worst gun ever owened

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Herters' .22 semiautomatic rifle that cost me $30 dollars mail order. It would double and then jam. I ended up bulging the barrel in several places since it would fire out of battery, cartridge case would rupture and a bullet would stick in the barrel. If a third round was fired after clearing the ruptured case a slightly bulged barrel resulted if the gun was fired prior to driving the lodged bullet out of barrel..
 
Sig Mosquito. Their customer service was as bad as their pistol. I'll never buy another Sig product.
 
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Charles Daly ES.

If you breathed on the slide the factory bluing would wipe right off.

Unreliable.. etc..
 
My first pistol, a Daewoo DH40 (didn't they make ****ty cars as well? Yes they did). Trigger return spring failed after about 30 rounds, and misfed about a third of those... Returned to factory. Received it back and traded it in for a Sig P229 and never looked back. Big difference in price and it shows. I'll never trust another gun publication review again...
 
FEG R9, a HiPower wannabe. It was $199 new so I had to try it even knowing "you get what you pay for." Completely different inside, 30# trigger pull, inaccurate. Traded it for a S&W 2" Model 10 about 10 years ago. Still have it.
 
The "cheap" guns are mostly junk; but a relative term. Hence, after my initial couple of purchases when I knew little, I have seldom considered such guns beyond a glance. The cheapest gun I have owned was a H&R 999 Sportsman which over a 5-year period did not please me. Sold it.

Had a Colt 380 Pony that jammed every few shots. Sold it off cheaply to someone who might be able to make it run. No regrets.
 
One that was passed on to me, a Llama .32-shot the chamber indicator out of it within 4 rounds.
One that I purchased, Intratec Scorpian Tec 22 jam o matic. Maybe one day I'll find a mag that feeds with it.

Biggest dissappointment, but also my favorite-Colt Combat Commander from the early 90s-shot the front sight out of it within 200 rounds, but this was 20 years after I purchased it.
 
years ago i paid 70 bucks for a winchester model 94 30-30....it just sucked in every way. a guy i know at our marina wanted to trade me an older Penn reel for it. i told him it wouldnt hit the broadside of a barn if you were IN the barn and that basically it sucked...he said thats ok, the reel is damn near stripped out...he took the gun, i took the reel and we both walked away happy.
 
Kimber Stainless Pro Carry II

The single most disappointing firearm I've ever owned. Failure to feed, failure to return to battery, failure to extract, poorly fitted parts, parts breakages, etc. By the time I got rid of it, I had ~$1400 in it in an attempt to make it reliable enough to carry...but it just never reached that point.

It was pretty, but pretty won't save your life.

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One of em chinaman sks's that came back from vietnam, has a 20lb trigger and the gas system dosent work but thats what you get for a $100 sks, it made a great gift for a friend. :evil:
 
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Believe it or not, mine was a Browning BDA .380. The thirteen round mag would only accept eleven rounds without physical "persuasion" and the damn thing shot eighteen inches high at a measured fifteen feet. :cuss: I bought the thing used so I really had no recourse to Browning's customer service. It was a beautiful gun, though, and I ended up trading it for a S&W M-29 3". :D

Upon further consideration, I DID own a worse gun. Back in the mid-70's I "acquired" a German made Saturday-night special. It was a flimsy eight-shot .22 revolver so badly out of time it actually sheared lead which stuck in one's fingertip if firing it two-handed. Almost as inaccurate as the aforementioned Browning, I got it as part of a trade that was advantageous to me and made the other guy happy--I think my end totaled less than twelve dollars for the whole deal. I eventually sold it to a guy in a bar for $35 :cool:.

On the other end of the spectrum, I have a Llama Max-I 1911 .45 that I absolutely love. I've had it fifteen years and put several hundred rounds through it per year and NEVER a malfunction. Sometimes, you can get the Wednesday afternoon guns...;)

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Luger .22 lr never could hit anything with it looked and functioned just like the 9mm parabellum of the same name. Always reliable just not accurate in my hands.
 
I was once given an old RG .22 for doing yard work for an elderly lady down the street. Fired sometimes, but rarely hit what one was aiming at. Still it was technically my "first handgun". I was all of thirteen at the time. Yea, that was several decades ago, I'm darned near as old as the elderly lady was at the time.
 
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Like I said, sometimes you luck out and get a Wednesday afternoon gun...then there's the times you get the FRIDAY afternoon guns or worse, the ones made on Monday morning.

I'll be first to admit Llamas are a crapshoot!

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kind of a draw between the Marlin lever action 30-30 I bought from Wally World that wouldnt cycle with more than three rounds in the tube and the Auto Ord 1911A1 I had for all of three days.
 
Colt Trooper, early model. Barrel cracked. Factory repaired, new bbl had bad rifling. Trigger pull changed to 8 lbs. Vise marks in frame. Hate Colts to this day. But still bought a M16 in 1979.
 
Without a doubt my hi-point 9mm, darn thing would jam every couple shots no matter how many times I cleaned and lubed it
 
Marlin 25M .22Mag bolt rifle. Nasty trigger. Never got better. Shot only 200 rnds through it. Sold it to local farmer for 'pest control'.
 
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