Biggest handgun disappointment.

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I have had good luck with Glocks, 1911's and even my P22 works great and has several thousand rounds through it.

I did not shoot my Glock 21 well at first, but one day while dry firing it my hand found the sweet spot and I have been able to shoot it well ever sense.
It's now my sidearm for 3gun.

The only gun I really had a problem with was my Kel-tec P32, I bought it used from the local gun store, and that thing had constant FTF and FTE, I messed around with it and I fixed the FTF by filing a small ridge off on the ejector and using a drill but with my fingers to debur the firing pin hole on the breach face, I fixed the failure to eject by pulling the Ejector spring out and forcing a small screw driver through the coils to expand it out, The thing runs flawless now. :D

I have cobay M11/9 and it runs great but it will only feed FMJ.

My Uberti Cattleman runs great but I did have a handspring snap after 100 rounds and me playing around with it using snap caps, simple fix with a new part, I had the same thing happen to my Black powder 1851 navy, and it's been good ever sence, the Cattleman seems solid now.
 
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OK, biggest disappointment: Pythons. Before anybody gets a case of the vapors, I'll note that this doesn't reflect much on the Colt factory - Pythons these days, by definition, are used. The quality of that former use is sometimes suspect - trigger jobs that result in light strikes and a host of other ills. I bought three, kept one - the other two sucked out loud. The collectors are more than welcome to any that are left. All three would have been great had I not wished to, you know (horrors), shoot them.

Second place goes to a used AMT hardballer. It worked hard to suck as much as the Pythons and generally succeeded. However, in the case of the hardballer, I learned after the first dog and gave it up as a bad job.

There was an Ultra CDPII that blew chunks but it pales in comparison to the Hardballer and the Pythons. The CDP would run with tweaks - there was no help for the others.
 
Ruger P90!!

:barf:

The WORST handgun I've ever owned in terms of ergonomics, build quality, feed problems etc. I traded it for a new SIG220 which is one of the BEST handguns I've ever owned/fired.

Hawk,
I bought my Python new in '92 and other than a sticky cylinder release (recently corrected) it's been 100% reliable and VERY accurate. I had a roller bearing seer installed back in the early '90s (other than that it's stock) and I've never had a single light strike, misfire etc. I wouldn't sell or trade my Python.

:)
 
I've probably said this already because this thread is really old.
But mine was a SIG P-226 9mm.
I had wanted one for a long time. Every time I saw one I handled it and they pointed like an extension of my hand. Everything I read about them praised them for their accuracy, durability, and reliability. A P-226 was my holy grail.
So I worked a lot of OT and sold some stuff and was finally able to buy a CPO 9mm. It wouldn't eject a live round from the chamber.
Stupid problem really but what if you have an FTF when you're really counting on the gun and can't get the chamber clear?
But I wasn't worried - I had a CPO warranty and SIG was an honorable company.
They would make this right.

After a couple trips back for repairs, the problem evolved.
I listened to one SIG employee talk to his manager about my problem - he forgot to put me on hold and just lay the phone down, so I got to listen to them making fun of me.
SIG's customer service people then tried to screw me over and tell me that my defect and the ones that arose from their "repairs" were normal with any semi-automatic handgun. They also tried to tell me that their gunsmith said there wasn't anything wrong with my gun and that he WOULD NOT work on it again.
At that point, I blew my stack.
The customer service manager took over and told me that this was a misunderstanding.
Misunderstanding? How could that be? I just sat here and listened to you telling the other guy what to tell me. Doesn't sound like a misunderstanding to me - sounds like he did exactly what you told him to do, which was tell me to go fly a kite.
I had to be a complete A-hole to get them to honor their warranty. The sent me a replacement P-226, which I sold without even loading it.

That has been my biggest handgun disappointment - not just with a gun but with an entire company.
 
Kel-Tec P3AT. Don't trust your life to one, give one to your worst enemy so it will be him holding the gun that won't go bang!:)
 
S&W Sigma 40V (.40 cal) is by fare the biggest P.O.S. gun I ever bought. I bought it from a local gun shop for $250 used for my first auto loader. The 2 big selling points where: It was cheep, and the lady told me S&W had a lifetime warranty. It would shoot about 6" low @ 15 yd. the trigger was horrible, I would guess 10-15lb pull. The firing pin broke so I sent it back to S&W and they replaced the hole slide and barrel assembly with the latest 40VE model free of charge. When I got it back it wouldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. Sold it to a dealer at a gun show, and was happy to get the $200 he offered for it which made a good down payment on a Glock 26. To this day I would probably not by a S&W auto because of that gun.
 
AMT .380 Backup. Painful to shoot. Double action trigger sucks. Almost impossible to breakdown to clean. Too heavy to carry as a backup. Thinking about using it for a fishing weight.
 
Taurus PT111

Worked OK for a while, then began light striking and firing in full auto bursts. Taurus sent a new one after 4 months though which works well. In the meanwhile, I bought a XD9SC which made the new PT111 obsolete in my collection. I have no desire to see if the PT111 can be as reliable as the XD, so I'm probably going to trade it in towards a CZ75 compact.
 
My biggest disappointment was Kahr PM9. These are very well made guns and just the right size, shape and weight for CCW. I'd fired a friends and rented one at my indoor range and found it to be both reliable and accurate so I bought one.

I brought it to the range for testing over several trips. I found it to be very reliable with any ammo I put through it. It was my own tendency to shoot low with it when shooting at speed from the draw that disappointed me. I could shoot accurately with it in slow aimed fired but the ergonomics of the gun and the da trigger did in it's usefulness to me. I can shoot a wheelgun fast and accurately, same with a 1911, but not so this excellent little gun. Despite the Kahr's many good characteristics it's usefulness to me was disappointing.

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I'm surprised at all of the posts about the p22. Mine works very well, even down to subsonics. Yes the accuracy is something to be desired but it's not THAT horrible, but again it's not a target pistol anyway.. I have my worked over 1911 for that.

Again my p22 is the worst pistol I have out of several revolvers/auto's I have. It's a fun little gun but that's it.
 
Taurus 851. A week after I bought it I needed to replace the firing pin spring. Last month at the range I went to reload and the entire cylinder assembly fell off. This is my SD pocket pistol. Plenty of people will swear by Taurus, but I think 'm going to sell and buy a Smith.
 
I had an issue with a Taurus 38spl snubbie ultra lite I bought for the wife for her ccw gun. I can't even remember what model number it was.We went to the range and fired a couple rounds through it. I noticed the cylinder wouldn't lock up on three of the chambers. It was quite disappointing. It was sent back to Taurus and it was repaired in a timely manor. When it was returned my dealer allowed me what I had paid for it. I got her a Smith M637 instead. That was my first and will be my last experience with Taurus.From all my reading on different sites Taurus are hit and miss.
 
Barreta mini cougar,the gun ran fine but it just never fit my hand right.No matter how hard I tried I could not hit the broad side of a barn.Traded for an xd 9mm and never looked back.
 
not a cartrige firearm, bp. i picked up a colt 1860 .44 pretty cheap one day. take it shooting, and i found out why. it had a ring in the barrel like you wouldnt belive. bullets never went where i wanted them, just AROUND where i wanted them. ditched that thing quick.
 
Two of them

First was a AMT Govt. Pretty gun to be sure, with a lot of cool features that you pay a lot more money for on other makes. Also in a time when all 1911s were blued or parkerized, these were stainless. A dream come true for me! Dreams became nightmares when the gun absolutely couldn't get through a magazine without a malfunction. FTEs, lots of stovepipes, FTFs even with hot ball, etc. I sent it back to AMT, they "fixed" it, and it coughed only 1 or 2 times per magazine instead of 3 or 4. This was after I'd used up all my donated suggestions like, "Use UZI, it's a lot hotter and it will break the gun in faster," and "Grease that puppy up and make it slick" and the obvious "Oh, I see the problem, you've got too much oil on this thing.":rolleyes: It was traded at a gun show for a Colt Mark IV and cash, and I was eternally happy.:p

Then the PT-111 came. I was so excited that Taurus had designed their own gun and it didn't look like a Beretta or S&W! And then my buddy bought one. It was so small and thin, I had to have one for my carry gun. Big mistake. Didn't notice when shooting my buddy's that the mag release was touchy. When I got mine I noticed. And noticed the mag popping into my hand about 5 or six times every 20 rounds or so. I then began to notice that accuracy wasn't all that great and about that time I was deflated. I replaced it with a Glock 26 and never looked back. No problems with the Glock, and it is far superior to the Taurus in accuracy. Now my buddy wants a G26.;)
 
Well, my P22 is a great little gun. 7000 through it and nothing to worry me.

That said, I think my greatest disappointment was my first Glock 21.
I've owned other Glocks, and another G21, as a matter of fact I still own that first G21. It's had less than 500 through it. I tried really hard to like Glocks. I bought a bunch of them. I sold all except that first one.
I had never owned or shot a semiauto, or a Glock, before this. Had held a G17. I drank deeply of the Glock koolaid. I preordered a G21 as soon as they were available, got one of the first. Waited and waited for it!
Got it, and it was, meh.
Too big. Too clunky. Too poor grip. I am a big guy, and I thought it was too big. I added a Hogue grip sleeve to get it to fit my hand better- but it only made it bigger. I never shot it much, because I had such high hopes for it, and it turned out to be, well, not what I wanted. A disappointment.

I thought it was all polymers, but I got hold of an XD9 and it was like, WOW, this is how the Glock should feel, and shoot.

Now Sig, I've never had a Sig that I didn't like.
 
S&W made PPK....Fritz Walther has got to be spinning in his grave over how S&W "improved" the PPK.
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I second that motion. I bought my wife a S&W made PPK/S about a year ago... almost $500 out the door. It was the worst gun I have ever owned. About as unreliable as a Chinese motorcycle, piss-poor machine work on the interior, and it beat up my hands more than any 9mm.

I sold it back to the gun shop at about a $150 loss, and bought a Sig 239. Best thing I could have done.
 
What...you Say All Kimbers Are Reliable?

i trusted my shooting buddies, i believe the line was, ''just get you a kimber and be done with it'' a Kimber custom2, could'nt get it to chamber the first round, especially hollows, gotrid of it after trying everything...
 
Just about any of the Taurus revolvers I ever bought EXCEPT the 9 shot .22LR (Mod. 94 IIRC), it was very good. The rest (3 or 4) all went back at least once for repair. I think Taurus' best handgun has been the Model PT92 9mm pistol. Their revolvers though....pretty sucky. And I'm seriously considering that new 24/7 OSS in .45ACP.

Another was my Springfield XD45 Tactical. Gun functioned great, shot well; it just didn't work for me. And I really tried to like that gun.
 
Hmmm...
"Biggest handgun disappointment. " That would have to be not having one when I needed one.
 
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