Mistakes - Guns you wish you had not bought ...

[Bekeart]

Mistakes - Guns you wish you had not bought ...

Most, if not all, of us have made some mistakes in our purchases.

A couple of my recent gun show mistakes:
1) H&R 22 revolver - low quality - low price - made a mistake ... expect to LOOSE money ...
2) Ruger No. 1 in 458 WinMag - Little if any demand for this caliber - Well it IS and No. 1 ...

Step into the forum confessional, admit your mistake and ask for absolution

Bekeart

 

[nsl]

Glock 21: No problems, just meh.
Browning BPS: Bought it to help a friend out, and I just find shotguns to be boring.

 

[Laketime]

All of them, it led to an addiction going on 35 years now.

 

[e3mrk]

38 cal.Cobra Derringer. The Barrels are two steel sleeves inside a pot metal outer casing.

 

[TTSH]

In chronological order:

• A Star PD (God Almighty how I hated that gun...)
• An AMT .380 Back-Up (There, I said it! I'm free, free at last!)
• A Charter Arms SS Snubby (Just to see how it compared to the Mothership's Model 60. It didn't.)
• A CS40 (One totally "used & abused" gun... for which I stupidly overpaid.)
• My second Model 4566TSW (One good auction win deserves one really bad one I guess.)

 

[Texasgordo]

Glock 31. Trying to find .357Sig during the ammo crunch was difficult plus the cost was high. Cool round but a novelty.

 

[rwsmith]

A 13 oz (Loaded Kel Tec) P 11 in 9mm

Kel tec makes pretty good low priced guns. It's very small and light but it's kicky and hard to control. Even the manual says that it's pretty effective inside 20' but beyond that.....

It's going to take me a lot of work to get good out to 20' with it. I know most encounters are closer quarter but it undermines my confidence because I can't shoot it. 5 yards, difficult but I can take a person down it that range. At 7 yards it's possible that I would miss all of my shots at least to the main mass. I'm going to have to practice a lot to get more accurate/confident with that gun. I probably should get another Shield and relegate the Kelt Tec to a 'bathroom gun' or something that would be guaranteed to be at close range.

 

[A-37]

Mistakes - Guns you wish you had not bought ...

Most, if not all, of us have made some mistakes in our purchases.

A couple of my recent gun show mistakes:
1) H&R 22 revolver - low quality - low price - made a mistake ... expect to LOOSE money ...
2) Ruger No. 1 in 458 WinMag - Little if any demand for this caliber - Well it IS and No. 1 ...

Step into the forum confessional, admit your mistake and ask for absolution

Bekeart

I bought a nice H&R .22 a few years ago. Every time I fired a round, the barrel would unlatch. Returned it to the seller. Full refund including shipping. My last H&R.

 

[Rpg]

The three ported firearms I foolishly acquired in a moment of stupidity. All were aftermarket magnaports: a 4 inch M29, a 338 Remington and a 6' M28.

Sold em all to the proverbial 'greater fool'.

All were miserable noise and blast producers.

I didn't lose a great deal of money. I think of it as tuition.

 

[Bkreutz]

I've always bought good guns, I don't regret any that I've bought, I have regretted more than a few that I've sold.

 

[Rockrivr1]

Regret? No such thing. Even a bad gun is a good gun!

 

[Irn-Bru]

CZ Scorpion. Very cool looking gun, just not much fun to shoot. The ambi safety will leave a bruise on your hand after 50 rounds. Was going to SBR it but the cost of the stock I wanted and tax stamp would have cost another $450. Cut my losses and sold it.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Since I buy a notch up from "Saturday Night Specials"......
no complaints yet.

 

[bushmaster1313]

Stainless Ruger Mini-30

The accuracy was about nine inches at 100 yards

 

[dimedog]

Walther P22.....big hassle

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Ruger Super Single Six.
Nice little gun and will shoot shorts, longs, long rifles and magnums.

I wanted a western type of gun so I should have bought a center fire.

I had a Remington 1100 that I sold to buy a 870. Love the 870 but the 1100 was a great gun. Sold it to a real putz so I know I will never see it again.

 

[deadin]

A few readily come to mind:

Armalite AR15 HBAR Never could get better the minute of pie plate out of it.

Armalite AR-7 Jam-o-Matic

SKS Meh.....

I currently have an Astra M1921 that I picked up cheap. Turns out there was a reason it was cheap. Has enough of a sear problem I'm afraid to try to fire it........

 

[finesse_r]

Colt Combat Commander in SS at a gun show. That Colt was worst gun I ever owned including a RG-10, which at least worked.

 

[rock_castle]

LCP. I knew right away that I didn't want it. Hard to shoot well and not fun.

 

[bigchuck83]

Every Glock i have ever purchased, just can't get the hang of shooting them. Llama minimax 45acp, never could get it to feed right, Kel tec p11
My first S&W revolver as it has started a hunt to find the ones that are right for me and i fear i may trade, sell and buy many more until i find the ones that are just right (at least i will be in good company) .
I do regret selling a few, especially the M&P 357 sig i once had, I'll be looking for another one in good condition at the gun show next week.