What firearm that you just had to have.....

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was the biggest disappointment?
Mine was a CZ452 in .22 mag. The .22 LR versions have a sterling reputation but my WMR just won't shoot. I've since tried every accurization technique to no avail. Four inch groups at 100 yards.:(
 
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Springfield 1911 45ACP Compact when they first came out with them about 10 years ago, bi-color, cost $1000, jammed, stove piped a lot, don't think it was a limp wrist thing, traded it and only got $550.00 or so. Cool looking piece though.

Joe
 
Winchester model 70 featherweight in .223. Billed as the "World's Most Beautiful Rifle" in their advertising at the time, mine came in with a piece of bland looking soft feeling sapwood that looked like it came from a swamp stump.

OK . . . disappointed, but howz it shoot ? . . . multiple range trips couldn't wring out more than 3 & 1/2" groups at 100 yards off of sand bags with factory or handloaded ammunition.

FINALLY, after shaving the barrel channel and free floating the barrel, glass bedding the stock with a contact cradle for the pencil barrel to rest in at the stock tip, and concocting 23 different handloads, I mananged to start getting the dime-sized groups I had expected to get all along, as I had ordered mine after shooting a co-workers whose M70 had a gorgeous walnut stock and shot factory ammo like a laser.

By this point I was so disgusted with the gun I traded it off for a TC with multiple barrels. Soured me on Winchester bolt guns . . . .:(
 
Traded a Made in W.Germany Sig P226 with 4 factory mags for a Browning Hi-Power Practical in .40 S&W. Just never liked that pistol.

The weight they added to the slide threw out the otherwise perfect balance of the original 9mm version. Really didn't like that pistol.

Traded that for a CZ-75B SA in .40. LUV this pistol.
 
Many years ago I had a Colt Combat Commander in 9mm. The most inaccurate gun I have ever owned. I could throw rocks more accurately than that gun could shoot. I could shoot a magazine at 25 yards, and the pattern resembled a 12 Gauge buckshot pattern. I sold it, and I pity the fool who bought it.
 
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Many years ago I had a Colt Combat Commander in 9mm. The most inaccurate gun I have ever owned. I could throw rocks more accurately than that gun could shoot. I could shoot a magazine at 25 yards, and the pattern resembled a 12 Gauge buckshot pattern. I sold it, and I pity the fool who bought it.
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Hey you dirty so and so, that was ME!!! kidding...LOL...:) I shot one of those and it was a real dog............
 
i learned years ago not to buy what i thought i needed.

i've been a good boy as of late....
 
About 10 years ago, I just had to have an H&K P7M8. I bought a German police trade-in gun from a guy at work for a fair price. Took it to the range and the area under the trigger guard got so hot after a couple of magazines, I had to shoot with a glove, or put it down for a while. I gave it one more try then took it to a gunshow and sold it for what I paid. Bought a new Sig P239 for less money.
 
Brolin Arms 1911. Owned 4 diffrent ones in 3 days. Feeding jams with FMJ, stove pipes after firing, bullets hit the target sideways. Tried diffrent ammo and diffrent mags, all the same. Piece of junk.
 
Colt Combat Commander in .45ACP. It was a jam-a-matic and I was underwhelmed when the front sight became loose after about 500 rounds. Had it repaired and got rid of it because I couldn't bring myself to trust it.
 
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Hey you dirty so and so, that was ME!!! kidding...LOL...:) I shot one of those and it was a real dog............
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My Combat Commander, also in 9mm. I was a kid, literally, and the .45 wasn't available so I settled. I don't recall any problems with the gun, but I never warmed up to it. If it had been a .45, I'd probably still have it.
 
jag312 said:
Many years ago I had a Colt Combat Commander in 9mm. The most inaccurate gun I have ever owned. I could throw rocks more accurately than that gun could shoot. I could shoot a magazine at 25 yards, and the pattern resembled a 12 Gauge buckshot pattern. I sold it, and I pity the fool who bought it.
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So you're the guy who sold me that piece of crap!
 
jag312 said:
Many years ago I had a Colt Combat Commander in 9mm. The most inaccurate gun I have ever owned. I could throw rocks more accurately than that gun could shoot. I could shoot a magazine at 25 yards, and the pattern resembled a 12 Gauge buckshot pattern. I sold it, and I pity the fool who bought it.
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If it was satin nickel finish I may have owned it for about 9 months!! (If it made its way to PA in 1989)

Seriously, the 9mm Combat Commander I had made me think I couldn't shoot a semi-auto any more.
 
Walther P22. Loved the size and weight of the gun, and I know everyone seems to love them. Don't know if it was the gun or me but I couldn't hit anything with it. It also failed to feed almost every round and after only 500 rounds or so it had worn a groove in the guide rod. Traded it in on a 15-22 and couldn't be happier.
 
Ruger P97 a few years back. Within 20 rounds it started popping rounds out of the magazine in recoil; sometimes they would fly free of the gun and just hit the ground; at other times they would just fail to feed properly. Fought that thing and changed magazines, parts, ammo, everything for a year and 1200 rounds. The factory worked on it once to no avail. They finally offered to take it back, destroy it, and give me another NIB in exchange. I took the deal and promptly put it on consignment without ever firing it.

I actually liked the P97 and shot it well, but if a gun won't work I won't own it. Other than the .22 semiautos that was the only Ruger semiauto I ever liked well enough to try. Also the last one I will ever own. I don't get paid to test guns.
 
Browning Lever Action .22LR

It just wasn't as much fun as I thought. Not as accurate as I hoped. Too pretty to belly crawl up to points where I could pop groundhogs.
 
Without a doubt it was a 12 ga Mossberg bolt action shotgun. The first time I fired it back in 1967, the hollow plastic stock broke. I had bought it new the day before from Woolco (a 60's version of Walmart) and the thing went to pieces. Took it back. No store exchange, had to send it to Mossberg. They fixed the stock for free but made me pay shipping both ways. Got it back and shot it again. Something went wrong with the trigger. Decided the gun was leaving my ownership.

Sold it to a guy I worked with for $10. Not bad price since I only paid $39 for it.
 
..until now it was a Taurus Tracker 4" in Titanium .357 Mag.. Very pretty, very light. Good trigger, but it doesn't hit a barndoor .
The whole thing jammed most of the time. The cylinderlocking was not strong enough, so it opens when the gun was fired. I really
tried to get that thing working, but it was not possible. The gunsmith took it back.

Swissman
 
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A Kimber of Oregon 82, I bought it to shoot .22lr sporting rifle matches and it was a real dog. Even using high grade ammo like Tenex and R50 1 inch groups at 50 was the best it could do. I sold it off and years later gave Kimber a second chance. I bought a Kimber of NY Hunter, that thing is a tack driver and will shoot 1/4 inch groups at 50 all day if I feed it good ammo and do my part. I still use it to take money from guys using heavy target rifles.
 
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