Least accurate firearms we've owned and loved.

Star .45 Firestar.
Solid steel.
Tough as nails.
Bulletproof feeding.
Well made.
Attractive design.
12" groups at 8 yds.......

Cute little Ruger Mini 14 stainless with laminated stock. It didn't shoot groups. More like patterns.

If it don't group I don't love it- I eliminate it.

My dads first rifle when he was a kid, was a Remington model 12 (pump 22).
I still have it! The bore is dark and pitted, with only the ghosts of rifling left in it.

But still, I love it and it's not going anywhere. It mostly just hangs on the wall, but every now and again I'll pull it down and fire a few through it.

Walther pk380, felt as good in the hand as anything I ever held, couldn't hit a 12" plate at 20 yards with it.

My father in law won a ruger 10-22 international with the full length stock a few years ago. I lusted over them when I was a kid. Mabey a 4-5" group at 50 yards.

Definitely have to mention handi rifles. It is my absolute favorite gun design, but half of them shoot like garbage. I've had 5 and the only one left is my 444 which took extensive work to shoot well. That one will not get away, mainly because I have 5 times more time into it than the gun is worth! I had a 223 that shot well but only after cutting the barrel down and only with 40 grain bullets.

I've not owned one yet but I've always wanted a mini 14 or mini 30 but I've never personally witnessed one that shot decently.

Mosin M-44. It was cheap, the ammo was cheap and cycling that stubborn bolt was oddly fun. I could never achieve anything greater than 10 MOA at 100 yds.

My old neighbor came walking up to my shed one day carrying a .22 rifle. He told me he had bought it from my grandpa to keep in the barn to shoot varmints. Skunks namely. He told me he wanted me to have it. I took it,of course. It is a takedown Remington pump model 63 iirc. It was totally brown and pitted with rust. It had flecks of barn paint on it. The bore is sad too. I cleaned it up ,and swabbed the bore and took it out and shot it. It is awful. It keyholes at @20yds. It jams often. I don' know what to do with it.
I love the little rifle....the takedown, the fact it had belonged to grandpa. I would like to get the jamming fixed and shorten and recrown he barrel may help the keyholing.
I told the whole story to my dad. He said, "oh yeah, I remember that rifle...if you could get it to shoot, you couldn't hit anything with it. That' why he sold it".
Go figure.

A good friend of mine when I was a kid that had a JC Higgens semi auto 22 that got passed down to him. It was a jam o-matic 5000 was not very accurate at all. Required equipment for shooting it was a 8 penny nail to pry the unextracted, double fed, and stovepipe cases out of it. The accuracy finally got so bad you couldn't hit a milk jug at 10 yards. We used to shoot it from the hip and you could see the bullets streaking off in wide arcs at about 500 fps.

At the time we really didn't know anything about guns. He finally tried to clean it and stuck a .22 caliber brush firmly in the bore and couldn't get it out. He took it to a family friend gunsmith who got the rod out and informed him the bore was so badly leaded that there was only about a 17 caliber hole through the center. He managed to clean all the lead out and gave it back. It still shoots like crap and jams.

The two of us share a smirk every time we see them at gun shows with $400 price tags on them. Good times.

No rifles (the OP did say "Least accurate firearms"), but I did have a beautiful T-Series Browning Hi-Power that looked the part with it's deep blued finish and walnut grips. It also came with a 12+ pound trigger pull, tiny sights, a safety that required a mallet to get it to move, and a very loose slide to frame fit.

Needless to say accuracy was horrible and there was no love lost when I sold it (for a profit), to an avid collector.

My Norinco SKS. Even with trigger work, the trigger stinks. Even with careful aiming and good ammo, it is unsatisfying to shoot at tennis ball sized targets at 25 yards. But, it is the first rifle I bought myself and is in fantastic condition. So, I'll likely never part with it.

The other is my NAA Guardian in .32 ACP. The rifling is only for show so that the gun isn't a smooth bore. The thing is a 3 yard gun on a human silhoutte target at most. Of course, that is about all it was meant to be.

Picher

Brought it back and the store gave me full credit, which I quickly applied to a .22LR, Beretta 87, semi-auto that shoots fantastic and carries nicely.

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Feel the same way about my Beretta Model 70S: super reliable, decent accuracy, and a dream to carry.

Call me petty, but if a rifle doesn't shoot well, I can't fall in love with it. I might spend a foolish amount of money "accurizing" a rifle I really like to coax better precision from it, but if the dog don't hunt...

Brown Bess
(But It'll still take out a man-sized target at 75-80 yards by aimed fire)
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I can't say that I "love" my GI Carbine, but I won't part with it.

I used to have 2 Ruger No. 3s, one .223 other .22 Hornet, even with nice scopes neither shot worth a darn, never could get any good groups, sold them, wish I still had them though.

Dad bought a Remington .22 bolt action at a local auction when we lived in northern California. It was cheap, and he quickly found out why. It was a smoothbore! Its "pattern" was a halo around the aim point that did not include the target.
In frustration (he'd spent his cigarette money on that gun), he smacked it against a tree until he bent the barrel.

It was my toy, after that. I loved that gun, even though I never fired it.

I love my mauser k98 but it doesn't group well. Pie plate accuracy (on a good day) at 100 yards. It has sharp rifling. I played with handloads as well. Maybe its just me but I shoot a whole gob of open sight rifles just fine. Not my k98.

I know we are in rifle country but Im going to sneak in a pistol; I loved my Glock 17 (not sure why, Im usually a walnut and blued guy) but I couldn't group well at all with that thing. I should have spent more time getting good with its trigger but instead I convinced myself plastic guns suck and went back to revolvers.

I had a Winchester 1885 low wall in .22rf made by Miroku of Japan. It was fun to shoot and I loved the nostalgic look of it, the half round half octagonal barrel and the tang sight. It was so inaccurate that it shot 10 patterns at 25 yards even after I had the crown re-done. It found a new owner.

"Only accurate rifles are interesting."
-Col. Townsend Whelen

Had a Romanian AK for a while before it was stolen. Bought it right before the AWB sunsetted just in case our Congress-critters didn't allow the abomination to do the way of the Dodo. I had to do a of Dremel work to it to eliminate atrocious trigger slap, and a bunch of snag in the mag well, and even then, 3 to 4 MOA was about as good as it would do, even with a red dot sight. For it's intended purpose one could argue that was accurate enough, but it's funny I completely lost interest in it as soon as I got my M1A and later, my Colt AR-15. And I have no intention of replacing it now that it is gone.

577-450 Martini Henry. Bought it at a gun show. Took us 5 years to get all the parts it needed. Poor sights, minimal rifling best BP handloads give 2 inch groups at 50 yards.

Most shooters would call it junk but, then again, most shooters cannot say that they have killed a dear with a British military weapon manufactured in 1883.

IronHand

.69 Charottville french Musket......lots of smoke and thunder when it went off, and anything beyond 50 yards was fairly safe if I were shooting a ball, but with some Buck or steel 2 shot, and I had a very ligit shotgun

T/C New Englander. Not that it wasn't accurate, it was fantastic in that department and was a nice looking rifle IMO. The problem was that every time the weather turned cold it would hang fire.

After missing two deer to delayed fire my father grabbed it in disgust and handed me his Knight in-line. A bit later I heard a pop, followed by a boom, followed a few minutes later by footsteps. Dad informed me we were headed to town to trade off that rifle as soon as we fired the reload. We emptied both our cappers with no luck then proceeded to the lgs for a bullet puller and a new rifle.