The worst Gun(s) you have ever owned.

[Bum]

I have had more than a few duds in my life, but hands down one of the worst pistols I have ever owned was a KelTec PF9....failure to feed, failure to extract, inaccurate beyond 20 feet, and a general Jam-o-matic no matter how much work I had done on it.
I originally bought it new with the intent to use it as a BUG because it was so light and compact; my first KelTec and my last KelTec.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Long ago had a friend that no longer wanted a Jennings 9mm they had, so I took it off their hands for 50.(about what it's worth now)

I don't think you could even accurately throw it at someone. About every other round would eject the casing about halfway out.
Total POS.

 

[ttwtt78640]

IIRC, it was a (Garcia?) single stack .380 pistol. It would often fail to eject completely (unless using hollow point rounds) and its small size resulted in ‘slide bite’ problems for folks with large hands.

 

[Queen Margo]

IIRC, it was a (Garcia?) single stack .380 pistol. It would often fail to eject completely (unless using hollow point rounds) and its small size resulted in ‘slide bite’ problems for folks with large hands.

Same with my last Glue Gun.

 

[RF667799]

Ah those old break top .32 "Owl's Head" revolvers. I had one once.

A long long time ago I was a gas pump jockey at a truckstop out on what a couple years later became I-55 but at that time was just a four lane part of Rt 66. One midnight shift the place was pretty much deserted except for the waitresses and cooks over at the café. My little domain overlooking the gas and diesel pumps was a separate building. Probably about 2 or 3 AM an older sedan pulled up right outside the door and the driver came ambling in.

He played about a dozen games on the pinball machine, looked over the "Souvenir of" junk in the display case and we passed a few meaningless comments back and forth.

"Kinda dead around here at night, huh?"
"Yep. Most always."

Stuff like that.

This establishment also had shelves covering a whole wall and devoted to pretty much any brand and type of motor oil known to man. Along with the oil was a lot of what I would call "patent medicine" type concoctions for ailing cars. Things like.. Liquid Tune Up...Transmission Rebuild in a Can. My nighttime visitor bought about half a dozen cans of these remedies and went out to his car. He shortly called me out there to help him find the latch to open the hood. While I was showing him that latch, he was telling me that it was sure a good car and he had owned it a long time. The trunk along with one of its four doors was chained shut.

Now- I was starting to feel a little uneasy in the wisdom of my 16 years and was getting the idea that this was kind of a shady character, so I went on back inside rather than stay out there and help him tune up his motor and rebuild his transmission through the miracle of chemical additives. He followed me in shortly, played a couple more quarters in the pinball, and-after having hung around for over an hour in total- went back out to his car. To almost immediately reappear standing in front of my counter with a gun in his hand.

The conversation then went like this:
"See this gun?"
"Yeah..." (See it? The image is burning my eyeballs.)

"It's loaded."
"Yeah..." (This is it damnit. I knew this midnight shift was a bad idea.)

"Wanna buy it?"
"HELL yeah!" (HELL yeah! Cheap at any price.)

He asked 3 dollars, I believe. Certainly no more than that. Didn't matter anyway because I didn't even have that in my pocket. I took it out of the register.

He told me he had another one in the car just like it, but I didn't care because now I had one too.

He left pretty quick after making the sale and I just as quick took my brand new-to-me .32 revolver out back of the oil change bays where they parked the tow truck and test fired it. Spit some lead out of the cylinder but hey....what do you want for three bucks even back in '75?
Cheap at any price.

Terrible gun...but a bargain.

 

[SkyChief]

Arisaka Type 99 "last ditch" model.

This was the shoddily-made Type 99s at the very end of the war. The Japanese knew the end was near, and they sped up production, and ended quality control on the late-model Type 99s.

The one pictured is not mine. Mine has a longer barrel, and iron sights. It is rare because it still has the chrysanthemum intact (the Emperor ordered that the chrysanthemum be ground off on all arms surrendered) Mine escaped the defacing somehow.

Anyways, the rifle is rattly, the parts are not machined right, cracks in the castings, sharp edges, receiver doesn't line up with the barrel properly, etc. I'm afraid to fire it.

It's a conversation piece that I inherited.

 

[Fearandloathing]

I have had more than a few duds in my life, but hands down one of the worst pistols I have ever owned was a KelTec PF9....failure to feed, failure to extract, inaccurate beyond 20 feet, and a general Jam-o-matic no matter how much work I had done on it.
I originally bought it new with the intent to use it as a BUG because it was so light and compact; my first KelTec and my last KelTec.

When I was old enough I bought a 30 cal US Marine corps issue M1 carbine.

We bench mounted it to sight it, locked it down with 200 lbs of sand bags and used a remote device to fire across a 50 yard range. 22 rounds in all, nine made the target, 3 in the black, none even close to the bull's eye.

I had the barrel plugged, restored the stock and metal and mounted it like a trophy fish and made $15 in the end.

The reason America lost in Viet Nam,

 

[Bum]

When I was old enough I bought a 30 cal US Marine corps issue M1 carbine.

We bench mounted it to sight it, locked it down with 200 lbs of sand bags and used a remote device to fire across a 50 yard range. 22 rounds in all, nine made the target, 3 in the black, none even close to the bull's eye.

I had the barrel plugged, restored the stock and metal and mounted it like a trophy fish and made $15 in the end.

The reason America lost in Viet Nam,

I was never a fan of the 30 carbine round; my father owned an M1 carbine with a paratrooper wire stock....it also was notoriously inaccurate. He eventually traded it for an old savage 22 rifle.

 

[JMB1911A1]

CMMG Banshee .45 ACP AR pistol. Had multiple feed issues and went back and forth to CMMG. Replacing the buffer with a Kynshot hydraulic buffer seems to have cured the issue but I have never been 100% confident in it ever since. Which is sad since 25+ rounds of suppressed .45 ACP is a great package.

 

[CLAX1911]

I have had more than a few duds in my life, but hands down one of the worst pistols I have ever owned was a KelTec PF9....failure to feed, failure to extract, inaccurate beyond 20 feet, and a general Jam-o-matic no matter how much work I had done on it.
I originally bought it new with the intent to use it as a BUG because it was so light and compact; my first KelTec and my last KelTec.

I inherited a Tek 9 clone from a friend this father passed away. It was the worst it was heavy it misfire constantly. Hated that garbage gun

 

[Bum]

I inherited a Tek 9 clone from a friend this father passed away. It was the worst it was heavy it misfire constantly. Hated that garbage gun

Another worthless and inaccurate POS...but they looked good in Hollywood.

 

[CLAX1911]

Another worthless and inaccurate POS...but they looked good in Hollywood.

I'm not sure it ever had a practical use.

 

[Lutherf]

Taurus PR247. Went bang just fine but worse trigger than a Lone Ranger cap gun

 

[CLAX1911]

Taurus PR247. Went bang just fine but worse trigger than a Lone Ranger cap gun

Taurus gets a bad rap I've had two complaints about the several that I've owned. The 1911 is built just out of spec so that you have to purchase parts from Taurus you can't just buy any 1911 parts. And they're picky about magazines if you don't have Taurus magazine it's going to give you more problems.

 

[Moon]

Bersa .380. Bought it as a carry pistol and have had feeding and extraction issues with it. Really like the weight and fit of it, but it would probably be more effective as a bludgeon than a gun.

 

[CLAX1911]

Bersa .380. Bought it as a carry pistol and have had feeding and extraction issues with it. Really like the weight and fit of it, but it would probably be more effective as a bludgeon than a gun.

I considered a bursa when I was young naive about guns. I really think it's because it kind of looks like the gun James Bond carried in the '60s.

 

[Moon]

I considered a bursa when I was young naive about guns. I really think it's because it kind of looks like the gun James Bond carried in the '60s.

It was the first handgun I bought, and I do like the looks and the way it fits in my hand, but it’s a total dog. Even had the gunsmith at the shop where I bought it take a look at it and he couldn’t do much with it.

 

[Rexedgar]

Taurus PR247. Went bang just fine but worse trigger than a Lone Ranger cap gun

Don’t be bad-mouthing my Fanner 50!

 

[CLAX1911]

It was the first handgun I bought, and I do like the looks and the way it fits in my hand, but it’s a total dog. Even had the gunsmith at the shop where I bought it take a look at it and he couldn’t do much with it.

Yeah when they fit real good it's a shame when they're junk.

I have a giant hands to the point where I can't find gloves that fit. And you'll never believe the gun that fits my hand almost perfectly.

 

[NolanVoyd]

A had a Colt AR15. It wasnt that it was poorly made, its that it is a stupid gun. Jack of all trades, master of none, like a motorsailer. Ive always believed that guns are tools and you use the right tool for the job.

The AR is never the right tool for anything I am using gun for.

(Wait for it RF is about to lose his shit. He gets so upset when i say that)

 

[RF667799]

Bersa .380. Bought it as a carry pistol and have had feeding and extraction issues with it. Really like the weight and fit of it, but it would probably be more effective as a bludgeon than a gun.

I have a Bersa Thunder .22 that is the same thing 'cept in .22, and it is fine as long as you feed it rounds it likes. It can be picky, but that can be the case with lots of .22s.

I absolutely love my M1 Carbine. It's reliable and accurate enough for what it was made for. A personal defense weapon effective to about 200 yards. 100 yards is probably more like it, but damn is it fun to shoot. Even line troops liked it in WW2 though. Lighter in weight than the Garand had something to do with that. It really is a pleasure to carry, and shoulders like a shotgun that was custom fitted for me.

 

[NolanVoyd]

Yeah when they fit real good it's a shame when they're junk.

I have a giant hands to the point where I can't find gloves that fit. And you'll never believe the gun that fits my hand almost perfectly.

You know what they say about large hands?








Large gloves.

 

[RF667799]

A had a Colt AR15. It wasnt that it was poorly made, its that it is a syupid gun. Jack of all trades, master of none, like a motorsailer. Ive always believed that guns are tools and you use the right toll for the job.

The AR is never the right tool for anything I am using gun for.

(Wait for it RF is about to lose his shit. He gets so upset when i say that)

You're entitled to your opinion. It just isn't a fact. If I can accomplish what I want to accomplish, you can't say that it is the wrong tool for the job.

 

[NolanVoyd]

You're entitled to your opinion. It just isn't a fact. If I can accomplish what I want to accomplish, you can't say that it is the wrong tool for the job.

Because there are better tools for any job you would accomplish with an AR.

 

[Moon]

Because there are better tools for any job you would accomplish with an AR.

Not this bullshit again.