Favorite Unloved Firearms
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Bazoo
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Krag Jorgenson rifle. Love that box magazine. Classy... as class as a horizontal box magazine can be that is.
Savage30L
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Well, maybe not "unloved", as much as "ignored", but I have a Stevens model 67 20-gauge pump...that I love, despite it being the ugly duckling in my collection. The varnish on the stock was not evenly applied, and it's a 20-gauge gun on a 12-gauge frame....but it's perfectly reliable. And it shoots precisely to point-of-aim (which is not always the case with Stevens shotguns....) The barrel is marked as modified choke, but apparently some previous owner had a gunsmith open it up to cylinder choke...so it's almost impossible to miss anything with it. I'd trust my life to it.
I like my PMR30 and CMR30. My favorite Kel-Tec is my CP33, I find that I take it anytime I shoot handguns. That thing is very accurate and I love the 33 round magazines. I always get kick with all three when people watch and wait for me to reload them.
hemiram
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I have had several that people have ragged on. The first being my Dan Wesson 15-2 I bought when my awful first gun ever Taurus 83 went on it's first of two trips to FL to get "fixed". Never happened, even after the second trip, they never fixed the totally messed up barrel, so I got rid of it. People I knew, including a former NYPD officer, claimed they were "No good", and that the Taurus was better. I stopped taking advice about guns from that point on. I had one problem with that gun, the previous owner had clipped the mainspring to lessen the trigger pull. Light primer strikes galore. A new spring, and it was great. I had that gun many years. A few years after I stopped listening to the former NYPD guy, I ran into him, and he asked if I still had it, I had three, he was shocked. Even more shocked when I told him he didn't know what he was talking about when he said they were "no good".
People have made comments about my Astra guns too. I've had an A60, an a75, 2 A80's, an A90, and two A100's. No problems with any of them. They hit where they were pointed, and the A75 shocks most shooters with it's great DA trigger, very smooth and fairly light. I only sold off the others because I needed money in a hurry, the last A100 was bought at a great price and sold at a pretty shocking amount.
The last ones I've had comments on are my SAR and Canik guns. Some of it is the nonsensical political stuff, but other comments seem to claim bad steel (I've seen nothing on YouTube or any forum to back this up), or they aren't "Accurate". That's not true either. They are all well made, and IMHO the CZ clones are pretty much equal to the "real thing". Turkish guns in general seem to be all well made.
People have made comments about my Astra guns too. I've had an A60, an a75, 2 A80's, an A90, and two A100's. No problems with any of them. They hit where they were pointed, and the A75 shocks most shooters with it's great DA trigger, very smooth and fairly light. I only sold off the others because I needed money in a hurry, the last A100 was bought at a great price and sold at a pretty shocking amount.
The last ones I've had comments on are my SAR and Canik guns. Some of it is the nonsensical political stuff, but other comments seem to claim bad steel (I've seen nothing on YouTube or any forum to back this up), or they aren't "Accurate". That's not true either. They are all well made, and IMHO the CZ clones are pretty much equal to the "real thing". Turkish guns in general seem to be all well made.
ExtremeSquared
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The Pistol-Caliber Straight-Blowback Mechanism, in all implementations.
jar
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I have a few that might qualify.
My Star UltraStar is still my favorite compact 9mm with a polymer frame.
Maybe my favorite semi-automatic would be one of my JP Sauer 38h; probably the 1942 war finish version that was captured by a GI in Italy or North Africa in 1943 or 1944.
My favorite shotgun is a Spanish Aramberri 20 gauge SxS that was imported in the early 1970s as the Star Gauge.
My favorite revolver is a toss up between my 1919 made Colt Army Special in 38 Special and my 1983 Detective Special.
My Star UltraStar is still my favorite compact 9mm with a polymer frame.
Maybe my favorite semi-automatic would be one of my JP Sauer 38h; probably the 1942 war finish version that was captured by a GI in Italy or North Africa in 1943 or 1944.
My favorite shotgun is a Spanish Aramberri 20 gauge SxS that was imported in the early 1970s as the Star Gauge.
My favorite revolver is a toss up between my 1919 made Colt Army Special in 38 Special and my 1983 Detective Special.
daniel craig
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Of the ones I own, my Sporterized mosin. Of the ones I don't own, I've always loved lewis guns.
Mauser fan
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Yep you guessed it the 1893 Mauser action. Without it we wouldn't have the beloved 1898 Mauser action and all of its variants.
Dragonfly
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For me it’d be the FN FS2000. For sure, a comparably-priced AR15 would do just about everything better, but I’ve always had a soft spot for oddball designs, and despite its chunkiness I find it comfortable to shoot. Once you get used to the trigger and shoot only to reset it’s actually pretty good.
.308 Norma
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One of my favorite revolvers of all times is a Taurus .41 Magnum. It's "unloved" by many for 2 reasons: first, because it's a Taurus, and second, because it's a .41 Magnum, which was obviously not all that popular to begin with.
I could wax on and on about all of the things I like about my Taurus .41 Magnum revolver, but what's the use? I'm not going to change anyone's mind, and until that revolver or cartridge fails me in some way, I'm not going to change my mind either.
I could wax on and on about all of the things I like about my Taurus .41 Magnum revolver, but what's the use? I'm not going to change anyone's mind, and until that revolver or cartridge fails me in some way, I'm not going to change my mind either.
Legionnaire
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@.308 Norma, I had a Taurus M44, a very nice, deeply blued 4-inch 44 Mag revolver. I sold it before I learned to reload. I miss it. Taurus often gets a bad rap, sometimes deservedly so. Nevertheless, some of us like some of them.
FlSwampRat
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Thing is, most gun companies, even some very prestigious named companies, have made a clunker or two. A few companies got painted with the "Oh, they make crap guns!" undeservedly so because they made ugly guns, not bad guns.
Mostly ignored and generally off anyone’s radar…
Magnum Research BFR in .44 Mag.
Fit and finish are as good as my Colt and Smith & Wesson revolvers; might be because it’s SA. Accurate, reliable, and built like a tank, excellent platform for its chambering.
Rock Island Armory AL22.
Made in the Czech Republic, fit and finish are very good – it’s proven to be an accurate and reliable revolver. Perhaps nine rounds rather than ten is an issue for some.
Magnum Research BFR in .44 Mag.
Fit and finish are as good as my Colt and Smith & Wesson revolvers; might be because it’s SA. Accurate, reliable, and built like a tank, excellent platform for its chambering.
Rock Island Armory AL22.
Made in the Czech Republic, fit and finish are very good – it’s proven to be an accurate and reliable revolver. Perhaps nine rounds rather than ten is an issue for some.
Captcurt
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My 1300 XTR Winchester. I really wanted a 1100 Remington but Winchester came out with their Win choke, so I ordered it. The very next year Remington came out with their screw-in chokes. I was already into the 1300 too deep and didn't want to take a lose. Then I ordered a Smoothbore slug barrel with sights to turkey hunt with. A .665 choke and a load of Longbeards works swell. That old gun has taken a truck bed full of turkeys and I'm looking forward to adding one or two to the pile this year.
Terry G
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Czech CZ 52 9MM. Watch the drop safety! I had a 7.62 MM version that would fire when using the hammer drop.
illinoisburt
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Unloved? Got to be Hi-point 45 pistol. Ugly, heavy, awful in all aspects except it eats every and any hollow point fed from 10-round single stack. It always goes bang and is more accurate than it deserves to be with ridiculous factory laser.
Armored farmer
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Unloved and disrespected?
I have to include me H&R/NEF Handi-Rifles in that category.
You can easily double the value of your rifle by adding a Nikon. Vortex. Or even Bushnell scope.
Not known for extraordinary accuracy, but more for simplicity and value, I have been able to indulge in Calibers while not spending a fortune on rifles. What can I say? I love single-shot break actions.
At current count, I have six rifles ranging from .204 to .45-70. I have to include two rifled 12ga slug guns, and what the heck? There's a 12ga full too.
I'm not going to quit until I have a .17hmr and a .243 in my modest collection.
I like wood furniture best, but I have a couple synthetic stocks too.
I have to include me H&R/NEF Handi-Rifles in that category.
You can easily double the value of your rifle by adding a Nikon. Vortex. Or even Bushnell scope.
Not known for extraordinary accuracy, but more for simplicity and value, I have been able to indulge in Calibers while not spending a fortune on rifles. What can I say? I love single-shot break actions.
At current count, I have six rifles ranging from .204 to .45-70. I have to include two rifled 12ga slug guns, and what the heck? There's a 12ga full too.
I'm not going to quit until I have a .17hmr and a .243 in my modest collection.
I like wood furniture best, but I have a couple synthetic stocks too.
An H&R single shot 12 gauge.
I lived to Houston Tx in 2000 barely able to put a deposit down on an apartment. That was my primary home defense gun in that apartment for about two years.
by 2003 I had managed an H&R revolver in .22lr and a Beretta Tomcat in .25acp, the latter bought in a parking lot outside a taqueria.
I finally got a Baby Eagle .40 that was absolutely nails.
Then in 2006 I started making enough money to have whatever I wanted
I lost the 12 gauge to a pawn shop and a buddy of mine still has that .40 down in Houston. The .22 and .25 are buried in my safe somewhere.
I lived to Houston Tx in 2000 barely able to put a deposit down on an apartment. That was my primary home defense gun in that apartment for about two years.
by 2003 I had managed an H&R revolver in .22lr and a Beretta Tomcat in .25acp, the latter bought in a parking lot outside a taqueria.
I finally got a Baby Eagle .40 that was absolutely nails.
Then in 2006 I started making enough money to have whatever I wanted
I lost the 12 gauge to a pawn shop and a buddy of mine still has that .40 down in Houston. The .22 and .25 are buried in my safe somewhere.
