Most regretted gun purchase?

Inland Mfg M1 Carbine. Jam o matic!!! Sent back twice. Still a piece of crap jam o matic. You tube videos show the same results. Wasted $1,049.00.

It wasn't me, but my father, and it wasn't a purchase, but a trade.

Back in the '80s, dad decided he wanted a 9mm 1911, so he traded his S&W .38 Chief's Special for a used Llama XI-A in 9mm. Jam-o-matic. It became mine after he passed away, and I tried a few easy fixes to make it run, but eventually decided it wasn't worth it. I traded it off for a new S&W SD9VE.

Century C308 Sporter.
It seemed a good idea at the time. But
I
Just
Do
Not
Trust
It.

It jammed. For no reason.....was not loaded at the time and had ever been fired. I'D cycled the action a few times, then sat it down. Then a day or so later, picked it up and couldn't budge the actuater. Sent it to Century.....they apparently fixed it, sent it back with a snarky letter saying "instruct customer how to reassemble gun," or something similar. Problem was, I hadn't disassembled it at all.
It does cycle now OK. But it is still unused.
I think I'll just stick with my M1A for 7.62 X 51 ammo use.......
Geeeeesh.....no more Century stuff for me, I guess.....

Regrets... Remington 770. Bought as a second gun for relatives and friend to borrow when hunting with me. Danged heavy and bolt binds with no way to make it run smooth.

Still have it and use as intended. Was super cheap ($200 out the door new with scope and tax @ Gander) and honestly is it surprisingly accurate. Plus I like the detachable mag for inexperienced hunters. Gives me control over ammo.

Should have waited a couple months and bought a Ruger American. Lured in by the super cheap sale price.

gfpd707 said:

What gun have you purchased that has garnered the most regret.

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Learned my lesson - any firearm purchased at an actual auction. They all needed a little something done, whether it's springs, headspace issues, feeding, extraction, etc. Adding that cost in or overpaying a little to get it, I could have had something newer, in better condition, etc.

ruger 77 .357 rifle jamomatic! sold it back to cabelas

v-fib

I've been very fortunate to not have been stuck with many dogs,,,
Most of the guns I've purchased (new or used) have turned out to be good performers.

The one purchase I made that turned out bad was an H&R 922.



I wanted a long barrel rimfire revolver to pair up with an older Mossberg bolt-action 22 rifle,,,
I saw this one at a pawn shop and fell in love with how it felt in my hand,,,
It's a perfect aesthetic match to my Mossberg 340-KC rifle.

It didn't know that this is one of the early ones without a cylinder stop notch,,,
That means that the cylinder can and will turn before or after the gun is cocked.

It's only good for shooting at the range,,,
If you holster the gun the cylinder will turn a bit,,,
Later models had a notch in the cylinder to prevent this.

It's a shame because it's a very accurate shooter,,,
I just don't see why they ever let it be marketed like this,,,
It's absolutely worthless as a field gun because of that cylinder.

So, there was $125.00 of my hard earned money wasted.

Aarond

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A S&W 39 9mm. Gun jammed up all the time. I could not find ammo that fired reliable thru it. At the time S&W also made ammo and it jammed with that ammo. The gun was a POS,, I have it and haven't shot it in 40 years.

Stoeger Luger .22 automatic...POS that never once worked right.

My Walter P22 is the best gun ever made compared to my Chiappa 1911-22.

Say what you will about the P22, but with the right ammo (mine is not all that particular) it makes a fun suppressor host that new shooters really enjoy.

Springfield XDs 45. After 3 trips back to the mothership, and a great deal of putzing with it on my part, never got it to run. Traded it for a Glock 36 and good riddance. Bought a Mosin when they were really cheap. Didn't like shooting it but sold it for a profit so I guess it was actually OK.

AMT backup. Could not get thru a mag without some kind of failure with any kind of ammo. Traded it in on a Smith 52, best move ever.

Mine was a Nagant revolver. I bought it for $99. Worst ergonomics EVER...shot an expensive cartridge....heaviest DA trigger pull. Sold it for a couple of hundred bucks, but still regret buying it.

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Bersa Thunder .380. It was ok for about 200-300 rounds (whatever their official "break in" period was) and then started jamming almost every other mag. Then the trigger went from a relatively normal DA to a 30+ pound DA. It took more than considerable effort to just thumb cock the gun.

After 3 trips back to their authorized repair center (and 3-4 months to do it) the gun still couldn't make it through a box of ammo. Sold it at a pretty considerable loss and was happy to see it go.

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Same experience with Bersa awfulness. I had a Thunder 380 that was NIB and the dang slide stop tore in half completely tying up the gun, I couldn't even work the slide. This was after firing 60 rounds of Winchester .380 auto. If I had just fired one box then loaded it up for defense, and needed to use it, I could have been dead. Upon further inspection the slide stop appeared to be made from some porous monkey metal. I sold the gun instantly after it came back from the "authorized repair center" and never looked back. I have since discovered the Makarov PM and it is very similar to the Bersa but of much better quality and made of proper steel! I wouldn't trade my Makarov for any other gun I own.

Springfield P9C in 40 S&W. It would shoot itself to pieces and then Springfield orphaned it.

Only gun I've ever sold. Replaced it with a Colt 1911 in 38 Super.

1st. Kel-tec PF9. 2nd. Remington 770 .308

Oh yeah, I have to add a horrible trade deal on my part. I traded a pristine Colt Woodsmen for a Llama .45. Yeah, I know......... I was 20 years old and I thought the colt woodsmen's were fairly common and maybe $300 and just figured it could be easily replaced and I wanted a .45acp........
Not so much. Live and leard. *Bang Head*

My first pistol was a S&W model 59. It worked just fine, but I did not like how it felt, the safety, double stack, and 9mm. Traded it in for a Colt Series 70 1911 .45 ACP and that became my favorite and what I carry.

I bought into the internet hype and had a CZ-75 for a while. Highly over rated guns in my experience.

I bought one of those semi-auto PPS - 43s a couple years ago. Made in Poland, I think. Seemed like a good bargain, cheap, comes with four 36 round mags, what's not to like?

It didn't work, that's what. Hammer spring was too weak to reliably set off primers, that is, before it broke. The hammer was a tiny, delicate little part, that weighed maybe half of what it should. It was developing a bid dent where it struck the firing pin, it wasn't hardened properly, if at all. The safety was so stiff it was unusable. It was (is) a very bad conversion from a subgun to a semi auto. Very poorly engineered. It couldn't get through a mag without at least four or five stoppages.

And now it's gone.

The Kahr P9 9mm that I bought in 2001. It was a piece of crap with constant fail to feed issues. I even bought two new factory mags that didn't help. After going through Kahr's 200 round break in, I called them and they said to up the break in to 500 rounds and call them if there were still problems. I sold it to the gunshop I bought it from the next day.
Honorable mention to the Sig Mosquito that will only run on cci mini mags.

Turkish Khan semi-auto 12 gauge, which operated as mostly a single shot and never cycled right. Bought for $179 on a Black Friday deal.

Remington 710 30-06 before I knew better and long before I found this site. I recognized the name "Remington" and thought that has to be a good one. This is the reason I do not own anything Remington to this day.

Both of those are long gone now.

I have to go with a Kel-Tec RFB. And, just for the record, I'm not a K-T hater, I have several of their guns I enjoy greatly.

In any event, this particular RFB was a complete and total POS. To say it would jam would be understating the case. It would jam so bad I'd need help at the range to extricate the live round so as not to drive home with a loaded rifle, unlawful in WA.

Colt All-American 2000, the gun that bankrupted them for what seemed like the seventh time.

Crunch... Crunch... Click... Bang!

P.S. Almost bought the "detective" short-barreled conversion kit, too.

Can't think of any regretted purchases, but I regret every one I ever sold.