Biggest handgun disappointment.

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..for me was an H&K USP .45. It had an LEM trigger, nights sights, and I paid $800 something after tax. Nothing more than a glorified Glock 21 with a heavier price tag. Apparently I do suck, and HK hates me!
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Roger that.

I saved for years to buy a USP Tactical 45 for my 21st birthday. Money doesn't come cheap for me, but after all that research, I thought it would be $986 of money well spent to do it right the first time. Right out of the box I noticed the loaded chamber indicator didn't work. Ran one mag through it and got numerous FTF, with the slide failing to go into battery by 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch. Tried numerous loads, gave it 800 rounds to break in, but problems persisted. Multiple attempts to contact HK and have it serviced were less than successful--they apparently regarded me, as a civilian customer, as vermin, because they always did their best to get rid of me. Pistol collects dust now. I replaced it with a Glock 20 that has been twice the pistol at half the cost. HKs contempt for the American civilian market continues, and I regret only that I spent money on them in the first place.

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The Beretta Tomcat in .32 caliber has been a great disappointment. I bought one for the wife (she liked the size, feel, and the flip-up barrel operation). The trigger failed after 66 rounds, and we never did get a magazine to run smoothly without numerous FTE and FTFs. It also took weeks to get Beretta's customer service to acknowledge multiple phone calls and emails. They can brag all they want about 500 years of firearms history, but a whole bunch of someones were asleep at the switch when the Tomcat was a) designed, and b) the one I bought rolled off the assembly line.
 
I bought a Beretta M-21A just to throw in my pocket for a quick trip to the store. I still have it and haven't fired it very much.Maybe it needs more rounds put through it,breaking it in. This thing has been the biggest Jam-o-matic I have ever owned.Quite a disappointment from Beretta. This is my first Beretta and don't put much faith in their products.
 
i had the same problem with my beretta 21a.

you cant blame the engineers at beretta for forgetting to put an extractor on the thing.

anybody who works in a factory can tell you white colloars dont have what we call common sense.

do what i did:
grad a dremel tool, cloth polishing tool and some fine grit lapping compound. polish the feed ramp, chamber, magazine lips and interior magazine body to a mirror sheen,

also, inspect the frame rails and slide for burrs and toolmarks, polish them out too.
give it a few hundred rounds for break in, and it should run fine, i know mine does now...

one last thing, m21a are very sensative to limp wristing. hold on to that sucker nice and tight!
 
Ruger P90, back to Ruger 3 times, each time returned with itemized list of repairs, replaced everything but slide,frame and barrel. Never functioned reliable after 10 rounds. factory said they only load and fire 5 rounds for a repair test. I finally replaced the recoil spring with a special order 26# 1911 spring. Worked better, at least enough to trade straight across for a marlin 1894 carbine.
 
My first 1911 style pistol was a Brolin arms. I bought it back in 1993 for $275.00. The thing could not get through a magazine without a FTE. It has been all Colts for me since that fiasco.
 
Gee,...I don't feel to bad about my "cheap KelTec's" now at all,.....my P3AT get's carried almost everyday, never misses a pop with FMJ's OR Federal HydraShoks,...and my P-11,....does what it's supposed to do,...be ugly,...and go bang when I pull the trigger,...it gets carried a lot to,...same deal, FMJ's and Federal HS',.... Over 1,000 rounds through both without any hitches that I haven't experienced in much more expensive pieces,....including Walther's and Beretta's,....
 
My biggest disappointment with a handgun was buying a Ruger Blackhawk in .357. Turns out I very much dislike single action handguns - it was a nice revolver, I just hated it. :)
 
The CZ-52 was a huge disappointment to me. For ~$100, I got a large, uncomfortable, inconsistent, potentially unsafe, jammomatic range frustration (not toy, definitely) that was unpleasant to shoot for long strings because of the recoil impulse and sharp trigger edges. In comparison, for $135 I got a Makarov PM that was more reliable, accurate, useful, and able to be converted to .380ACP w/o the skills of a gunsmith. The only kind of 'tank' the CZ-52 resembles are the WW2 vintage ones that Saddam buried in the Iraqi sand. I wouldn't take a CZ-52 now if you paid me.

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my biggest disapointment is my Springfield Armory loaded parkerized. its a fine pistol, but the grip safety, and thumb safety are fitted for function only. the thumb safety is sharp and uncomfortable, and the grip safety is a 1/8 inch oversized and was not blented into the frame at all. considering the reputation and price point these pistols have, i was expecting more.
 
Uberti "Cattleman" peacemaker-clone in .45 LC.
Can't shoot 150 rounds without breaking some spring or other
Chamber mouth dimensions erratic
So "faithful to the original" I strongly suspect it being made out of IRON
 
Ruger Blackhawk in .44mag. Probably should have tried one before buying. Hated the buckhorn grip...especially with a heavy recoiler. The sights were crap too...compared to my S&W .357. Oh, and the trigger was heavy and scratchy.

"For me, it's a tie:

1.) My S&W M&P 9mm. It doesn't run. I have had many FTF and FTE with it, including a bunch of double feeds. (So far, my best experience with it was the one magazine where I only experienced one stoppage. It is usually more like 6-8 per magazine). I had to order it, as they didn't have a M&P 9mm in the shop. I didn't notice before I left with it that when a mag is seated in the magwell, if you press on the magazine's base pad just a little bit, you can rock the magazine back and forth. Also, the slide has not once locked back when the magazine is empty."

You should send that one back to S&W. I've only read good things about their customer service.
 
Beretta Tomcat .32. I wanted to like the little pocket auto, but having to send it back to factory within 1 week for a firing pin that fell out of the gun at the range broke my confidence in it entirely, traded it in toward a S&W M&P 360 snubby .357 when it got home from factory.
That was one hell of a good decision

really is a shame because its a neat gun, and it fit in my hand quite comfortably for such a small gun.
 
the oly arms version of the Whitney Wolverine. The magazine was almost impossible to load, when you did finaly get it loaded, it jammed consistantly (both stovepipes, and rounds getting reversed in the magazine)...and required a call to Olympic Arms to reassemble. The day I bought it, I spent about an hour at the range and only managed to fire 20 or so rounds. Huge dissapointment, and huge frustration. I had very high hopes for this one.
 
Walther P-22 . . . bought it, shot it, re-cocked it, shot it, re-cocked it (after I cleared it some more), tried it a on a few more occasions, repeated the same disappointing evolution, traded it . . . and I RARELY part with a firearm.
 
The two Para .45's I owned. Neither would fire more than 100 rounds without function problems.

Replaced both of them with...

You guessed it: a G37 and a G38 and I haven't looked back since.
 
My biggest disappointment was my first handgun. It was a Ruger Blackhawk It was too much gun with too little grip.
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mine was a .44 mag in the early 70's. It was a hundred bucks less than a Smith if you could find a Smith in .44 mag during the "Dirty Harry" craze. Same problem, too much gun and not enough grip. Altho it felt uncomfortable in the store. I figured I would get used to it.....I was wrong. Hurt my hand so bad when I shot it, I don't think I got more than a coupla boxes of shells thru it before trading it for a SXS 20 ga.

Don't get me wrong, Ruger makes some fine guns and I have a couple.....just none of their revolvers.
 
Mine was a Jennings .22. Guess it's not surprising but it was such a pretty little thing I expected more. After too many jams in it's first outing, several small parts flew out of the gun. Luckily we found them and took it to the nearest gun show, trading for a Beretta 21A. It has done well with HV ammo. A fellow at the range had trouble with his and we swapped mags. His worked perfectly then.

As far as Blackhawks go, I was never crazy about the grip. The Bisleys on the other hand...:cool: ...much better.
 
anybody who works in a factory can tell you white colloars dont have what we call common sense.
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Well there comrade, maybe you and the rest of the proletariat can re-educate them in your superior common sense.
 
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