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

[Jaymo]

Have never had a bad Taurus or Ruger product.
Have only had one bad Charter gun, a Charter 2000 Bulldog Pug.
With the hammer/trigger at rest, you can rotate the cylinder backwards by hand.
Need to send it in for warranty repair, I guess.
My other 6 Bulldogs have been great. Still have 4 of them.

My 1987 Mini-30 groups just fine. Not as well as my Kimber sporterized M96 Swede which I pillar bedded/free floated/installed Timney trigger, but better than my SKSs and AKs.
The original .308 bore with long lead (leade?) allowed you to shoot .308 or .311 projectiles, safely, through it.
Mine seems to prefer Georgia Arms ammo with the .308" Nosler Ballistic Tip 125 grain bullet.
My Ruger revolvers and autos have been great so far.
With the exception of some small issues with a 2012 flat top .44 Spl BH.

The Jennings J22 I used to have functioned reliably. That's about the only good thing I can say about it. I never tested it for accuracy
I sold it.

My worst *** was a Davis .380. Spontaneous disassembly during its first shooting session would qualify a gun for *** status in my book.
Reassembled it and sold it at a loss.

I had an AMT Government Model that would jam every couple of rounds.
The frame/slide rails had the same bead-blasted finish as the rest of the gun.
I put an entire day of work into that gun, to make it reliable.
Lots of stone and felt bob work.
After I finished with it, it fed Cor-Bon 200 gn Flying Ashtray loads with 100% reliability, and had a great trigger.
I sold it to buy a new, 1999 Marlin 1894P .44 Mag which had a front sight screw that was too long and the rear sight broke at the pivot holes on the bottom of the sight, while stored in the safe.
I filed the front sight screw shorter. Marlin sent me a new rear sight for free.
It also wouldn't cycle unless you absolutely raped the lever.
The back of the barrel was completely square/perpendicular to the bore.
I checked my 444P Outfitter and found it had a very slight ramp/chamfer to the bottom of the barrel rear face.
I made my 1894P barrel rear face match my 444P rear face and it works with any ammo I care to feed it.
It's been my favorite brush gun since 2000.

I've never had any reliability issues with AKs or SKSs that weren't due to mag issues..
However, ISTR some of the Romanians were pieces of poop.
My Romanian Champion Pistol in 7.62x39 (now called the Draco) has been great. Too bad the front sight is canted. Someday, I'll fix it.

 

[kpoesq369]

Colt Double-Eagle. Traded my 1911 Combat Special for it, terrible trigger pull that stacked to about 8 lbs before it would go off. Made it very hard to hit with. The action bar on the outside made me a bit nervous and made it tough to find holsters. Looked like, but did not handle like a 1911. On the upside, I traded it for my 4506, so I did ok in the end.

 

[RILEY31]

Ruger LCP jammed every two to four rounds, So I traded it for a brand new Taurus 357, It locked up after the third round, So I had to send it back to Taurus. Traded it in on a used Smith model 19 and have never looked back. All older Smiths and Colts for me from now on.

 

[rck281]

I think everyone has a few. I'm 72 years old so have more than most but a few stand out.
44 AutoMag - bought one when they first came out. Shot the bottom plate off the magazines until I had Ron Power reweld them. Of course, it wouldn't feed more than one magazine then you would have to clean and lube the gun. Broke the bolt retaining pin twice. Sold it before I got the bolt in the face. Also Lee Jurris worked on mine and couldn't make it run.

Colt 1911 Gold Cup 45. Owned 3 different ones. They just wouldn't feed unless they were worked on. One purchased new wouldn't feed hardball. Couldn't believe it. Finally ordered a Clark custom and never looked back.
I also had a bad experience with a SIG Mosquito that jammed with every type of ammo. However, one return to the factory resolved the problem so I shouldn't complain.
I'm sure there has been a few more along the way but these stand out.

 

[Inusuit]

My first handgun, in 1960, was an Iver Johnson Trailsman 66, an 8-shot topbreak .22 LR. I wanted a Single Six, but my Dad had an IJ Sealed 8 when he was a kid and talked me into the 66. After a couple hundred rounds, it would not index properly. Went back to the factory twice, still didn't work. I finally got to trade it for a Ruger SS.

Just BTW, I have several Ruger revolvers including a Speed Six and a pair of Vaqueros in .45 Colt that I put thousands of rounds through in Cowboy Action competition. If I had to bet the ranch on a revolver that would go bang every time, it would be one of the Vaqueros or the Speed Six.

 

[WhatRecoil]

Well truthfully...

COLT is my byword...had a series80 stainless 1911 that shot alright but the SLIDE RAILS WORE UNEVEN AT THE FRONT near the dust cover, that's expensive and hard to fix.

I also had a 1st gen S&W 645 I couldn't hit the broadside of a politicians ego with, but my son at 11 years old coud tag a B27 in some very delicate areas like clockwork with it. I smoothed the trigger bars, removed burrs from mfg. polished it carefully, cleaned and lubed it with RIG, everything you could think of, I just couldn't make her punch the 10 ring regular. I put it in a ransom rest and my smith said "that's the most accurate smith auto I've ever seen!!, it's just you, get a GLOCK or SIG"

So like a dummy I sold it. I still wish to God I hadn't, but I hated the plastic grip panels, and couldn't find a decent replacement at the time. If hogue had been up and going like now, it might have been a different story. I loved the gun because it was so SAFE and yet ready to go. FELL ON HER ONCE( I have CP) with a round of Win. Black Talon 230 in the chamber!!

NO BOOM---thank you Lord

So I converted to GLOCK for the Semis, but still love the magnum wheel boomers!

 

[lonestar outlaw]

First Wife

 

[RGPM1A]

I have had more than one:

Mil Inc Thunder Five in 410/45LC. Came out before the Judge. Terrible trigger. Firing 410 you couldn't hit a clay target 3-4 feet away. When firing 45LC bullets they key holed beyond 4-5 yards.

Walther TPH. When it worked couldn't get thru a magazine w/o a jam. DA trigger drawbar wore out after firing about 200 rounds through it so it would only work in SA.

Colt Mustang Pocket lite. Couldn't fire even a mag full of ball ammo without a jam despite going back to Colt three times.

The absolute worst of all was an Auto Ordnance 1911 from the late 80s. The gun literally fell apart over the two months I owned it (bought new) and almost never made it through a full magazine of ball ammo w/o a malfunction. The extractor claw broke off, the ejector came loose, the slide release/safety plunger tube fell off and the dust cover on the frame cracked. It was a fine piece of workmanship and metallurgy.

 

[s&w-noob]

FNX-9 just couldn't hit the bullseye with it, even though nobody else seemed to have that problem

 

[JoeM19]

My worst and my new.

Interesting. I have yet to have a bad Ruger revolver...Whatever you do, don't get the GP100 Match Champion. You won't like it.

My worst was about 20+ years ago and it was a Ruger Mark Something. Would not fire three rounds w/o jamming.

My biggest Ruger mistake was letting this Ruger SP-101 get away. Gunsmith work by Sandy Garrett, Northern Virginia Gun Works, Newington, VA. I now have a Ruger LCR38 that's dead on. - 'ole joe

 

[Walter Rego]

I sold a wonderfully accurate Dan Wesson Model 15-2 .357 in order to buy their stainless version of the same gun as soon as it came out. I got one with a S/N under 800. Well, the barrel was not indexed properly to the frame and off by several degrees clockwise. The locating pin was off by so much that the factory had to destroy the frame and make me a new one with the same S/N. When I got the replacement (several months later) several chambers were so rough that it wouldn't extract even +P's let alone Magnum loads. I traded it in on a Ruger No. 1 .338 Mag. I sure wish I still had that old blue Dan Wesson though. It was a peach.

 

[shooboy]

I've had some good and some bad Ruger MK-whatevers too. The last one I had went full auto on me after the third shot ! It was pretty cool but obviously had to go back to my friend's gun store. I had to try a few more mags to see if it was just a fluke, but nope, after a round or three she'd go into automatic mode. Shoo

 

[rwsmith]

Kel Tec

Though Kel Tec is a good, CHEAP gun I don't like mine that much. It's very picky with ammo, hurts like hell to shoot defense rounds through and even though it was sent back to the factory for some upgrades to correct jamming on disassembly, it is still buggy to put back together and the recoil spring gets on a different step in the barrel notch for some stupid reason. It SEEMS to be reliable with the right ammo, but the final word isn't in yet. I'm not exactly sorry I bought it because I needed cheap gun but there are too many 'ifs' to suit me for a carry weapon.

 

[Carbohydrates]

I've never owned what I would call a truly bad gun, but I've had disappointments.

First was a Browning Hi-Power Mk. III, which internet hype had led me to believe was the be-all of auto pistols. I found its trigger to be heavy and gritty, even with the magazine safety removed. I installed a C&S trigger kit and it was better, but still not good. I also didn't love the ergonomics. Beautiful gun, though.

Next was a Dan Wesson 15-3 pistol pack, which I absolutely stole from a gun show: it had 2", 4", 6", and 8" barrels and short lug shrouds, plus a 6" full lug shroud; 3 grips (combat, presentation, and rubber), various front sight blade inserts, two barrel tools, and various paperwork plus a patch and belt buckle in the original case. I paid $450. I didn't like it. Mainly, the trigger was much stiffer and heavier than on my Smiths at the time. I'm not sure why, since I fired it alongside a buddy's DW that had an excellent trigger, and neither of us could find anything wrong when I took it apart. Who knows? Also, the wood grips had a very ugly, uneven, glossy finish on them - but that's a minor nitpick.

 

[blacksheep40]

Each and every M9 I was issued.

 

[palmetto99]

Beretta 21A in .25 auto. Jam-o-matic. Sold and bought a j-frame.

 

[Photoguy991]

Sig Mosquito. Junk

 

[TexasRaider]

No contest, a brand new Glock 19, I think it was 2nd Gen. Absolute garbage. First time to clean it, the guide rod (made out of papier-mâché I'm guessing) split into about 5 pieces upon disassembly, locking up the weapon. Got it apart, got a new one from Glock (3 week wait), put it in, go to range. At 25 yds, it held about 4" - 4.5" groups. That's fertilizer.

This was in addition to having the ergonomics of a bar of Irish Spring, a grip angle built for a Gorn, a trigger reset that felt like a plastic ballcock repair kit and the dumbest 'take down' manual of arms for a modern pistol ever.

Yeah, Glocks are cheap. Yeah, most Glocks go 'bang' when you press that bizarre excuse for a trigger they come equipped with, but for the $375.00 LEO price I paid for it (a group of about 10 of us bought them to get that price), I still felt ripped off.

Absolute last in my lifetime Glock I will ever, ever own. Their myth of 'perfection' is a laughable joke.

 

[pawngal]

Beretta 21A in .25 auto. Jam-o-matic. Sold and bought a j-frame.

My worst was also one of those cute little tip-ups, dang thing would honestly shoot around corners. Could be helpful at times but was always left turn corners. Returned it.

 

[wingriderz]

Taraus semi auto .22 1st. One blew up on the range 1st. Day .took it back 2nd one blew up after about. 1000 rounds . Took it back . Never ever another. Semi auto Taurus.