The WORST gun in your personal collection?

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RG REVOLVERS they all spit lead when fired, if you use a two handed grip you'l get powder burns or dead splatter. That's been my experience with them.
 
I get rid of guns that I think suck.

S&W 22A
S&W Sigma
KelTec P11

All the above I disliked and therefore got rid of.

If I had to pick the worst gun in my collection I would probably go with one of my Mosin Nagant rifles (I still like shooting them).
 
As much as it pains me to say it, I have a Winchester 94 30-30 that belonged to my grand-dad, and it is worthless in its current configuration. He cut the stock to an 11" LOP, bobbed the barrel back to around 20" (and did history's worst job of re-crowning it), and installed sights that keep the resulting loose groups centered 18" high at 30 yards. Mechanically, it's just fine, and I don't care that the finish has long since gone the way of the buffalo, but I need to have a real 'smith adopt it for a while.

Anybody have any pre-64 M92 or M94 wood they need to sell?
 
Winchester 290. Barrel won't stay tight, plastic everything, trigger worse than any 10/22. Still got because I'm not quite low enough to foist it off on anyone else.
 
Diamondback DB380. The weapons are horrible but look on the bright side the customer service is worse. PS Diamondback was purchased by Taurus and they also suckk
 
My Dad gave me 2 guns, a non-working 1860's Sharps 4 barrel derringer and a mystery brand .38 revolver in parts. I have no clue what to do with that revolver as I doubt it's high enough quality to take in and have a 'smith assemble it.

In working guns I don't have any bad ones but I guess the cheapest is a Norinco 1911 I paid $299 for.
 
Jennings 22. First gun I ever bought. I knew nothing about guns and it was very affordable. It was a POS. Firing pin broke. Now, when I go to gun shows, and see Jennings, Raven, or Jimenez guns, I just laugh and walk on.
 
I like everything I still have sold of the stinkers a long time ago The least likely to work properly AMT automag 22 magnum Keep it yup Always likes them finly got around to tracking one down and buying it but No Mag was with it Bought 2 new Mags and still working on getting them to function every time .... worst I ever had was a Helwan sold it off in 92 of so ...
 
I gave away a 308 caliber CETME that I didn't like. I never shot it and don't know why I bought it in the first place. I told my local gun smith he could have it if he would customize a Saiga 12 gauge shotgun I have, he agreed. I should be able to pick that shotgun up just about any day now.
 
Besides the MAS 36, the only really worst gun I ever owned was a .22 derringer that was made of pot metal. It was the first pistol I ever bought, and that was about 50 years ago. As I recall, I was barely legal age, at least that's my excuse now.
A bunch of friends and I were getting ready to go some place and in my coat pocket was this derringer. I took my coat off and threw it into the trunk of the car. BANG! That's when I learned about derringers being unsafe when they land on the hammer. Everybody looked around like ...... what was that? A little piece of cotton was slowly wafting toward the ground where the bullet had put a hole in my coat pocket. I have no idea where the bullet went, but to my knowledge, there was no damage except to my coat. Nobody knew I had the gun, so I kept my mouth shut and didn't let on that it had gone off. Within a second or two everybody had shrugged it of as some mystery not worth dwelling on. Everybody but me, that is. Needless to say, that gun was the first I ever sold. When I think about it now, it makes me cringe.
 
I've gotten rid of the worst guns I ever owned.

Cobray Mac 11 380
Masterpiece Arms 9mm Pistol (Mac 10 style)
Sloane- Pride of Spain 20 Guage double barrel Shotgun Side by side

Absolute worst POS's I've ever laid eyes on. All of them either had firing pins break or get stuck, hammers broken in half, or were Jam-o-Matics. Still happy that I unloaded those pieces of junk.

Of all my guns that I currently own, if there is one gun that is still my least favorite, it would have to be the Kelt tec P3AT. Still have it because it is still my wife's carry gun. Not fun at all to shoot it though, but it's been reliable.
 
Mossberg 930. Does not cycle anything reliably, has been aback to the factory. Dealing with Mossberg was TERRIBLE. I just can't seem to pass it off to anyone else who wants to mess with it. Not even at a 25% loss.
 
Diamondback DB380. The weapons are horrible but look on the bright side the customer service is worse. PS Diamondback was purchased by Taurus and they also suckk
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I had the DB9 and it was the same way. Jammed NO matter what I tried or did. NOT reliable at all. I called and even though I live 5 miles from where it was being sent back to, the person on the phone demanded I mail it UPS. It was apparent the customer service had no idea about guns because I told him the recoil spring and firing pin collapsed into each other and is jammed causing the slide to be stuck and he asked "would you describe that as the upper half or lower half of the gun? I believe it was probably outsourced. This was RIGHT after Taurus bought them out.

I finally got it there in person and spoke with the manager who was extremely friendly. He explained that he replaced the entire slide with a new and redesigned one as well as the firing pin and spring mechanisms. I asked what was new about it and he said "it is expected to last, the last one was put in a gun we didn't expect people to shoot much"

Took it back and it jammed just as much as previously so it was sold immediately and replaced with a Kahr CM9 which has been ultra reliable and more accurate.

I will also add that my buddy bought a DB15 and it is also an unreliable piece of junk. It does not like high grain or steel cased ammo and accuracy is terrible.
 
An old VZ-52 in 7.62x45... I see them sale for over $350 regularly but I can't toss it for $200 around here
 
gamestalker said:
I was in a gun shop back around 2003 and saw a few of those $100 Hi Points, 9mm's and .380's. So I was thinking that they would make a great floor board gun, and could also double as a boat anchor when fishing, so I bought one of the 9mm's.

The next weekend, my Son and I were out shooting rabbits with our bows, but we were using regular field tips, not broad heads. I shot this one big old jack and he ran into a wash and laid there squealing, so feeling bad about it, I handed my son the 9mm and told him to dispatch it. He was standing up on the edge of the wash, probably 10' or so above the jack, maybe a tad higher, and fired the first shot, which missed. Hmm, I laughed at him for missing it, and he then took careful aim and missed again. A third shot, same thing. So he handed the pistol to me, to which I too missed. I finally had to get down in the wash and had to practically shoot the rabbit point blank to hit it.

The next day I went out to my shooting spot and set up a target to see just what was going on with this 9mm. At 15' it was all over the paper, and the holes were showing evidence of tumbling also, seriously I mean like 6" or 8" in any direction, completely unpredictable. Just accepting that this gun was terribly inaccurate wasn't enough for me, so I decided to shoot a couple of cartridges into some water filled containers so I could take a look at the lands and groove transfer. What I discovered was that one side of the bullet had good barrel transfer, but the other side was almost completely smooth. I managed to shoot 3 rounds before the water container was too empty to serve as a stop, but all 3 had the same transfer marks, or rather the lack there of. These were my reloaded JHP's that have been accurate out of all my pistols. I gave the gun to my son to try out, so he shot a few factory Federal Hydra Shocks through it with the same exact results on a phone book, from point blank range of course.

So I would have to definitely say that my 9mm Hi Point is the worst gun I own.

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You know them HiPoint boys will repair or replace that ill-shooting pistol free of charge, right?
 
Mine would have to be an expensive fantastic shooting 6mm PPC that I just have no use for. There was a monthly prone match shot at 100 yards through the winter that I thought would be good for practice during my regular off season.
With doing this in mind, over the summer I had built for me a:
McMillan prone stock
Lilja 6mm PPC
BAT action
Geissele trigger

Then worked up a load that often shot into the 0's for five shot groups at 100 yards. Okay I'm ready for the winter season. Winter rolls around and their not going to do them anymore. Now I have this great shooting rifle that never sees the outside of my safe. Can't sell it to the benchrest group with a prone stock on it, and the mid range prone shooters wouldn't want a 6 PPC for beyond three hundred yards so I'm kind of stuck with it.
Maybe someday I'll use it again.
 
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