What is the worst gun you have ever owned?
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KLR
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Two Kel-Tecs, a P-11 and a P-32. The P-11's slide cracked at the breech after 100 rounds. They don't manufacture stainless slides anymore. The P-32's trigger pull kept getting longer. Finally got to the point where the trigger would be all the way back without the hammer falling. Had both replaced by Kel-Tec and took a credit from the gun shop. Swore off of Kel-Tecs.
And yet, I find myself strangely attracted to the idea of an SU-16C fitted with the D model forend.
And yet, I find myself strangely attracted to the idea of an SU-16C fitted with the D model forend.
deciple-of-keith
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AH! Where does one start?But seriosly folks .The biggest heap of Cammel dung .I ever had the mis fortune to posess was a6.5 Carcano. Yep :banghead: I was working in a working in a big shooting camp and one of the other blokes pointed out an advert for Ex-military Italian service rifles ......$45.00 + 100rds of ammo .This sould have been a warning to us but no we all brought em and we all sold em wth about 90rds of ammo to any fool who'd take em
deciple-of-keith
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The 6.5mm Italian Mannlicher-Carcano rifle has the potential to be an excellent varmint rifle. Note the performance of said cartridge and rifle on 22 November 1963.
Funny thing
.I don't think they ever found any Spent 6.5 x52s,on any "Grassy Knolls " did they ? I was always under the imprestion that Larger Varmits were classed as thin skined ferals and a 30-06 was prefreable
Funny thing
.I don't think they ever found any Spent 6.5 x52s,on any "Grassy Knolls " did they ? I was always under the imprestion that Larger Varmits were classed as thin skined ferals and a 30-06 was prefreable TheOtherOne
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Walther P22. It's the only gun I own that is picky about the brand of ammo it has to have. It's the only gun that I've had to send back. It started falling apart and they just sent me a brand new one which shoots remington bulk ammo okay and federal bulk hardly at all. I have to use the expensive ammo if I want to shoot an entire magazine without at least one or two jams.
I'd have to say my old Intratec Tec-22 was the worst firearm I've ever owned. Rounds would keyhole into the target at anything over 10 yards. The firing pin also snapped clearn in half one time at the range...
However, I still actually liked it. It had such a short trigger, w/ barely any travel/no over travel, that I could perform something similar to bump firing with it and literally empty the 30 round mag at a full-auto-type rate. Made it quite entertaining firing cheap .22lr rounds... Plus I liked the overall dirt simple design and the fact that it used 10/22 mags. If only it didn't shoot tumbling bullets I'd probably still have it... It was just a fun blaster...
However, I still actually liked it. It had such a short trigger, w/ barely any travel/no over travel, that I could perform something similar to bump firing with it and literally empty the 30 round mag at a full-auto-type rate. Made it quite entertaining firing cheap .22lr rounds... Plus I liked the overall dirt simple design and the fact that it used 10/22 mags. If only it didn't shoot tumbling bullets I'd probably still have it... It was just a fun blaster...
Universal M1 Carbine. I hated it and it obviously hated me. It finally stopped jamming and just blew up spewing teeny operating rod parts into my forehead. Safety glasses are a good thing.
BTW - The COP 357 mag had nothing to with practicality. It just looked REALLY cool. Wish I still owned mine.
BTW - The COP 357 mag had nothing to with practicality. It just looked REALLY cool. Wish I still owned mine.
cracked butt
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Remington 597 jammomatic. Sold the POS.
Yugo M48- safety doesn't work, trigger is dangerously light. OK for bench shooting, but not really good for anything else.
Yugo M48- safety doesn't work, trigger is dangerously light. OK for bench shooting, but not really good for anything else.
Mornard
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Well, I find it personally interesting that the 4 biggest pieces of crap I've had were all .380 automatics. One Llama, which was so badly mis-timed it spattered me with hot powder and gas when extracting, one I can't remember made in California that never, never, never fed, even after a new clip and trip back to the factory, a FIE copy that split the frame in half whilst firing factory ammo, and another FIE that just was carp. or crap. (The new one I bought, a Hungarian FEG, is a pretty darn good gun...so far. )
I have never had the luck of having a bad gun...but my friend sure has....I remember his taurus titanium tracker 357...one cylinder and it locked up....got it fixed and traded it off....he also had guns in the early 80's...smith autos that were junk...never jammed on the 9mm ammo but was so inaccurate.
You never know...
Because I know for a FACT that folks have found .30-06 Springfield, 8mm Mauser, 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser, and .257 Roberts brass on that grassy knoll. And when I make my yearly pilgramage there again this year, it'll probably be .30-30 Winchester brass they find. Ask me how I know...
Because I know for a FACT that folks have found .30-06 Springfield, 8mm Mauser, 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser, and .257 Roberts brass on that grassy knoll. And when I make my yearly pilgramage there again this year, it'll probably be .30-30 Winchester brass they find. Ask me how I know...
The worst: Browning BPS 12 ga. absolute dog of a shotgun. Threw it in the river once when it jammed as 40 canada geese took off only 10 yards away. My buddy talked be into retrieving it so I could trade it in on a real gun. It's a darn shame - the product they are stamping John M. Browning's name on these days. 
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"Mine was a Jennings 22 it would go full auto on occassion.
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Right on both counts.I had a Jennings J22. It was a cool looking little thing and I carried it in a nylon holster all weekend once and my camping friends did not realise that I had a gun! LOL It was inaccurate and jammed almost every time I tried to shoot it. Looking back I should have tried new mags or working on the mag. Almost every .45 jam I have ever had was the result of a bad mag. The long high cap .45 mags for 1911s are the worst.
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1911s Rule.-WATCH AND PRAY OR DUCK AND COVER ! "
Right on both counts.I had a Jennings J22. It was a cool looking little thing and I carried it in a nylon holster all weekend once and my camping friends did not realise that I had a gun! LOL It was inaccurate and jammed almost every time I tried to shoot it. Looking back I should have tried new mags or working on the mag. Almost every .45 jam I have ever had was the result of a bad mag. The long high cap .45 mags for 1911s are the worst.
Crom
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Llama 44 Magnum Super Commanche. Cylinder binding after the first round with any 44 Magnum factory load. Could only get it to function with 44 Specials.
Shot 6 inches to the right at 20 yards no matter how the rear sight was adjusted.
Traded it in for an M1-Garand. Good riddance.
Shot 6 inches to the right at 20 yards no matter how the rear sight was adjusted.
Traded it in for an M1-Garand. Good riddance.
Joe Gunns
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That "air force" survival semi-auto .22 rifle that packed in its floating plastic stock. Got one around 1972. This thing jammed so much it was basically a single shot. Neither the gunsmith nor I could get it to function with any reliability. I traded it for a little 2-man tent.
thorn726
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that would be the 1967 odd brand derringer- idiot who found it in this house we were cleaning (im boss) tried to load it (why why why i will never figure out) and put a .22 thru his hand. i gave the gun to a collector for safekeeping.
so tiny and no trigger guard, just not very safe for anything other than shooting someone under a poker table, and i think that went out with the pony express
so tiny and no trigger guard, just not very safe for anything other than shooting someone under a poker table, and i think that went out with the pony express
newfalguy101
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I had Davis disease embarrasingly enough not once but TWICE!!!!!!!
1) D-380 auto, I dont think I EVER got through an entire magazine without either a stovepipe jam or the magazine popping out.
2) D-38 derringer, .38 SPL took two men and a boy to actually fire the thing the trigger was so heavy.
NEVER again, and THIS time I mean it
1) D-380 auto, I dont think I EVER got through an entire magazine without either a stovepipe jam or the magazine popping out.
2) D-38 derringer, .38 SPL took two men and a boy to actually fire the thing the trigger was so heavy.
NEVER again, and THIS time I mean it
S&W 686
Whenever I say this, people punch me in the face in a fit of pro-S&W patriotic rage, leaving me bruised and senseless. But damn it, it's true. It is the worst gun experience i've had. Wether or not it was a true 'lemon' or if it was just a factory mistake is immaterial. It's the worst gun i've owned, and that's a fact.
In case anyone cares, the cylinder binded (bound?) in double action mode, and it was sent back to the factory three times, and was never fixed.
Whenever I say this, people punch me in the face in a fit of pro-S&W patriotic rage, leaving me bruised and senseless. But damn it, it's true. It is the worst gun experience i've had. Wether or not it was a true 'lemon' or if it was just a factory mistake is immaterial. It's the worst gun i've owned, and that's a fact.
In case anyone cares, the cylinder binded (bound?) in double action mode, and it was sent back to the factory three times, and was never fixed.
chris in va
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Holy resurrected thread Batman.
captain obvious
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I had a 12 Gauge NEF pardner once - 5 slugs later my shoulder hurt... A LOT and the stock was coming loose.
I don't sell many guns, but that one is long gone.
I don't sell many guns, but that one is long gone.
japlin
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Colt 1911 Officer Model...the biggest POS I ever had, and two different gunsmiths couldn't make it shoot without jamming. 
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