Worst Rifle Ever?

[Odd Job]

AR7: didn't like it at all

 

[millertyme]

I don't understand the 10/22 hate. Mine has never once failed to fire and eject any amunition i've ran through it, from CCI Stingers to some oddball 50 year old stuff my dad found in my grandpa's shop after he died. I don't try to put after market magazines in it since I hear all sorts of problems that they precipitate, and I can chew dimes out of trgets all day long at 50 yards. 55 years of manufacturing and over 5 million sold - not a bad record.

 

[sprice]

no rifle

 

[H&Hhunter]

The new H&H royal grade double rifles. You get so little for your $150,000 now days.

 

[semperfi63]

so I always heard the krag-jorgensen was a terrible rifle. Anyone want to donate one to me for evaluation?

 

[WardenWolf]

so I always heard the krag-jorgensen was a terrible rifle. Anyone want to donate one to me for evaluation?

Krags were all right for their time. The problem is that metallurgy back then wasn't nearly as good as it was just 20 years later, and the commonly-available .30-40 ammunition also became much more powerful due to commercial loadings for civilian rifles in this caliber. This is particularly true with the steel in the American-made Krags. As a result, you have to be very careful with shooting modern ammo through one of these rifles because there is the potential of the bolt lugs failing, propelling the bolt rearward with great force. They were and are still good guns, but you need to recognize and respect their weaknesses.

 

[rondog]

I don't understand the 10/22 hate. Mine has never once failed to fire and eject any amunition i've ran through it, from CCI Stingers to some oddball 50 year old stuff my dad found in my grandpa's shop after he died. I don't try to put after market magazines in it since I hear all sorts of problems that they precipitate, and I can chew dimes out of trgets all day long at 50 yards. 55 years of manufacturing and over 5 million sold - not a bad record.

I have two of them. Give you 10 minutes with either of mine and you'll understand the hate.

 

[Crash_Test_Dhimmi]

anything with "California Legal" in the description

 

[Odd Job]

The new H&H royal grade double rifles. You get so little for your $150,000 now days.

That's damn funny! Somewhere there is a stately gentleman with his whiskers almost dangling in his Earl Grey tea, scoffing at such a remark. "One does not pooh pooh such refinements, old bean. If one has to ask the price, one is surely not in the market for a fine rifle."

 

[Hunterdad]

Ross Sporting Rifle. Apparently the bolt had a tendency to rip half your face off when you fired it.

 

[Quoheleth]

Yep - it was the Ross. I was searching American Rifleman under the semi-auto category --- which is why I wasn't finding it.

Thanks for the direction to look. Here's the link to the article:

http://www.americanrifleman.org/ArticlePage.aspx?id=2136&cid=3

The rifle in question carries a tag which reads:

"Very Dangerous. Given to me by Ross in 1915 - fired by my guide Pete Nordquist at a Grizzly in the Teton Range - the bolt shot out backwards and tore the side of his face away from the mouth to the ear - the bolt was picked up 20 yards back. I reported this and all later models had different bolt action - as several other people had same accident. .280 Ross Rifle N. Whitehouse.

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[HOWARD J]

I had a Remington 700 in 6MM Rem---it was a good looking rifle & a great shooter--very accurate w/ my 3-9 scope & it took a lot of deer.
It was made prior to 1982 & was one of the Remingtons with a safety defect.It was something like touching the bolt handle on a loaded chamber & taking off the safety-the gun would fire.
It happened to me only once---I always thought I did something wrong until I found that the gun was defective. Remington never made a recall on this problem & had the gall to charge you if you sent the gun back.
I sold mine to a gunsmith when I found out.
The bean counters were busy--we will never know if anyone was killed !!!

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Of those I've owned: Mitchell Arms .22 mag turnbolt

Of those I've shot: AR-7 or Mini-14

Of those I've not handled: Gotta go with that Daisy .22 or the Ross rifle or the Chauchaut. Machine guns are a subset of rifles, so they are in fact rifles, too. Evidently, the Mossberg rifles can also "pull a Ross" on your face.