Your worst Gun

[hurst_guy]

Like some others have already said, I didn't research the purchase prior to the gun's purchase. I bought a Kahr and yes, I know there are Kahr lovers, CW40. Even at 200 rounds I continued to have issues and I just couldn't venture out with a handgun that was not 100% reliable. I ended up trading it in for half to get my current primary carry, the Sig 220 Compact.

[marksiwel]

Raven .25 is my worst gun. Don't even know why I bought it! Yes I do. The guy selling was a friend of my fathers and he had just received his FFL. His first "purchase" forresale was a box of those .25's. four or five of the "group" all wanted one. They knew nothing about queality firearms and I knew they didn't. Just seemed like the right think to do in the moment of frenzy. So....$40 bucks later I owned one.

Misfires, can't hit the side of a barn, basically cannot disassemble the gun for cleaning. Just a plain ole Saturday Nite Special. Worthless.

I do not let anybody who goes to shoot with me shoot it because it is dangerous.

Did some reading on this gun, apparently it
*Will Fire if Dropped
*Wont fire if you pull the trigger
*The Firing Pin Breaks
*The slide has cut alot of people
*The Sights are not where they should be

I found one for sale for 30 bucks. I am NOT going to get it.

[The Annoyed Man]

My worst gun, which I no longer have, was a Sig GSR Carry Stainless 1911. It was quite accurate, and very beautiful to look at, but it was a fickle and unreliable lump of metal. I finally gave up trying to get it to shoot more than 2 rounds sequentially without jamming and decided that it was not a carry weapon. But the last straw was when I was using it — unloaded and cleared — to show my wife how to manage a 1911, and we discovered that it would dry fire without depressing the grip safety.

I originally purchased it from a local gun store as a CPO gun for $699.00. So I took it back to where I bought it and traded it back in to them and bought my Kimber Stainless Ultra Carry II — a decision I have never regretted. The store gave me a trade in value of $530.00, so I took a $169.00 hit, but that was cheap compared to what it might have cost me to trust my life to that gun; and, it taught me to never buy another 1911 from Sig. I have nothing against the brand, and I wouldn't mind having a P220 in .45 ACP, but during my travails I learned in researching it that the GSR 1911 pistols had a reputation for being problematic. I was not aware of that reputation until after I bought mine. You live and you learn.

EDITED TO ADD: Failure to research a purchase before making it seems to be a common thread here. Lord knows I am guilty as charged. But that lesson has taught me to do my homework first.

[cbunt1]

Raven .25 is my worst gun. Don't even know why I bought it! Yes I do. The guy selling was a friend of my fathers and he had just received his FFL. His first "purchase" forresale was a box of those .25's. four or five of the "group" all wanted one. They knew nothing about queality firearms and I knew they didn't. Just seemed like the right think to do in the moment of frenzy. So....$40 bucks later I owned one.

Misfires, can't hit the side of a barn, basically cannot disassemble the gun for cleaning. Just a plain ole Saturday Nite Special. Worthless.

I do not let anybody who goes to shoot with me shoot it because it is dangerous.

Did some reading on this gun, apparently it
*Will Fire if Dropped
*Wont fire if you pull the trigger
*The Firing Pin Breaks
*The slide has cut alot of people
*The Sights are not where they should be

I found one for sale for 30 bucks. I am NOT going to get it.

Man, I'm jealous. Mine's a Jimminez Arms .380. At least a raven .25 has some Saturday Night Special "class."...and the real reason I'm jealous is that I've got close to $150 tied up in the darn thing!

[lawrnk]

Sigma, hands down.

[74novaman]

I'm with USA1....gotten lucky so far...haven't had a bad one. I like my PT145 and am pretty accurate with it, the RIA 1911 hasn't given me a single problem, and my AK runs like..well, an AK.

[pbwalker]

Raven .25 is my worst gun. Don't even know why I bought it! Yes I do. The guy selling was a friend of my fathers and he had just received his FFL. His first "purchase" forresale was a box of those .25's. four or five of the "group" all wanted one. They knew nothing about queality firearms and I knew they didn't. Just seemed like the right think to do in the moment of frenzy. So....$40 bucks later I owned one.

Misfires, can't hit the side of a barn, basically cannot disassemble the gun for cleaning. Just a plain ole Saturday Nite Special. Worthless.

I do not let anybody who goes to shoot with me shoot it because it is dangerous.

Did some reading on this gun, apparently it
*Will Fire if Dropped
*Wont fire if you pull the trigger
*The Firing Pin Breaks
*The slide has cut alot of people
*The Sights are not where they should be

I found one for sale for 30 bucks. I am NOT going to get it.

Heck, I'd buy it for $30 just to learn some 'smithing!

Was that on Gunbroker?

[TLE2]

My worst gun used to be a Glock 26. I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with it... until I noticed that the rear sight was sliding around in the dovetail!

After centering and locking the sight, it's amazing what a difference!

[LostInAustin]

Raven .25 is my worst gun. Don't even know why I bought it! Yes I do. The guy selling was a friend of my fathers and he had just received his FFL. His first "purchase" forresale was a box of those .25's. four or five of the "group" all wanted one. They knew nothing about queality firearms and I knew they didn't. Just seemed like the right think to do in the moment of frenzy. So....$40 bucks later I owned one.

Misfires, can't hit the side of a barn, basically cannot disassemble the gun for cleaning. Just a plain ole Saturday Nite Special. Worthless.

I do not let anybody who goes to shoot with me shoot it because it is dangerous.

Did some reading on this gun, apparently it
*Will Fire if Dropped
*Wont fire if you pull the trigger
*The Firing Pin Breaks
*The slide has cut alot of people
*The Sights are not where they should be

I found one for sale for 30 bucks. I am NOT going to get it.

DON'T!! You will end up with something to write about on "Your Worst Gun" thread. I forget who the manufacturer was. I saw the name on a thread and when I looked it up....there was the Raven as one of the guns that they manufacturered!!

And BTW...all of the above that you read....are true. This gun and myself are responsible for the only ND/AD that I have ever had. Pulled slide back to see if it was chambered. Gun is so small with size 8.5 hands I could not see a round. Point away and dry fire, just to make sure it was not chambered. OOPS! It wasn't a dry fire!

Shot a .25 hole through my Degree hanging on the wall and also obviously through the wall.

[LostInAustin]

You live and you learn. Failure to research a purchase before making it seems to be a common thread here. Lord knows I am guilty as charged. But that lesson has taught me to do my homework first.

TAM....100% right. DO YOUR HOMEWORK. Research your gun purchases....someday your life could depend on it!

[CompVest]

There are no bad guns just bad gun owners. A gun is a terrible thing to waste.

[wgoforth]

Taurus Millennium Pro 745.

I sent it back to Taurus, and they refused to reimburse me for the cost of shipping it (60$).

Other than that, I've been lucky. All my other guns do exactly what I expect of them.

In all fairness to Taurus on this, they may not reimburse but if you call them they would send FedEx with a prepaid box to your door to pick it up. There have been times when I have had to send the same gun back twice to fix the same problems (and I agree that I shouldn't even have to do that) but they have always fixed it and paid shipping each way.

[HankB]

Tie:

Kahr P9. Numerous problems. Went back to factory repeatedly, but in short order malfunctioned again. They ultimately replaced it, and I traded the replacement - unfired! - for a Glock 26. (Looking above in the thread, I see I'm not the only one to have problems with a polymer Kahr.)

Colt Government Model, also known as the "Jammamatic." Purchased new, this turkey wouldn't get through a magazine of hardball (any brand!) without jamming . . . usually more than once. Went back to Colt's for service under their so-called (and utterly worthless!) warranty repeatedly. Their alleged "service" policy had four steps:

1. Hold gun for a month or more.
2. Do nothing.
3. Return to customer.
4. Repeat until customer gives up.

Were I to express my true feelings on this matter, my language would surely draw the ire of moderators . . .

[Weg]

Oh man, someone already claimed the Bryco .380! I was hopeing to slam it first. Biggest piece of junk I ever owned!

[TDDude]

I had a very old Llama .45 1911. It was a "Pre-Max" model and was somewhat of a dog.

Knowing what I know now, I shouldn't have gotten rid of it but when it constantly malfunctioned no matter how much I fiddled with the mag lips, I simply sold it off and got something else.