Worst new gun you have owned

[Mgderf]

Safir Arms (Turkey) T14
It's an AR15 platform, and chambered for .410 bore. I only bought the upper,(brand new) but that was enough.

Simply won't feed properly. When it does, about half of the time it has a failure to eject, which then causes a jamb trying to feed the next case.

The bolt looked like someone had cut it out of bar stock with a hacksaw, and left it at that. Firing pin hole was not centered on the bolt face. Extractor arm had too much material on the bottom side so a shell rim would not fit under extractor, and also had an under-sized spring. The ejector would simply flop back and forth in it's slot in the bolt.

Think customer service is bad with some companies in the U.S.? Try Turkey!

 

[rabbit hunter mab]

I have herd that about the springfield.

 

[Takashi]

Rem 700 5R Rifling 20" threaded. Great gun, fed like crap from the stock internal magazine. Plopped it into an AX chassis, ran great. But that's the biggest flaw of any new firearm I've purchased, though I've only purchased a handful of new guns. Most of mine come pre-loved.

 

[ashlynsdaddy]

as someone else said viper 22 couldn't get rid of it fast enough

 

[88E30M50]

Unfortunately, I'd have to say that my worst new gun has been the Bersa Thunder .380. I fired it infrequently, but kept it cleaned and properly oiled. I was shooting it several months back and something went wrong. I have not gotten around to getting it fixed, but the gun will only fire if held upside down. I'd never heard a bad thing said about Bersa, so I was shocked when it broke. Any suggestions?

There was a period where the Bersa 380 had disconnector issues. I think it was around the 2008 production batch. Contact the warranty center in Colorado. IIRC, it was Colorado Gun Works and I think the head gunsmith was Royce. They will take care of you and you'll get the gun back working as nicely as ever.

 

[Audie Murphy]

Daewoo in 40S&W

 

[ZX-14R]

As a Glock and M&P "fanboy", I am glad to see none of them on the list.

I have owned many guns but none that were horrible. I shoot a lot, so my worst gun would have to be one of my favorites as weird as that sounds.

My 7 year old Taurus PT145. It has been completely reliable through 6,000 rounds, but it is pretty inaccurate. Doesn't have a great trigger, but I've always enjoyed shooting it.

 

[spyder]

Glock 21, two of them...

 

[SSGSAD]

I believe it was a FIE, S/A .22 revolver, it "spit" lead out between the barrel, and cylinder...

 

[geoexchange]

Taurus M44. Beautiful pistol, great trigger (almost S&W). Went out of time after one cylinder full of factory ammo. Sent in, got the "dirty" story. Next 20 rounds physically locked up the cylinder. Traded for a Super Redhawk - and told the guy the problems with the Taurus. He was a Taurus fan, and said he would send it in. I'm afraid to ask him about how that went!

Next was a new 11-87. I shoot a lot of trap, but wore out the barrel/lockup "groove" in around 500 rounds. Definitely not built like they used to be.

No more Taurus for me. Remington still seems to make some good stuff, but I probably won't be buying a new shot gun from them. Wife still loves her old 1100 with thousands of rounds through it though!

 

[zenbruno]

Every time one of these threads comes up, I post the same POS gun I bought.

Kel Tec .32


(Now, having said that, I should point out that I bought one of the first P32 models they produced, and it's possible that subsequent models have improved. But I'll tell you, for me the damage is done; I won't touch any of their other stuff.)

 

[Zombiekilloftheweek]

Rossi Ranch Hand in 44 magnum. It didnt like to cycle very well. The action was really rough and would almost bounce the rounds out of the gun while working the lever. Not to mention i couldnt hit jack with it. I consistently shot way low or way high. But it looked really cool.

 

[Reuben Cogburn]

Kel Tec P9.... damned thing never would run right even after a couple of warranty trips back to the factory.

 

[Miles42]

This one is easy for me it was a Winchester Model 250. Bought brand new and never work right many miss fires failure to eject etc and the kicker was a head space problem that made the fire arm unsafe. Had to dispose of it as would never sell it to anyone else.

 

[DragonGunner]

Around 1980 friend an me bought 2 M1 Universal Carbines from JC Penny for 149.00 each. The accuracy on mine, scope or no scope was the worse I have ever seen, real bad. My friends was great for accuracy....later I looked down the muzzle an it was egg shaped....pretty sure it should of been round....it got traded.

 

[68_F100]

Kimber

 

[Supersport]

SCCY 9mm what a hunk of crap! Accuracy was horrible! my hand kept hitting the safety and had a small problem with the guide rod.

 

[lonegun3]

HK USP Compact. Hated the recoil on that gun compared to my Glock. Magazines and parts were pretty high at the time too.

 

[Sniper 79]

10/22 plastic parts newer model. Piece O' crap.

Sent it to Ruger 3 times before selling it.

Holy crap! I have owned old and new ones and they all are great!

 

[Armchair Operator]

Taurus 738 TCP Stainless in .380
Got it for my fiance and I swear that gun was possessed by demons from the very beginning. We had numerous FTFs with both magazines that came with it. I ended up going back to the store and getting two new ones. After replacing both magazines everything was going good until firing pin flew out of the gun during me shooting it.

Loaded fresh mag, fired first two rounds and after two bangs all I got was click, click. Clear the weapon, examine primer on a round that was in a chamber, seems fine.... Then I notice that I can see from the rear of the gun all the way through the barrel.... All this with less then 50 rounds with a brand new gun.

Ended up sending it back to Taurus and got it back in two weeks. I don't know what kind of exorcism they did but it works great now.