Your least favorite revolver...

[Legionnaire]

I posted earlier:

Least favorite that I still have is a S&W 317 Kit Gun. It has a 3" barrel and adjustable sights. It's actually a very nice gun, that is quite accurate. I just don't "like" it very much, so it mostly stays in the safe. I'd be tempted to trade it for a 4" SP101 in .22LR if I could find one. It would be like trading a sports car that gets great mileage (light weight and 8-round cylinder) for a pickup truck (very heavy with 6-round cylinder) ... but I like pickup trucks.

Well, sold the S&W 317 and bought a second-hand Ruger SP101 ... 4-inch with full underlug ... and couldn't be happier!

 

[bluetopper]

An RG .22 short.
You couldn't hit the side of a barn with it.

 

[Hawk]

Colt Python.

Not so much the fault of Colt but a combination of unrealistic expectations from reading internet hossanas combined with a dubious series of previous owners and questionable 'smiths.

Bought three, kept one.
The other two were sold with full disclosure at considerable loss.

The collectors can have 'em.

They might have been all that and a bag of chips once upon a time in the dim and distant past. Right now, you can't even get them serviced. Hand fit is only a good thing when people never had union problems or hangovers. In the real world, it sucks.

 

[kentucky bucky]

RG .22.....undoubtably the worst piece of crap I've ever handled or owned. It was not only pot metal....it was the cheapest pot metal they could find. I traded it for a dog hauling box. I heard later the fellow wanted a "throw away" to shoot coons out of season. My bet is the coons were as safe as in their mother's nest. In fact the coon hunter was probably in more danger.

 

[McCall911]

I never quite warmed up to the Dan Wesson Model 15-2 that I owned. The whole time, I wished I'd owned a Smith...

 

[GaryP]

For me a Wesson Arms 738P 2" (.38Spl+P) purchased NIB in 1993. This revolver was built like a tank and rumor had it they were going to introduce 3" & 4" barrel kits for it. It's one problem was a poorly designed hand spring which would flex badly in rapid fire DA mode and finally bent beyond repair. Up until that point SA mode was 100% reliable. The company went bankrupt in late 1994 before they could resolve this issue leaving me and many other 738P owners holding the bag.

When the company was reincarnated a few years later the new company choose not to support this model. Yes, it was a Palmer, Mass. gun.

I finally found a local Gunsmith who was able to craft a hand spring for the 738P, however; I had lost confidence in it and traded it away shortly thereafter.

 

[Dave Baird]

Boy, I must be lucky, I guess! I carried a S&W Model 10 and loved it. Then, a Model 13 and loved it. Then a model 586 and loved it except for the weight. Then, a Ruger GP100 and loved it. I did have the Ruger hard chromed because I heard it was the thing to do. Unfortunately after doing so, it would start to bind-up during the last several rounds of qualification with 125gr. JHP. I still came-in second that year and only missed 100% by 4 points. And, the person that came-in first was using .38 wadcutters!!

I currently have a couple old Nagants and think they are cool, but I do not use it double action. It works fine. I just bought a first generation Charter
.44 Bulldog in 3" and love it too. BOOM!

I have had trouble with a Finnish Parabellum (Luger) that needed replacement parts, blew a locking block on a 1943 Mauser P.38, had head space problems with a new CZ52, and experienced uncountable failure to feeds (jams) with numerous semi-autos from WWII to new ones.:banghead: Usually, just an ammo change would fix the problem. BUT, my revolvers have been nothing but reliable even though the semi's are so advanced in so many ways and I do like the looks of them more.

So, guess I don't have a bad revolver story to report yet! I don't plan to put hundreds of rounds through my new/old Bulldog, so I suspect even that will be fine for me.