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Jennings .380, my first handgun and it was $80 new. Couldn't shoot a mag without jamming. Got stolen.

Colt 1911, the only Colt I've bought and what a POS. I fixed it with a new ignition group but it should never have left the factory like it was.
 
DeepSouth said:
I had a Walter P22 that was complete junk, I sold it for a major loss to a gun store. That thing had every malfunction and jam I’ve ever seen
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Ha! Yeppers I had one of those too. When I complained to the gun store where I bought it, and the guy asked me to describe what type of malfunctions and jams I was experiencing, I just told him to name one, because that piece of junk had done it. I too sold the gun at a loss, after burning through at least a dozen different types and brands of ammo trying to find one that gun would shoot.:(
 
Im in the minority, I hated my Ruger LCR 38 but love my Taurus G2 millenium. Sold the LCR that had a boot grip. It would blister up my hand shooting it.
 
DeepSouth said:
I had a Walter P22 that was complete junk, I sold it for a major loss to a gun store. That thing had every malfunction and jam I’ve ever seen, it was worth more in smelt value than anything else.

Only regret there is that I ever bought it.
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My p22 was superbly accurate, but it was also fragile. The slide broke. Gun shop I bought it from was where I took it to send it back to manufacturer. I then bought a sig mosquito which was the most accurate 22 semiauto pistol I have ever touched. It was one of those situations where it was an instinctual perfect fit, but it kept snapping extractors for some reason. I do regret those guns leaving my safe, but they were broken and/or unreliable so they did. My friend still has the mosquito and can’t hit squat with it. He can shoot well enough but he just can’t figure the gun out.
 
I'm so lucky. I've not run across a gun that was junk that I had to get rid of. I've only regretted letting a couple go too. I'm also one of the few folks who doesn't have boxes or drawers full of holsters I don't like. Sorry to hear of all these troubles.
 
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I have to ask - What is the basis for hating the Marlin 60? I think of mine as a simple , economical fun little shooter. Reasonably accurate and quite reliable ..... is mine an exception?​
In my case, it choked on everything. And I mean everything. Cheap ammo, target grade ammo. I'd fire 2-3 rounds then have a failure of some kind.
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I had the exact same experience but only with a Remington 597. Worst gun ever!
 
1MoreFord said:
I'm also one of the few folks who doesn't have boxes or drawers full of holsters I don't like.
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Ha! Ha! Neither do I. I store all of the holsters I don't like, or no longer need in empty popcorn tins. You know - the big cans full of buttered, cheese and caramel popcorn that you can find in the stores around Christmastime. They stack nicely in our basement.:D
 
Had a Taurus literally fall apart as I put the very first mag of 9mm through it. Sent it in and they sent it back still disassembled claiming they no longer produced that model. I put it together with Beretta parts and promptly sold it.
 
Lo8080 said:
Im in the minority, I hated my Ruger LCR 38 but love my Taurus G2 millenium. Sold the LCR that had a boot grip. It would blister up my hand shooting it.
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Funny, but one of the guns I actually look forward to shooting and find it just totally fun, is the LCR9mm. I could shoot it all day long if I had the time and ammo.
One of the worst guns I owned was the Bersa 22.cal. Loved the feel but was a jam nightmare. They after years of toying with it, I simply cut 4 coils of the recoil spring and now Love it. Prefer it much more over My Ruger SR22 for example.
 
bersaguy said:
The Llama would extract a good 60%-70% percent of the time, the commander always fired, but seemed to have a little hitch in its giddy up when returning to battery. Amazing I like the 1911 as much as I do considering those were my 1st two
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If you'd added an AMT Govt. as your third, you'd likely never want to see another 1911 in your lifetime, no matter how much you wanted to like them.

Choctaw said:
A Colt AR-15. It was a hunk of j-u-n-k.
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Blasphemy! You'll smoke a turd in hell for that!:p
 
Whooeee, Here's just a partial list:
Rugers;
M77 original version - 7mm Mag - Best group I ever got out that thing was about 4-5"
M77 'boat paddle' - 7mm Mag - shot 5 rounds through it and couldn't move my arm the next day
Red Label 20ga 26" - didn't fit too well and that short barrel had me shooting in front of every target I shot at.
Mini-14 - Minute of Barn door accuracy with any type of ammo


Anything with 'Glock' in the name. Went through 2 Model 17's, a 19 and a 43. No more for me. They were either inaccurate in my hands or had feeding problems. Oh, and the 19 went back to the factory 3 times as neither myself, nor any of the guys in the LGS, could take it down. They finally sent me a new one which I promptly sold.

Remington: here we go:
5 different cartridges in either 700 ADL or BDL versions. From a 222 that didn't like any of the 15 variations of powder/primer/projectile/cases combinations I tried. Good thing about the 222 is I won it in a raffle.
2 different 700's in 338 WM
2 different 700's in 300 WM
1 in 416 Remington (why I bought it I have no idea)
Various cartridges in between.

H&R 'Bull barrel' 12 gauge. One trip to the range trying out 3" turkey loads was enough to give me a bloody nose withOUT anything hitting my nose!

Colt H-Bar 24" - best I could ever get it to shoot was a 3" group. (My Daniel Defense shoots an inch or less)

Browning A-bolt - 270 Win - only 270 I ever owned. Loved the wood, hated the inaccuracy

I'm sure there are others but that's what I can recall off the top of my head.
 
I have had dissapointing guns, but the only true POS ive ever had was a S&W 22a.

I spent one range day clearing so many ftf's while shooting it that my fingers blistered then bled from the act of pulling the slide back to clear jams.

Close runners up were a Kahr cw40, a Kahr pm40, and a Kahr pm9. Of those the cw40 was the worst. It didn't like reloads because of an excessively tight chamber, which was bad enough because I don't shoot anything but reloads. Adding insult to injury, the gun started dropping the magazine with every shot. To be fair, Kahr sent me a new magazine release that solved the problem, but by then I was done with Kahr. The pm's were just chronically unreliable.
 
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Likewise I had problems with my Kahr CW40, so much so that I kind of kept my distance from them for quite a few years. Then not that long ago I was looking for a micro 9mm. and was doing a side-by-side comparison of a Kahr CM9 and a Beretta Nano at the LGS. As much as I like other Beretta products, I just didn't care for the design and overall feel of the Nano. To me the CM9 was more ergonomic and had a great DAO trigger on it; just what I was looking for in a CCW pistol. So far I have to say getting the CM9 was the right choice then and still is today.
 
.308 Norma said:
Ha! Ha! Neither do I. I store all of the holsters I don't like, or no longer need in empty popcorn tins. You know - the big cans full of buttered, cheese and caramel popcorn that you can find in the stores around Christmastime. They stack nicely in our basement.:D
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I don't have that many either.:rofl:
 
I bought a brand-new-still-in-cosmoline Yugo SKS for cheap. Cleaned the cosmoline out of every crevice and sanded and refinished the furniture. It functioned ok, but was way too inaccurate for my taste. That grenade launcher sight that at first I thought was kind of kuul became just more dead weight on an already too-heavy gun.

Likewise, I bought a Mosin M44 for a song, got tired of the fireball and getting kicked hard by that steel buttplate each round I fired, and realized that what everyone says about Mosin in-accuracy with surplus ammo is right. Dumped it quickly and moved on.

I couldn't care less how much prices have gone up on these...never want to see another one of them in my safe.
 
First one to mind: early Kel-Tec PF-9. The concept of a slim, almost pocketable 9mm pistol that is lighter than your wallet sounded great. However, I found it painful to shoot, difficult to hold on to and not very reliable. Got rid of it and haven't missed it since.
 
I recently sold a Taurus raging bee in 218 bee. At first I was sad to let it go, but with the money I got three pistols to add to the collection. I got a ultralight raging judge(7 shot of 410 3 inch), a colt 1908 in 380, and lastly a mauser broomhandle. I'll have to see if the judge is nice to shoot, but may trade it towards a raging bull in 41 mag. Lately, I've compilating selling my mosins to buy other classics.
 
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silicosys4

Likewise I had problems with my Kahr CW40, so much so that I kind of kept my distance from them for quite a few years. Then not that long ago I was looking for a micro 9mm. and was doing a side-by-side comparison of a Kahr CM9 and a Beretta Nano at the LGS. As much as I like other Beretta products, I just didn't care for the design and overall feel of the Nano. To me the CM9 was more ergonomic and had a great DAO trigger on it; just what I was looking for in a CCW pistol. So far I have to say getting the CM9 was the right choice then and still is today.
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And I was just the opposite, I preferred the Nano after shooting the Kahr and like you, found it the right choice. That said, both are very nice pistols. However I think we are off thread on this. Not about preferences.
 
wanderinwalker

First one to mind: early Kel-Tec PF-9. The concept of a slim, almost pocketable 9mm pistol that is lighter than your wallet sounded great. However, I found it painful to shoot, difficult to hold on to and not very reliable. Got rid of it and haven't missed it since.
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I most definitely agree with you on the PF9; was looking for a pocket 9mm. and this wasn't it.
 
Jeb Stuart

And I was just the opposite, I preferred the Nano after shooting the Kahr and like you, found it the right choice. That said, both are very nice pistols. However I think we are off thread on this. Not about preferences.
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Possibly true but I premised my story about the CM9 with the problems I had with my CW40, which definitely qualified as one gun I don't miss!
 
Remembered another one this morning: Thompson Center Encore ProHunter. Maybe not so much "glad it's gone" but definitely don't miss it much. The affordable switch barrel single-shot is a great concept. I had a 20" .45-70 barrel and a matching 20" .50-caliber muzzleloader barrel for mine. (Both with Williams Firesight front sights and Guide Receiver rear sights.)

What I found was the synthetic forend would warp on the 45-70 barrel. It had a tendency to hit-and-shift POI to let me know when the forend was twisted. The muzzleloader barrel was almost impossible to load a second shot in unless using the special E-Z load sabots. (I later learned TC was known for inconsistent internal barrel dimensions.) And the final insult was the super soft recoil pad began disintegrating after a few years.

Traded it for a no-dash 4" S&W 586, that I still have.
 
Ditto that. My Encores were fun, gave me no problems, and did what they were supposed to ... but I don't miss them. I'm just happier with a good bolt action.
 
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