Worst shooting pistol ?

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Laugh if ya want, but it's a revolver so it's surely more accurate, but you have to know something about basic marksmanship.

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Wow, those vids were very impressive. I think most proficient shooters could pull off that 100 yard shot single action, with a bit of practice (of course, we won't count "flyers"....). But, this guy is doing it double action and getting three in a row. I could never do that.
 
I have had three "worst shooting pistols/revolvers".


First one was an Astra Model 600 that could literally beat your hand into so much fleshy pulp if you went on firing it for more than 50 rounds. It may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but a straight blowback 9mm. is not fun to shoot.


Second was a Charter Arms Undercover that tried to disassemble itself during a trip to the range. Might have been the "hot" loads I was putting through it at the time: factory 148 gr. wadcutters. After half a box of these, the frame pins were nearly out of the frame, and the cylinder crane assembly was getting ready to fall off.

The third gun was a beautiful Browning Hi-Power, complete with a deep blued finish, ring hammer, and a trigger pull that was well into double figures. Add in a safety that was almost impossible to engage, tiny sights that couldn't be seen, and a slide to frame fit that was extremely loose, and you had all the ingredients for a gun that could hit the side of a barn. Maybe.
 
Nope.
Worst I had was a mini Sigma in 9mm. Total POS. Failure to do something half the time. Terrible trigger pull. Loud. Inaccurate. Best of all, takedown involved driving out a pin somewhere (to this day I don't know how to do it).
I hear the Smith Escorts were even worse.
 
my kel-tec pf-9. FTE's every 2-3 rounds. :(

... and perhaps my nagant revolver. if the DA trigger pull is less than 20lbs, i'd be surprised. heh.
 
Wow, those vids were very impressive. I think most proficient shooters could pull off that 100 yard shot single action, with a bit of practice (of course, we won't count "flyers"....). But, this guy is doing it double action and getting three in a row. I could never do that.
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I watched Munden shoot a balloon at 100 yards last night on "Impossible Shots" (outdoor channel) with a J frame. After that, Jerry Miculek took a DAO Smith J frame, holds it upside down in his hand, pulls the trigger with his pinky finger, and pops a balloon at 200 yards, and if I'm lyin', I'm dyin. :D He missed a couple until he got his elevation. Said he was elevating about 20 feet. LOL!

Yeah, with my little 85, I could ding the 14" gong at 100 yards single action from roll over prone using the ground for a rest atop my off fist. But, I'm no Jerry Miculek or Bob Munden. :D

Those that tell me they can't hit with a snub or that it's just a belly gun, not intended to be used past punch out range are only telling me they can't shoot a snub. It ain't the gun's fault. That little 85 will group 5 shots to 3" at 25 yards from a rest. I have seen full sized duty weapons that can't do that. But,like the first video says, it takes practice.
 
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Ha, P-32, it's not bad, really, now the Keltek P40, that is bad, I can shoot 1 round accurately, but unfortunately the limp wristing turns the little auto loader into a single shot, OH and it has all the faults of the P11
 
Stainless steel American made 22lr 5-shot revolver with a 1" barrel. Fits in the palm of your hand.

Worked flawlessly. I could hit a refridgerator at 3 yards most of the time.
 
My second handgun purchase back in 1982. A Jennings J-22 stainless. I lost count on how many jams I had in that gun. I send it back to the factory, they sent me a new one. I decided to change ammo to Remington high-velocity (green and yellow box). Never gave me a problem after that.

Ruger P-85 9mm, had the worse trigger pull. I could never get use to it. It was 100% reliable though.
 
Walther pk-380,

Adjustable sights, but no sight tool. Instruction Manual says, strongly push/rock the rear sight to the desired windage :eek: Gun also has no slide stop.

Glad my friend bought and not me.
 
I've tried a handful of rounds through several .357 revolvers. Sights, trigger press... bullet goes somewhere else. I think the grip ergos are the biggest difference between revolvers and what I normally shoot. They've just never done anything for me.
 
Nagant pistol...worst trigger ever.

Rossi .38 spl. with sights so far off it hit 4 inches to the left at 7 yds
 
My most inaccurate gun was a Taurus 24/7 in 40cal. It shot low, even if I tried to compensate. The thing that I hated was I know some people with the exact gun, who could hit a penny at 7 yards,Consistently.

I traded it and managed to get a Taurus revolver, which is very accurate. Sometimes things do not work out.
 
1911s muzzle tends to rise a lot and string vertically, albeit in a narrow straight line.
Glocks funky trigger pull and minimal muzzle rise tends to make flat, horizontal strings.
If I shoot a 1911 and then a G17 on the same target I will get a pattern like an inverted "T".
Python in single action mode=laser beam. Win.
All double action triggers suck. Yes they do.
 
Without a doubt my PA-63. The trigger pull is so ridiculously stout that every shot is a flyer. My P64 and Bulgy PM are my two best shooters so I know the platform and ammo are capable of amazing accuracy.
 
A tie between a MAS Model 1892 St. Etienne 8 mm Lebel French antique revolver (could have been the "custom" handloads) and a Llama .45 acp 1911 ish full size that was also a painfully frustrating jam o matic. There was something wrong with that one that was not worth it to fix.

The 1894 vintage S&W Safety Hammerless .38 S&W lemon squeezer ain't no bullseye gun either but give the old girl a break, her barrel is pitted. You'd cut your granny some slack for her gimpy hip wouldn't you? The Charter Arms Bulldog from the '70s takes up a lot of room on a target but again, a .44 spl. snubby for that price isn't headed for Camp Perry in anyone's bag either. Oddly, a 1915 Sauer & Sohne pocket .32 auto ain't too bad.

I've come out on the other side too, the S&W Model of 1905 Military & Police Target swinging a 6 1/4" bbl is tack driver that pushes it's roommate the 1974 Model 14 K-38 Masterpiece. I will never know which is better because they are both better than me.

The 686+ is a close next and wins for sweet trigger. The 2" Colt Lawman is surprisingly good, the Ruger Mk I and standard velocity ammo is well behaved. My Kimber Custom II Target is just a half a click away from the Smith target guns.
 
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KAHR PM40, Great gun to shoot, failure to extract and eject, failure to feed, failure to return to battery, I sure saved on ammo with that gun, and got all kinds of practice clearing combat stoppages!
 
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