Worst gun you ever bought!

[Arickosmo]

Walther P22, SA 1911. In that order.

 

[jsharmon7]

Mine was a Cobra .38 derringer. There wasn't actually anything wrong with the gun so far as I could tell, because I never shot it. I really liked the idea of a derringer until I got one, then I realized that shooting a .38 out of that little gun wasn't going to be fun. Plus it was so small I doubt I would have been able to hit water with it if I were in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I also didn't trust sticking it in my pocket due to the questionable quality of the manufacturer. So I guess the only gun I ever owned that I didn't care for was one I never actually shot.

 

[SERparacord]

RIA, not sure if I mentioned it before or not. The Customer Service was even worse than the gun.

 

[whispers76]

Ruger LCP. Originally bought for my wife, and she loved the concealability aspect, but at the range it is just too small for either of us to enjoy shooting. I don't believe you should carry a gun that you don't regularly practice with.

The biggest problem I had with the LCP design, other than size, is that the slide doesn't lock back when the mag is empty. A lot of people have and like these guns, but to me this is an issue.

One of the only guns I have actually sold...

 

[Vince]

Kel-Tec P9. I tried everything to get it to feed correctly and it would not make it through an entire magazine without jamming. This was around 2002 and I have not touched another Kel-Tec since.

 

[cook5oh]

Star Model A in 9mm Largo / 38acp. i believe it was made in the late 40's. It had a funny habit of dropping the hammer when you disengaged the safety. Very dangerous gun.

 

[45 x 11]

I really haven't bought a bad gun... I suppose in comparison (only), the worst gun I bought was a Ruger 22/45. It's actually a great gun, but the magazine disconnect is a pain and is, with mine anyway, essentially a designed malfunction. I'm going to remove it and do a couple slight modifications to the trigger. Big deal? No. But the out of the box performance/reliability is sub par, especially compared to every other gun I've bought.

 

[MisterFurious]

S&W Bodyguard, trigger pull is ridiculous. Fired one mag, put it back in the box and threw it on the closet shelf.

 

[saleen4971]

mosin nagant.

cant hit a damn thing with it, not comfortable to shoot. yet for some reason i spent a bunch of money on it, and still keep it. *shrugs* still hate the damn thing

 

[Silverslider]

i got a FIE model 15 22 lr on a trade. i had about $20 in it. it was not a very good gun. i traded it for a concrete bench. overall i came out great on the deal, i would never own another one. it was not a very good quality pistol

 

[VIETVET191]

First new pistol was a .380 (I can't remember the make) and it would not empty the clip without jamming. This was back in mid 70's and I paid $60 for it (like someone else has said "you get what you pay for"). Sold it to a guy I used to work with for $20 after I told him it was no good. My next was a Colt Mk IV 70. Carried it until 2003 when I gave it to my son. He loves it. I now have a S&W Sigma 40. Yes the trigger is horrendous, but I can live with it.

And I agree, there seems to be quite a few .380's that are really crap.

 

[ThisIsMyBOOMStick]

Not me, but a friend of mine bought one of those Zip .22LR guns. He called me over to test it out and I brought my Ruger 25 round magazine.... absolute garbage. Jammed like crazy, I could have emptied that magazine faster with a bolt action. He ended up selling it for half what he paid and was happy to do so.

 

[WebHobbit]

Seems like a lot of the guns have been 380's

Junk Caliber=Junk Gun?



Just kidding....but with the advent of so many wonderful sub-compact 9mms the .380 is quite obsolete.

 

[bacon#1]

Friend of mine has a chrome plated Llama 45, ejected brass hits you square in the forehead.

 

[Relay4]

I bought a Colt Double Eagle when they first came out. It was a piece of junk!

 

[WebHobbit]

Friend of mine has a chrome plated Llama 45, ejected brass hits you square in the forehead.

I'm not defending the Llama but brass ejection patterns is very much in part the user. I think things like grip and height come into play. For example: I'm a short dude (5ft 4) and for some odd reason about 75% of all the Glocks I have shot (and I have shot a dozen or so over the years) eject the brass right back onto my forehead. Yet the same guns do NOT do that to their respective (and taller/bigger) owners. I dunno why. Arm length/grip pressure? No idea!

 

[IndyLongColt]

Im gonna buy a Kel-Tec PF9 and a RIA 1911 to match up with my awesome Taurus firearms, lol.



Seriously, Ive only owned 1 Ruger and currently own 3 Tauruses and havent had one to add here yet.



But you guys are funny, I can link to this thread when the Taurus bashers harass me lol

 

[nwigunner]

I havent had any bad luck with guns I have purchased but I have been handed down a mossberg 9200 that hardly cycles any round over skeet.

 

[sniper102]

I wouldn't say worst gun but most in accurate was a sig p220. It was bought brand new. It wouldnt shoot at all. I tried every factory load available but no luck. It shot 8 inches low and 6 inches right of center aim. Even in a Ransom rest. I eventually got rid of it. Ive owned several p220's since then and have not had that problem with them.

 

[JSpider]

Ruger LCP, Hated the trigger pull. Traded it in for Sig 238. Love it!