Least favorite rifles/cartridges you’ve owned?

[FL-NC]

I also had a handi rifle in 308 that wouldn't eject. I really don't like AK's- IMO the only thing going for them is that they almost always fire, but I enjoy my SKS for the purpose of practicing the basics. I had a Marlin 336 in 30-30 that must have been built on a Monday- couldn't get it to group with any round and 2 different scopes. In fact, I'm not a huge fan of lever rifles in general. Also the 22 magnum, even though I have owned one for about 20 years. Its fun to shoot (because its a gun) but it doesn't serve a purpose other than plinking at targets for a high price. It is in the back of my safe, to be sold in the future sometime.

 

[Bill M.]

I got 3 high power rifles and none of them are a "least favorite". Not sure I understand the concept. I do not have a "least favorite" child either.

 

[jak67429]

savage 110 in 25-06. rifle had cheap plastic stock I replaced it with a boyds hunter. thing was extremely picky about ammo, and zero wandered after 2 or 3 shots. It is currently in pieces waiting for a new 270win barrel and timmney trigger to arrive.

 

[chicharrones]

Least favorite? Probably my Norinco SKS. It's reliable, it's retro military cool, and centerfire ammo used to be dirt cheap for it, but as a shooter . . . everything else I own shoots better.

I keep it because it was my first firearm I bought for myself. Someday it will become cash for my wife.

 

[Chuck R.]

For me it was a Ruger Mini SS in .223 I bought in 1982.

It was fun, but just not accurate enough for wood chucks at our normal distances. NOTHING against the .223, I currently own 6 of them.

 

[bassjam]

Remington 710 in .270 win.

I was 18, my parents said they'd buy me something with a budget of $400 for reaching Eagle in BSA. This was just released and Remington was touting how awesome they were, and while the 700 was right around the same price at the time it didn't come with a scope while the 710 did, and to a poor teenager that was the kicker because it was going to be challenging enough to scrape together enough money to feed it.

At first I loved the gun and it was a pretty good shooter; with certain Hornady loads it's a 3/4" gun at 100 yards. But I soon realized here in Ohio a .270 is useless except for punching paper. And sometimes, the bolt gets a little sticky and when giving it some muscle to free it the bolt has pulled all the way out of the gun a few times. In hindsight I should have gotten a 700 in .223. So now 21 years later I still don't know what to do with it. It has some amount of sentimental value so I struggle to get rid of it, and it's street price is far less than it was when I got it so So it sits in a dark corner of the safe, never even seeing the light from my ceiling.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

I'm still learning to like the .44 Special out of a 28 oz. Charter Arms Bulldog. I don't hate it exactly, but even with the lightest bullets I can find it's not much fun to shoot. However when I put the same cartridge in a .44 carbine like my converted Martini-Henry it becomes a whole lot of fun.

 

[tark]

Jap 6.5 and 7.7 because ammo is so hard to find!

So make the 7.7 out of 06 brass. Simple and easy. Now you have to find the dies... not so simple or cheap.

 

[GNP]

My Dad had a Blackhawk in .30 Carbine, used mostly for shooting armadillos in his yard. Very unpleasant to shoot.

 

[bangswitch]

Never had a rifle I didn't like, but I got rid of it because of the caliber that I learned to hate, .300 Win Mag. Shooting it was an exercise in self-abuse, felt like my shoulder was about to fall off after 3 or 4 shots, and I had a good shotgun recoil pad on it. I'd have a big bruise for a week after a range trip.

I don't much care for 9mm, either. It doesn't do anything any better than .38+P and nothing as well as .40S&W. I have a couple of pistols in 9mm, rarely shoot them because I'd rather shoot the .40 and 10mm.

 

[mokin]

My shoulder will forever hate the 350 rem mag. I still have that damn 673. I don't know of why.

That's funny!

I guess I've been fortunate in that I've liked, and continue to like all the rifles I've owned. There were several I quickly sold just because my curiosity had been satisfied but I didn't dislike them.

 

[Bazoo]

9mm. It is a European low recoil proposition not really useful for anything except target work. It's only real merit is high capacity guns. It also reloads and casts on the cheap and is plentiful.

 

[Seedy Character]

Before I buy any firearm, I have research, saved and desired the gun, for a while. Sometimes, a long while.
I like what I have.

I used a 7mmRemMag Ruger MkII for 30 years.
Sold it because I moved and no longer needed the extreme long range. Replaced with a .260Rem.

I didn't hate or dislike the Mag, I didn't need it and wanted the .260.


Pistols, there have been a few i hated and sent down the road, but no rifles.

 

[rabid wombat]

Jap 6.5 and 7.7 because ammo is so hard to find!

So make the 7.7 out of 06 brass. Simple and easy. Now you have to find the dies... not so simple or cheap.

Try 10Ring….looks like dies on the shelf!

 

[Walkalong]

AR-57 upper. Boring, a PIA to load for, sold it, hope they love it.

 

[Bazoo]

Before I buy any firearm, I have research, saved and desired the gun, for a while. Sometimes, a long while.
I like what I have.

I used a 7mmRemMag Ruger MkII for 30 years.
Sold it because I moved and no longer needed the extreme long range. Replaced with a .260Rem.

I didn't hate or dislike the Mag, I didn't need it and wanted the .260.


Pistols, there have been a few i hated and sent down the road, but no rifles.

I tend to go to the gun store with an open mind and buy whatever suits my whim. Sometimes it works out and sometimes not. I do research on cartridges and am fairly familiar with them, so I've got an idea what I'm getting into.

Though I did a lot of research before getting into the 44 special flattop blackhawk, I did none before getting the 44 mag blackhawk I got first. I've done a bit on 41 mag, and a stainless blackhawk in 41 is on my mind.

 

[greyling22]

My least favorite firearm was a Benelli M2 left hand. I like the M2, but the left hand conversion was incomplete. They moved the bolt but none of the controls so I had to juggle the gun every time I wanted to reload it.
My least favorite rifle was a Savage 110 and 30 ought 6. The thing knocked me all over the place and I sold it after 20 rounds.

My least favorite calibers are probably the 300 blackout followed by the 223. The blackout underperformed and I find the 223 to be rather disappointing as anything other than a varmint round. Honorable mention going to the 30-06. I hated it in that bolt action savage, but I rather like it in the m1 garand

 

[outdoorman63]

Ruger in 338 just about took my shoulder off,not for me.

 

[bannockburn]

Don't really have much use for .22 Magnums in a rifle. That and ammo is too expensive.

 

[marksman13]

I had a T/C Encore in 45-70 that was the hardest kicking rifle I have ever owned and I hated it pretty badly. My least favorite rifle and cartridge combo ever though, has to be an Polish Tantal in 5.45x39. Pretty sure it was a Century rifle with a 5.56 barrel. It was keyholing at 50 yards. I’ve never been more disappointed with a rifle and to this day, it is the only Com-Bloc rifle I’ve ever owned. I’ll stick with Eugene Stoner’s rifle from this point forward.

 

[d2wing]

SKS is my least favorite rifle that I have owned along with a few AK's. I thought I would like them, but they were downright awful in accuracy along with other things. I don't like my Mosin much at all either. Hard recoil, not very accurate.

 

[Speedo66]

An original Trapdoor Springfield in 45-70 someone had cut to Carbine length.

While I thought the action was cool, the gun itself was punishing. I didn't reload at the time and even Trapdoor loads hurt with the lighter weight and curved steel butt plate.

Hopefully the next owner enjoyed it.

 

[deputy bruce]

Boy have I wanted to tell everyone about my Savage 300 win mag.I am 5'11 280 llbs. I just don't like this rifle because it kicks me very hard. The rifle shoots 9/16 groups at 100 yards it is a super shooter I guess I should sell it but I hate to thin the herd.this is all I can say it is a very good rifle but I like my 338 win mag better.

 

[Riomouse911]

SKS. I like the rifle’s caliber, just not the gun.

Bought one for 99 bucks. Sold it about three years later for $125. Despite all the good press and positive comments by so many SKS owners, sadly this is the only rifle I’ve ever owned that did absolutely nothing for me.

Stay safe.

 

[Terry G]

7.62X54 Russian. Combine that with a M44 Carbine. I fired 10 shot's and then sold it at a Flea Market for over twice what I paid for it. i warned him about the recoil but he said he was from Poland and really wanted it.