What is the worst gun you actually purchased?

[Skadoosh]

Bersa Thunder...followed closely by an Astra A-75 in 40S&W.

[Yung.gunr]

Beretta 9000S. I was new into guns and I knew Beretta was a good name so I bought it on a whim at a gunshow. Paid $300 for it LNIB. It turned out to be a horrible jam-o-matic. I tried multiple types of positions by multiple shooters but it would not go through a mag without a jam. It was supposed to be a compact gun but it is so thick I would never carry it. I put probably 700 rounds through it while I kept hoping it just needed to be "broken in". Finally traded it for $350 credit at my LGS. I guess that's not too bad of a deal.

[lee n. field]

What is the worst gun you actually purchased?

Jennings J-22. Extractor broke, twice. Couldn't make it through a magazine without multiple failures. Failures to feed, fire, extract, and eject.

[TNT]

Marlin 1894sc 357mag started doing the notorious Marlin Jam

[Shane Tuttle]

Kimber Ultra Carry II

Constant malfunctions including FTF, FTE, stovepiping, doublefeed, etc. Dealt with their CS numerous times with their usual bull. Tried everything under the sun. As frustrating as it was dealing with the gun and the money dumped in it, it was the CS that went over like stroking a cat from its tail to its head. I really, REALLY wanted to make it work. I coveted their Clackamas guns and knew (or thought I knew) Kimber made great quality 1911 variants.

I sold it with disclaimer. I would still buy a Clackamas if it was the right price and model...

[argyle1812]

mosin nagant 91/30

[classicshotgunner]

Winchester model 1911 I got in a lot trade. I owned it for every bit of 10 minutes and that was 10 minutes too long for me. That was the amount of time it was in my truck on the way home when I seen a friend out in his yard and I pulled up and gave him the Win. model 1911 along with all the bad rep. that goes with them. He was tickled pink and I was too. 10 minutes in a truck ride, does that really count as me owning it? I was more or less just a chauffeur for it for 10 minutes. There will never be a Winchester model 1911 or a Remington model 870 Express that will spend the night at my farm as me being the owner....ever.

[taurus4life]

cobra ca380. jam-o-matic. stove-pipe city. bought it for $150 sold it for $50. will never by a cobra again not that i'm surprised basically every cobra is a renamed lorcin,davis,bryco,raven,etc...

[Sevens]

The worst gun I actually purchased is a Jennings J-22.

WHY I considered it: I had shot one before when I was in high school, belonged to a regular at the Sportsman's Club I hung out at. It was nothing special back then, but it did work.

WHY I actually bought one: Heck, it was only $59 new. Big ad in the newspaper at a local gun shop. How could I miss for $59?

WHY it's the worst gun I ever purchased: It's a cheap, pot-metal clunker. I call it the jammo-matic. It has a horrible time feeding and I've tried many different brands of ammo.

WHAT did I do with it? Still have it. Don't shoot it much, but I've farted around with it many times over the years. The nickel plated finish was done VERY well because this little thing still looks new and... hell... it's like 18 years old now.

It's the worst gun I've ever bought, but it's worth fifty nine bucks, really. Can't do much of anything with it, but heck... wasn't much dough. Cute little thing. I really don't consider it one of my guns.

[Jeff OTMG]

COP 4 barrelled .357. It was thicker and heavier than a Glock or J-frame, only held 4 rounds so was also lower capacity, was slower to reload, did not go bang every time you pulled the trigger, had a 20+ pound trigger pull, and the barrels where not regulated to a common impact point. It shot groups over one foot at 7 yards and was not on a B27 at 15.

If you were close enough to engage the opponent in hand to hand fighting it was small and easy to hold and the weight would be useful to beat them into submission. Too bad it didn't have any sharp edges to make it easier to draw blood, but it would probably have drawn mine.

I understand that there were some that worked better than mine, but that seems to be the exception to the rule.

[TXAZ]

No comparison to the much smoother Sig 226 / 229.
Crappy sights, less accurate compared to SW MP 9mm w/ fiber sites.
No where near the fun of ripping off 100 rounds from a Draco.

[C0untZer0]

In 1988 some gun maker in Isreael came up with a striker-fired sub-compact that was the smallest 9mm on the market. I read some really great review of it in one of the gun magazines (hardly any Internet back then), and I ordered one.

The only 2 things I didn't have happen were - it didn't blow up in my hands and I didn't have hang-fires.

Failure to feed the first round, wouldn't cycle more than three rounds before jamming. Stove pipes, light strikes, failure to go into battery, failure to lock back on the last round, but it would lock back on the third or fourth round - even when there were more rounds in the mag.

I wanted to get my money back but the dealer was reluctant to give me a refund and offered a FN hi-Power so I took it.

I don't even remember the name of that pistol, but I learned the hard way that most of the great stuff you read in the gun mags is BS.

[MrGreen]

chiappa 1911 .22 lr

to be fair though i have not shot it

[Skans]

I don't even remember the name of that pistol, but I learned the hard way that most of the great stuff you read in the gun mags is BS.

I was going to say "Detonics Pocket 9mm", but it isn't striker fired.

[bikerbill]

Sorry to hear from Mr. Tuttle that his UCII was crap ... I bought one in all-black a few years ago that has been golden since day one, no failures ever, it's my winter carry gun ... as for my personal POS, I'm nominating my Bond Cowboy Defender Derringer in 9mm ... bought it because I'd always wanted one and even tried to use it for dog-walking duty ... but while it worked fine, it was a bear to shoot, recoiled like crazy, weighed a ton, took forever to reload and, at least in my hands, offered accuracy that was pathetic ... traded it quickly to my LGS, where it languished in their showcase for more than a year ... can't recommend it for anything but a range toy, would never own another ...

[quepasakimosabe]

Marlin 308 MX, when they first came out.
scope holes were tapped off center and I said ok well I dont really care cause I didnt plan to use it with a scope anyways, i took it out with the new 308 ME ammo and I dont know if it was my gun or all of them but it shot 4moa...in a bagged gun vise. and the sights we so far off i quickly sold it with 2 boxes of ammo for 100 less than what I paid for it and bought a bersa 380 thunder with 2 extra mags ad 2 boxes of ammo which despite others posts has been flawless and its my beater...i drop it kick it throw it around and it just shoots all day long, I dont think ive had it jam but one time breakign it in.

[Geezerbiker]

Argentine FM Hi Power. The feed ramp was rough as a cob and it took and a couple hours of careful hand polishing fix. Then after only a few hundred rounds there was excessive wear on the locking lugs. I sold it at a loss to a guy for a night stand gun.

Tony

[egor20]

The Grendel P-10. Turned me off of polymer pistols for life plus it takes forever to reload. I would guess it would make a great BUG though.

[Gary L. Griffiths]

Mine was literally full of metal shavings, some the size of a pinhead. Poorly machined, and wouldn't feed a full magazine without jamming. After a trip to the factory, it would only jam every third or fourth magazine.

Traded it for a Kel-Tec PF-9 and a Ruger LCP.

The Kahr wasn't that much smaller than my Taurus PT-145, which is 100% reliable, and holds twice as many rounds. If it were a Taurus, I might subscribe to the theory that you get what you pay for, but this was an expensive, and, presumably, well-made carry piece!

[cornbush]

Walther p-22, jam-o-matic POS

[larryf1952]

I've seen the Jennings J-22 mentioned a few times. I have one, too. Surprisingly, though, it's not my worst gun. I bought my J-22 in 1985 for $56, and I can't really remember why. I think it's because I had some extra money in my pocket, and I don't drink or smoke, so I had to spend it on something. Or, maybe it's because my daughter was 6 years old at the time, and I wanted something small to teach her how to shoot. I remember stopping along a creek bank on the way home with it, and showing her how to hold it and pull the trigger.

I had some extractor problems with it early on, but I actually fixed those with a file, and the thing began to work pretty reliably. I've still got it somewhere in the safe.

My worst gun was the first handgun I ever bought. An Iver Johnson .22 revolver that was so badly out of time that I couldn't hit a paint bucket at 10 feet. I kept wondering why I felt things hitting my hand when I pulled the trigger...it was shaving lead. I had it about 10 days, and my Dad raffled it off at work for $1 a pop, with full disclosure. I took that money and bought a new Ruger Standard Model .22, which I also still own.

Much better luck with that one.

[lee n. field]

Taurus - 605, 617, 651,650

Glutton for punishment?

(My 605 has been sound.)

[bobn]

ruger hawkeye in 257 roberts. shot horizontal strings, go figure, bobn

[Mule]

Charter Bulldog 357 Mag.

Action locked up all the time, even shooting 38 wad cutters.

May it rest in peace at the bottom of the deer camp out house hole.

[Kimbertron]

Charter Bulldog 357 Mag.

Action locked up all the time, even shooting 38 wad cutters.

May it rest in peace at the bottom of the deer camp out house hole.

My bulldog .44 special is sitting in my safe. Your post has me thinking of a proper fitting end for it lol