The WORST gun in your personal collection?

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IZH-35M target pistol. Very accurate. Made sharpshooter with it. Unfortunately made of very poor metal quality, resulting in doubling which requires the bolt surface to be machined. Inertial firing pin with an edge that wears down. Poor extractors and ejectors that wear out. Parts are impossible to find. Magazines are hard to find. EAA has stopped supporting it.

Very good trigger, 5-way adjustable, and one of the lowest bore axis of any pistol I know of. The Russians are still using an updated version.
 
Old pitted (that way before I got it) Mossberg 500 with ugly adjustable choke on end of the barrel. Getting ready to chop barrel and turn it into a home defense shotgun. Certainly can't make it any uglier.
 
The worst gun I own is probably the one I would never be rid of my Ruger Standard, 9 shot .22lr. It has seen so many rounds through it I sent it back in to be refurbished by Ruger. Why would I go through all of that? My dad went in halves with me when I was 11 and it is my first gun.
 
Traded a dying mower for a single shot .22 a savage 73 I believe? Anyway, it uses just one bolt to fix the rec. and stock and the soft material of receiver was worn and stripped. Junk!

I bought a mosin 91/30 that could not hit paper at 50yd. I was ready to give it away or give up and never take it from safe. Finally trimmed a bit off the plenty long barrel and with a nice new crown and strong lands/grooves it was like a whole new gun.

Moral of story: sometimes your worst gun is the best one to take a risk with if you hate it or think it couldn't be worse
 
Rusty 9m flobert garden gun that I got in a golf bag at a yard sale. stinky stinky.
 
Oh, by far my Jimenez JA_NINE. Cracked frame, sharp edges, weak safety, tumbling projectiles, etc.

Makes for good practice clearing stoppages.
 
It's a toss-up. I have one .38 that is "retired" as the cylinder doesn't lock-up in alignment anymore but it is about 100 years old! ;)
Another "disappointment" is my Ruger 10/22. No matter what ammo (CCI Mini-Mags, Blazer, Remington, Federal, Winchster, etc.) I put through it, the accuracy is "disappointing" compared my Marlin bolt-action and my mother's Marlin "Glenfield/Mod. 60". :uhoh:
The final "disappointment" is my AK. It has a slightly longer and thicker barrel with a milled (vs. stamped) receiver. I built a frame to hold a rifle on target so all I had to do is gently pull the trigger. Using milsurp HPs at 100 yds., only 2 of 5 were even on the paper. :(
 
Got an old Hamilton break 22 rifle, the kind they used to give out for kids contests and such. So cheap the barrel is mandril rolled.
 
Sig Mosquito. Got it in an impulse trade. Had a pistol on consignment that wasnt moving, so I asked about a trade.

Like all Sigs, it didnt slide lock for me. And unlike my other .22s, I cant dry fire it... So I took the slide lock out and ground the thumb pad off to prevent (further) barrel damage...

I cant say I like it, but dont hate it either. My little girl wants to shoot it when she's old enough, so I decided to keep it. Loaded it with CCI quiet .22s and hung an old M3 on it for pest control.
 
I don't believe in having a gun that I don't care for. I would get rid of it and buy something I liked, even less expensive if I felt that way about any of my weapons.
 
I have an entire safe full of "worst" guns. Some I bought, some I was given and some I inherited. Some I have fixed over the years and some I have just let sit in the safe for years. I clean them once a year or so. Most of them aren't really bad guns but I have others I prefer. A couple are extremely ammo picky (Phoenix .22) so they have gone in the safe during the ammo crisis because a $150 gun should not require ammo that costs $.10 per round.
Of all the guns I really just don't like the worst would be a Mossburg 30-06. Horrid trigger and brutal on the shoulder. Next would be a Savage .17 HMR with about a 25# trigger. I have the exact gun in 22 Mag that has the accutrigger and it is outstanding.
I don't sell or trade guns. That is why I have an entire safe full of guns I don't even like.
 
Easily an HR 959 I inherited last year from my uncle. It was new in box. I took it to the range and couldn't get a hit on a police target at 10 feet. I have no idea what is going on with it. I am planning on finding a gun buy back program and getting $50 for it.
 
Well what was the worse that I still have is a Mossberg 500 that I bought cheap/used to rebuild as a breaching shotgun.

I've replaced the worn extractors and ejector, cut the barrel back to 19", parkerized all the steel parts. Replaced the stock with a Knoxx breachers grip and the forend with a MAGPUL one. Just need to add a stand off device to the muzzle. And refinish the AL receiver.

So it don't count now I guess.
 
I would have to say a Mosin Nagant that cost me $90, which works out to about $1 per pound of trigger pull. And a Micro Desert Eagle that I over-enthusiastically ordered from a CDNN catalog, and which has the unfortunate tendency to drop its magazine out at inopportune times. It makes up for this deficiency by being extremely unpleasant to shoot when the magazine stays in.
 
I've got a Romanian Trainer, It didt have any magazines when I bought it, I have 2 after market mags. If I load 3 it works. Load 5, it jambs.

I'm a wood worker, but I messed up the stock and just painted it black....

SO, not the gun's fault, but between the aftermarket magazines and my butchery on the stock...it's my least favorite.

It is accurate though, so it could be an "Emergency" squirrel gun.
 
My worst gun was a Savage 24-S over and under. 22LR atop a 20 gauge shotgun barrel. This gun was heavy; it swung and pointed poorly for a shotgun. The rifle sights were mediocre at best. I sold it long ago and never looked back.

TR
 
I'm wondering about your WORST gun, a gun that you, if not outright HATE, at least like the least, this would be the ONE gun you consider the worst, however you define worst to be...

What is it? Why do you keep it, what do you do with it?

Am I keeping it?
Yes

Why?

1; it was Dad's gun, we found it in his sock drawer after he passed away earlier this year, even Mom never knew he had it in their bedroom, why he had it was a mystery, a mystery we can never solve, I think he bought it for personal protection when he used to go on long business trips away from home

2; even if I was going to sell it, it'd only be worth about $50 in trade at the local gun shop

So, what is the ONE worst gun in your collection?

Mine has to be a Rossi .38 Spl revolver.

I don't hate it, but I don't particularly like it. Pencil barreled, 5 shot, the grips are sort of a fake mother-of-pearl, and they're too small to be comfortable when you shoot it. Looks like something from an old '40s gangster movie.

I keep it for much the same reasons you list above. It was my Dad's, the only handgun he ever owned; I don't think he ever shot more than a cylinder's worth out of it. I haven't shot it in over 25 years.

As for value, I haven't got a clue, but no matter. It'll never get sold, at least by me.
 
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I am surprised I haven't posted in this thread already.

Mine is a Davis Industries .32acp. It had a broken firing pin when I got it. I bought someone lunch for it. I replaced the firing on then shot it a few times. Then the linkage that connects the trigger to the sear? Would slip apart. Very janky mechanicals in that thing. So I fixed it and took it out again, this time it ate the recoil spring causing it to damage the hook assembly thingamajigga at the back of the slide. So I bought a replacement that needed some work to fit. Took it back to the range and the linkage kept slipping apart.

I don't shoot it any more, in fact the only reason I keep it is because of the half a box of ammo I have for it. If it wasn't for that ammo I would have taken a band saw to it long ago. Those are firearms that just plain need not be built.
 
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