What is the "nicest" gun you really hated?

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I had a CZ 452 heavy barrel varmint rifle in 17 HMR. Great gun, can't say anything bad about the rifle, actually I liked the rifle, but you couldn't give me another 17HMR on a bet. All I can say is thank God and UPS it's gone! No more 17 HMRs for me.
 
I have one like that. It’s a Italian made Beretta single action “Stampede” in 357 Mag, with a birds head grip. Doesn’t shoot worth a darn with 357s, but not to bad with 38’s. Malfunctions and Beretta won’t fix it since it’s over a year old and I’m not the original buyer. I’ll never have another Beretta of any kind.
 
I have a really nice Marlin 336 that is beautiful, but has bad tool markings. It became a 475 Super Mag.
 
I had a Romanian AK-47 (pre-WASR). It was a kit build done by a friend wanting to get into the business of building and selling kits but he lacked the money he needed to buy parts. So he offered me some parts and the work to build one if I bought the rest of the parts he needed. The problem started right off when he bought a receiver that was clearly not right for the rest of the parts he had. It's been a while so I don't remember exactly what the problem was but I told him it wasn't the right receiver but to him I was know nothing gun owner and he was super expert. Yeah right. After about 1000 rounds of test ammo (my ammo) and about a year of frustration I finally gave up on the "2 hour" job and sold the rifle for the price I had in the original parts. He actually got mad at me for selling "his" parts that he gave me to start the whole process. He wouldn't even return my phone calls after a while and he stopped even working on the rifle. He clearly gave up and didn't bother backing up his "guarantee" that my money wouldn't be spent in vain. I lost at least $200 on the deal just from the ammo he shot up testing the fixes he tried. But clearly the combination of parts was never going to work. He had told me it didn't matter if the receiver wasn't exactly right and that it would work even if he had to drill his own mounting holes for the trigger group etc.. It was just a bad situation and he made it worse by getting mad at me for just wanting to end the whole headache. I sold it at a price that made someone real happy even though they knew it had serious problems. He probably took it to a flea market somewhere and burnt someone up but I didn't do that and he never told me he was going to do it. All I knew for sure was that I got some of my money back.

It should have been a nice rifle if the hard headed gun smith wannabe had known what he was doing. But instead it was a giant headache. I did learn that even when it did work it wasn't as accurate as my SKS and it was never going to be as reliable as my SKS either and that goes for the other AK's the wannabe smith had. They always seemed to have a problem. My SKS has been dang near perfect for over 20 years. Only my swapping parts in it and bad ammo ever made it misfire or fail to feed. That's hard to beat for a rifle I paid about $100 for. I knew then I didn't need an AK. Now an AR I could use but I'd have to start stocking up ammo for it and I'll never find it as cheap as I bought some of the ammo I have for that SKS. BTW I didn't use the cheap ammo in that AK because I think the old brass cased, corrosive ammo is more accurate than the stuff we see today.
 
My buddies sub 4# 7mm Mag. I am not recoil shy but that thing was so abusive I was flinching so badly I couldn't even stay on the paper after the fourth shot.
 
Well ...hated the way I shot it...CZ2075rami 40sw.

I loved my CZ75B so thought I'd try the rami as back up. Could barely keep shots on the paper at 21ft.
I once asked three Police Officers to try it at the range, same results... one said at least he had 2 in the black, we all laughed.

Traded it at the local gun shop for a DW 15-2 2 barrel set//no tools.

Always thought about getting another Rami, good feeling gun,I just could not hit with it.
 
I have a Beretta Brigadier 96 Border Marshall that I can't stand. I'm pretty sure that it's more me than the gun but I can't hit the broad side of a barn if I was standing inside of it. I've had a few friends shoot it over the years and they hit ok with it but nobody has been very consistent. I don't hate Beretta, I have a Beretta Storm, a 92fs, a Nano, a bobcat, a cheetah, a Neos and a few Beretta shotguns and I shoot fine with all of them. I don't know, maybe it's me, maybe it's the gun, but either way I hate it.
 
Not exactly the "nicest" gun but I had an Astra Model 600 that I hated to shoot. Every time out, after about 50 rounds my hand was so sore from the recoil of that gun that I was done shooting for the day (and sometimes for the better part of a week later). Very painful to use and likewise somewhat difficult (and sometimes painful), to field strip and reassemble it with that industrial strength recoil spring.

As for a "nice" gun: a friend of mine had a Ruger Super Blackhawk that you would hate to shoot with the factory grips. Thankfully he ended up finding a well designed pair of oversized walnut grips that did wonders to making the gun so much more manageable to use and as such, finally fun to shoot.
 
A Desert Eagle .44-Mag. Bought it when I was still very new to guns years ago, mostly because I'd seen it in tons of movies and video-games. :rolleyes: That thing was an absolute jam-o-matic for me. Loads of fun to shoot when it worked, but of the hundreds of rounds I put through it, I think I could count on one hand the number or times it made it through a whole magazine without jamming. The thing was harder to clean than an AR15, and pickier on ammo than a cheap 22. Definitely a horrible choice for a new gun-owner, and I hesitate to recommend one of those to even someone very experienced with firearms.

I traded it in years ago for an HK-USP-45C and couldn't have been happier with that decision.
 
I had a USP Compact 40 with a stainless slide. It was a nice quality gun but for the life of me, I just wasn't very accurate with it.
 
I picked up a Walther PPK 380. Figured it was a step up from my old Bersa Thunder. It jammed way too often on FMJ, and couldn't get through a mag with three or four different types of hollow points, and it was miserable to shoot. I sold it and went back to my Bersa, and never looked back. :)
 
Back in the late 1970's during the closing hours of a gun show I got what I thought was a bargain on a NIB Colt manufactured 22 caliber conversion unit for the 1911 45ACP. The idea was to cut ammo cost for simple target practice.

These conversion units were pretty scare at the time.

I could never fire more than 5 or 6 rounds using that rig on my 1911 Mark IV 70 series with out a total jam up. The problem was lead shearing off in the floating chamber, which would eventually simply jam up the action and cause the floating chamber to get stuck. I usually had wait until I got back home to dis-assemble the pistol to get it unstuck and clear out the lead.

I tried everything including the best jacketed ammo, Teflon spray, polishing the parts, etc.

I should have done the smart thing and taken it to a qualified gunsmith to check out, but I got so disgusted with it after a couple of outings that I traded it off at the next gun show.


It was probably user error on my part, but I actually got more out of it than I had in it when I traded it off. However, I never wanted to try another.

Cheers
 
locnload said:
I picked up a Walther PPK 380. Figured it was a step up from my old Bersa Thunder. It jammed way too often on FMJ, and couldn't get through a mag with three or four different types of hollow points, and it was miserable to shoot. I sold it and went back to my Bersa, and never looked back. :)
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Same here on the Walther .380. We have two Bersa Mod-85's (13+1) which are great and thought the Walther would be as good as the M-85 pistols, no way, a hunk of junk.
 
For a pistol is was a XDs 45. I loved to carry it, wasn't bad to shoot, pretty accurate for how small it was. I just never got real comfortable and confident in the gun (never had a malfunction). It just wasn't for me.
Sold it and bought another 1911... Never a regret after squeezing the first round off out of the 1911.

For a rifle it was a model 700 SPS tactical .223. The gun was more accurate than me, had a decent trigger. I just had so many problems with follower and feeding, and it was a heavy little gun. Sold it and bought a RRA predator pursuit. I can shoot the AR just as good (if not better). I can throw a mag in and go. Again no regrets after getting use to the AR platform.

The guns I wound up with were the guns a really wanted when I bought the XDs and SPS. I just had the funds money to buy them and they were available.
 
For a pistol is was a XDs 45. I loved to carry it, wasn't bad to shoot, pretty accurate for how small it was. I just never got real comfortable and confident in the gun
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I have an XDm .40 that I use for my carry gun but I'm not in love with it. I love that it holds 16+1 rounds and that the right ammo will penetrate car door steel. I like how it feels in my hand. It just isn't as accurate as my other pistols. Every other pistol I own shoots more accurate. It isn't really bad on accuracy but it isn't great either. I have other pistols in .45 that will just put it to shame though and one of them is a Taurus PT-145. That's a great gun and I carried a lot but I got sold on the way .40 caliber ammo can penetrate certain things so I bought one. Driving is one of the main places a person needs a gun IMO and a .40 will definitely penetrate more than a .45. I keep thinking about carrying the XDm in the car and using the Taurus for CCW but I haven't done it yet. I have a Sig P220 that shoots like a dream but it only holds 7+1 unless I want to put an aftermarket mag in it. The Taurus holds 10+1 and the thing is crazy accurate. So is the Sig but those extra rounds can make a big difference in certain situations. I also think about carrying my S&W 629 in the car because it has such good range (it has an 8.5" barrel). I haven't done that either or at least not for a while. i'd hate to lose so much money all at once if someone happens to break into my car when I might have left both guns in the car. I'm actually leaving the SA in the car and carrying a Ruper LCP in my pocket a lot these days. It's just so light and it will shoot fairly accurate at close range. It's my wife's pistol and it is NOT as accurate as the XDm but it sure is light.
 
Smith & Wesson M&P40. There aren't a lot of guns that I don't like, but that is one.

I wanted to love the M&P. I really did. I tried the grip out in gun shops and shows any chance I got, I looked around at them, and almost bought one a couple times, but wanted to shoot one first. Well, I got my friend's new M&P40 out to the range, and I absolutely hated it. I just really hated the trigger design, the bottom half moving actually distracted me more than I thought, it was a very mushy and gritty trigger, and there wasn't much of a reset. I know, they supposedly fixed the triggers on 'em, and I shot it just fine, but the fact that it was so bad, and at that price, was a huge turn-off. The grip also didn't work for me nearly as well as Glock's grip. The Glock offers more real estate for my support hand. Overall, it was just a disappointment.
 
Kimber ultra carry, beautiful gun but just didn't work. There is too many 1911s for me to ever want another Kimber.
 
Approx 1980 I bought a brand new S&W Model 59, purty purty purty. But we hated each other, the trigger was garbage and unfixable, and it wasn't fun to shoot. It would burn through ammo just fine, I just couldn't hit anything. And the grip was huge. I shoulda bought a 39, I'd probably still have it.
 
Compact Springfield .45 (V-10 maybe?) Cool little gun. Had the ports on top of the barrel to tame recoil. Problem was, every time you'd shoot a few rounds the muzzle blast felt like it was giving you a concussion. I'd get a headache after a mag or two

Fire would blast out of the ports when dark.
 
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