What's the biggest piece of crap pistol you've ever owned?

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Mine would have to be the Jennings J22 .22 semiauto pistol I bought about 20 years ago (I was about 18 at the time; I paid for the gun, my mother filled out the paperwork). Paid about sixty bucks for it, as I recall.

I'd read stories in gun mags saying what a great value the J22 was, and how reliable. Shameless shilling lies!. This gun almost never got through a whole magazine of shells without jamming, and that was BEFORE the extractor flew off and was lost. Total crapola.

What's the biggest POS gun you've ever owned?
 
Astra A-100 .45, worked fine, couldn't hit the broadside of a barn...from the inside.:fire:
Tec-22, looked cool as all getout, jammatic inaccurate pile of, well, you get the picture.:banghead:
RG22...I was young, stupid, got what I deserved.:eek:
 
I forget the name

but it was billed as a survival pistol, kinda like the AR-7?? Kinda looked a little bit like a broom handle Mauser. It was a .22LR, had a barrel that screwed on/off. It would go 1 or 2 rounds then jam.

It is only the 2nd gun I've sold off in 35 years. As the moving company was packing us up for our move out of Kalif one of the guys saw it and fell in love with it. He paid me 75 bucks even after I told him it had problems.
 
Sterling .22, not mine but my fathers. In all fairness we did shoot 10's of
thousands of rounds through it but when it went... it went. We could not shoot
8 or 9 rnds with out a jam and having to do minor cleaning to it several times per
range trip in the end.

Got $40 for it towards a Ruger MarkII, IIRC.
 
The biggest turd I ever owned was a STI LS40.

There's nothing worse than a $700 "fine tuned" pistol that won't get more than 3 shots off before it jams up....

I went shooting with my uncle awhile back and he brought a Lorcin in .32 iirc. The slide locked up so hard we had to beat it on a wood stump to get it going again. It did this several times...lol.
 
An S&W 4006 40 S&W, I got 3 jams every magazine, fte's, ftf's, stovepipes, ect. That cured my desire to ever own another S&W pistol.:p
 
"but it was billed as a survival pistol, kinda like the AR-7?? Kinda looked a little bit like a broom handle Mauser. It was a .22LR, had a barrel that screwed on/off. It would go 1 or 2 rounds then jam"

It was called an Explorer and it's my all time biggest POS as well. Traded a Pheonix P22 that never failed me for one. Thing jammed continually, barrel would work loose and it never shot in the same zip code twice in a row.

Close second, S&W Sigma380. Most inaccurate single shot pistol I've ever owned. At one time I had 2 pistols small enough to carry, the S&W and a Davis 380. I carried the Davis.
 
You guys (gals) apparently have never seen or used a .32 Clerke revolver. This gun makes the Jennings J-22 appear like an HK. Took one on trade. Chambered for the .32 S&W (short). Looked like it was made entirely of pot metal.
 
Springfield Armory "Loaded" model, and one of their WWII 1911's.
 
Mine, sadly, is a $700.00 Sig P239 /.40-.357 that had already been back at Sig once.

SHowed up to pick it up, paid for it, and noticed the sights were dovetailed
at a wierd angle, with space underneath the sight base... :/

it went back.

Came in from service a few weeks later, and they "upgraded me to nightsights free of charge".

Great, except that's just a sugarcoating BS line, and ain't really what they did. The slackers simply gave me a different slide. A slide that so happens
to fit standard factory barrels very poorly. It jingles like a janitor's keys, and I couldn't hit a barn if I were in it.

:(
 
'Cheep-Cheep'

Colt Officers Model, Series 80.

Bought one NIB...didn't work...sent it back...rec'd another..it didn't work either...sent it off to various 'smiths'...still didnt work...met 1911Tuner here on THR...sent him the top end...he fixed it.

I have an RG .22 Short revolver, at least it works. The Colt didn't.



Colt Lightweight Series 70 Commander.

Bought used...wouldn't chamber top two rounds from slidelock..sent it to Chuck Rogers at Rogers Precision...frame feed ramp mis-cut @ Colt...Chuck fixed it with steel insert.

Your mileage will vary, but poor workmanship and quality control does not pertain to just inexpensive products.


salty.
 
1) RG .22 Revolver. Sometimes it would fire, most times it went "click". When it did fire, the target was totally safe.

2) A .22 short Berretta jet fire, couldn't make feed reliably. It jammed about twice at least per magazine. Lots of misfires with whatever ammo I tried, totally worthless. Gave 100 bucks for it and sold for 130 at a gun show, so at least I didn't lose any money on it. The name seemed to be worth 130 bucks...:rolleyes:

3) Auto Ordinance 1911 Fed only ball ammo semi reliably and was not very impressive in accuracy, about 4" at 25 yards off sand bags. Dumped it at a gun show.

4) AMT Hardballer 1911 Fed ball or a 200 grain SWC which I had to seat out to head space on the rifling to get enough OAL to function. I had to take it to a gunsmith to fit the extractor before I could even get it to fire without jamming. It was pretty accurate once I got it running. Was stolen, used the insurance money to buy a Ruger P90. God was smiling on me. The P90 is so much better than my 1911 experience, I don't have any desire to try one of those POSs again!

5) RG .25 auto It was accurate to about 5 feet, but it functioned 100 percent, believe it or not. I carried it in a back jeans pocket for years when it was not legal to do so in Texas and it's the only handgun I've ever used to defend myself from and armed assailent, successfully I might add. He ran, didn't wanna take on the RG with a knife. I sold it, but probably should have kept it just because it ended a bad situation once. Really, it wasn't a bad gun considering it never ever jammed or misfired. I couldn't hit a tin can at ten feet with it, though.:rolleyes:
 
What's the biggest piece of crap pistol you've ever owned?
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That's what-cha-call a "Frequently Asked Question".

My personal piece 'o crap handgun was a Jennings J22, followed closely by a FIE .38 derringer. The derringer I got for free, found in a place we moved into. The Jennings seemed like a good idea at the time.

I've had others, but nothing near as bad as those. My collection underwent a bit of a shuffle last month, and right now I have nothing that I don't think I can count on. (Now it's time to work on rifles.)
 
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"but it was billed as a survival pistol, kinda like the AR-7?? Kinda looked a little bit like a broom handle Mauser. It was a .22LR, had a barrel that screwed on/off. It would go 1 or 2 rounds then jam"

It was called an Explorer and it's my all time biggest POS as well. Traded a Pheonix P22 that never failed me for one. Thing jammed continually, barrel would work loose and it never shot in the same zip code twice in a row.

Close second, S&W Sigma380. Most inaccurate single shot pistol I've ever owned. At one time I had 2 pistols small enough to carry, the S&W and a Davis 380. I carried the Davis.
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I have an Explorer 2 pistol that's 100 percent. I think most folks don't realize the feed ramp on these things is in the magazine. If you properly adjust (with needle nose pliars) the feed ramp, it will indeed feed 100 percent. I got mine for 70 bucks and it shoots great, pretty accurate, but has the most horrendous single action trigger I've ever felt and there's no way to fix it. I just bought it because it was cheap. I don't use and rarely shoot it. It's light, but HUGE.

I also had a Davis P380. That thing was pretty accurate. I could put 5 rounds into 4" at 25 yards which is better'n most .380s. It was 100 percent functional, too! However, the thing was quite heavy and thick and a striker fired gun. I got it for fifty bucks, played with it a while, and sold it for fifty bucks. I have a Grendel P12 that functions fine, but isn't as accurate as that Davis. It is 6-8" at 25 yards, not too much worse than most 380s, though, I reckon. I had to trim the left side of the trigger guard away to make enough room for my finger on the thing, though. I couldn't get the trigger to reset because my finger would hit the trigger guard and I'd have to shoot it with a wierd purchase on the trigger to make it work. After the trim job, it's much easier. I didn't care much what I did to the looks of it, LOL! I do carry that gun when I HAVE to for concealment reasons. It doesn't make my "worst" list because it functions flawlessly and has accuracy enough to get the job done. I do like the capacity, too, 12 rounds. But, it's not one of my favorite guns, put it that way.
 
easy answer

NIB Colt 1911 Govt 9mm I bought about 1982.

JAM-O-MATIC It couldn't get out of it's own way and never was right.
 
Taurus Model 85 revolver. It froze up tight just dry firing. I took it back to the retailer (a big sporting goods place in Tampa, I forget the name), and got my money back. I refused to send it back to Taurus for repair.
 
I forgot the Raven .25 as another of the all time junkers. Back when I rode with the motorcycle club I kept one in a jacket pocket. I reached in to check it one night and it had come apart and the slide came right off in my hand. Good thing I didn't need it at the moment.
 
I would expect junk from Jennings/Davis/Raven, etc., as well as from RG and Clerke. But a couple that disappointed:

1. Rogak (complete trash; won't even fire)
2. Colt AA2000 (works, but horrible trigger and impossible to hit anything with it).

Jim
 
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