Which is the worst .45 pistol ever made in your opinion?

Llama 1911, I can't list all the ways its lacking. Maybe I'm just comparing it to every other 1911 on earth but it's horribly inaccurate, fails to eject, and feeds lousy. But that could just be the three that I've fired in my life.

Liberator.

Not to say it isn't creatively designed to an absurdly low price-point, but for a "throw it out the plane to the enslaved peoples" gun, I'd rather go up an order of magnitude in cost and get a Sten.

Not happpy with the Llama but if Jimenez makes a .45 that has to be the worst. The Liberator functioned well for what it was

OP didn't specify function as the sole criterion. And even then, nobody has probably fired enough Liberators to set a function baseline.

It was bad in several other categories, incuding build quality, ergonomics, and reloading procedure.

AMT Hardballer.

I've got to agree with the folks on the Llama. I had one in the 80's that jammed every single magazine. At least I had lots on practice clearing jams

Maybe I'm too forgiving but I've liked most I've fired and had good luck reliability-wise with my 45s, including a Llama MiniMax II. Also, Star PD, Colt and a worn 1950s Argentine Ballaster Molina.

Got the BM in non-reliable condition for $50 thirty years ago and a Colt recoil spring was all it needed. That thing slopped around and rattled but would hold 2.5" at 25 yards! I'd still have it but a buddy borrowed it and I never got it back.

Dry firing the Star broke the firing pin but I got one fabricated that works well. No issues with the Colt other than normal replacement parts.

For me it has to be the Llama 1911 as well. Had a compact, Minimax model if i remember right, and it jammed worse than any other gun i have seen, not bad accuracy when it shot but seemed to jam more often than not! Didn't keep it around long.

I have shot one of the older Llamas don't remember the model but it was one of the sweetest little shooting .22 autos that i have shot, totally reliable and very accurate!

The 1911.

In the mid 1990s I had a Taurus PT945 that was a total POS.

Good news... no Hi point on this list yet.

Might make a top five ugliest list though.. Or a, I didn't have to shoot the bad guy because he died laughing category.

Any pistol that launches 45acp bullets can't be all bad. But the colt double eagles were pretty bad in my opinion.

1988 purchased new Thompson A/O 1911.

The Cobray 45 colt/ 410 single shot derringer is both ugly and crude.

AMT Hardballer.

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+100

My dad bought a Llama 1911 back in the 1960s.

Tens of thousands of rounds later it is still going with all the original parts, magazines included. Most accurate autoloader we have too.

AMT.

The AMT was the worst I ever owned, but there ae lots of bad ones out there. The word on the Llamas is that either you get a good one or you don't. Doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground on them. I had one for a while and had no issues with it.

I have had issues with Colts, Springfields and the only Dan Wesson I've ever owned. My Kimber has been perfect despite what I read about them. Same for my S&W's.

Kimbers=Jambers

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Trunk Monkey said:

if Jimenez makes a .45 that has to be the worst.

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Ha! Too funny

I am a self-confessed Kimber fanboy, but the second generation outside ejector Kimbers were very bad guns. They were truly jam machines, no matter how well maintained or broken in. Kimber is still replacing slides on those guns. Having said that, if I had the scratch I'd buy a new Kimber Dessert Warrior in a heartbeat. The current ones are still the best values if you want an American made 1911 to build up.

I've also heard some very negative reports on the Sig 220, from enough varied sources to keep me away.