The WORST gun in your personal collection?

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I bought a accu-tek 380 a couple years ago for $50.It is a real turd.jams up alot and is very inaccurate.I wouldnt sell it to anyone,im just not that kind of person.
 
Taurus PT-99. Mushy trigger with lots of grit and hates most bullets it shoots, they tumble, especially 147GR of any manufacturer. A pain to clean and is a poor copy of the Beretta 92F. Bought it after seeing Die Hard 2 as I could not afford the Beretta.
 
Yelovitz_503 said:
Winchester 1200 Defender. It is the ugliest, shoddiest, least comfortable, budget materials riot-gun I've ever seen. The majority of the weapon isn't steel, and what is is very low quality/thin. The parts which should be wood are some sort of composite material which has a grain pattern on it to fool the untrained but it is very obviously not real wood. A good portion of the weapon is plastic as well... just a cheap piece of crap.

I got it for $200 because I didn't have a shotgun at the time, but ever since I took it home I've been looking for a replacement. It's a pump action but the materials and general light weight of the weapon turn it into what I like to call "an assisted semi-auto" action because with each shot fired the recoil blasts back at you and will send the pump flying back and eject the round.. the part where you come in is just to pull it forward to chamber another shell. My friends are scared to shoot it, they think it will explode in their hands; I doubt I could pay someone to take it, let alone sell it to anyone but the sketchy Afghani guy at the corner store near me (but he tries to buy anything I mention when I'm in there: TVs, shoes, guns, cars).

I'll keep it for the time being, it's hard to argue with the intimidation factor a shotgun brings to the table (and having 7+1 shells without reloading is nice) but I honestly don't know why I didn't drop an extra hundred bucks initially to get a Mossberg 500 which would hands down be better than my Winchester 1200 in every way.
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I have a Winchester 1300 from 2005/2006 and I love the darn thing. Cheap, slick action, all kinds of reliable, and patterns well. If you ever want to get rid of that 1200, PM me.
 
I think mine is a Mossberg model 46 (?) 22 bolt action. It has flip up interchangeable front sight posts but they flop around and won't stay upright. The magazine tube is also bent and requires pliers to load/unload. I could work around the sights with a scope except that the gun is old enough that it isn't grooved for mounts. There are tapped holes in the side of the receiver but I haven't been able to find a side scope mount.
 
My worst would have to be a Walther PPKs in .380. Doesn't fit my hand comfortably so I have trouble hitting a hill of beans at 25 feet; half the time the magazine spontaneously ejects.
My least favorite would be a Savage model 10 in .308 that can't make up its mind as to what ammo it likes.
And I can't sell either of them as my wife has a strict no-sell policy of our guns.
 
There isn't any gun I have that I hate.
If there is something I don't like about it, I correct the problem.
Yes, I have a Whole Collection of Crap, but I have some fine guns also.
So I would have to say, the ones that I dislike most, are the ones that do not need anything done to them any more.
I even like the little IMP 22 short revolver, ( American Copy of an RG ) that Blew in half on me at the range the first time I tried to test fire it for a friend.
I crazy Glued the frame back together and fired it 6 more shots, and then decided that wouldnt hold up for too long.
So I tried to Solder the frame back together.
The gun is made of such cheap metal, the frame melted before the 450 degree solder would melt to solder it back together.
Oh well, Just wait until I have time to make a new frame or use the parts to build something else.
And Yes, this is a true story, and no exaduration.
 
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It's a pump action but the materials and general light weight of the weapon turn it into what I like to call "an assisted semi-auto" action because with each shot fired the recoil blasts back at you and will send the pump flying back and eject the round.. the part where you come in is just to pull it forward to chamber another shell.
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You DO realize it's a recoil-assisted pump action, and it's SUPPOSED to do that?
 
Worst gun??

Probably a Glock M22 that I bought a number of years ago that shoots very low (like 2 feet at 15 yds) and hence I never shoot it. I intend to take it to Glock and let them have a look at it. But I never get around to it....

The next is probably a Colt Cobra 22 revolver that reminds me that I missed a crucial cosmetic feature when I bought it that dramatically impacts its value. However it's worth far more than I paid for it these days. Far more....
 
I have two.

One is a NEF single shot 20 gauge. I bought it a couple of days after I moved to Alaska for next to nothing. All of my guns were coming but were not there yet so I did not want to buy anything fancy. I put bucksot in it and took it on a long day hike in the woods with a friend not realizing how naive that was on so many levels. That was years ago and I still do not think I have shot it. I wont get rid of it becaus of the memories of that hike(we hiked portage glacier) My friend who I went with still tells that story.

The other is a H&R 22 revolver. First pistol I ever bought on my own and I kept it loaded next to my bed for a couple of years. Needless to say money was a little tighter back then. It is real rusty now and the grip is broken but it does still fire. Wont sell it because it was my first.
 
I have two. A Savage 22LR rifle model 958LS. I like the way it shoots, but I’ve never been able to get more than 9 rounds into the 10 round magazines and about every third round stovepipes.

Then there’s the Beretta Marshal Stampede in 357 Mag. Three inch barrel and birds head grip. I loved the looks and bought it on impulse for more than it’s worth. It doesn’t shoot to bad with 38 Spl’s, but with 357’s I can’t even get all 6 rounds on the paper at 7 yards. I would love to get my $400 out of this one…. Any takers?
 
I have NO "worst gun" in my collection. Anything of no use, no value or possessed of otherwise too many negative traits has long since been sold, traded off or thrown out.

I love each and every piece in my collection. Even my Kimbers and Taurus. I'm really not understanding why anyone would keep a gun that they didn't like.
 
I'm really not understanding why anyone would keep a gun that they didn't like.
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I've got a Wards Hercules 12 ga single shot, a hunk is missing out of the butt plate, the stock is too short (if you like your nose) and the barrel is cut down to 19" because at 20" there was a big bulge in it. The metal has a highly technical protective coating I call Rustoleum satin black.
I keep it because my wife's grandfather traded it to my Dad the sometime in 50s for $3 and a pile of scrap steel, It was the first shotgun I ever fired. Occasionally I still shoot it - from the hip.

I guess I like it, just not as a firearm though.
 
The 9mm Rogak was famous back in the day for being the worst jam-a-matic POS on the market. Gun Test magazine made it their poster child. Thanks for posting a picture, dtalley. I haven't seen one in decades.
 
Worst gun in the safe? My Wife's H&R 922 that her dad bought. Terrible gun with a terrible trigger.

Worst gun I bought? Well first off anything really bad has moved on long ago to make space in the safe. It would be a toss up between the Winchester 190 I got for free (what a pain to tear apart and clean) or the GSG5 (too many screws and a pain to clean.). Neither is particularly a bad gun, just I have much better ones so they end up at the bottom of the pile.

The runner up would be my T&C Contender. Nice gun, but I don't shoot it much. The purpose I bought it for (pressure testing) it turns out it is not really suited for because the frame bends and makes the readings poor or so I have been told.
 
I have this really ugly Iver Johnson in .38 S&W. I bought it from a guy whose wife was afraid it would jump off the table and kill everybody in the house.

I just did it as a favor to him, and maybe out of curiosity. I'm actually afraid of shooting it, since the cylinder moves when it shouldn't move. So it just sits in the safe taking up space.

It's a top break, 5 round revolver. It's really ugly. It might be a good candidate for the next gun "buy back". LOL
 
You DO realize it's a recoil-assisted pump action, and it's SUPPOSED to do that?
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Oh yes, but there's a difference between recoil assisted and flying back hard enough to almost break the thing. I like a nice shotgun, and don't mind a little recoil, this is neither of those.
 
My worst would have to be a CBC single-shot shotgun from K-mart. It's never been fired, but by all accounts from people that had them it's a shoulder-breaker. Why do I keep it? Well, I paid only 28 bucks for it new, and it's now worth about 60. At that rate, in the year 2200, it could net me thousands.:neener:

Actually, if there is ever a gun buy-back in this area, well......
 
During the baby food craze, I was given a AMT Backup .380 pistol. It is very loud, kicks like a constipated mule, and all the edges are razor sharp. So I tied a bunch of large fish hooks on it, and use it as a shark fishing lure. Really.
 
I would say that I have ditched them all, but I have to qualify that. I've ditched the worst guns that I bought myself. I do have a couple of worst guns that I have inherited, and can't get rid of since they are in the family. There is a combination of "don't shoot" and "needs repair." I can work on the "needs repair" part. I might change the "don't shoot" part one day. So...maybe I don't really have any more "worst guns" either :)
 
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