Kimber 84M Select Grade in .260 Remington. Beautiful little rifle that really feels good to hold but shoots like doggy-doo. 4" groups are the norm. What a waste of beautiful material and talented engineering!


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My Ruger Security Six .357 Magnum, 6" is the firearm I least care for in my collection. The grips are WAY too skinny and the double-action trigger pull must be at least 50 pounds! It's a fine shooter in single-action with hot 125-grain loads but the uber-skinny grips make it unpleasant no matter how it's fired.

It's too bad, because I think it is a much better-looking firearm than the GP series.
 
I wouldn't say I hate it as I haven't given up hope yet, but my Freedom Arms 97 has not exactly melded with me. I think it is the factory micarta grips, but I just can't hang onto it or get consistent accuracy with it. I'm hoping to get some custom grip panels made this coming year and we will see. I can tell the potential for awesome accuracy is there, I just gotta mate it to my hand better.
 
Had a Miroku made Winchester 1885 low wall in .22.lr. A lot of fun to shoot but the absolute best I could get out of it was 2 - 3 inch patterns at 25 yards. Tried everything from CCI Green Tag to Eley red box, and had a new crown on the barrel but it just wouldn't shoot. I really hated getting rid of it but it had to go.
 
My first ar-15. Came with a 26" hb and 4" compensator, with an a2 upper with non-removable carry handle.....all that barrel wasted because there is no good way to get a scope on it....

It's got maybe 100 rounds through it, I need to put a flattop upper on it and figure out what twist rate the barrel is. I'm guessing its too slow to put to good use, but who knows. Meh. At least it can be parted out and repurposed.
 
1. My 586. Extremely inaccurate out of the box. Smith finally fixed it after multiple trips to the factory over a dozen years...and some $$. Shoots good now.

2. .270 Rem 700 BDL. Recoil was quite uncomfortable; which was odd as I had the exact same gun a year newer in .30-06 that never bothered me. Swapped off my .270. A few years later I thought I may have been imagining things and tried another .270 Rem 700 that an acquaintance was trying to sell. Same issue.
 
CZ P-09 Duty 9MM. I thought it would be a love at first shot thing. I have it's little brother the P-07. More-or-less the same gun. The P-09 is just bigger. The P-07 is my EDC.

Just could not love the thing. I didn't like the way it felt, couldn't shoot it for spit. It had to go.

Traded it for an old S&W 1950's model 14.
 
Mauser

A few years back I picked up a numbers matching 1938 K98 that was very nicely sporterized (I know, slap yourself on the forehead but I wasn't the one who chopped it). It had a beautiful maple burl stock with ebony fore end and niedner buttplate, was cleaned up to a 400 grit finish and reblued, and the action was slick as butter. I was so excited to get it out to the range and then I fired the first shot...wham! I felt like I had been punched in the face by George Foreman. The stock had a high rollover comb as if the owner had planned on mounting a scope so I had to get real low to line up the iron sights. I fired two more shots to check accuracy but couldn't stand it any more. What a shame, I had three shots just over an inch at 50 yards. I'm still on the fence what to do with that rifle...it's too beautiful to sell so I'll probably trade it for a once in a lifetime offer if one ever comes my way. I haven't fired it in 7 years.
 
locnload said:
I picked up a Walther PPK 380. Figured it was a step up from my old Bersa Thunder. It jammed way too often on FMJ, and couldn't get through a mag with three or four different types of hollow points, and it was miserable to shoot. I sold it and went back to my Bersa, and never looked back. :)
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My "nicest" gun I hated was also a PPK in .380. It was a beautifully maintained Interarms PPK,and I had none of the mechanical issues you had. It fired reliably, and with relative acuracy. It was more of an issue with the way it fit my hand. It kept catching me at the same darn spot on my thumb, and more than a box of ammunition fired would have resulted in a "bone bruise".
 
1922 ? Browning .380. Lusted for one for years. Shot it twice, bandaged up my hand and sold it.

Bought three new Colt 1911s over the years, never got one that worked for a whole mag. Never again.
 
I traded a nice GP100 for a Colt Python. I wanted a 4 inch revolver for work at the time. You could not hit the inside of an outhouse if you were sitting on the hole, the door was closed, and the light on. It got traded off right quick. Sure miss the GP100...chris3
 
Springfield EMP...the second one.

The first was such a nightmare I sent it back. Several months later, Springfield sent me a new s/n. It was just as bad as the first.

I dreamed about that pistol for quite a while, and saved up my money to buy one. The first one was a total POS. The second (factory replacement) wasn't much better. I sold it (after two trips back to Geneseo) with full disclosure, and lost a lot of money on that deal.

I'd still love to own one that worked correctly, but something I learned as a child still runs through my mind...

Bite me once, shame on you. Bite me twice, shame on me.

I can't even stop to consider what "bite me thrice" would be. So I won't.
 
Bad guns

My 1st was a S&W 469 9mm that I bought from a friend. Accuracy was horrible. Next was a Ruger Ranch rifle, I really wanted to like it but it just wasn't accurate enough to be fun.
 
silicosys4 said:
My first ar-15. Came with a 26" hb and 4" compensator, with an a2 upper with non-removable carry handle.....all that barrel wasted because there is no good way to get a scope on it....

It's got maybe 100 rounds through it, I need to put a flattop upper on it and figure out what twist rate the barrel is. I'm guessing its too slow to put to good use, but who knows. Meh. At least it can be parted out and repurposed.
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You could have the bbl chopped off at 20" while you've got it out to replace the receiver anyway. Make it a lot more practical.
 
I had a Detonics Combat Master .45--back in the days when they were the only game in town if you wanted a compact .45 Auto. Wonderful little gun, except the mag well was so oversized the mag follower would ride past the slide stop and jam the empty mag in the gun.
 
Mauser hsc, older version shot great, finish was outbid this world for such an old gun, but god almighty at the trigger slap! Never thought a .380
Would hurt to shoot worse than anything else
 
Springfield Armory Loaded Champion. Malfunctions to beat the band. Tweaked, replaced parts, all worked short term. I know their CS is s'posed to be the best in the business, but at that point I had a sour taste in my mouth. Something that expensive and hard to find should have been more reliable out of the box. Not necessarily 100%, but more than what I got. Again, sour taste. Traded, with full disclosure, for something that was worth less on paper that I really wanted.

Still bought an EMP, but was loathe to sweat all over such an expensive gun, it became a safe queen so I sold it. Sweat all over a Glock instead.

Not a 1911 hater, had a Taurus(!) that never gave me a lick of trouble, though I did sell it to a friend to fund something else. Had also gone straight to the source and picked up a Colt's Government Model that has yet to fail me.
 
H&K USP .40, Full size. I suspect it had to do with the fact that I wasn't much of a shooter at the time I owned that gun, but blech.
 
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