Biggest handgun disappointment.

[RangerM9]

hmm....

my worst.....CZ-52....thing tried to self disassemble while shooting it.....not a good quality, threw lead all over, terrible feel in the hand....loud as all get out!

my Ruger p95 is the most perfect functioning gun i have, feels fine in hand to me.....

no probs from my xd45 or walther P22, but have only fired those once (dang hard to get to the range with an infant at home these days!)

just bought my wife a Bersa .380 looking to go try that one soon!

 

[VegasOPM]

My Kimber CDP with the big dot night sights. It shot like a dream, until the Police Dept called me to tell me it was stolen and I had to surrender it.:banghead: The funny thing is that I bought it from a pawn shop that has to send in the serial number to the police before selling it. The police had already signed off on the sale.

 

[John Wayne]

Hi-Standard B Model. Honestly, I can't say this was anything against the company as I bought it from idiot who had neglected it; but seeing as how we're talking about disappointments:

I loved the way the pistol felt. It balanced perfectly in my hand, racking the slide was like melted butter, and the trigger was nothing short of amazing. With that said, I never got more than 3 rounds in a row through it without it jamming. Rounds would nosedive, miss the chamber completely, or shave a chunk of lead off before sliding in. I tried bending the mag lips in, out, back to normal, etc. The thing wouldn't eject, and shot about two feet from point of aim when you did get a round through the thing. Priced replacement parts for it (ejecter, new mag and grip) and would have spent more to repair it than I had in it. Tried over 10 different brands of .22 ammo before finally giving up and selling it.

 

[yeti]

Second place goes to a used AMT hardballer. It worked hard to suck as much as the Pythons and generally succeeded. However, in the case of the hardballer, I learned after the first dog and gave it up as a bad job.

So you are the one who bought it. Lord but those early Arcadia AMT Hardballers were amazing. They looked real good, and presented a real great opportunity to practice every failure drill there is. FTF, FTE, stovepipe, double feed, and sometimes just plain old 'stopped working'. I'm surprised anyone ever made a stainless 1911 after the AMT debacle.
The one time I bought a pistol just to be on the cutting edge, and I ended up enduring the death of a thousand cuts. But it sure was pretty to look at.

 

[btaylor73]

A toss up between a Walther P-22 or the KelTec .380
Walther looked cool at the time but ended up with a Ruger MK II (my favorite gun that I shoot)

 

[FranklyTodd]

Sig P239 CCP package. $756 of jam-o-matic fun!

 

[Loomis]

Worst dissapointment ever was a firesorm mini 45.

It was basically an old Llama style 1911 with a short barrel and a short grip and a double stack mag. In fact, I think the mag even had "Llama" stamped on it.

Anywho, I got it barely used, really really cheap. It jammed about every other round. I fired about 200 round through it to break it in and it still jammed. THen I took it apart and polished all the important parts. fired another 200 rounds. It got better but was still jamming at least 2 out of ten shots. So I took it apart, deburred this and that, reshaped the feed ramp a little, reshaped the extractor a little, then fired a couple hundred more rounds. Now it's jamming about one in ten. And it's started locking back the slide after every shot. So I took it apart again, fixed the slide lock by grinding a deeper divet for the ball detent to lock onto, opened up the top of the chamber just a teensy bit. Then fired about 3 more boxes of ammo. Down to one jam every other ten round magazine.

Ok, not bad. Then I loaded it up with hollowpoint ammo...jeezuz! Jamming POS! $%##!

I sold it for a 25 dollar loss and told the dude it won't feed hollowpoints. I even told him I'd buy it back from him if he didn't like it.

He liked it.

He ran about a thousand rounds through it and told me it started feeding FMJ flawlessly and only jammed once per 10 round clip on hollowpoints. He said he's keeping it cuz he thinks he can get it to work perfectly in another thousand rounds.

Well, about 2000 rounds later it started throwing spent cases right into his face and was getting worse at jamming, he gave up and traded it in on a springfield XD.

 

[MMCSRET]

Lots of disappointments concerning handguns, too many to list. To sum it up, I'm disappointed by every one of them that I don't own!!!!!!!

 

[dirty dave]

taurus 44 special revolver .like new when I got it.compared it to a old little loose s&w 38 m&p made before the war and the smith out shot it everytime with every brand of ammo I had.not even close.not a shooter out of the house.

 

[Hawk]

So you are the one who bought it. Lord but those early Arcadia AMT Hardballers were amazing. They looked real good, and presented a real great opportunity to practice every failure drill there is. FTF, FTE, stovepipe, double feed, and sometimes just plain old 'stopped working'. I'm surprised anyone ever made a stainless 1911 after the AMT debacle.

It would be nice to think that I bought the specific one you got rid of as it pains me to consider there may have been more than one example of that nasty piece of work. But there were probably hundreds or thousands and the reputation of semiautos generally has yet to recover from the episode.

Mine was unique in that it's the only gun I only owned for 4 hours - picked it up at lunchtime, went to the local range, one of the rare cases that managed to extract without intervention came straight back and opened up a cut on my nose that I didn't notice.

Hilarity ensued as the flow of blood led counter dude to believe I'd shot myself. After the bleeding stopped I took it back and traded it for something that ran. It's amazing that in the short time I was shooting it I learned about every malf a 1911 could be expected to produce. Ironic that one of the times (perhaps the only time) it managed to feed, fire, extract and eject it drew blood from the hapless owner.

There was even a cleaning thrown in during the short exercise without result. No doubt the most interesting almost 50 rounds I've ever put mostly downrange.

 

[P5 Guy]

Walther PP in .32ACP.
Tighten the grips and it would not fire, I could not move the trigger. Back off the grip screw and it would fire, but the DA pull must have been 25#.
It was a shame because it was a real nice Berlin Police pistol.
I see no sense in having a gun that is that hard to shoot.

 

[Cactus Jack Arizona]

I've got to put my Walther P22 on the list with other P22's. Besides being finicky about what brand of ammo I put through it, the recoil spring was crap. The slide would stick half open. My P22 took several hundred rounds to break in and even then, accuracy was below average at anything more than 4 feet.

But the main kicker for me was that it put three shells between my face and my safety glasses. After suffering three painful burns around my eyes, that was it for me. I traded the little pos and if I never see another one of those things, it will be too soon.

 

[Orion8472]

I'd have to say my Springfield Armory EMP. . . . . .disappointing that I didn't buy it sooner! . . . . . . . .Oh, you wanted actual GUNS that are disappointing, . . . . . . oh, . . .yeah, then another vote for the P22. It's "okay", but not as I had hoped when I bought it. Trigger, small grip, and light weight really makes it a challenge to group well with it. . . . and the occasional spent shell hitting my face isn't all that desireable either. I'm all about how fun a gun is to shoot. My P22 definitely isn't like my Mark II, . . . or EMP (but that's a "d'uh" statement if I've ever said one)!

 

[bikertrash63]

A Taurus 9MM, I don't even remember the model. I did some trading for it, took it to the range, put one mag through it, stoppped at a gun shop on the way home and traded it in on a Winchester 22mag lever action. If a criminal was coming at me I would have thrown that piece of scrap iron at them, I would have had a better chance of stopping them and less chance of hurting myself when the loose fitting junk flew apart. JB

 

[Elm Creek Smith]

A Western Auto Revelation .22 revolver (High Standard Sentinel) with fixed sights bought years and years ago. It had a six inch barrel and wouldn't put one round in the same place for any of the nine chambers. I shot it from a gun vise, and the target looked like I'd used a .410 with #4 buck.

ECS

PS. Almost forgot - the worst disappointment was when Uncle Sam took away my Pistol, M1911A1, .45 Cal., after 16 years and issued me a Pistol, M9, 9x19 mm NATO. - ECS

 

[MCgunner]

Ever since I was old enough to know what a pistol was I wanted a Charter arms Explorer pistol. Finally I found one and traded my always faithful Pheonix HP22 for it. It was terrible. Refused to feed no matter what I fed it. Bought new mags, that didn't help. When it did shoot I was lucky to put 2 shots in the same zip code. I'm sure there are good Explorers out there, but that soured me on ever getting another one.

I bought one of those, still have it, got it with 2 barrels for 70 bucks. It's pretty accurate and reliable. The trigger is TERRIBLE and unfixable, trust me. The gun is easy to "smith", though. Feeding problems usually involve bending the feed ramp (on the magazine) to the proper angle. You can also chamfer the chamber mouth which will increase reliability if there's a burr or it's not cut just right from the factory. I never had to do that. I have an AR7 rifle, too, and it works fine. I got a 15 round mag for it and spend 45 minutes getting the feed ramp on that mag right, though. The 8 rounders are flawless.

Some folks aren't too mechanically inclined, this gun's not for them. I am a mechanic and I can handle it. LOL!

 

[S&W-Keeper]

Sig Trailside,it has been back to the factory 3 times,the last time the trigger guard broke off.I am afraid to shoot it anymore.I probably should trade it off.

 

[RDA 226sig]

Walther P22

The Walther P22 was an awful buy - poor accuracy and awful trigger. It is in very close competition with S&W Sigma. Poor trigger design!!

 

[nonseven]

Colt Diamondback, blue, 4" barrel, in .22lr.

Beautiful gun, double action pull like glass, but wouldn't keep all shots on a dinner plate at 10 yards.

 

[bikerbill]

Every time I saw a Bond Cowboy Defender derringer, I started to drool ... just had to have one ... finally got it in 9mm ... what a downer ... I thought it would be fun to carry while walking the dog or whatever, but it weighs a ton for only two shots, is really hard to cock, REALLY hard to recock for the second shot, especially under pressure, slow to reload (God forbid you have to reload under pressure) and generally not what I imagined at all ... unloaded it in trade at the gunstore where I bought it. They were kind enough not to laugh (they warned me!) and gave me about 2/3rd of the price I paid ... live and learn ...

 

[drewball]

Super Redhawk

Ruger Super Redhawk 44 Mag 7 1/2 " barrel with a scope. The gun shot well enough and even had a decent trigger but... It had the balance and appeal of a 5 pound sledge hammer with a 12" handle. Traded it for a S&W 610 also with a scope. Its the ONLY handgun that I have ever gotten rid of and it is not missed one bit. Years later I did pick up another 44 Mag except it was a S&W this time. It is 10X the gun

 

[hemiram]

Yeti- So you are the one who bought it. Lord but those early Arcadia AMT Hardballers were amazing. They looked real good, and presented a real great opportunity to practice every failure drill there is. FTF, FTE, stovepipe, double feed, and sometimes just plain old 'stopped working'. I'm surprised anyone ever made a stainless 1911 after the AMT debacle.


Yes, the AMT Hardballer Longslide I had was an excellent test to see if a person was stable or not when presented with a never ending series of problems.

Stovepipes, slide hanging open, it did it all. The only thing I can say good about it was that it actually was better than the Colt Commander I bought to replace it after giving up on it. That gun didn't have a straight part on it, and was the worst shooting new gun I have ever had.

 

[GTFord1]

I think the worst gun on the planet by far is anything made by Glock. I hear all the hype about what great guns they are but I have never found a good one yet. They are worthless beyond about 7 yards. I've never seen one hold better than an 8 to 10 inch pattern beyond that distance. They jamb every 4 or 5 rounds (at least once every magazine full). They come all to pieces after about 2000 rounds.

The last thing I want to be considered is a Glock apologist (I've owned a couple, sold them both, and I'm getting another one because it was cheap,) but that's flat out BS.

Every statement in that quote is flat out hyperbole with zero basis. If they were lemons of that magnitude police departments all over the place wouldn't be using them.

 

[Yo Mama]

OK

Well the thread has been open long enough for me to answer

1. Taurus m85-Had just gotten a raise, and wanted a serious gun for the pocket. Great, untill I shot the thing, and couldn't hit a thing with it. Forcing cone went to hell, and 2 trips to the factory later, I sold it.

2. Ruger p89-bought used, many problems

 

[oklahoma caveman]

well i havent really had any pos handguns yet, unless you count the nagant, neat gun, just didn really do it for me. definately not a pos tho.


i just find it interesting that in a total of 248? different posts that the hipoint pistols and rock island armory 1911's have not been mentioned. for the price and the amount of ppl who seem to own 1 or the other ( myself incuded ria 1911) you would think they would have been mentioned by now.

by the way, i LOVE my rock