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

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A Rossi .22LR DA/SA six shooter. It would only fire three of the six on the first time around then the last three, sometime on the second time around. Crappiest trigger I have ever pulled. Good looking gun though.
 
S&W licensed Walther PPK. It had constant FTEs, was harder than hell to take down and then even harder to reassemble. Literally, it took nearly an hour just to get the slide back on. I sold the thing.

And I bought another one (damn James Bond marathon...thanks a lot Spike TV!). This one's been a dream. Accurate, reliable, and easy as pie to field strip. Guess I just got a lemon that first time.
 
Sold it to a friend !!!

I can't believe how many guys sold their POS to a friend.....Now I don't feel so bad. I didn't like the guy that much anyway.

But he is the proud owner of an AMT AutoMag .22 Mag. That thing never did work right.
 
Shouldn't say it is a piece of crap, but the CZ-50 gave me fits before I recieved a good magazine. Still, shouldn't call it a piece of crap.
 
I have rarely owned anything other than Colt, Smith & Wesson, High Standard, or Ruger handguns. None of those would be classified as a piece of crap unless you get a lemon. Lemons... my H&R 999 revolver would rate in that department and for me it was a dog. So, it would have to be the biggest piece of C that I have owned so far.
 
Ruger P94 in .40 S&W. Inaccuarate, horrible trigger, and heavy as hell. Had several FTEs, so I traded it for a SA-XD .45 and haven't looked back.:D
 
Taurus 617T, .357, 7 shot titanium snubbie. Perfect size and weight, but was a real jomomatic. To say it was ammo sensitive would be an understatement.
 
A friend of mine had a Para Ordinance Warthog for a while. It wasn't that bad of a gun but after he had owned it for maybe a month and a half it started malfunctioning. Every time he racked the slide it would fire a round. Luckily for him it started when he was at the range and only fired down his lane. He sent it back and they "fixed" it, but nothing was changed so he sent it back for them to keep. Things like that happening are prime examples of why you should be careful where the muzzle is pointed at all times. Had he been loading it at his house he would have sent a bullet through his wall or floor or where ever. It's a good thing he follows the 4 rules.
 
Phoenix Arms P22. It wasn't that it was crap really; it did experience premature wear on the trigger return spring and a few other parts, and I was unwilling to fix it. Additionally, the trigger guard was too small for my finger.

I just didn't like it much because it had too many safeties, wasn't ambidextrous, and was just not my thing. It was carried as a third gun when I had reason to do so.

I later traded it to a gunshop for some 9mm and .22 ammo.

I had nicknamed it the "Noisy Cricket" of MIB fame. My "Noisy Cricket II" is a Carpati M.95 which, while being a combloc pistol, performs very satisfactorly.

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FTL Auto Nine. Nice appearing little 22 auto I bought as a backup gun. Needed to use "standard Velocity" 22 LR's and nothing but. I bought a box of what was labeled SV, but was too much for it, and the extractor blew on the first shot. A trip back to the factory, a test session with the recommended cartridges (hard as hell to find), and then it went into the consignment case, with a warning, it HAD to have one particular cartridge, or it would blow the extractor again, or fail to cycle the slide.

The idiot that bought it put high velocity ammo in it, and blew the extractor. :D
 
I have never really had an out and out POS handgun, but I had a Springfield Compact that I sold as soon as I could due to it being extremely finicky with ammo. The fit and finish of the gun was fine, and when I fed it the exact right stuff, it shot like a champ. Otherwise, it jammed up with just about everything.
 
You notice that the dominant crappy pieces are usually semi-auto handguns? In ability to function reliably is the main culprit. There are a few with Rossi and other sub-brand revolvers listed, but not as many.

I had a Colt Mustang or something (pocket 380) that did not function reliably. Got rid of it in a few months after getting it. IF a new handgun does not work right, I have no need for it. I'm pretty impatient with semi-auto pistols.
 
I just have to wonder how many of these shooters who have expensive auto pistols that they can't seem to get running right are inducing their own stoppages from bad technique.
 
A Rossi .22LR DA/SA six shooter. It would only fire three of the six on the first time around then the last three, sometime on the second time around. Crappiest trigger I have ever pulled. Good looking gun though.
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That's odd, Mike. I've owned 2 (one got stolen and I found another at a gun show) Yeah, the DA is crappy, but the SA trigger is fantastic and the thing is sub 2" accurate at 25 yards even with cheap ammo. I've never had a hangfire with it, always goes bang.

In defense of the trigger, most J frame sized .22s I've ever tried including S&W kit guns had bad DA triggers. Uncle had a K22 Masterpiece that was sweet, built on a K frame, but the kit guns aren't really intended to be fired DA anyway. Why would you shoot at a rabbit at 25 yards DA????? That's what kit guns are about. I use it for DA practice, though, figurin' if I can hit with it, I can hit with any DA, LOL!

I think yours must have had a timing problem? Sure sounds like it.
 
I had a Colt Mustang or something (pocket 380) that did not function reliably. Got rid of it in a few months after getting it. IF a new handgun does not work right, I have no need for it. I'm pretty impatient with semi-auto pistols.
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There is no reverse logic here. Because some semi-autos have problems does not mean all do. I have a P90 that can PROVE that to you. It's more reliable than a friggin' revolver, or at least AS reliable. It will feed anything, has never failed in thousands of rounds and through competition shooting.

The guns that I've had most trouble with were 1911s. They have design flaws, yes, I said it, JMB's design is FLAWED! Actually, it wasn't flawed for its application. In 1911, there was nothing, but hardball and, of course, the gun was designed for ball. Now I had one that had to be fixed before it'd feed ball, but most will feed ball. But, this ain't 1911. We're in a new century. Times change, designs improve over time. I ain't drivin' a model T, after all, not that one wouldn't get me around town, but no thanks. Yeah, you can install a barrel and modify the 1911 for an integral feed ramp. You might even be able to improve the insane angle at which the cartridges feed up that ramp, but hey, I could drop a DOHC 24 valve mutli-port EFI V6 in that Model T, too. It would then be a Model T....with a V6. :rolleyes:

There are guns that have problems. Yep, there are 1911s that run perfectly, too. I take my firearms one at a time. I don't make conclusions about a whole category based on one gun. I am, however, wary of 1911s, twice burned and now I'm opinionated. But, other than that.......

I will give you this, revolvers are much more user friendly, don't require near the gun knowledge to make run right on the average. Just buy some ammo, if it's accurate, it will go bang. With an auto, you need to test your carry loads a lot more to gain confidence in it that it will be reliable. Once I've lived with an auto for a while and gain that confidence, I don't think anything about using it for defense, carrying it to protect my life. It takes a lot of rounds down range to gain that confidence from me, though, and after a new auto purchase, it might be six months before I start carrying it. In that regard, you might have a good point. I can see why impatience would keep you away from autos. I only own 4 center fire autos and over a dozen revolvers, so I am a little revolver biased myself. :D
 
AMT Govt. .45. Fairly accurate and fairly pretty, but not even fair when it came to reliability. Sent it back to AMT to no avail. Biggest POS I ever fired. Gone now, 1 of only 2.

I do not include AMTs with 1911 reliability issues. As far as I'm concerned there are fewer of them that ran right than didn't. This one rests squarely on the shoulders of the manufacturer, not the design.
 
I have a "mfg reconditioned" Sig 226 that wouldn't cycle two consecutive rounds until I replaced the recoil spring with the actual spring it was supposed to have (instead of the longer one it came with). Now its a real champ. I have have both a Raven, and a J-22 that I shoot often at tin cans at the pit, and both function very well with the right ammo. My j-22 loves hv CCi stuff, and not much else, but it will cycle reliably with that stuff. The Raven will work until it needs cleaning, usually about ten mags or so.

Many guns must be tweaked to work, and most of the milsurps I own have had to have minor parts or mags replaced in order to function reliably. The only "crap" gun I've bought over the years was a renickled Iver johnson breaktop in 38 S&W whose only crime was that it was so worn out I couldn't get it it timed properly.
 
My only 1911 is an Auto Ordnance GI model that I got for $388.00 - and it's been pretty flawless. Choked once on some crap ammo when I first got it, but never before, and never again in a couple-thousand rounds. The more custom 1911s I get my hands on, the more I want one, and the less I like my AO...but at essentially a 99.99% function rate, I can't honestly complain about my little poorly made, design flawed, el-cheapo $400 1911. :D

Maybe I just have good luck. :neener:
 
Don't even have to think on this one ...

Ruger P89 9mm ...

Was priced reasonably. Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, while standing inside said barn. Put many dollars into gunsmithing, on the advice of an aquaintance who was fond of P89's. All for naught. Still couldn't hit anything with consistancy ... if it didn't jam or missfire.
 
+1 on the Charles Daly 1911. I got a commander model as an anniversary present and it wouldn't go through a full mag without stove-piping. Dealer ended up giving me credit after trying to make the 1911 right, and I purchased a S&W 457 instead.

I thought that maybe it was me, and later on purchased a CD officers size. It jammed the same way, about the same amount. I sold it. Then, I did some research on 1911s and visited some boards. I began to get an understanding on how they work and how to work on them. So, fairly recently I puchased a used AO Pit Bull that needed a little restoration. It now shares carry time with my .357 revolver.
 
Taurus PT-22 - jammed every other shot. Could not chamber around. In fact, it once ejected a live round while trying to chamber it. The round was caught by the slide returning to battery and bent in half. :eek:
 
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