Most inaccurate rifle you've ever shot?

[ApacheCoTodd]

One sad assed, exceptionally used and abused Winchester 94 in 30-30. I know it was all rifle since we would take it and our Marlin out on the same day, same ammo and the Winnie just never came close. I don't think anyone in the family ever felt good about hunting with it - it just wouldn't have been very responsible. Too bad, that.

 

[Grmlin]

A M16 I was issued to qual with. While on the fireing line I had to keep haveing my target marked (checked for holes) kept comeing back a miss. A coach came over and we went through everything to no avail. Even the Range officer came over and after the line completed its shooting we stayed on the firing line and he instucted the pitts to put up the targets and watch for shots. I fired and a target two over went down.
RO "You must be aiming at the wrong target"
Me "The hell I am, you try"
Ro "OK"
Again two targets over. Tell me that rifle wasn't bad.
Out of twenty years the only time I shot anything less than expert were the first 3-4 years when I was getting used to shooting left handed. I grew up shooting right hand. Once I shot expert with my left I started switching from left to right and always qualed expert.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I had an M16A1 that would shoot into the next county - to the right! I had bent it on a jump and we always jumped with them exposed so an uncharacteristic left side landing did a number on it but I didn't know till the next time we qualified. When we finally looked down the barrel after giving up on it - you could only see the slightest crescent of light at the muzzle.

Why is the 94 above the most inaccurate rather than this? 'Cause the A1 was dead on repeatable you just couldn't chase the impact with the sights.... waaaay too little adjustment.

 

[tundraotto]

mini-14 with wolf ammo - over 10"@100

 

[jeffmack]

Right after the Clinton Assault Weapon ban I bought a beautiful stainless mini-14. Couldn't hit anything with it. Terrible accuracy.

 

[Inebriated]

[QUOTE="tech30528]AK 47. Not necessarily anything wrong with it, but it was an AK 47. [/QUOTE]

What type/country of origin?

 

[Scimmia]

Arisaka Type 99. I only did a cursory cleaning of the bore when i got it, couldn't keep it on a 4x8 piece of plywood at 100 yards and when I did hit it, it keyholed. After many, many hours cleaning, it's better and doesn't keyhole, but still all over the place. It's counterbored, gotta be some damage down there.

 

[jcwit]

Way back in the 1950's sometime, I purchased a Marlin .22 rimfire Lever Mounti, this was when Micro-Groove rifling first came out. Couldn't hit a dern thing with that rifle. Wish I knew then what I know know I would have sent it back to the factory for a fix. Instead I sold it, one of 2 guns I've ever sold in my life.

 

[JohnKSa]

In my case it was also one of the most accurate rifles I've ever fired.

The rifle was a Swedish Mauser. From the bench it would do 1" groups at 100 yards with the old Swedish military ammunition and about 1.5"-2" groups with Winchester. With Remington factory ammo I had trouble holding an 8" group.

 

[mydawgg]

Ruger mod. 77 in 22 hornet. tried many different hand loads with different powders and projectiles and brass. With no changes. It now resides in the back of the gun safe. I can't bring myself to saddle someone else with this curse and sell it.

 

[Beetle Bailey]

Worst was a badly worn and pitted Mosin Nagant M44. It had trouble staying on paper at 100 yards and some of the hits on paper were keyholes. If I had to guess I'd say it was about 36 MOA give or take.

Worst that was a new rifle was one of those older Mini14's. It was about 6 MOA and not much fun to shoot paper with. I've probably shot some AK's that were worse, but I don't usually bother to shoot groups with an AK.

 

[jaimeshawn3]

VZ24 with worn out barrel was bad. 9" groups at 100 yds. Bore slugged right size but not much rifling left at the muzzle - not much left in the bore either. Nothing to be done for it - traded it off.

Spanish Mauser at first looked worse. 1.5 FOOT groups at 50 yards, but I slugged the bore and found it was large. Switched bullets to fit and it started grouping 1.5" at 100yds. Great little Mauser.

 

[Sambo82]

I had an 8mm Mauser as a kid that I shot so much the rifling wore out. Still got it though. It's a hoot to shoot in that dangerous "where did my round go" kind of way. It was my first "adult" rifle though and I've still got a ton of surplus for it, so I'll change the barrel one of these days and give it to my son.

 

[sixgunner455]

Had an SKS that ringing the gong at 100 yards was a noteworthy event. 1 in 20 kind of "accuracy". I was shooting at that same gong a couple of weeks ago with my new Savage MKII, and pinging it every round.

Had a Mosin Nagant M44 that wasn't very accurate either, but it was significantly better than that SKS.

 

[Gladius]

Arisaka type 38. Looks beautiful -- wood refinished, blued metal, otherwise in original condition WITH AN INTACT MUM (WWII rifle collectors will get that), non-sporterized -- except the bolt and chamber. Bubba rechambered the rifle from 6.5mm to .257 Roberts. Nice idea in theory (6.5 was kind of hard to get, still is), but not only will the new chambering not feed from the magazine (rendering it a bolt-action single-shot), it is not accurate. At all. "Broadside of a barn" is cliche, and doesn't even begin to describe the inaccuracy of this thing. This rifle is almost cartoonish in it's inaccuracy. It's like a joke rifle.

Why did I buy it... I was young and thought it was cool... anyway, I keep it as a sort-of wall-hanger.....

 

[SabbathWolf]

Another vote for the Mini-14
I had a 1980's made Ranch Rifle that was lucky to hit a paper plate at 30 yards.
It was usually OK for about 2 shots...then forget it.
It was all over the map after that.

 

[conhntr]

Ruger 77 older stainless/synthetic boat paddle. 30-06 would group over 5" at 100 yards. Like everyone else said tried everything, new scope, bedding, trigger etc. it sits in the rear of the safe and makes me ill whenever i look at it!

 

[tech30528]

What type/country of origin?

No idea. A friend had just bought three. One in 7.62x39, one 5.45mm and one in 223. He loaned me the 7.62 to try out. Kept getting my thumb pinched above the safety lever, couldn't hit a thing with it. Tookit home and bagged it, no better than 6 inch groups at 50 yards. Gave it back to him along with the rest of the ammo I had bought for.

 

[lowerunit411]

oler model 94...couldnt hit the broadside of a barn , even if you were standing IN the barn

 

[Elkins45]

Mini 14 for me, with a FAL being a close second. I sold both.

 

[Smith357]

A Remington made Mosin Nagant that had a black bore that looked more like a sewer pipe than a barrel, my 12 gauge made better groups.

 

[JohnBT]

Oh, probably the new Savage 24 I got as a kid in the early '60s. It was a .22WMR/.410 and the .22 mag was all but useless. I don't know if it was the ammo back then or if the gun had the wrong barrel twist or what. Down the road it went.

 

[Old Time Hunter]

Toss up between a Mosin Nagant M44 and a K98k made in 1937, the M-N has sharp rifling, but it is not close to being within the intended size (heck, supposed to be .311-.312, slugs at .316+). The K98k is just about worn out, just a hint of rifling left.

Worst one, NIB, a m16A Bushmaster you needed to be in the barn to hit the walls.

 

[Clipper]

Traded for a enfield #5 jungle carbine in the early 80's...Wandering zero, big time. Ended up hacksawing it in 3 and throwing it in the trash.

 

[ms6852]

Spanish M93 7x57 gave me a shotgun pattern at 50 and 100 yds. Traded it for a enfield 1903 about 25 years ago.