Buying mistakes

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What was your worst gun buying mistake, misery loves company.
 
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That's an easy one!

S&W Walther PPK/s.....:o

When I got rid of that one I felt like a weight, more like a paperweight, had been lifted off of my shoulders.
 
Mossy 500A that the buttstock bolt has stripped out the threads. A decade later it still collects dust.
 
For me so far it has only been a S&W 4566TSW. Boy did I really want to like that gun, but I couldn't make it group worth a darn. So after a couple hundred rounds and 3 different grips later--I had to let her go.
 
Got an early Winchester 94/22 for Christmas one year. Several years later traded it for a MKV Webley 45acp (not a bad trade). BUT, traded the Webley for a Charter Arms AR-7 (NOT A GOOD TRADE!!!)
 
1927 A1 Thompson semi auto carbine.

Now, when I used that for a trade-in on the 1928 AC, that was a waaaaay better deal.
 
Hands down: A Mossberg 12 ga pump.

Absolutely the worst gun I ever owned and I have owned some bad ones.

It is just ahead of a Norinco 1911 I bought in 1968. That gun rattled so badly that walking across a muddy field with it in an enclosed leather holster, it rattled.
 
oldman45 said:
Hands down: A Mossberg 12 ga pump.

Absolutely the worst gun I ever owned and I have owned some bad ones.

It is just ahead of a Norinco 1911 I bought in 1968. That gun rattled so badly that walking across a muddy field with it in an enclosed leather holster, it rattled.
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All that rattling probably had you looking for snakes.
 
Without a doubt it was a Seecamp. It NEVER made it through a full mag without some kind of problem and it shot 6-8" groups at 10 feet. The reason? They sold it with NO rifling. It was a smoothbore. :eek:
 
Bought a 1955 Chinese Type 53 from Omega that was described as "Fair". Evidently they use a different grading system. It's in the process of having a replacement barrel installed on it if I ever get around to finishing up the machining on the action wrench. No rifling present at all, the only points where the bore came close to acceptable size was an inch from the muzzle, and the same from the chamber, the rest of it was similar to a smoothbore musket and just as accurate.
 
Intra-Tec .38spl 2-shot Derringer

That thing would beat the palm half to death. Felt like someone smacked you in the palm with a hammer!
 
New at the game, a Model 36 on GB was advertised as "possibly unfired". Yes, it had not been fired, but only since it had been hard chromed. I naively thought that I might had found a mislabeled Model 60 instead, not knowing that the extractor star should not have been blue steel. I finally traded it to a guy who could not sell it either and it wound up back on GB again.
 
sipowicz said:
My fur lined kitchen sink...at first, I thought, how cool...but soon found it's not very practical.
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Off topic: Crotchless bermuda shorts. "Be a trendsetter!", they said. BAHHH!!!

On topic: An unfired American Arms (pre-American Derringer) .38 spl. knockoff of the ol' Remington double. Made in '73, bought w/ box, papers, and original receipt in '04.

That in and of itself wasn't the issue. In a fit of buyer's remorse later that day, I decided to recoup by selling a Savage 99C in .308.
DOGGONE, I miss that rifle. Sold that derringer about a month later when I figured out I had no use for it, just wanted one since I was a kid. DOH!!!!!!!
 
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