Worst Gun You Ever Owned.

Worst - CETME that quit after 5 rounds. Sold it as is to a fully informed buyer who still hasn't fixed it.
Second, RG 22 revolver, what a pile.
Third, Astra A-90. Nothing at all wrong with the gun, just couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with it, and everyone else can!

A toss up bettween a Jennings .22 and an FIE .38 derringer. Both long gone.

i too own a phoenix arms .22 paper weight, ironically. its sitting next to me as i type this, holding down my bills. bad recoil spring. no one will make me a new one and i dont want a factory one.

At the moment, a 24/47 Yugo Mauser. Shoots Minute of Pie Plate @ 100yds in my hands and a front rest.

I really need to have someone benchrest it. Or get a scope.

Taurus 617T

Taurus Model 617T (titanium) 7 shot 357 snubby.........Too short to be a target gun and too unreliable to be trusted for defense. Worthless POS. I knew it would be ammo-sensitive when I bought it, but I never found anything it would work with. Bullets would jump crimp. Cyl would lock up and even when ammo worked, some brass would swell and have to be ejected with pliers.

Well the worst was a Jennings J22, but that wasn't mine that was the ex's gun . First one she ever bought . You would think being in the military she would have known better . That thing got to the point where it would jam every shot before the fireing pin broke on it . Took it to a show and traded it to a dealer for a New in Wrap .32ACP PPK/S mag .

My worst would be a Iver Johnson TP22.Some days she runs like a champ . Other days she runs like today . 140 fte and ftf in a row and the last 7 rounds went slamfire. I took it all apart and discoverd a brass shaveing in the fireing pin slot when I got home .(How did that get there? ) I did get the most odd jam today while I was practiceing my TRB drills. A empty actually ejected to the point where it fliped in the slide and caught the next round going in the tube . That took awhile to clear .One empty pointing straight back and one live round faceing forward . Oddest jam I have ever seen .

Probably an AMT Hardballer 20 years ago, which was the first 1911 I ever owned. It once jammed up so bad, I had to beat it apart with a hammer. I knew not how to fix a 1911 in those days, and sold it.

I have since had a couple of used 1911's that were turkeys when I got them, but was able to make improvements and get them running well.

A Colt Double Eagle Commander in .40 S&W jammed every other shot when I bought it (which the seller warned me about). I now have it shooting somewhat better, only jamming once every 20 shots or so. Call it a project in process.

I have had two Contender barrels, one in .357 Herrett, the other in .44 mag. Even with scopes neither one could shoot as well as my iron sighted Smith 629, and I sold them.

A Marlin 9mm camp gun,cant go two or three rounds without a failure to eject (stovepipe) but I haven't given up on it just yet.

I had a Rossi 92 (357 magnum) that broke the extractor on about the 11th round I fired. Took *years* to get a replacement part. I sold it at a gun show, and haven't looked back. I hear Rossi rifles have improved a lot over the years--I sure hope so.

Also had a Jennings .22 that jammed a lot with cheap ammunition, but worked okay with the CCI Stingers that they recommended. Sold that one, also.

#1 Worst Gun:

Colt Mk IV Series 70 Government Model. If it got through a full mag of hardball without a malfunction or three it was cause for celebration. Went back to Colt's who, as part of their warranty NON-service, did nothing. Repeatedly. With me paying for shipping each time. Lousy pistol and worse "service" made this positively the LAST Colt I'll EVER buy.

#2 Worst Gun:

Kahr P9. Let's see . . . slide locked back prematurely. Occasional failures to go into battery. Trigger pin walked. Trigger didn't reliably activate striker. Went back to Kahr repeatedly - they eventually replaced the pistol. (Good company, rotten product.) Not wanting to continue in my role as beta tester, I immediately traded the replacement for a Glock 26. (Not as neat a package, but the Glock actually works.)

Intratec K9 pistol!!!!

Got it new in box; fired three rounds; frame cracked. Returned it, they fixed it (took six weeks to get it back) same deal. Did this twice more with the same result before I gave up. Gave it to my gunsmith friend for disposal. Good shooting

A Davis .22LR derringer. I was young, ignorant and had $50.00 bucks burning a hole in my pocket.

Moral is: if you have to impulse buy a gun, at least make it a really nice one. No sense in buying paperweights, when you can have a safe queen.

Reading this thread, I'm counting my blessings! Thus far, I've not had a lemon. Several I didn't like and subsequently sold, but only because they didn't "light my fire." They all worked as advertised.

It was an Interarms PPK. All kinds of feeding problems. The day one round went up to the chamber facing me was the last day I had it.

Of course this was after it took a good share of my blood with the slide serrations.

Bob

Sadly, several. First was a 1920ish Colt Police Positive. It was just flat worn out and the frame was bent, the cylinder didn't line up and the double action wouldn't work. After the last time I shot it I took a dremel tool and ground off the firing pin. Next was a Thompson contender in .44 mag with a 6" barrel. I fired it six times and my ears (with plugs, no less) rang for days. The concussion would knock up leaves 25' in front of the barrel. I flinched so bad it was like shooting blindfolded, never knew where the bullets went. Shooting it was like dancing with a fat woman. You can move her a little to left, nudge a little to the right, but when she takes off on her own you're just holding on for the ride. Last is an SKS I got in Cambodia in 1970. Bore is so pitted it jams after two shots, rips the end off the case. Good part is that the sob fired at me twice with it and then it jammed. If it wouldn't have there might be an Ithaca Mod 37 hanging on the wall in his hootch.

rk

This is a tossup between a Kimber .45 with a barrel which looked like it had been rifled with a stone knife, a Bernadelli .380 that couldn't hit a pie plate at 7 yards and a Winchester Model 70 which has been my 'fixit hobby' gun for the past decade. The Winchester will now pattern about 3 inches at a hundred yards using reduced power handloads, about 8 inches with factory loads.

I keep holding off selling the Winchester with the hope that sooner or later I will get the right combination of tweaks and it will magically become a moa gun! The Kimber shoots fairly well now that I replaced the barrel. And the Bernadelli was entirely hopeless.

Taurus (can't remember the model number) clone of the Beretta 85, .380 caliber. Jammed ever third shot. Got rid of it and bought the Beretta - am very pleased with it.


Jim

S&W Sigma. Total Junk. Funny though, I've owned quite a few listed here that I've not had any problems with. "I've always been lucky that way".

From my list of guns that didn't work:

10. Norton TP-70, .22 Autopistol - didn't work. Misfired in SA mode with a round in the chamber, and fed horribly. Chamber was so badly peened from excessive dry firing that the fired case would stop and stick halfway out of the chamber, extractor hook was so long that it popped the empty case out of the recess in the breech face such that the case would spin around and cause a stovepipe sometimes or just remain inside the slide and block the next round from feeding other times. Wouldn't go bang in DA mode. Firing pin hole in the breech face was so enlarged that the correct orientation of the keyhole-shaped end of the firing pin was not apparent. Slide was so soft that the slide lock notch would peen out of shape and not lock back after 5-6 mags, and then have to be carefully hammered back into shape to work again. Peppered the paper target with holes randomly distributed in a large pattern - had no noticeable accuracy.
Good points: Nice grips, I believe they were nylon. Stainless - didn't rust. Lots of features for a tiny gun, like last round lock back, a hammer, DA/SA - useless since they didn't work.
Add a price tag of nearly $400 and I would have to say that it was my most disappointing purchase. Runner up was a jamamatic Beretta 21A.

Its a toss-up between the TEC-22 and the RG .38spl. Both were total piles.

Hmm

ITM AT84S. Soft steel.
FEG PJK 9HP See above
Marlin Model 60 Shot well but wasn't reliable or durable.

Without a doubt....Olympic Arms copy of the Whitney Wolverine. Jamed every few shots, and the bullets would turn in the magazine, requiring you to break down the mag to fix. Unusable!

Arise, arise oh hoary thread.
Dredged from the bottom, return from the dead.

It's alive!

None

I've bought only older (60's - 80's) model Colt and S&W handguns, either new or in virtually new condition. Never had one that I thought was bad. I sold off a few over the years for financial reasons and came to regret selling every one I've ever sold. Now, some 30 years later, I've ended up replacing every one with guns of the same year and condition - at much higher prices than I originally paid

Its a toss up!
I bought a Raven .25 at a lawn sale with a broken firing pin for $20.I took it apart,looked at the firing pin for a bit and made another one with a hand drill,bolt of about the right diameter and a few files.I got good at it(If you don't care about the cocking indicator you can have a double ended firing pin,just flip it around when one end breaks),had to because the girlfriend at the time liked it because it was cute and she also had a thing for dry firing!

I bought a Mini-14 K5 ranch several years ago,first new gun I had bought up untill that point.The gun will feed any ammo,no problem.To bad I can't hit crap with it!I have tried almost every ammo I can get my hands on.At first I thought it was me and the type of gost ring sight on the gun.I put a scope on it and no change.To not be able to hit a soda can at 50 yards with every shot is sad,to not be able to hit one with more than 1 shot out of 5 says I never buy another ruger rifle!I have old used $25-$50 22's that I can hit a can 9 out of 10 times on a calm day at 100 yards!

The Raven is long gone but I am going to hack on the mini hard one of these days.