what's the "most displeased with" gun you ever bought?

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AT-84 ... made the cover of one of the gun magazines and I *had* to have it. On its best day, it might, might fire two rounds without some failure or other.

Back to the importer, returned with a note saying I was limp-wristing it. Yeah, right, blame the customer.

I'm still ticked off over this and it's been 20 years... grumble, mutter, ... I flat-out HATED that piece.

(and for extra credit, compare and contrast with either of my Makarovs which just keep on truckin')

Owen
 
PT 145 (not Pro)

bad trigger, hard to control


I did have a Jennings 380 though and it shot fine for ten years, wasn't half bad for accuacy either.

*maybe I got the only one* :p
 
WOW!

I was surprised to read all the responses...

Thanks for some great info on guns I've drooled over on the cover of some magazine but didn't know anybody who had one...

And specially for the "guns-on-a-budget" deals I've almost gone for...

The Kel-Tec sub 2000 was just such a gun purchase...

Saw it on a tv show, saw it on the cover of a popular magazine, read about it in an article, saw it at a local shop for under $400, went home with it, shot it off, and was a little... unimpressed...

Not a bad gun or a POS, just not for me...

As my sig line states, I love them all...

jim
 
on my 18th birthday i ran down to the pawn shop and bought a chinese shotgun ( i forget the make and model). i remember that it did not have the firing pin safety that the msbrg500 does. the result was powder burn every time i shot it. i never could get the bolt to close fully. good news though! i bought it for 100.00 from a pawn shop in florida and was able to sell it for 250.00 at a pawn shop in cali.:neener:
 
TIE:

Colt Mk IV Series 70 Government Model. Look up the word "Jammamatic" and if you have a good dictionary, you'll see a picture of this gun. Worse than the pistol itself, dealing with Colt's :cuss: warranty NON-service made me vow never to buy another Colt product. :fire:

Kahr P9. Multitude of problems. Kahr replaced the pistol (unlike Colt's, Kahr has some ethics) but since I still resented being an unwitting beta tester, I traded the new replacement for a Glock 26. (The Glock works.)
 
Jennings 22

Always fired the first shot... sometimes all of them at once.. when it fired...
 
Phoenix Arms HP22.

Huge piece of junk. The hammer snapped in half within 20 rounds.

I send it back to the company, and it happened AGAIN.

This was a brand new one.

Now it's sitting in a box. It's not worth the money to have it fixed again...
 
I've had 2 that were real pos's the first was a AMT dao backup in 380. The trigger pull was about 25 lbs and I never got a full magazine thru it with out a jam or misfire. I sent it back to the company twice and it came back the same way it left, I tried several different brands and types of ammo and none of them would function. The second was a Cobra 38 spec derringer, again the trigger pull was off the scale and it shot 2 feet low at 10 feet after 5 rounds the upper barrel will no longer fire. I called the company and they said that it was covered by a lifetime warranty I that if I would send it back to them and pay shipping both ways then they would fix it free (the shipping was more the the guns was worth ) so I asked if they would pay shipping on an obviously defective product and they said no. So Now I have a gun that if someone were to break in and it was my only means of self protection I would just throw it at them. It does make a great paper weight but that's about all. rugerman
 
I bought a used Ruger MkII Government (at Maryland prices :rolleyes: ) that turned out to have a problem:
When the barrel and reciever heated up to about 100 degrees on a sunny day, the barrel would be able to rotate in the reciever from about 11:30 to 12:30. :what:

Luckily, Ruger replaced it for free, but I had to pay shipping one-way and for the new MD background check, the store didnt charge me for their services as they sold me a busted gun.

Kharn
 
Llama Mini-max

Hit in the glasses with flying brass, when I could get the POS to fire.

Sacrificed to the gun gods on a 60lbs. anvil with a 16lbs. sledge. Trust me I did the world a favor. The stress relief gained from destroying that POS probably added ten years to my life.
 
HankB:

"Colt Mk IV Series 70 Government Model.."

Mine did the same (1978). Turns out I needed to have the feed ramp and ejection port modified. (I think that's the correct terminology.)

Anyway, it functioned flawlessly after that. It even feeds lead semi wadcutters.
 
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hiwayman...

I haven't heard too many nice reports about Llama's mini...

Still, I can't believe you killed it for jamming and putting spent brass in your face... I would have sold it to somebody like me for real cheap... :)
I CAN relate to the feeling of sledgehammering something to death:evil:

Shoot safe, shoot often, shoot to kill...

jim
 
Taurus PT99
Good thing It has a lifetime warranty, I have certainly used it. Lost count of the Number of times I have sent it back (4-6 times I think :cuss: )
I got it as a Birthday present from my Dad one year, I am still reminding him about that!:p
 
Beretta 92. Horrible trigger.

Hmmm...the ex I bought it from had a horrible trigger, too. Could these things be related???
 
S&W Model 28 Highway Patrolman, 6" bbl, .357 mag.

Spit lead... at me, at the guy next to me, at the target some too. Awful gun.

My father had at the time (still has I think) a smith model 24 barrel, and we were considering rechambering it to 44 Spl, but I unloaded the gun before we got that stupid.

That Model 28 is still sitting at the gunstore, almost 12 years after I traded it for my beloved Dan Wesson 709.
 
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