What turned out to be the worst gun you've ever owned ???

[tndrfttom]

Nice rifle but not accurate - the Ruger 77/22 in .22 Hornet. I could not get it to group with either factory ammo or reloads that would shoot well in a different Hornet I had. It would shoot two bullet holes within an inch and then the third bullet hole would be 3-4 inches away ...... a five-shot group was just a cluster. I returned it to the factory. When I got it back the repair order had an annotation that the accuracy was "within acceptable limits". I've been told by other Ruger .22 Hornet owners that they had similar results.

 

[alde]

For me it would have to be an Italian Carcano rifle. It couldn't hit the side of a barn from the inside and kicked like a mule on steroids. What an incredible hunk of junk. I think I bought it for $25 and ending up giving it away to a friend that had to have it. I wanted to throw it in the ocean.

 

[shooboy]

Ughhhh. I'd try to narrow it down to one, but it would be a tie between;

a Ruger Mini 14 in the mid-1980's,
My first two Springfield Armory M1A's in the 70's and 80's,
any one of 6 or 7 Colt 1911's in the 70's and 80's

(Notice how I kept making the same mistakes over and over? My THIRD M1A worked pretty well, but I never did own a Colt 1911 that could be made to work reliably and I finally swore off them. Not 1911's... just Colt 1911's)

I kind of know what you're talking about with the Colt 1911's although I never owned one. I went to my buddy's store to pick out a 1911. I first looked at the two Colt 1911's he had in the used gun showcase. Seemed nice enough but as a machinist I couldn't get over the fact that both of them had considerable and noticeable clearance between the slide and the frame. I didn't like that at all. So then I was shown some Kimbers, nice but expensive, and lastly a Metro Arms .45 American Classic. The Metro slide felt great, no shake, loaded with features, and the price was right. Gun ran flawlessly for me and also worked well with a Kimber .22 kit on it. I think after reading this that I'm glad I stayed away from the Colt 1911's although I'm sure there's many here that adore them, Shoo

 

[Long Barrel]

A stinker to remember.......

A 32" O/U Pedersen trap gun. Made in Spain, imported by Mossberg. Looked like a clone of a Perazzi Comp 1. Handled beautifully, but in the three-year timeframe I owned it, it spent a total of 27months in various gunsmiths shops, trying to get the trigger to work. Never did. I traded it and some others for a Browning tubeset. Good riddance!

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

Glock 22. Thank goodness I don't own it and it belongs to the agency.

 

[joedaddy81]

Mine would have to be any of the 3 tec-9s I owned or the cobray m-11 (Thought they were cool in my younger days for some reason) you were better off to throw them than to shoot them. Never fed a full mag through any of them.

 

[Model 19 6"]

For trap doubles, I bought a Charles Daly O/U. Kicked me in the face so bad it was gone in less than a week.

 

[Rastoff]

At the time, I think me and ol' Sonny Crocket on Miami Vice were the only two guys in the U.S. to own a Sig P-220.

Sonny carried a S&W 645.

 

[gtoppcop]

When I was a cop in the Denver metro area during the late 90s, I had a Mini-14 (Hmmm, may have a trend...) that I had as a Patrol Rifle. I couldn't yet afford a Colt or Bushmaster like the cool kids on the Department.

When I could, I got a new Colt AR-15 with the A3 Upper and a full rifle stock. I was happy. That is, until I had to qualify with it. That thing made my now-departed Mini-14 seem like a National Match Garand.

I guess I got either a Monday gun or a Friday gun. Just put it this way, I had more faith with my with Vang-tuned, personally-owned, Department approved Remington 870P loaded with Federal Hi-Shok slugs at 75 yards than I did with my rifle. That's why the 870 and I were constant patrol partners.

Fast forward to 2008. I had a decent Wilson UT-15. I put some $$$ into its build and never really had much faith in it either. I spent close to 50 rounds and almost 1-hour devoted to just getting it to print on paper. No dice.

So, I got in my SAAB (yeah, one of those Swedish Fish conveyances...) and drove to my LGS (in Newport, NC) and traded the owner straight across for a new Colt AR-15 (6520) with the light barrel and A2 upper. That one redeemed my esteem for Colt. It must've been a Wednesday gun. It would shoot anything (45, 55, 62, 72, 75, 77 grain bullets) into a tight group under an inch.

Ruger Mini-14, Colt AR-15A3 (L.E. Carbine during the Clinton years) and sadly the $2300 UT-15 are my Waterloos.

 

[chimcham]

Mine would have to be the sccy pistol. Fast forward 3 exchanges later I got to the range.. Fired one bullet and the gun literally fell apart in my hand..

 

[TTSH]

What turned out to be the worst gun you've ever owned ???

I've never had what you might legitimately call a "worst gun"... not yet anyway... partly because I thrive on making what some would consider buggy guns into reasonably reliable guns.

That said, the gun I disliked the most, practically from Day 1, was a Star PD that I bought nearly 40 years ago. God Almighty, how I hated that gun. It was my biggest gun buying mistake ever.

Somehow, in my mind, I thought I was buying a lightweight Colt Commander .45 at a bargain price. Man, was I ever wrong. I tried my best to like the gun but I never did. I dumped it for short money less than a year after I bought it.

Lesson learned: Stick to known high-quality brands & guns. You get what you pay for.

 

[Double-O-Dave]

Sonny carried a S&W 645.

In the pilot episode, Sonny Crockett carried a Sig Sauer Model P-220. After that, he switched to the Bren 10. Once D&D went bankrupt, he started carrying the S&W 645:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_in_Miami_Vice

I remembered when the show first aired. I was in college at the time and one of the grad students had a poster of Sonny on his office wall. In the photo, Sonny is smoking a cigarette and he's wearing the Sig in a vertical shoulder holster. The grad student was muy impressed that I knew that the piece was a Sig P-220 as it was a fairly uncommon gun at the time. He almost regarded me as a rock star when I told him I owned one. I actually let him shoot it once, and after that, I could do no wrong in the lab.

Regards,

Dave

 

[hoosierone]

A Taurus .380, jammed and FTE from the first mag. Ran the obligatory 200 rounds through it with zero improvement. Sold it at a loss and told the buyer I had problems with it.

Remington 597 jamomatic. Nicely finished gun but couldn't get through a mag without jams. Different ammo, mags, etc. Traded at Gander Mountain and took a bath on it.

 

[Papa32129]

I guess mine is the Remington 742 30-06 , I bought it used 18 years ago on an impulse.
I later found it was discontinued and parts were limited.
It's a safe hoarder now. Haven't shot It in 15 years.


Surprised to hear no R51 horror stories.


Papa

 

[Skeet 028]

I guess mine is the Remington 742 30-06 , I bought it used 18 years ago on an impulse.
I later found it was discontinued and parts were limited.
It's a safe hoarder now. Haven't shot It in 15 years.


Surprised to hear no R51 horror stories.


Papa

Ihave one of the 742s. 06 bought at an auction for 175. Light crack in the stock. Fixed that and it just shoots. All parts are easily available from Remington. As with most semi autos mags are the things to change if you have FTFs etc.

 

[RSanch111]

Sonny carried a S&W 645.

I thought he carried a Bren-10 too??? I had a ******* shoulder rig that I got in the 80's when I carried a Smith 645 on the PD. I always hated that rig and believe it or not, I sold it to a "Miami Vice" re-enactor in England! Haa haaa!!! A Miami Vice re-enactor!!!

"Cheerio, Tubbs! Do let me know when you're in position behind the bonnet of that lorry to take out that ruffian!"

 

[jtcarm]

I think wasted steel might be stretching it, weren't they pot metal ???

Trot-line weights[emoji106]

 

[e3mrk]

I have a Cobra 38 cal.Derringer that I don't shoot because of how cheaply it's made. I mean inserting steel barrels into pot metal is not a safe way to make a Firearm.
I think it's going to the next Police Buy Back as I don't want to sell it and have Someone get hurt if it blows up.

 

[jtcarm]

Winchester model 100. My dad bought it & cut it down for my mom who barely knew which end the bullet exited. It ended up my first deer rifle & I hated it, always something wrong. When we divyyed up dads guns, I let big bro take it.

Colt Series 70.
Winchester Model 12. Another hand-me-down I let big bro take. Probably nothing wrong with the gun or model. But at age 13 I was 5' nothing & could barely reach the pump handle. Didn't help it was a full -choke 20.

Walter PPK/s. Probably nothing wrong with that, except a trigger pull like a ton of bricks. Still have it and wish I'd sold it 30 years ago when it might have brought something. Now they're pretty passé.

 

[the ringo kid]

Mine would have to be any of the 3 tec-9s I owned or the cobray m-11 (Thought they were cool in my younger days for some reason) you were better off to throw them than to shoot them. Never fed a full mag through any of them.

I had a tec-9 at one point, but this one actually worked well and never had probs with it. I bought it only because I was going through my Steve McQueen phase.