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

[fdw]

Micro Desert Eagle, trigger pin popped out second time out

Zastava 9mm, mag starting dropping from gun while shooting

Ruger 38 LCR, didn't like the recoil

Sig p228, stopped locking open on last round. I really wanted to like this gun...

I'm probably forgetting something.

Guns I bought I like that I wasn't sure of when purchasing:

Rock Island 38 with 4 inch barrel M200

M&P bodyguard in 380

CZ 70 which I just received...

RI 1911 GI, sold it but really liked it

Hi-Point 9mm carbine...

H&R model 923, I believe if you drop it on a loaded chamber it will shoot, cool cheap little 22 though..

my first M&P FS 9, I will never sell this one....

ruger lcr 22 for my wife, she loves it and is very good with it...

well that's it for now...

 

[mjr]

I actually don't remember regretting any gun I ever bought, but I regret selling a lot of ones I sold.

 

[cj51974]

EAA witness-P in .40. Only good for a day at the range and a broken recoil spring
Judge 4". Starts out fun but quickly starts hurting in .410 HD slugs

 

[getoff]

Kahr P45. JUNK. Never worked right. Replaced springs twice, mags, tried every ammo in the free market, and Kahr told me it was probably me...

 

[SaberOne]

Walter P99 that was finicky to say the least. Got rid of it and vowed never to buy another one.

 

[Hand Cannon]

I had Gary Reeder build a single action in 500 S&W. The fit and finish were poor when I first took delivery. The shear volume of the amount of engraved skulls and the Grim Reaper along with his name and S&W Magnum cut into the side of the frame was cartoonish. I sent it back to him, explaining my S&W 500 from the S&W Performance shop showed better fit and finish than his gun at 1/2 the price. I've been trying to sell it for a year. Maybe two or three people asked to look at it in the gun shop where I have it on sale for consignment. Nobody wants it...including me. But, I'll probably have it for the rest of my life because I'm not going to give it away.

 

[federali]

Gone and Forgotten

Keltec pocket auto. I think it was a .32
Used Savage 99 with hidden defect.
S&W commemorative revolver.
Commercial M1 carbine---a real clunker.

 

[Steve912]

--Jennings .22...for $50 in early 80's, at the Fort Bliss Rifle/Pistol Club. Couldn't get thru a magazine without a malfunction. Complained about it to a barracks mate, who offered to buy it.

He said he wanted his fiance to have a gun when he deployed overseas and players came knocking at her door--and he didn't care if it fired or not. Sold, same day, at $5 discount.

--Diamondback DB9: really wanted this one to work--the no-name underdog manufacturer, coming up with a revolutionary design! Alas, it wouldn't empty a mag without multiple feed failures. After realizing the dustcover area of FRP frame was binding on slide and correcting that, the pistol began to (intermittently) feed entire magazines without malfunction--then the MIM trigger broke. Took six months to come back from DB (no parts are sold for user replacement). Replaced for CCW by a Kel Tec P-11, and traded in towards a new SD9VE--both better pieces of kit for their respective roles.

 

[PAFMAN3]

I had a Taurus model 66 .357 . It had a major timing problem, always hit off center. The gun went back to Taurus 3 time and always came back with the same problem, I took the loss and bought a 6" GP100 .357 and never looked back.