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What gun was your biggest disappointment?

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#1 ·
I am sure that anyone who has bought guns over the years has bought one that was a real downer. What was the gun you bought that made you feel like you wasted your money and why?

Mine was the Sig Mosquito. I only bought it because it was on sale for $239.00, which seemed like a good price until I shot it. It was the biggest piece of junk that I have ever owned. I tried all different kinds of ammo, oils, cussing, and video watching. The worst part was when I wanted to get rid of it. I almost couldn't give it away. Everyone else but me already knew it was junk.
I would never buy another, unless it was under $25.00.

What was yours?
 
#57 ·
The Phoenix .22LR kit was the pits for me. It was a well designed pistol with interchangeable barrels, but their obsession with safety devices made it a PITA to shoot.

Then too, the Taurus 9mm pistol that occasionally failed to reset the striker when cocked. Install a magazine, rack the slide back and every once in a while, it displayed the deafening silence of failure.
I made a Hell of a stink over that pistol and returned it. Two days later, I got a call: "Ya know what? You were right!" The factory repaired it for free but Taurus won't fly around my house any more!

Flash
 
#58 ·
Any hi-standard .22 auto pistol I owned years ago.
With no feed ramp to help guide rounds to the chamber magazines had to be in, basically, perfect shape or the gun would balk.
Every model was superbly accurate (they're the only American made .22 handgun to ever win an Olympic gold medal). But getting one to run well for any length of time was just about impossible, at least for me.
 
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#62 ·
Any gun that doesn't work right is a huge disappointment to me.

Winchester 94Trapper
2 SKSs
1 of 2 Ruger M77s
Remington 870 express
Taurus M65
Taurus M66
1 of 2 NAA mini revolvers
1 of 4 Ruger gp 100s
Colt OP
SW sigma
Ruger P95
My 1st Glock 17, my second ones great
# 1 worse ...Browning buckmark camper.
 
#63 ·
I am sure that anyone who has bought guns over the years has bought one that was a real downer. What was the gun you bought that made you feel like you wasted your money and why?

Mine was the Sig Mosquito. I only bought it because it was on sale for $239.00, which seemed like a good price until I shot it. It was the biggest piece of junk that I have ever owned. I tried all different kinds of ammo, oils, cussing, and video watching. The worst part was when I wanted to get rid of it. I almost couldn't give it away. Everyone else but me already knew it was junk.
I would never buy another, unless it was under $25.00.

What was yours?
The early SIGs were built by GSG (German Sporting Goods) most had issues and were made for a cheap price.
Not sure what they are like now that SIG has bought that company.
 
#68 ·
Colt 1991A1 compact........owned it for several years, and don't think I ever went through a magazine without a jam. Spent more than it originally cost on gunsmithing to try and fix the issues, without any luck.

Funny....cause a couple others have had problems with a couple guns that have been great for me! Guess we all have different experiences........
 
#70 ·
I'm going to add a second one here. HK VP9. It felt great in the hand, was accurate, reliable, and really impressed me except for one little issue. Every time I took it to the range, it beat the heck out of the bottom of my trigger finger. The cut-out in the bottom of the trigger guard hit the bottom of my finger with every shot and made it unbelievably sore. I liked it enough that I still recommend then for people who want a great feeling and shooting polymer pistol, but only after they put some rounds downrange through one to make sure they don't have the same issue.
 
#71 ·
Taurus p9(something) slim- garbage egos, garbage trigger pull and terrible recoil for a 9mm

H&R 44mag handi rifle- could not get it to shoot worth a damn, 10in groups at 50 yards. Later research reviled that most had out of spec large diameter bores.


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#73 ·
Mossberg 500 12 ga I bought from my bro-in-law: the stock never fit me well, and was too long of a gun - in my opinion - to carry comfortably in the woods for extended periods of time deer hunting.

I eventually sold it back to him. Got me and my son a Mossberg 500 20 ga, and actually enjoycarrying it in the woods now.
 
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#74 ·
Ruger LCR .38 with Big DOT front sight. Kicks like a mule. Can't hit anything beyond arms length. Still trying to sell it and get a fraction of my money back.

Ruger LCR was number two disaster. We put 300 rounds thru it and dumped it. At least it sold quickly with minor investment loss. Not a big Ruger fan anymore.

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#75 ·
Kimber Desert Warrior. 3 trips back to the factory to be fixed, and it still wouldn't work.
 
#76 ·
S&W .22LR Victory. That 1-screw-breakdown design is a major design flaw. The screw is either so tight that you have to use a heat gun to get it our or the screw comes lose at each range trip.

Only gun I ever sold (back to the gun store). What a piece of ****. The new Ruger Mark4 is much better.

Then again, who needs a .22LR toy pistol anyway...
 
#77 ·
another vote for the sig mosquito. I get the occasional btf with my gen 3 g19, but I think that's my fault. Mossberg 500 shotgun always goes boom, AR and AK both go bang. 1 of my 2 Remington 700s has to go back for the recall. I'm good from "get off me" out to 400ish yards. but that mosquito is in the wayback of the safe.
 
#78 ·
Hands down worst gun ever was a S&W Sigma when they were first released. Horrible POS. Jam-o-mattic. A Jennings or Lorcin would have been a step up.
I had one in .40 and it was great, except for the trigger of course.
 
#82 ·
I still have a Sigma 40. It is my worst. The trigger was improved with a spring change, but is still not good. I was having failures to feed, but thought it was limp wristing. I eventually found a conversation on the S&W forum about problems with the magazines. Some filing and buffing corrected that problem.
 
#83 ·
My son's Remington 700 sps, left handed, youth size, 7mm-08 I bought him in 2013. Sloppy bolt, poor feeding, crappy finish, trigger recall and expensive to boot. That was my last Remington purchase ever. They are not the great American arms company they used to be, that's for sure.
 
#84 ·
I almost want to say Walther P22 and it was a POS!
But the award for this thread goes to a Kimber TLE Pro II because it wasn't cheap (like the P22).
This was an external extractor version (when they went through that phase).
Jammomatic, soured me on kimbers (also don't care for their Swartz FPS).
 
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