Worst Rifle Ever?

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Whew! Thank goodness you were joking DK.

Besides, we all know for fact that the absolute worse POS rifle ever to chamber a round, has got to be, without a doubt, the M1 Garand.
What a stupid, inaccurate, non-reliable, hideous abomination of everything that a rifle shouldn't be!

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I'm kidding and only picked the M1 because 99.9% of the human population [me included] loves the Garand and would find this post humerus/amusingly offensive.
 
I dont htink I or anyone I know have ever had a rifle that I would call a POS. Hell even my friends Century AR15, A2 rifle style, is accurate and reliable.

When I was 18 and dumb I had a shady gun dealer con me out of my Ruger #1 in 7mm Mag (the stock got cracked in a hunting accident and he told me it would cost more to replace than the gun was worth. My uncle sold it to me for a phenominal price of 350 bucks so I believed the dealer and sold it to him for cheap) and I ended up buying an old 8mm Mauser that had seen some serious use. Even though it looked really rough, it shot decent.
 
I'd say the AR-15. $1000 jam-o-matic that I can't even think about working on myself.
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Well, if you feel so inclined, I would be happy to take those jam-o-matics off your hand. How about a trade some old rusty AKs to you that cannot hit a pumpkin at 50 yards.. :neener:
 
My very first rifle, Marlin GlenField model 60 .22"semi-auto". Was basically a single shot, would jam each and every time. I hated that gun.
 
THE DARK KNIGHT said:
I'd say the AR-15. $1000 jam-o-matic that I can't even think about working on myself.
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Obviously you've never worked on one. They are the easiest rifle I have ever worked on. Who said ARs are $1000? Mine was in the $600 range. Sounds to me that you don't own one and never have, but have instead bought into the endless hype written about ARs. Let me guess, you shoot SKS's and AKs at the 50 yard line while I am at the 200 yard line shooting and HITTING my target at that range.

Edit: You got me DK. It took me a while to realize it was a joke. I'm A litle slew dis marnin' :D
 
Chauchat? That's a machine gun.
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It has a stock and can be fired from the shoulder so I would say that automatic rifle is an accurate term, just like the Browning M1918 is an automatic rifle. It's mostly semantics, machine gun or automatic rifle are both accurate terms.
 
The one who talked about his AR-7. My dad bought me one when I was 11; a Charter Arms. That thing ran great, and was reseaonably accurate. Too bad the Armalite wasn't nearly as good.
 
Ruger 10/22 - inaccurate barrel, lousy trigger, no bolt hold open, poorly finished.

Anytime you have to buy a gun, strip it down and replace basically everything to get something that shoots well, then it deserves that moniker
 
...my brother bought a savage, don't know what model, and it's a .22LR semi-auto budget rifle (it was like 100 bucks) and it won't even get through a 10 round mag without at least 2 malfunctions.
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I'm not your brother, but I have that rifle. It is certainly a heap, but I've been able to get mine running like a top. Not quite worth the attention you have to give it to keep it running though.
 
Anything that had Ruger stamped on it. Didn't matter whether it was a centerfire rifle, semi auto rifle, rf rifle or handgun. Bought some earlier on thinking maybe the next one will be more accurate. Now they were all pretty and stuff but suffered in the accuracy department. Finall sold ea. and every one of them.
 
Remington 522 Viper .22LR
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I've had one for 15 years, and it's been a good little rifle. Accurate, reliable and weighs only 4-1/2 pounds. Not the prettiest thing, but I personally find it more appealing than the chunky 10/22, of which I've found more inaccurate and unreliable factory models than any other common rimfire auto.

I'll also have to disagree with the Carcano statement. The rifles work just fine, feeding problems are caused by worn out en-block clips that have been used and reused for 70+ years. Accuracy is similar to other old military bolt guns, the actions are fast and reasonably smooth (not Schmidt-Rubin smooth, but much better than a Mosin), and they load faster and with less effort than any stripper clip design. The biggest drawback is fairly anemic chamberings, more on par with the .30-30 than in the league of other 30-06 class WWII cartridges of other nations. But the long, heavy bullets of the 6.5x52mm are very stabile and had an ability to penetrate that was disproportionate to the energy produced. So if any of you happen to have any of these "terrible" rifles taking up space in your collection, I'll be glad to take them off your hands. I only have four, I'm still missing many variants.

My vote for worst rifle is the Calico M-100. Neat looking, with a novel magazine concept. But cheaply built and I doubt anyone has ever emptied a mag without at least 3 or 4 jams. Mine mostly just sat in the back of the safe until I sold it a couple years back. Heck, maybe the Spaceballs would have conquered Druidia if they'd chosen AR's instead.
 
My vote goes for the bubba-sized arisaka that I picked up for $50, a box of ammo would cost almost as much as the rifle, it is a smooth-bore, and it is a cock on closing bolt. It just sits there looking ugly.
 
Ak47. Seriously. Sub par accuracy, horrible ergonomics, bad sights and overstated reliability.
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Yah, with only 50 million made and with a basic design that still in production after 60 years, it's an obvious failure.

BSW
 
Definitely my very first rifle. A 6.5 Carcano. Cost me a whole $18 and that was $17.98 too much. I gave up trying to get a group at 100 yards, 4 of 5 rounds went in sideways and it maybe grouped 18".

FWIW
 
I still say the mondragon rifle. horrible accuracy, the germans in WW1 only counted rounds that were more than 6 inches away from the center of a target misses, and it made the chauchat seem like an AK when it came to reliability. Also just about anything from the kyber pass.
 
Yah, with only 50 million made and with a basic design that still in production after 60 years, it's an obvious failure.
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Making lots and lots of crap is still making crap. Communism is not know for it's cutting edge technology, or even good ideas for that matter. That would be like the US still using the 1903 or M1 Garand. Both great rifles, more accurate than an AK and vastly better ergonomics. Reliability is better on the 1903 and M1 as well. Stating that a rifle has been in service for 60 years does not make it a good rifle. Having a rifle in service for 60 years means that either your country sucks and development or that it is not willing to accept that better rifles have since been invented. Or both. One could say the same thing based on the age of the AR platform. It is an older design that may need to be replaced. But the simple fact of the matter is that the AR is far more accurate and is slowly, I mean really really slowly, being replaced. And no I do not own and AR. And this thread is entirely based on opinion as there is no real way to say that one is the greatest ever and one is the worst ever. So even though 50 million were made that means that there are 50 million rifles out there with sub par accuracy, horrible ergonomics, bad sights and overstated reliability.
 
Anything that had Ruger stamped on it. Didn't matter whether it was a centerfire rifle, semi auto rifle, rf rifle or handgun. Bought some earlier on thinking maybe the next one will be more accurate. Now they were all pretty and stuff but suffered in the accuracy department. Finall sold ea. and every one of them.
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I've always had great luck with ruger. Anything and everything Ruger that I've fired has been reliable and very accurate.
 
I had an Egyptian Hakim in 8mm. Couldn't get that thing to hit the side of a barn at 50 yards. It damn near bent shells in half ejecting them (would hit the bolt handle). We used to zip tie fuel hose to the handle to cushion it. I wish I had the rifle now though, I'm pretty confident with what I have learned about reloading in the last 20 years, I could make it shoot now.
 
THE DARK KNIGHT said:
Really guys? Really? An entire page later and no one realizes the AR things was a joke?
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