What is the worst gun you have ever owned?

[moooose102]

thats easy, i was GIVEN an old rusty montgomery wards bolt action shotgun. what a p.o.s.! even after i fixed the cracked stock, polished off the majority of rust, cleaned the heck out of it for most of a week. it still worked lousey. i could hit a tin can fom about 30 feet. but a moving target was a whole different ball game. and racking the next shot, was, well lets just say, it did not rack smoothly AT ALL! i ended up selling it for $40 bucks to somebody. poor guy.

 

[alemonkey]

I've regretted every gun I've ever sold.

Worst was probably a nice Fox SxS double. Best shooting shotgun I ever had - I could kill pheasants like crazy with that thing, but I had a lot of problems with the ejectors and with the firing pins not striking hard enough. My gunsmith couldn't get it working reliably so I sold it. Now I really wish I'd taken it to someone else and got it fixed correctly. I miss that gun.

 

[esq_stu]

High Standard Sentinal snubby

 

[macadore]

I was given a Marlin model 60 by a friend who could not get it to eject. It would pull the spent case into the action and jam. I eventually gave it away for the same reason.

The worse gun I currently own is a PA63. The slide frequently stops about ¼ inch before fully chambering the round. I have not shot it much, so the problem may eventually work itself out. If not, I may replace the recoil spring and see if that helps.

 

[2nd 41]

Sig Mosquito.......my cap gun was more reliable

 

[Mark K. C.]

Mine was a Davis P380. Three different gunsmiths worked on it over time for a multiple of problems. The final straw was when my daughter had to dig slivers of brass out of my hand after trying to clear another stovepipe jam. That gun will never be touched by human hands again.

 

[czbegenner]

High point 9mm

 

[CHAINGUNMASSACRE]

An Ariminius SAA clone. Worked fine with .38's, but it broke EVERY TIME I fired 357 through it. Cylinder locked up, one time the exractor assembly flew off, rod, spring, the whole housing. A total POS.

 

[ThomasT]

A Charter Arms AR 7 Survival Rifle. If you used it the only thing to survive was the game you were trying to shoot. You would have starved to death.

 

[Vaarok]

MAS-49/56 somebody tried to modify with a McCann conversion kit. They installed it wrong so the bolt would literally smash into the hammer and wedge itself half-open.

Twenty minutes and a spacer washer later, it worked without fault, and I sold it for twice what I paid.

 

[lee n. field]

This comes up with fair frequency.

Me? A tossup between an FIE .38 derringer and a Jennings J-22. A gunshop gave me $30 store credit on the FIE, and I gave away the broken Jennings. Those are the bottom of the barrel.

 

[Joshua C]

My Remingotn 597 .22 LR....... jammed on every fully loaded magazine I used.

 

[tmajors]

Bryco (also known as Jennings) .380. Absolute crap. Bought it when I didn't know anything about pistols. Thing fails to fire most of the time, and when it does fails to eject. Only reason I still have it is waiting for a gun buyback to unload it for some cash.

 

[jackdanson]

I've always made sure to investigate enough before buying something... If I had to choose it would be my century ak.. canted sights suck.

 

[AlaskaErik]

Kahr PM40. Utterly unreliable. Always jams up. Factory of no help to me. No more Kahrs for me.

 

[physics]

My XD .45 likes to lock the slide back mid-mag. Unfortunately, it only does it when I'm not expecting it to. I've sent it back once, they replaced the extractor. Still does it, as my last range visit showed. I cleaned it up really well, and will see if maybe it was just dirty. Otherwise, I'm not happy.

Oh yeah, Century is a bunch of monkeys. Trigger slap HURTS!

 

[.cheese.]

Kahr PM9.

Had I stuck through it longer though, Kahr would have replaced it.

I will be buying an MK40 or PM40 though soon.

I was just impatient with the PM9.

 

[45Guy]

I bought a Remington 710 in .270 when they first came out. Worst rifle ever! Sold it a few years ago. It had atrocious recoil, the scope came loose after less than 10 rounds, and the action was VERY stiff. I had to literally smack the bolt handle to lock it down.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

It was a Mitchell Arms in .22 mag - looked like a really nice rifle, but it threw shotgun patterns and failed to ignite the primer about 2 out of 5 rounds.

 

[Funderb]

all the semiautos.


depressing how much ammo they eat. might as well drive an SUV 5498743543523 miles every week,

 

[Kitchen_Duty]

Walther P22. Couldn't hit broad side of Rosie Odonnel's Butt (i'm not the best but it was horrible). FTF, FTE, stovepipes. Traded it for Kel-Tec PF-9.

 

[aomagrat]

Rossi 357 magnum revolver. The first time I fired it, when I opened the cylinder to eject the brass the cylinder fell off and rolled down range.

 

[JohnnyOrygun]

My first 9mm was a hunk of junk. I can't totally remember the name, but I think it was a tangfolio... I know I am not spelling that right, it was a cz clone made in Italy, but it wouldn't feed two rounds in a row. I bought it brand new, but didn't realize that I could have sent it back in and be worked on, so I traded it straight across for a 10/22, which was used and I am afraid not much better then the tangfolio, but I think it was a magazine problem as it had an after market 30 round magazine. I know lots of people have great things to say about Tangfolio, but that one I had was worthless... I had a really hard time getting rid of it, because everyone knew it from my troubles at the gun club.

Anyhow thats my experience.

 

[1858remington]

I've had 2 bad ones, both from excellent manufacturers.

First: a colt 380. one of those ones that look like a mini 1911. It was very compact and being a colt, I thought it would make a fine carry gun. problem is: wouldn't feed any ammo reliably.

Second: A ruger vaquero in 44mag. It was one of the first production vaquero's. Bench rested, or with a 2 hand hold it shot 4 inches to the left and 6 inches low. I still bought another vaquero... the 3.5 inch bird head in 45colt... and it shoots right on target.

 

[sm]

Revolver: RG 38spl that was part of an estate sale.

I will not identify the names of the following:

Semi-Auto: I won a custom 1911 from a known custom shop some years ago that at the time had a MSRP of $2,100, similar gun is now pushing a $3k MSRP.

Pump Shotgun: I have won some of these, and tested others of which I have busted a total of 9 to date.

Semi-Auto: I won some, and never even took these particular models out of the box, instead traded them for what I wanted.

Another "model" I had 4 fail, and one was serious.
Lady Luck showed up when the receiver and barrel cracked and let loose.
Don't ask, as there was some litigation settled out of court and I for sure cannot comment on these.