What Was The Worst New Firearm You've Ever Bought?

[johngalt]

Deser Eagle .44 mag. Too heavy, a grip that is like holding a 2x4, terrible trigger, and it wasn't reliable. On the plus side it was very accurate and probably my only fixed sight gun that was actually zeroed.

 

[Muss Muggins]

In 1986, I once thought that owning a TEC 9 was a pretty good idea. That thought lasted a week . . .

 

[Grayfox]

For me it was a S&W 4006. I fell for the hype and bought it when they first came out. It functioned fine, but shot patterns rather than groups. I didn't care much for the snappy recoil either.
I spent two years trying just about every factory load and every bullet and powder available for reloading and never did get the damned thing to shoot worth a hoot.
Sent it back to S&W, they said it was within specs and did nothing.
I tried to sell it, but nobody wanted it. Spent most of another year trying to get rid of it. Finally found a gun shop that took it in on trade for something else. Lost my butt on the deal, but was glad to be rid of that clunker.
I have no interest in anything in .40 S&W to this day.

 

[8strings8rounds]

Sig M11-A1. I got such a lemon, it wasn't funny. The slide had burrs that ruined the alloy frame and the lockup was strange- I could be more repeatable with a sling.
Sig Sauer deburred the slide and magic markered the frame (though it was gouged to ****) and I ended up using the pistol as trade towards a revolver.
The bright side was that I bought the pistol with an employee discount (50% msrp) which came out to about what I got for trade-in.

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[white cloud]

Colt Python 38 target match revolver. Barrel was cross threaded, rear sight full right, point of impact was left edge of paper at 50 feet. Returned to Colt with target and letter of explanation, received reply: "Revolver within Specifications". Returned to warranty repair station in Minnesota after a conversation with pistolsmith. Barrel removed and re-installed, 357 magnum cylinder fitted to the frame, traded in on new rifle.

One Python was one too many.

Thats sounds painful from this distance. Ouch!

 

[Jim L]

Mine was a S&W shield performance center. It was purchased brand new at my local gun shop. It looked like the factory test fired 1,000 rounds. The barrel looked worn out. I didn't inspect the one in the box, I only checked out the display model (lesson learned).
S&W customer service was not cool about it. Even the gun shop got on the phone with S&W, after 2 trips to the factory and a few department heads got involved, they replaced the crappy worn out barrel.

 

[jtcarm]

Don't recall the model but it was an H&R semi-auto rifle .22 MRF. Egad what a trigger!

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

A Winchester big bore in 444 Marlin. *** spontaniously disassembled itself by me shooting it. Also the stock cracked on both sides. The forend slid forward like a pump shotgun and it started to snap on live cartridges. That turned me to Marlins for my lever guns. Got all my good ones before remington ruined them.

 

[RGVshooter]

For me it's a toss up between my Kahr CW40 that would constantly drop mags on me while firing or my Bersa Thunder 380 that just couldn't hang on to any rear sight longer than 100 rounds without it flying off into the void.

 

[flip flappy]

I bought a CZ over/under 28 gauge around 2006. Canvasback I believe it was. I could not hit anything with it so I finally patterned it. It shot like 2 feet to the right with one of the barrels and marginally off with the other. I bought different chokes for it and nothing helped. I went to church with the LGS owner and he sent it back and they replaced it with one with even better wood but I could not hit much with it either. Sold it at a gun show and bought a Browning Citori 20 gauge featherweight. Short barrel, straight English stock. I also have a 12 gauge but prefer the 20.

 

[tlawler]

Mine was a Para-Ordnance P-10 when they first came out in early 90's. Spent half again as much having it worked over to improve function. Never got it to run a full mag without some malfunction or other occurring.

 

[David LaPell]

It's a toss up. I bought a brand new Model 94 Winchester in 1994. It was one of the last holdovers before the "new" crossbolt safety Model 94 came out. It was in .30-30 and this gun could not shoot. No matter what my Uncle and I tried, this gun couldn't hit water if I threw it out of a boat. My Uncle had an identical Model 94, bought at the same store are the same time, he still owns that one and that gun was more accurate than most of the Model 94's I have seen.

The other would have been the new Marlin 1894 FG in .41 Magnum. This was just before Remington bought the company. Got it from a gun shop, took it to the range, and it wouldn't feed handloads, factory ammo, nothing. Everything would bind up, so I sent it back to Marlin, a week later, it came back, and it would only feed about half of the time.

Both of those guns were sold in short order.

The runner up for them had to be a new Marlin 1895 .45-70 with the 22-inch barrel. Always wanted one, bought it, took it to the range, shot consistently 3-4 inches to the left at 25 yards. Adjusted the sights as far as I could get them, got maybe another inch closer. Put a Skinner sight on it, still couldn't get it close. Called Marlin, this was during the transition, the gun was a pre-Remington made, but it was when Remington bought them, couldn't get a straight answer from anyone there about repairing it. So I got rid of it. Sure I could have put a scope on it, but I didn't want a scope on the gun.

 

[bushmaster1313]

Ruger Mini-30
Very large groups at 100 yards

 

[Mistered]

Purely impulsively I bought a Phoenix .22 NIB with the accessory 5" barrel at a gun show. Heavy trigger, jammed frequently and difficult to swap the barrels. Frame cracked and I sent it back and they sent me a new gun - I sold it IMMEDIATELY after getting the new one.

 

[AZ115]

SIG Mosquito 22lr. I hated this piece of junk. Never could get it to work reliably! Sold it!

 

[steelslaver]

I bought a 22lr revolver in the early 80s, Thing had a rough trigger pull that stacked at the end of the pull. Then after shooting it a bit it started smoothing up, But groups moved to one side and figured out the barrel was coming unscrewed. What was this piece of junks? A S&W 18-4. I was disappointed. Nothing like my model 28 or my model 29. But, I decided to learn. Off came the barrel, Little peening with a small punch on the shoulder to raise up a bit of metal all the way around the shoulder and some hardwood blocks and it tightened up nice. Drill press and drill vise set set it up for a pin. Studied the ratchet. Studied the action and how the parts interacted. Bit of work here and there with a tiny stone. Clipped of a couple coils on return spring. Unscrewed mainspring screw.Misfires, tighten it up a bit and had it work loose. LOL. Filed it shorter. That piece of **** has gone through thousands and thousands of rounds, made many miles by my side or in a small equipment bag. Rabbits, doves, (they used to be a non game bird here) prairie dogs, carp, what have you. I have about 40 Smiths now, its one of my favorite shooters. LOL. Easily as smooth as my 5 and 4 screw K22s . It taught me a lot, about S&W actions and shooting them.

 

[dr. mordo]

I've owned several guns from two manufacturers that folks hate - kel tec and taurus. No major problems with them.

My worst was a Gen3 Glock 26. It spat all of its brass at my face, and not gently. It also had a FTF or FTE maybe once every 50 rounds. In 30 years of shooting its the only gun I have EVER quit shooting out of frustration. I finally got it working acceptibly with some aftermarket extraction parts and sold it.

 

[RILEY31]

Ruger LCP, Light strikes about every 3rd round sent it back to Ruger shot great for about 70 rounds then the same problem returned.Sent it back to Ruger and then traded it in. A few months later found another one on sale and thought I would give them another try.Every review I read talked about how great they where, but my new one never made it through a full magazine without jamming at least twice.With all brands of ammo.

 

[BC38]

The worst new one I ever bought was also the best new one I ever bought - because I can only recall ever having bought one brand new firearm, and it has been fine.
I've bought some others that were LNIB. They have all been fine too.

 

[chief38]

Without a doubt the WORST EVER was a Bower .25 acp copy of the Baby Browning. Every time I shot it the Magazine would fall out. The gun was incapable of shooting a full 6 round magazine without 1 or 2 FTF. After 3 unsuccessful trips back to Bower they took the gun back and refunded my money. They could not understand why I did not want an exchange..... That was many many years ago (I believe in the early to mid 1980's) and after that I did my homework before buying firearms.

'till this day I have no idea why the heck I bought it in the first place Since getting rid of it I bought a Colt 25 acp M1908 Vest Pocket Model which was made over 90 years ago and works 100% of the time! Not for SD, just because I like it