Most inaccurate rifle you've ever shot?

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A Chilean Mauser 7x57. The bore was so pitted it shot keyholes at 50 yards. My buddy and I shot 60 rounds barely hit paper at 50 yards. He took it back to the LGS and got his $65 dollars back. BTW this was 1969.
 
A Ruger Model-77 in .243. It didn't shoot groups, more like shotgun patterns. I bedded the stock, installed a Timney trigger, swapped scopes, tried every hand load and factory ammo. It still wouldn't shoot. Finally gave up and traded it.
 
Float pilot lol, yeah me also. I bought a VZ-24 7mm at a show and here are the groups without ever changing settings on the sights. Now, point of aim was ALWAYS 6 o'clock on the bottom target and each volley point of impact changed to ....well see for yourself. First a little high, then way high, then way right. Actually the bore looked decent though.

At least it held some sort of grouping, I just never knew where it might be.:rolleyes:

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Winchester 94....0 rifiling lol bullets keyholed at 25yds. Lack of care issue, owner used it to finish pigs pointblank never cleaned or oiled it. This isnt realy unusual here, most hunting guns get little or no care.
 
had a styer mannlicher professional hunter 30-06 with double set triggers. first shot dead on all the time. second-third shots always wandered with a warm barrel. great gun but the plastic mags sucked. sold it for a remington 700 classsic--a deer destroyer.:D
 
My mini 14 is by far and above the most inaccurate rifle I have ever shot and I tried 2 of them. I have shot a lee enfield .303 with a badly pitted barrel that would shoot rings around the 14 with crappy pof ammo. I had an early Ruger 77 that grouped shotgun patterns with different ammo, scopes. Gave it away.
 
In the early '80s I asked for a Mini 14 and got a Marlin 336 from my now ex-wife for Christmas. Didn't know how lucky I was then, but do now;)

My candiddate is a military unissued Romanian SKS. Not bad bore keyhole bad, but hell its an SKS, what did you expect bad.

Worse that the $35.oo out of a barrel loose action Enfield bought in the early '70s.
 
mosin nagant with a sewer pipe for a barrel. it just wasnt maintained before it found its way to me. the best i have been able to manage is about a 8-9" group at 50yards.
 
Winchester trapper in .357, bought it new in the 90s and have never been able to get a smaller group than 6" at 50 yards. Still a fun gun to make noise with for not a lot of $ in ammunition.
 
the farging Century-crunked FNFAL wannabe I bought before I knew about them. An 8" group was normal, regardless of the ammo. It cost almost 3 times as much as my 788 .243, which shoots 5/8" groups.
 
about 30 years ago I bought 2 new Ruger No. 3s, one in .223, one in .22 Hornet. I tried all kinds of quality scopes on it including Leupolds, Weavers, Redfields and neither one would shoot worth a darn. sold both to different guys and they had the same problem. even though they werent shooters, I wish I still had them for collectors, beautiful rifles they were with the dovetail stocks.
 
I knew the Mini-14 would come up. I own three, one pre-retool, and two post, and I can quickly make tennis-ball sized groups at 50 yards with irons with all three, which is what I think they were designed and intended to do. They aren't competition target rifles, they're utility rifles, and dang handy size/weight/reliable ones at that.
 
22 posts and I am only the 3rd one to say Mini 14?

You guys must have located some REALLY bad shooting guns!
 
The M-16A2 I shot at AF BMT was a worn out piece of crap. Damn thing wouldn't even cycle.
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LOL i hear you on that one. mine worked fine with one of my mags but the other jammed every other shot. so i swapped it with the guy next to me while he was down range
 
I had a mid-'80s Mini-14, stainless with the factory folding stock. I'd have been happy if I could have gotten basketball sized groups at 25 yards, but they were more like exercise ball sized - I hate exercise....
 
My answer would have to by my SKS, I guess. Accuracy seems to be about 2.5-3" MOA, but I never formally measured.


Not bad considering, and I'm not complaining or anything. But every other rifle I have will do better I think. I know all the .22s will.
 
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