What is the most expensive POS you ever bought?

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ive never personally got a bad gun but know a guy who has Got a s&w m&p in 40cal
250 rounds through the thing ant the rifling is completely smooth on about 25% of the barrel and the muzzle crown it beat way up
 
I dont understand some of the people that buy a gun, find out it has problems, then never even try another model and refuse to buy anything from that vendor again. In my opinion that almost borders on ignorance. The world is an imperfect place, and people are human. Errors can be made. When you churn out a million guns, you are going to have a small percentage of them bad. I care more about what happens after you find that. Customer service and a chance for repair at least, but thats just me. One bad gun isnt going to turn me away from a company forever.
 
"I'm not a Taurus hater or basher, but from what I understand it's hit or miss with their products. I bought a stainless pt1911 and I couldn't hold better than a 12" group at 7 yards. It also had feeding and extracting problems. I guess I got the "miss" because my dad has a stainless pt1911 that runs great and is a very accurate pistol. Firing his pt1911 was the reason I bought one. I ended up trading it straight up to the dealer I bought it from for a NIB EAA Witness Elite Match .45"


Almost the same story here. Bought a blued 605 revolver for the wife. Flawless. Got a stainless one for myself. It took two "vacations" in Miami and replaced something else myself. Seems to work now but I'm leery of it. Thinking of dumping it at a low price with full disclosure of its history. Set the money aside for a SP101.
 
Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Taurus

My Taurus 44 Tracker needed multiple repairs out of the box, including disassembly, replacement parts, and STILL the cylinder locks up!

I don't know how many hundreds or days (off) of work it took me to get it and try to repair it in the first place.

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I dont understand some of the people that buy a gun, find out it has problems, then never even try another model and refuse to buy anything from that vendor again. In my opinion that almost borders on ignorance. The world is an imperfect place, and people are human. Errors can be made. When you churn out a million guns, you are going to have a small percentage of them bad. I care more about what happens after you find that. Customer service and a chance for repair at least, but thats just me. One bad gun isnt going to turn me away from a company forever.
I'm in full agreement, provided the company makes the first one right. Kimber demonstrated over and over a complete unwillingness to do that. I can CERTAINLY understand that every once in a while a bad one slips through and needs to be fixed. But after three failed attempts to fix a gun that was over $1,000, followed by a complete lack of even concern about trying to make it right, I think it's fair to chalk that one up to experience and not make the same bad wager again...

Brien
 
A mod 29 from Smith and Wesson's "Performance Center". Was around 1200 bucks dumped into it and shooting from a Ransom Rest its best group was 12 inches at 10 feet.
 
A $300 Taurus Model 94 in 22LR. They either work good or they suck. Guess which I bought. Cylinder binding, lead spitting, lumpy triggered !@#$

Me too, but I paid almost $400, heaviest spongey trigger I have ever felt.
 
Easy call: Beretta Tomcat with Crimson Trace laser grips. At least the laser worked well enough. The Tomcat was a steaming pile of leftovers -- it was a sorry day, indeed, when I first pulled the trigger on that gun. Of course, the gun didn't allow me to pull the trigger too often after that: It crapped out 66 rounds later.
 
Mini 14 I have 2. One did ok right out of the box (thicker barrel) The other one I sent off to have accurized, and spent more than the price of the gun, and still not very accurate. Great reliable guns, always ready to go. Just don't count on much as far a your minute of angle.
 
Cheap high capacity clips for my Bushmaster AR-15. Spend the money for the better clips. These chinese sheet metal pieces of crap cause failures every 10-15 rounds. I thought it was the gun's fault until I borrowed better clips from a guy at the range. If the zombies come, I'm F'd unless I pull out my trusty 30-30 Win 94!

I see a lot of Taurus references on this POS list. I'm not an official Taurus basher (never owned one) but I can say that every gun shop owner I've asked has told me that they are the #1 problem gun with respect to customer complaints. My Sigs and S&Ws have been worth every penny.
 
Dan Wesson Bobtail 10mm ($900+). It was just a lemon that never should have left the factory. On the plus side, DW was extremely responsive in getting it in perfect working condition. I wouldn't hesitate to buy from them again.
 
Let me guess ... 4L60E tranny ... and you had to have all of the internal shift solenoids replaced.

Yes on the 4L60E, no on the solenoids. The planetary gears are what crapped out in mine. Entire transmission was replaced with a GM certified rebuild. They seem to be good trannies ... if you change the fluid and filter at least every 30k, and if you do a lot of towing, don't use overdrive and have an aftermarket high flow trans oil cooler installed.

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A $300 Taurus Model 94 in 22LR. They either work good or they suck. Guess which I bought. Cylinder binding, lead spitting, lumpy triggered !@#$

Me too, but I paid almost $400, heaviest spongey trigger I have ever felt.

Taurus does seem to have some QC issues with the Model 94 in particular. There are a number of THR members who own good ones, so I don't mean to bash the entire Model 94 line, though Taurus does seem to churn out, proportionally, a higher percentage of turds in that particular model. Enough that I just stay away from them.

But I had a Taurus 66 that was a very nice gun. Don't here too many bad experiences in regards to the 65 and 66; I'd love to find a sub 4" one for $200 or less, but alas they are priced in S&W territory where I live. Used Taurus 66s are often as or more expensive than new ones. :confused: I guess people think the Taurus 66 and S&W 66 are the same thing, so they price them accordingly.
 
Taurus PT-92 9mm. Didn't even make it thru the first mag. The slide locked up and the rear sights fell off. My first and last Taurus

Sounds like I am not the only one! Mine did the exact same thing! I sent it in only they sent it back in even more pieces and said they no longer made the parts. Had it fixed by a local gunsmith, and immediately sold it! :scrutiny:
 
Kahr PM9. Never got a full mag through it without a problem (about 400 rounds). Sent it back....on my dime. They refused to cover shipping. Great turn around time. But it came back with a host of new problems. Never, ever again.
 
I dont understand some of the people that buy a gun, find out it has problems, then never even try another model and refuse to buy anything from that vendor again. In my opinion that almost borders on ignorance. The world is an imperfect place, and people are human. Errors can be made. When you churn out a million guns, you are going to have a small percentage of them bad. I care more about what happens after you find that. Customer service and a chance for repair at least, but thats just me. One bad gun isnt going to turn me away from a company forever.
One bad gun doesn't spoil me for life on the brand, otherwise I would have never bought another Taurus. I haven't bought another Llama since my first and last experiance with them, nor would I ever consider buying another Jennings. But with all the negative posts I read about kimbers 9doesn't seem to be as many positive), I'd better have one of the good ones or I'll skip buying another one. If it just needs some minor, moderately priced "fixes" I won't gripe since I got it so cheap. If it's a lemon, the dealer said he'd take it back on trade for another gun for what I paid. So I'm not too worried. Unless I spend too much on the fixes.....then I'm screwed) I want that CZ75B, or a smaller S&W revolver anyway.
 
I dont understand some of the people that buy a gun, find out it has problems, then never even try another model and refuse to buy anything from that vendor again. In my opinion that almost borders on ignorance.

Two points:

1) I don't generally discount a company based on one bad product. The exception being if they already had a poor reputation and I was testing my luck. I WILL shun a company if I get a lemon and their customer service sucks.

2) Lots of other choices available.
 
CETME, made it through one magazineful before it refused to strip another round off the mag, among other issues. Managed to recoup my money, barely. Should have known better about a Century made product...
 
Navy Arms Schofield in 45 LC. Cylinder pin misbored niether Navy arms or Uberti would do anything about it. Caviot emptor
 
#1: Century AK Bullpup. Had never seen one in person, but I really liked the idea and the looks, read a favorable review.
After disassembly for initial cleaning, I found the gas tube had dirt packed in it anywhere the piston wouldn't scrape it out. Cleaned it, and surprise! The steel under the dirt was heavily pitted.
Put it back together, took it out to shoot, found there was nowhere I could hold the thing with my off hand where it wouldn't get burned by the sling loop. Fired one mag through it, took it back after four days of ownership. Traded for a Glock 34.

#2 Century L1A1 FAL. This was about 15 years ago. Thing was determined to be a single shot FAL, would not cycle no matter what. Traded for Sig 226.
 
EAA Witness 10mm

Beautiful looking pistol, accurate but plagued by quality control issues (jamming of every kind due to defective magazine and feeding ramp), it could not take a steady diet of full power 10mm loads without cracking the slide and backed by a joke of a company (EAA)

Great potential though...just not yet..
 
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