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

I just "had to have" an AMT Back-Up .45acp double action. The magazines were horrible. Gun would jam and the base plates of 2 mags broke loose dropping cartridges and debris all over my feet. The love affair ended in less than 2 weeks and it was sent packing.:mad:
 
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I just "had to have" an AMT Back-Up .45acp double action. The magazines were horrible. Gun would jam and the base plates of 2 mags broke loose dropping cartridges and debris all over my feet. The love affair ended in less than 2 weeks and it was sent packing.:mad:
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That was one I just had to have too. Mine functioned which I understand is rare but was hard to shoot and heavy for size.
My brother begged me to sell it to him and I refused not trusting their reputation. I did get most of my money back on a trade on a sweet Model 27.
 
Colt Double Eagle Jam,stovepipe,jam,stovepipe,etc.Sold it for half of what I paid for it after about 2 years.Gun had already been back to Colt once,I had enough.
 
This was awhile back but I just had to have a Berreta BM-59, well the thing had a bad wandering zero problem that I never could fix and wound up tradeing it off, wish I had kept it as they are quite pricey now.
 
Taurus 709. Too "slim" when firing. Also hated the trigger. Got rid of it and replaced with a Model 60.
 
When I was a beginning bullseye shooter, I just had to have a lightsaber made by one of the local custom pistolsmiths with a hot hand and pictures on the covers of a couple of the national gunzines. He was known for beautiful cosmetics, and convinced me he could "build a wad gun as tight as they do down at Quantico."

Well, he did. He did it by installing a too-long barrel link which jammed the lugs on the top of the barrel into the lug recesses on the inside of the top of the slide. This produced tight groups (<2 inches @ 50 yards) but way additional stress on the bottom lugs of the barrel, which sheared off during the rapid fire stage of the state championships, totally locking up the gun and costing me the match in my class. The APG intervened and I got a rebuilt gun with a totally new top end free of charge built by a different APG gunsmith, but I've never forgotten that "looks purty" and "built right" are two different things.


Bullseye
 
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Hi had to have a cool M-1 carbine when I turned 21. I could have bought a good used Military but not knowing any better bought a Universal because I figured a new gun would be better.
When ever I shot it, it would literally start falling apart with the heat shield being the first thing to land on the ground. Never again.
 
1) absolute worst:
new Sharps pattern 1863 45-70 Italian clone; beautiful browned finish, good wood/metal fit.

Jammed on 1st shot. Took lock off, found shavings & debris wadded up inside. Tang sight came dismounted, tried to mount but threads stripped BEFORE I touched them.

3 seasoned riflemen could not keep any of a variety of loads on a 4x8' sheet of plywood at 50 yards from a bench rest.

Finally got the distributor to give store credit on return.

There's a few others.
 
My biggest regret is getting the Ruger .380 LCP. It's never emptied a mag without either a stovepipe, failure to eject/feed. It's been back to Ruger twice to be fixed.
 
S&W 629, Lew Horton special, 5" barrel, unfluted cylinder. It came with Weigand mounts, and a 4x Leupold. Oddly, I just discussed this gun in another thread on Buyers Remorse. Piece of junk, cross-threaded barrel, etc.
 
Well.... i'm not shure i dare to admitt this ...
but i bought a "Mountain Gun" 629.:o

It had this "empty" sound to it.
Shot great, but....
Well it was not the same as a regular 629 4" i shot earlier
and not the same as my 3" 629 altough it weight the same.
Had to let it go.
 
Styer AUG, got the mean green when they first came into country. Paid $450.00 each for both of them.

Rule 303
 
Mine biggest disappointment was a Colt New Frontier in .22lr. The grip frame was misaligned, there were numerous tooling marks, sharp edges that would draw blood, and the action felt like it was full of sand. A true POS that has caused me to not buy another new Colt in over 25 years.
 
I'm just thankful that none of the guns I own are on anyones list...so far!! But I'll have to admit I have one Kel Tec P11 that will bite your hand if your not paying attention. :o
 
I am a little surprised that others have had problems with a Colt Combat Commander in 9mm. I thought I the only unlucky guy with a bad gun. And yes, it was satin nickel plated. I don't know why or how Colt was turning out guns that were so ungodly inaccurate. When I said that I could throw rocks more accurately than my gun could shoot; it was not an exaggeration. Colt used to make some of the finest firearms in the world. It is sad to see how far they have fallen.
 
Back many years ago, I wanted a rimfire pistol to shoot (I was working my first job after college and I was counting every centerfire cartridge I bought) - so I decided I "had to have" a Ruger MKII with a 10" barrel.

Bought it through a special order from Potomac Arms in Alexandria, VA.

Well - it eventually came, and it was a lemon. Wouldn't ever fire more than a string of 2-3 rounds before a failure to fire. Tried all kinds of ammo, except, of course, the expensive stuff, which defeated why I'd bought the gun in the first place.

At the time, I didn't understand that the manufacturer would make things right -- I didn't realize that I could have just shipped the damn thing to Ruger - and so I traded the gun in (at a loss) towards a CZ-83, which I still have.

And, in hindsight, the probability is that the firing pin was a hair or two short - and would have been trivial and cheap to replace.

You live, you learn.

--Neill

(What's really funny is that a couple of years later I bought the stainless variant of the same gun - the KMK10 - and eventually sold it because it was so accurate it was boring to shoot inside of 25 yards).
 
FNH 5.7 pistol... very cool and very well made, but impractical in all respects in my opinion

Taurus raging bull 500

kimber 45s
 
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