Name your biggest POS handguns.

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Llama .22 cal auto (1911 configuration). I can't remember the model number, but this was, undoubtedly the worst gun I've ever had. I don't think I ever shot a complete magazine without at least one jam. Looked like the insides were cast out of beer cans and "finished" with a heavy rasp by a blind man. When it decided on it's own to start slam firing and burp out two or three rounds in full-auto it was time to relegate it to the trash. What a great combination of features: Both unreliable and dangerous. Pure crap. :barf:
 
AMT 380 and AMT Pocket DAO 45. The trigger actually wouldn't let me fire the 380 once in a while. Terrible take down, too. The 45 functioned about 70% of the time. The weird thing about the 45 was that I could never get those tiny grip screws to stay in and the grips shot loose after a mag or two of ammo. No amount of ANY color of Loctite had any effect on those screws. The trigger pin also walked out of the frame every other shot or so. Learned my lesson and never bought anything else by them.
 
Mine would have had to have been my Springfield 'Ultra Compact' Mil Spec. I'm pretty sure it's a function of the short barrel and not unique to Springfield, but having to have a tool around to field strip your pistol blows.

Best thing I could say about that pistol is if I only fed it ball, it often worked.
 
High-point .380 I got as a gift. I have never seen or heard about a bigger piece of trash that gun, except maybe a Stallard.

The Hi-point was developed from the Stallard and
by all accounts the re-design corrects some of the
problems associated with the Stallard.

I have no experience with the Hi-point pistols but
I have shot my friend's Hi-point carbine and I was
impressed by its accuracy, reliability and cost-value
ratio: a lotta bang for a little bucks. He has had
that carbine for years and shows up at the range
and lets anyone who wants to fire it, sometimes
supplying the ammo just for the heck of it.
 
H&R "Sportsman" Double Action (9-shot, break-top revolver): this one may have been crap due to abuse, more than quality

I'll vote for the abuse over quality arguement. The Sportsman 999 that you describe is actually my favorite .22 revolver!
 
I'll second the Llama 1911 experience only in .45 ACP. The frequency of jams with this thing with all loads tried convinced me that there was a problem with the mag or the gun itself. Gunsmith said no, I got out and haven't looked back. Also had a problem with 1915 P08 but that was age and a broken pin. Others may have had positive experience with Llama 1911's but I'll never chance it again. Like I said the Luger was just age and use.
 
Any S&W revolver that was made after the introduction of MIM...

I have few problems with the MIM process, just the changes that seemed to happen at the same time period as the introduction of MIM....

S&W became a overpriced Taurus at that point. They sell guns on name branding and all of the quality of the olden days is gone......

Gizamo
 
My luck in searching for a "Great" pistol made by a "Great" Gun maker like Beretta ended when I was talked into these two POS

Beretta 92F "Brigadier" :barf:("Brigadier is Italian code for Single Shot)
Brand New Weapon, new mags, several types of ammo and ....15 round Mags and still...a single shot. Called Beretta about the problem......:cuss:

Beretta Tomcat .380 ( weak shooting POS world class inaccuracy):banghead:

I traded both weapons for a NIB Browning 9mm "Capitan":D:rolleyes::cool::)

Best move I ever made while trading guns.

Nathan Hale
 
Lorcin .22lr Semi Auto... Looks good, shoots good, but I wouldn't trust my life on it.... And luckily I don't, It is a conversation piece though...

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That is easy...

This might surprise and upset some folks, but here it goes:

The biggest POS handgun that I've been exposed to was one that I chose not to buy after renting one. Hands down, the Smith and Wesson 617 .22lr. I was really disappointed when I rented one at the local range. I ran over 100 rounds of different types of .22 lr ammo through it before I was so disgusted that I stopped. The 617 "light-struck" at least 40% of the ammo that I tried that day. That same day, I tried a Ruger Mark II and shot from the same boxes of ammo and maybe had two or three ammo malfunctions, so I know the problem was not the ammo, but the 617. I had my heart set on getting a .22 lr revolver and really wanted the 617. I shot the Mark II, because I wanted to prove to myself that the ammo was the problem and not the 617. Seems to me that the springs were a little weak on that 617. I know that I could have bought the gun and changed the springs, but the experience left a bad taste in my mouth. I decided on a Ruger Single Six Hunter and have never looked back. I like the Hunter a lot. Looks great and is probably one of the most durable, reiable, and safe .22lr hadngun on the market. The Hunter is almost 46 ounces of SA stainless steel goodness!!
 
Mine was a....

Romanian AK-74 in .223 that was made by Century.

Failures to fire, double feeds, stove pipes, failures to pick up a round from the mag after firing a round, malf's where the bullet did a nose dive straight into the ramp and then stuck there as if it was welded there are just some of the issues I dealt with on that gun. All kinds of weird problems that usually don't happen on the same gun. Tried to have it fixed twice and it did a little better, but it was never completely reliable so I sold it to a guy who thought he could fix it and I gave him a complete run down of what it was doing before I sold it to him.

Never bought anything from Century after that and I haven't had a problem since.

Coincidence? I think not.
 
jennings j-22 (safety didn't work and wass horibly inaccurate)

rg 10 (inaccurate and had to pull trigger no less than 3 times to get it to fire 1 round)
 
Daewoo Tri-Action 9mm. Comfortable and accurate but when one of the internal pins broke (can't remeber which one, I have very limited gunsmithing knowledge) I could not get a replacement part anywhere. I had 3 gunsmiths looking for that part for 3 months and nothing. Even Daewoo themselves couldn't/wouldn't help me. They said that my gun was an old version, that the internals had been significantly updated and that particular pin was no longer used and they didn't/wouldn't support the old version anymore.
 
did he just say DAEWOO? Dont they make electronics? Have you ever driven one of their cars? They are the worst cars EVER. I would never buy something manufactured by them. I had no idea they made guns...lol...my worst gun is probably our old sprinfield pump shotty. The wooden front grip broke off from the slide and its been a single shot ever since.
 
No question, the worst I own is a Raven .25 that I got for $70. Granted, I knew it was terrible when I bought it. It's more for range fun than anything else.
 
did he just say DAEWOO?
That's right, Daewoo. Not only did I own a Daewoo handgun once but a TV, alarm clock and DVD player and the gun was the only thing that broke down.

The gun had one pretty cool feature, though. If you cocked the weapon you could push the hammer down so that it rested in the down position, so you could carry cocked and locked with the hammer in the down position. Then when you took up the slack on the trigger the hammer would snap back into the cocked position. It was pretty slick.
 
That Daewoo hammer mechanism sounds overly complicated. And...what's the point over conventional cocked and locked carry?
 
My first gun was a Glenfield 22LR from Walmart.. retailed for about $120.00. Held up pretty well, all things considered, until magazines started falling out..
I had a Keltec SUB-2000, about the pickiest thing on ammo I've ever seen.
Finally, while I wanted to love this gun, my Ruger P95 would jam if it was the least bit dirty...

I'm really proud nobody here has talked about owning a Hi-Point.. yet
 
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