Did you ever have a gun that was cursed

[rallyhound]

About 3 years ago I bought a Remington 7400 carbine in 30-06 to be my woods gun for Minnesota deer hunting.
It jammed constantly till I replaced the brand new mag with a brand new mag.
I mounted a new cheapy scope and sighted it in. 2 days before the start of the season during testing the front lens of the scope fell out and onto the ground.
With no more development time i set her aside for the year.
Next season comes and test time arrives. I load up the gun and pull the trigger and nothing happens--no primer hit.
Take her to the gunsmith (ever try to take apart a 7400) for a new firing pin.
Is it even possible for a firing pin to break sitting in the safe?. Now season 2 is a no go. Back to the safe for another summer.
This year I mount A new in box redfield 3x9 that was probably made in 75 but never mounted on a gun. I used a weaver base with generic rings.
Now the gun shoots 6 inches low at 50yards with the scope maxed out for adjustment.
It appears i need about 1/8 inch more height on the front ring. I haver never had that problem in 25 years of shooting.
Maybe it is time to give up on this one.

 

[blackhawk2000]

I am not positve, but a friend has what I think is the same gun. If it is the same as yours they break in a pretty unreversible manner. Something about the bolt failing. Again, I'm not sure about this, but I'm sure someone with more knoweledge on the matter will chime in.

 

[.45Guy]

Never had a cursed gun, but I do have a cursed brother in law. It seems no matter what I hand him, it suddenly finds some way to fail. Imbel FAL suddenly had a run of failures to extract, AR suddenly had feed problems, etc....

 

[Spiggy]

whatever you do, dont fly on a plane or go to vegas with him

I've had one, a M1 carbine. I hear once I returned it to my freind, it worked again.

 

[.45Guy]

Oh yes, I had an FEG .45 that I got really cheap at a pawn shop. The thing ran like clockwork for about a year and a half. Many boxes of WWB were sent downrange without a hitch. Literally the first round he fired, the thing locked up tighter than a drum. Anyone else fired it no problem, but put it in his hands and everything went to hell.

 

[carpediem]

cursed or cursed at Not me, but I had a friend who swore the CZ 22lr he used in an impromptu shoot was jinxed. Operator Error IMHO.

 

[carnaby]

I had a cursed box of Federal .22 ammo.

 

[Arkady]

Cursed gun? No.

Cursed ammo? Oh yes.
I had a box of Wolf .380 when I was breaking in my P3At (I like to try half a dozen different brands and loads in a new gun), and 13 out of 24 rounds failed to fire. Good primer hits, but no boom. The other 26 rounds got tossed after another gun (Walther PP) failed to touch off 3 out of 5.

 

[Eightball]

My Spanish Mauser tends to act up. Sometimes refuses to eject well, it has managed to split my thumb open 3 times, and the front barrel band WILL NOT stay put (any suggestions on that?). Kinda annoying, but it's still a fun shooter.

 

[earthworm]

a .25 semiauto pistol that kept disappearing & returning.Finally sold it.

 

[Crosshair]

What about cursed ammo???

Federal 22LR ammo will not feed in any of my autoloaders.

 

[Mumbles_45]

got one of those Springfield G.I. 1911s. Can't get more than 2 or 3 rounds out in a row.

 

[ndh87]

mini 14 ranch. screws fall out, cross hairs in my scope broke, mag always falls out.....

 

[Mumbles_45]

sounds like my friend's mini-14. rear sight fell off, firing pin broke, bipods fell apart, had some kind of crazy malfunction I don't know how to explain, other than the bolt ended up off its rails, jammed in the very rear of the reciever.

And it had numerous squibs, but I guess that was technically the ammo's fault, not the gun's

 

[aka108]

Bought a tubular magazine Winchester Model 77 a few years ago for 60 bucks at a garage sale. Not a mark on the rifle, everything there. Basically like new. Won't eject anything. Gunsmith checked it out, everything appears in good order. Maybe that is why it sat around somewhere for over 40 years. Guess there is some risk in buying a new old gun.

 

[Hawk]

Sounds like me and ammo: cursed. Although (so far) only handgun ammo.

PMC .44 mag with soft brass that needed a mallet to pound on the ejector (both my 29 and a friend's Anaconda).

S&B 7.62 X 25 - bad 1/2 case - loose primers spitting with no signs of overpressure.

Magtech Squib.

All in about a years time.
I hasten to add that PMC was helpful with the .44, Ammoman covered the S&B and the Magtech was only one round, so no real complaints. The C&R forums were abuzz for a while with lot numbers being compared on the S&B.

But it does make me wonder why only my karma ran over my dogma when I'm reading the posts about "9 bazillion rounds with narry a problem" - usually Wolf in a Les Baer. Must be just me.

 

[rockstar.esq]

My M44 has killed two different scout scope mounts. It simply won't allow a scope to be adjusted to poi no matter how hard I try. That said, when I shoot it iron sighted it's quite accurate. My buddies M38 won't fire more than three shots of any non Czech ammo without gumming itself shut! I've scrubbed the living daylights out of it on at least five occasions and the simple truth is that it just won't work with that ammo.

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

I have squirrels in my back yard that have nine lives. got a remington 514 22lr that's dead on. 2, I repeat 2 air rifles and these tree rats are still living. I am cursed!:banghead:

 

[Banshee]

I had a M-78 Valmet rifle that would shoot great when I was by my self, but when anyone else was around it would malfuction, malfuction and malfuction. It broke 3 firing pins in the short time I had it.

 

[Ndenway]

45Guy Never had a cursed gun, but I do have a cursed brother in law. It seems no matter what I hand him, it suddenly finds

I got a BIL that the above quote end in this: "its way into a pawn shop",