What is the worst gun you have ever owned?

[lonegunman]

In my college days I bought a Llama IX-D, double stack 45. It was made of wrought iron or maybe tin? After less than a box of shells the barrel bushing popped out of the soft metal slide, the slide lock bent like rubber and the locking lugs started shaving off the barrel.

The factory repair was awful and I sold it. The good news was that the mags worked in a Para-Ordnance and were 1/2 the price.

Llama apparently is spanish for Jennings.

 

[nick295]

Smith and Wesson 22a, terrible gun. It would jam up constantly, worked better with high velocitys but then had some bad accuracy when using those.

 

[redneck2]

Davis derringer. When the hammer was down, the firing pins rest on the primers... So that, or you carry it with the hammer cocked and no trigger guard.

Other worst was a Savage rifle in .223. Trigger pull was well over 10# and it would not fire any factory ammo. Chamber was too tight. Tried three different brands. I used a copper brush with some solvent on a drill and it kinda worked better, but never right.

 

[tinygnat219]

Any of the 7 Taurus products I have owned.

Kel-Tec P40.

 

[Keegan]

Walther P22...FTF, FTE, stovepipes.

SAME. Except I still have mine for some reason. I should sell it to someone I don't like.

 

[Hokkmike]

Single shot lever action 20 gauge shotgun.

 

[foghornl]

Had a few over the years....

Worst of the worst was a Century (GROAN!) CETME....had every failure you can think of...

Failure to feed / fire / extract / eject / return to battery.

For the 18 months I "owned" it, it spent 17-1/2 months in 1 of 3 places..in transit to Century Service, at Century service, in transit to me from Century Service. Finally sold it to a buddy for a parts-only gun at less than 1/2 of what I paid.

Even way below Super El Cheapo snubby .22LR DA revolver..RG brand don't remember the model. Could not hit a 9" paper plate beyond 2 Yds...thats right...6 FEET away.

F.I.E. "Buffalo Scout" knockoff of Colt SAA style .22LR/.22Mag. Sent more lead sideways than downrange.....when it actually bothered to fire a round.

 

[brerrabbit]

Taurus PT24/7 chambered in .45

Slide pull was crazy heavy and it shot to low to correct for. On the other hand it only had one misfire and that was with Wolf ammo.

 

[32winspl]

A Charter Arms (I think) AR-7. It was a true CHS ... Can't Hit well, Squat. The only thing it did as advertised was float.

 

[csmkersh]

A couple of top break .32 S&W Shorts of unknown manufacture. Traded ASAP.
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[CYANIDEGENOCIDE]

bushmaster pistol jams like nothing i've ever seen, not only that but pushes bullets into the case, bends brass, keyholed something fierce (return trip to bushmaster fixed that) i really expected more for $750

ruger mark III 22/45 really accurate and reliable gun except its god awful to take apart to clean, and the cheap plastic (not quality polymer like glock or smith) handle that doesn't interchange with any other mark III angers me greatly, pins drift out all the time and the springs and other pieces are wearing out the plastic. pure crap! i knew i should have bought the browning.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

1. Taurus PT945 - broke extractor on second shot, had repaired, after repair still would not fire two consecutive shots. Traded in on SIG P220.
2. Para-Ordnance P12-45 - could not even disassemble for initial inspection/cleaning, rarely got through a single magazine without a failure to feed, chewed hole in my hand. Traded in on Glock 30.
3. SIG Revolution Carry 1911 - failed to feed on second shot ever fired, broke an extractor, shed firing pin safety parts on the range floor. To their credit, Sigarms paid for most of the shipping back and forth and replaced the gun after its third repair ... but the replacement developed compromised thumb safety engagement and the front night sight stopped glowing. Although the bugs seemed to be out of it after this repair and it actually shot quite nicely (provided I used Wilson magazines), it had too much baggage and I sold it.

But I repeat myself ...

 

[30 cal slob]

ruger p85 9mm pistol. while it worked, wasn't that accurate.

s&w 4506. same as above.

walter p22. damn thing didn't work after 50 rounds.

knight's SR15 "M4" model (.223 carbine). continuous failure to charge after 1,000 rounds or so. something about the m4 feed ramps. dumped it, got something more reliable.

 

[give]

the bottom of the barrel for me was a jennings.380,what a piese of crap,after firing it 8 times the firing pin broke,seems noone carried replacement parts for it either,guy at the gun shop told me i would be better off with a sharp stick,lol

 

[brighamr]

I haven't had a bad, or "worst" gun yet... maybe I just research too much before buying?

Good thread though, makes it easy to know what to avoid

 

[BullsEye10x]

AMT Backup .40
It ate recoil springs like candy - literally a magazine or two and the spring would fail. I went through 3 of them before finally giving up. It also had a nasty habit of throwing brass straight back in my face when using 180 grain bullets

 

[knifestuff]

Mauser Hsc (in stainless). Was amazed at how bad this was--jams/failures to feed; magazine was self-ejecting (normally after every 3rd round), and gritty long trigger pull. Worst gun I've ever owned and it was a commercial Mauser!

 

[RustyShackelford]

used old Taurus model 82 .38spl...

A few years ago, I made a trade from a used S&W model 19 4" for a older used Taurus model 82. The .38spl model 82 was nickeled and had no hammer spur, . It worked well for a few months but then the cylinder started to bind and I had problems opening it. I used this revolver for armed security work and knew it could be an issue, .
I sold the Taurus 82 soon after.
In fairness to TaurusUSA, they do repair or replace used firearms but I decided not to bother with it. My friend and former co-worker had Taurus replace his old model 82 revolver with a brand new 66 type .357/.38spl, . He still has it and likes it a lot.

RS

 

[benEzra]

Have never owned a bad one.

I have sold two because they didn't meet my expectations, though. One was my 188-series mini-14 Ranch Rifle, which would shoot no better than 6" at 100 yards. I sold it and set the money aside for an AR.

The other was a NAA .22LR mini-revolver with the 1 1/8" barrel. Well-made little gun, quality was top-notch, surprisingly accurate for a gun with a 2-inch sight radius, no failures of any type, mechanically fascinating. But having bought it primarily as a snake gun (we lived in the ultra-boonies at the time), and having a small snake slither off into the grass after shooting it from 2 feet away with a CCI shotshell, I realized that (1) .22 shotshells don't do crap out of a 1 1/8" barrel, and (2) if it doesn't incapacitate a 12-ounce snake that is only an inch thick, it won't do anything to that 6-foot eastern diamondback that lives in the woods next to the driveway. So my S&W 9mm became the new snake gun, and I sold the .22 to fund the purchase of a nice Polish M44.

 

[LiquidTension]

All three Marlin Mod 60s and my Kimber Pro Carry are jammomatic POS. The Kimber has been to the factory three times now and it appears to finally be working correctly. The Marlins are hopeless.

 

[Hanzerik]

LiquidTension, I'm surprised you have issues with your Mod 60's. Mine is an older one, but with when I keep it clean it runs really reliable. They seem to get dirty pretty fast though shooting the federal bulk ammo.

I would have to say the worst pistol I had was a little Davis two shot derringer. Thing was pretty accurate at about 8 feet, past that and it was a pattern instead of a group. But it was a reliable gun and when bang when commanded to.

 

[Headless]

Smith & Wesson model 22A. Jammed constantly. Funny, someone else said this too

 

[brentn]

Well I like all of my guns, but if I could say that one was not very reliable it would have to be the 10/22 target that I own.
Its got a bull barrel with a match chamber, so i'm not expecting 100% reliability with regular rounds, but it seems that I get a jam in every 10 rounds to so. Either a stove pipe, double feed, etc, all kinds of crap. Its not a gun that my friends can shoot and have a blast because I'm always fixing a stoppage.
I shouldn't blame the gun, i'm using butler creek 30 round magazines and winchester white box hollow points lol.

 

[jerkface11]

Ruger 10/22 "target". Constant stove pipes and FTF's but at least it would shoot 2 MOA at 100 yards.

 

[siglite]

springfield 1911 "custom loaded."

Thing was a boat anchor.