Guns you don't like...

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I dislike ...
* sks, theyre built for an 11yo girl.
*anything made of zamak, then painted black.
*old d/a revolvers that resemble s/a.
*AR lowers with the skull magazine well.
*plastic barrel bands.
*plastic sights.
*plastic grips.
*shotgun barrels without ribs.
*Inline muzzleloaders
*$1000 guns in $20 holsters.
 
I've never been a fan of anything in 22LR just never saw the appeal. the only 22s I own are 223s.
 
FFGCOLORADO said:
For ME, ones that hurt to shoot. Another, for EDC, is anything with an external safety or decocker or different trigger pulls, type stuff. 'Worried' about reholstering for a IWB holster and those scary strikers? Take the holster off to reholster..'Ease and speed' of reholstering for the everyday citizen never made any sense to me.
External safeties on strikers smacks of marketing 101, and relying on the lack of knowledge by the buying public of what a striker is and how it words. At least on a Glock with a very slightly compressed striker spring when one in chamber..it's the same as a revolver with the hammer down...How many DA revolvers have a safety?

BUT, in my quest to find the 3-4 handguns that I really like..I handled/shot many that I really didn't like.
1911/45cal
Sig 365
Ruger LCP
S&W 642
Ruger LC-9
Beretta 92FS
Glock 43(see 'hurt my hand)
Springfield XD
Sig 320
Uberti Cattleman Bird's Head

..some others..but holy moly..LOTS of selection these days.
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I must respectfully say that a Glock with a "cocked" striker spring is nothing like, in my observation, a revolver with the hammer down. JMO
 
WestTexShooter said:
I must respectfully say that a Glock with a "cocked" striker spring is nothing like, in my observation, a revolver with the hammer down. JMO
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Let's say, that partially compressed spring on a Glock(along with many other strikers), went from that position to the primer..would it fire?

At least on a Glock with a very slightly compressed striker spring
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I guess I should have said 'almost' but that wee bit of striker spring compression doesn't mean ya gotta have an external safety, IMHO, which was my main point.

What I don't like about some guns, -to answer the OP's question..
 
Just about anything French.
I've yet to find any French design in any field I'd look favorably on in an engineer's resume, many things are different for the sake of being different ('domestic pride' only counts you make something worth being proud of!), and for a supposed center of visual design and fashion, their hardware sure tends to be ugly.
It's like France deported all their good workers to Belgium.
 
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Armored farmer said:
I dislike ...
* sks, theyre built for an 11yo girl.
*anything made of zamak, then painted black.
*old d/a revolvers that resemble s/a.
*AR lowers with the skull magazine well.
*plastic barrel bands.
*plastic sights.
*plastic grips.
*shotgun barrels without ribs.
*Inline muzzleloaders
*$1000 guns in $20 holsters.
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The shotguns without ribs ought to have a qualifier. Older ones, particularly double barrels but I’d include a few classics like model 97s would look crappy with ribs
 
Hmm, not very much I don't like, per say, but there are a few I don't prefer.

DA/SA handguns, just can't get them to shoot where I want them too, despite owning many and really trying.

Hinged triggers (M&P, FNS). Just don't prefer them, though I shoot them fine.

JFrames, especially light ones, just not fun to shoot and don't carry any better on me than a much more pleasant to shoot Glock 26/43/43x/Sig 365/etc.

Light rifles in heavy calibers. My first rifle was a Rem 700 mountain in .30-06. hadn't shot it in years and decided to shoot it again last year, made it 12 rounds and decided I hate the teeth rattling now and plan to sell it. I'll take a .308 I can shoot all day.

Apart from that I can't think of much else.
 
vincyr said:
Since the "Cartridges you just don't like" thread was interesting, I figured it would ask about what guns.

For me, the reasons are purely aesthetic. I don't find ARs and AKs very attractive, but some variants have a certain elegance to them, I admit. What I can't bring myself to like is that monstrosity of a "tacticool" lever-gun that Mossberg made. *Shudder* So ugly
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Anything .380, will never understand why anyone would recommend it over a 9mm. Not really less recoil, not cheaper ammo, not really easier to conceal, definitely not a better defensive round.
 
KYregular said:
Anything .380, will never understand why anyone would recommend it over a 9mm. Not really less recoil, not cheaper ammo, not really easier to conceal, definitely not a better defensive round.
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Hmm.not looking to argue but a .380 IS..
-easier to conceal..it's smaller, yo(Glock 42 vs Glock 26)
-MUCH less recoil..Glock 43 and Glock 42 almost the same size..MUCH less recoil with G42..own)ed) both, traded the G43 for a G26..

I cannot IWB a bigger gun than a Glock 42 during summer, t-shirt weather. making sure it's concealed is very important to me.
Recent defensive ammo(Like Lehigh Xtreme Defender and G9 .380 ammo) 'tests VERY favoribly vs 9mm JHP.particularly out of shrt barreled 9mm and thru lots of clothing..Limited expension and in lots of cases, NO expension due to the HP getting clogged.

BUT, YMMV, just my observations..NOT telling you what to carry..
 
I'm apathetic toward towards guns that don't fit me well EG Glock's grip angle puts my short fat trigger finger in a bind against the bottom of the trigger guard and CZ75 DA/SA that I can't reach the trigger or safety without adjusting my grip. I also don't care for bubba'd milsurp or scoped levers although a well done sporterized military bold done in the 40s or 50s or a BLR scoped isn't terrible.
I also have some I just don't get like chambering a design in something else just to be different.
What I really dislike are the people who act like I'm the ***** because I like something other than Glock, say I prefer irons on my lever or ask why they'd go to the trouble of converting a Marlin 45/70 to 458 Socom.
 
"The accu-trigger pissed me off 30 years ago. And now others do the same thing."

That's what you get when you let lawyers in the engineering department. I detest the things and their clones. There is no way I can consider them a "good" trigger. Timney and RifleBasix usually has a fix though.

I don't have any use for Glocks either. It's a doesn't feel right thing and I'm not going to adapt to it when I can buy something just as good that does feel like I want it to. I could get around the fact that they are butt ugly but I'm in the same boat with that as the feel thing. No manual safety is another put off for me. I'm old and set in my ways and want a manual safety on any semi-auto pistol I own. Again there are other choices for that too.

AK? You could give me one. I would immediately head to the gunshop to trade it off though.

I0/22? It's the building block to a really nice and accurate 22 rimfire rifle. If it had to remain as it comes out of the box I wouldn't have one.

I could go on with some more examples but I will quit boring everyone on this subject for now. I listed my main dislikes.
 
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Glock. Ergonomics are terrible for me. I've never been able to find a comfortable grip and the trigger ring bashes the hell out of my middle finger when it slams into battery. About 100 rounds of service ammo and my finger hurts so much I have to stop
 
doubleh said:
I could get around the fact that they are butt ugly but I'm in the same boat with that as the feel thing. No manual safety is another put off for me. I'm old and set in my ways and want a manual safety on any semi-auto pistol I own.
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Yep, me too. I've posted several times bragging about my new Glock 44 (.22 LR). It's ugly, but I "got around" that because it works so well, and I got used to the way it feels in my hand (I actually kind of like it now) but that "no manual safety" thing - uh, uh. Maybe I'm "old and set in my ways" too, but I'm not going to be carrying my Glock 44 with a round in the chamber. And that kinda ticks me off because I was seriously thinking about getting a Glock 19 (same size as my Glock 44) for EDC. And while I've learned I can put up with "butt ugly," and I've even learned to like the "feel," that "no manual safety" thing ain't going away.:(
 
mavracer said:
What I really dislike are the people who act like I'm the ***** because I like something other than Glock,
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One of the instructors when I took my CCW class was like that. HUGE Glock fanboy. Tried to convert everybody in the class(actually brought guns from home to try and make people use for the class). And here I was with my 38 snubbie.

Luckily, one of the other instructors was thrilled that somebody actually brought a revolver, so he spent most of the range-time with me and fended off the other guy.
 
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