Guns you’ve owned, that you’d never buy again (and why?)

[willie69]

i bought a cva muzzleloader that was pure unadultrated crap to use the nice term

 

[elaw555]

P11...trigger sucked worse than anything else man made

 

[forkliftdave]

I had a marlin 44 mag. Stainless steel lever action and every time out I had to tighten every bolt. Some a couple turns

 

[ThrottleJockey]

I'll NEVER buy a S&W escort again, had one when I was 13 (technically, dads) and that thing (.22) couldn't hit the wall in front of me if it even fired. It maybe fired 1 time out of every 7 round mag. And when it did fire it sounded like a friggin' 12g shotgun blast.

 

[mickar15]

Para Ord P12

Would not feed a complete magazine. Tried new Wolf springs in the magazines and all different kinds of ammo. Would not feed ball.

Totally unreliable!

Traded it to the store it came from for a RIA GI and some ammo .
Rock runs like a scared rabbit. Eats whatever I feed it.

 

[jwardrip]

Cobra .380 I was broke and my p85 just got stolen. My dad bought for me from Bradis it was 150 out the door I thought it would do me until I got a better one. How wrong I was it didn't even fire, tried several different types of ammo never once fired but double fed all the time. Traded it for a Rossi 357 with a 2 inch barrel. Never again will I own one of those, heaviest gun ever. Now I have an expoding POS glock and I love it. BTW not saying it was Bradis' fault it didn't fire just Cobra's

Hahaha.... I made the same mistake too. Mine fired but jammed ALL the time. Sold it for $100

 

[762Mike]

Keltec PF9. I couldn't get used to shooting it. Really long trigger, really snappy recoil. Just did not care for it and I had trouble adapting to it.

 

[rb7152]

Taurus pt 145 slide spring snapped on 5th shot; couldn't hit anything with it; not a fun gun to shoot

 

[redpitbull44]

Ruger 10/22: VERY inaccurate, too much of a pain to disassemble/reassemble, did I mention inaccurate?
Taurus Judge 2 1/2" cylinder, 3" barrel: VERY weak, pointless waste of too much weight and size. I could carry 3 times the firepower with less weight in the same size package.
Cobra/Davis type .380: HEAVY JAM-O-MATIC that wouldn't cycle anything but ball ammo with grease on the tip.

 

[DanO]

Original Grendel .380. Bought it from another cop. Unbelievably heavy DA trigger, no mag-loaded throught the breach. Accuracy nonexistent. Total pos.

Sold it to a guy (with full disclosure) who was an amature gunsmith. He wanted to try to fix the trigger....

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Ruger 10/22: VERY inaccurate, too much of a pain to disassemble/reassemble, did I mention inaccurate?
Taurus Judge 2 1/2" cylinder, 3" barrel: VERY weak, pointless waste of too much weight and size. I could carry 3 times the firepower with less weight in the same size package.
Cobra/Davis type .380: HEAVY JAM-O-MATIC that wouldn't cycle anything but ball ammo with grease on the tip.

ANYTHING I've ever seen "davis" type is garbage from jennings/bryco.

 

[redpitbull44]

ANYTHING I've ever seen "davis" type is garbage from jennings/bryco.

Yep, I knew it would be a safe queen. My wife wanted it because it was shiny...

I traded it, and the 10/22 and a Mossberg 500 for a P3AT and a ton of .308 ammo back when it was $14 for a box of Wolf...

 

[Sticky]

A first and second generation S&W 39. Didn't wanna' feed anything but ball, sometimes not even that, and stovepiped a lot.

In fairness, they finally fixed those problems and it was decades ago. I still don't want to clean one after a canoe trip or any other time they get really grungy... way too hard to detail strip.

 

[ccsoswat]

Davis .380. Dropped it and it discharged.

 

[trigger643]

Sig Mosquito. Trigger pull like an overloaded Dump Truck on a steep incline, accuracy on par with a lint brush.

Walther P22. I bought 2 of these when they first came out (long and short barrel versions). First trip to the range the safety came apart on one, front sight fell off the other, both were jam-o-matics. Between them, they made 5 trips to the factory for repairs before receiving a full refund.

 

[JJGatesE30]

walther p 22 , it could shoot fine all day long as long as a target was within 5 feet. Might as well ben an airsoft.

This surprises me. Again, I love my little p22. What exactly was wrong with yours? Ammo? Shot out? Worn? Or was it the shooter?

For me anyway, it was the shooter...

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...gun_isn_t_accurate_actually_means_i_suck.html

I will say though, that my P22 is ammo sensitive.

 

[Deldorado]

S&W .40 Sigma

 

[indymike]

The God forsaken green fluorescent squirt gun my 3 year old terrorized the house with for three hours before his mom and I formed an alliance and resolved to take him down!

 

[iam1096]

Sig Mosquito. Never shot a complete magazine. Any kind of ammo, even CCI.

 

[rem338um]

VP70Z 22 lb trigger pull....colt All American 2000 POS...jambed all the time..returned to Colt..they had 9 months and sent it back...still same problem