Name your biggest POS handguns.

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Worst "semi-crapomatics":

P-22, inaccurate, rough, heavy trigger pull, dumped it.

Springfield XD-9, a poor Croatian attempt at copying a Glock. Not very accurate and rather unreliable. Utter crap.
 
Springfield XD-9, a poor Croatian attempt at copying a Glock. Not very accurate and rather unreliable. Utter crap.
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I know you are expecting this, but this is not my experience...AT ALL. I have an early XD-40 (pre-melonite) and it is combat acccurate and extremely reliable. It has yet to fail and is in fact one of only a handful of guns I own that have never failed...not even during break-in or post Mac's refinish re-break-in. You may have gotten the proverbial lemon. My XD, on the other hand sits in my bed when I sleep.

As for copying a Glock...I always thought of the XD copying Glock, Sig and 1911's all in one. Not a bad idea. In fact it is pride that gets in the way of doing good things. If you see something that works, steal it and try to improve upon it. The very best of everything does this. To hell with pride.
 
Thompson Auto Ordinance 1911 never fired more than one round without a problem. Became known as the Thompson hammer because all it was good for was taching up the targets.

Had some cheap guns, bryco, jennings, raven that where all junk, but for under $100 you don't expect much.

Do own a lot of the other guns people have had trouble with and no problems with them myself. I guess you can get a lemon in any brand. Do have to laugh when someone says it's a POS because they couldn't hit anything with it. I have never been able to shoot a Browning auto 5 well and shoot other shotguns very well. I don't think that makes the Brownings junk, jus that it isn't right for me.
 
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Springfield XD-9, a poor Croatian attempt at copying a Glock. Not very accurate and rather unreliable. Utter crap.
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I know you are expecting this, but this is not my experience...AT ALL. I have an early XD-40 (pre-melonite) and it is combat acccurate and extremely reliable. It has yet to fail and is in fact one of only a handful of guns I own that have never failed...not even during break-in or post Mac's refinish re-break-in. You may have gotten the proverbial lemon. My XD, on the other hand sits in my bed when I sleep.

As for copying a Glock...I always thought of the XD copying Glock, Sig and 1911's all in one. Not a bad idea. In fact it is pride that gets in the way of doing good things. If you see something that works, steal it and try to improve upon it. The very best of everything does this. To hell with pride
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Your experience does not match mine either....AT ALL.

Besides the inaccuracy, the final straw for me was it's lack of reliability FTE's, FTF's and parts breakage. Add to that the inability to easily and inexpensively obtain spare parts, service the weapon except through the process of returning it to the manufacturer until it is fixed (if ever) and it becomes a 'loser'.

The Glock, doesn't suffer these issues. I can locate easily, a readily available supply of rather inexpensive OEM and aftermarket parts if (I suffer an unlikely malfunction or breakage) I want to change or modify some aspect of my gun at my whim, do not need to go through "customer service" or the ridiculous expense of returning it to the manufacturer to do so and can make the changes with no tool more complicated than a 3mm (or 1/8") punch and a free downloaded copy of my Glock Armorer's Manual (haven't been through the class and really don't need the manual anymore, anyway) at my convenience. Add to that, that each of my 15 Glock's (17's, 17L's and 19's) is unquestionably reliable right out of the box and it becomes a 'winner'.
 
Taurus 94

Heavy trigger pull. Shooting fifty rounds leaves me with sore hands. It also tend to have the trigger stick and not return. Probably some kind of crap in the action that a good cleaning will take care of. I'm looking to turn it in for one of those cash for guns buybacks.
 
Never had a true POS. But the following were the "worst" in the sense of having problems with them, of various (but relatively minor) sorts:

1. Glock
2. Taurus Millenium Pro PT145
3. Kel Tec P380
 
judging from this thread, there is no gun company worth buying from, and we are all wasting our time.

Springfield XD-9, a poor Croatian attempt at copying a Glock. Not very accurate and rather unreliable. Utter crap.
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Well, Iv seen at least a dozen people here say their Glock was a POS as well, so maybe the Croatians got it right. :rolleyes:
 
Colt Diamondback 38 spl. snubby. The darn thing had problems with it's frame screws. Six rounds of reloads and the seventh would be a flyer so I'd have to stop and retighten the screws. I could only use the lightest factory loads on the darn thing so I sold it.

Ruger 357 Blackhawk---most painful gun to shoot with those small grips. The recoil would catch me in the middle of the web of my hand. My hand would start to ache after about two reloads. Sold it and bought a Colt Peacekeeper which I still have and have shot a lot over the last 20 some odd years.
 
Great Thread!

Yes, I had a Jennings .22; enough said. I also had an Intratec Tec-22 just for fun--it was a brilliant, bomb-proof, simple design, but since there was no ejector to match the excellent extractor it was unable to fully eject ANY fired case, in spite of my radically enlarging the ejection port with a hack saw! I turned in both to a "Ceasefire" police exchange and got fifty bucks for each POS!

Now, I am sad to see many guns that I have had excellent luck with listed here as lemons:

I had a Taurus PT92 9mm that was simply flawless, other than having tiny sights, and accurate as hell too.

I had an Iver-Johnson TP22, late model, which simply worked perfectly, no matter what kind of ammo I fed it. A knowledgeable gun dealer bought it instantly for himself, for more than I paid for it.

I had a non-double action Walther TPH22, which was instantly fixed with a new factory trigger bar. It is perfect now, and will probably be the last gun I will ever sell.

I had a Kahr P9, first generation all-steel, which was utterly relliable and accurate, and had a trigger like buttah.

I STILL have a perfectly reliable S&W Sigma .380---yes, it looks like crap, but fits my hand perfectly and is totally controllable. It will wear out quickly because of the cheap zinc-alloy slide, but I have "melted" one side so that it does not "print" so badly in my pocket---using SANDPAPER!

Finally, I had an utterly dependable Glock 19, incredibly accurate. I hate the Glock grip angle, but this was a "second generation" model with no finger-grooves, so it allowed a Hogue slip-on grip that gave a more CZ75 shape, and it was PERFECT.

I kind of think people have some trouble with guns because they do not lube them before shooting. The manufacturers ship them dry, and dealers display them dry, only to keep the packaging from getting oily...............elsullo
 
Every company produces Ps of S. No doubt about it. That fact is bad enough. However, what matters to me is how the company handles it.

I have reverted to my old practice of field-stripping and inspecting the pistol prior to purchase. If the dealer will not allow me to inspect it, I will not purchase it, no exceptions!
 
S&W 22A
It would rarely go more than 3 rounds without a jam or misfire.

Tec-9
Coolest looking gun ever made, and I still haven't sold it to buy a glock like I planned on after seeing how crappy it is just because of looks. Jams, misfires, akward to shoot, painful trigger, gets extremely dirty very fast, expensive parts, and it won't hit the same spot twice.

bernardelli .25
To be fair, the gun is over 40 years old and didn't work when I got it, but it's still an ill designed, cheaply made, piece of crap.
 
beretta 948 in .22 made in 1955 or so i am told - jamomatic , hard trigger pull just an awefull piece - given to me by an uncle . Gun now resides at the bottom of the atlantic about 20 miles off the coast
 
RG 38. It was my first wheel gun, and I thought I was getting a bargain at $80. Hey, it looked good, like a Colt Diamondback, and was made in Germany. Well, you know the rest: Total disaster and waste of hard-earned money.
 
When I was still in school (@ 1980) and with very limited money, I bought an RG .38 spl snubby for $50. The joke was that RG stood for Rotten Gun. It was what everyone pointed to as the proverbial Saturday Night Special. It had the cheapest set of plastic grips one could imagine. Trigger was heavy and gritty. It functioned but that was about all I could say for it. When I could later afford a better handgun, I sold it for $20 and felt guilty.

I also had a Kimber Ultra Carry II with great fit and finish. It jammed about every third shot. I called Kimber and they gave me the spiel about limp wristing and breaking it in. I had been shooting a .45 for many years and knew it wasn't limp writing. I kept shooting it, however, and it never got better. Rather than try again with Kimber, I traded it in toward an Ed Brown. Best decision I ever made. I've also gone on to own other short barrel .45s and didn't experience the problems as with the Kimber. It probably was a lemon, but if a gun doesn't shoot, it's a POS.
 
Jennings 22.auto, 20 years ago, to many issues to list, took a hammer to it.

I was young and had no money. O well, shootin Kimbers now.
 
They're all .22s. One Erma LA22, just sorta worn out. I peened the rails on it and tightened it enough it is sorta reliable, now. LOL Then, there's this Charter Arms Explorer 2 pistol. It is 100 percent and fairly accurate. It was cheap, why I got it, 70 bucks. But, it's butt ugly and has a horrid trigger. I actually kinda like my Phoenix Arms HP22 due to amazing accuracy. It wears out a recoil spring about every 500 rounds and is just a pot metal gun, but it's reliable and accurate. I did a little trigger job on it and it even has a good trigger. I've carried it a lot as an outdoor knock around gun that goes in a pocket and have the 5" barrel for it. THEN, I have this Ramline Exactor plastic pistol. I got it because it was affordable and REALLY hyped in the Zines as the best thing since the Patterson Colt. Well, it is reliable with minimag, but bulk pack Federals misfire. The magazines are crap, have one left that hasn't broken, typical of plastic ramline magazines.

I really do need to get a REAL rimfire pistol and quit playing with all this junk. LOL! I do have a nice and very accurate Rossi M511 Kit gun style revolver, stainless. I shoot it 99 percent of my rimfire shooting and nearly every range trip as it's the best, yes, sad ain't it, .22 I have. But, I really like that Rossi. I ain't callin' that one junk cause it ain't. I will get a Ruger auto someday, though. Not sure why I put it off.

The biggest POS I EVER owned is gone, I threw it in the trash. It was a RG .22LR revolver. Damned thing was dangerous. I was a kid and realized what a POS it was and tossed it. :rolleyes: I still have the others listed above as no one in his right mind would give me much for 'em, so why sell. Besides, they all DO shoot.
 
EAA Witness 10mm, damn jammo-d-ammo-matic. EAA, no, I'm not sending it back because THR stories are aplenty of their customer service being poor. It's trading fodder for the gun shop and my next gun. Darn sweet trigger though.
 
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