What Gun Do You Regret Buying?

[colt 357]

I never bought a gun that I regreted. I had a couple that gave me trouble. but I was able to figure out what was going on and fixed it. I got a Hi Point in 9MM . It has shot great up till here recently. but I have been tweeking loads and I think I got the OAL a bit to long and the boolits were not seating all the way in the chamber. I got some loaded for this weekend with a shorter OAL to see if the problem goes away. I payed a $132.00 for the Hi point and shot it all summer. It don't shot like the more expensive one, but I don't expect it to. Heck I spent more money at the casino and walked out with nothing. The Hi Point is more fun then the casino too and I still got it. I love to shot anything with a trigger.
I may even get another Hi Point as a range plinker.

[thegreatdane]

I never bought a gun that I regreted. I had a couple that gave me trouble. but I was able to figure out what was going on and fixed it. I got a Hi Point in 9MM . It has shot great up till here recently. but I have been tweeking loads and I think I got the OAL a bit to long and the boolits were not seating all the way in the chamber. I got some loaded for this weekend with a shorter OAL to see if the problem goes away. I payed a $132.00 for the Hi point and shot it all summer. It don't shot like the more expensive one, but I don't expect it to. Heck I spent more money at the casino and walked out with nothing. The Hi Point is more fun then the casino too and I still got it. I love to shot anything with a trigger.
I may even get another Hi Point as a range plinker.

I like that positive attitude.

[Texinoz]

Taurus thunder pump action 45 colt (Lightning lookalike.) Jams or flips cartridges over any time you try and rapid fire it...

[Coltpax]

Remington 1100 made in 1978

I tried everything, even took it to two gunsmiths and the thing wouldn't cycle and nobody knew why. Sold it for what I paid for it. Beautiful gun, just wouldn't work.

On the contrary, I'm more than happy with my Rossis and Taurus, my Pt99 AF shoots sweet. A little time with the buffer and some internals and it's got a nicer trigger pull than the berettas I've fired, and has been as, or more than, accurate than them.

[adkpete]

Two months ago a bought a Smith and Wesson 645 and I hate it.
It has a long trigger pull, throws brass all over creation and is not very accurate.
I'm going to take it back to the gun shop and trade it for another revolver
Pete

[Lloyd Smale]

hate to say this as theres so many fans here but if i had to pick my biggest mistake it would be the 480 bfr i bought new. I bought it right from magnum research so i paid to much for it. If i would have shopped around id have saved a couple hundred bucks. Didnt like it from the day it showed up. I was to big and heavy and had to many sharp corners. I didnt like that the frame wasnt dovetailed to fit the grip frame and all that held it was the two screws. I didnt like the screw only base pin retention system either. The worse though was that it was advertised as a 6.5 inch gun and was actually 7.5 due to bfr measuring barrels from the end of the frame rather then the forcing cone like every other manufacture in the world does. I also laughed at the all stainless front blade that was about useless in bright light. the rubber grips were a joke but i knew they would have to go when i bought it.
I didnt know what to do with this albratross so i got ahold of john linebaugh and asked him if hed fit a bisley frame to it and rechamber it to 475 and shorten the barrel. He said he would then called back a few days later and told me to dump it and buy a bisley ruger and hed build me a proper 475 for a price i cant even post here. So it went down the road at a 300 dollar loss before i even got it dirty. I can honestly say i didnt miss it for one second. Another thing that soured me on this gun was there service dept. I called then to complain that i didnt get a 6.5 inch gun like was advertised and the internet picture they showed had a blued front sight with a red insert that I wasnt all that excited about but was better then the joke of a sight they put on mine. The basicaly told me i didnt know what i was talking about and that was how everyone measured barrels and that the sight was changed to save money and they had the right to do that even without showing on there sight and if i wanted a true 6.5 inch gun with a blued sight it would cost me another 200 bucks to have it done. They basicaly came across with the attitude that i was a no nothing sob and that was before i even lost it with them. NEVER again would i give them a plugged nickle even if they had the best sixgun in the world for 300 bucks. Ive never been insulted by any other gun manufacture EVER and thats even considering i have been less then pleasant with a couple of them and MR did it while i was still being nice. They told me something like they build premium guns for discriminating gun people not guns for people that didnt have a clue. They recomended i buy a ruger. I told them that ive shot more ammo out of sixguns then the entire employee staff they had and probably own more then there whole staff combined did and that they could shove there big ###### reJect up there #####! Do you think i like bfrs

[DeanWinchester]

They told me something like they build premium guns for discriminating gun people not guns for people that didnt have a clue. They recomended i buy a ruger. )

Wow that's sad. I've seen the BFR's. maybe not the worst pistol i ever looked at, but certainly not what I'd call a premium gun for discriminating gun people. If they want a lesson in PREMIUM production models...they should talk to Freedom Arms.

I will agree with Magnum Research on one thing though....you shoulda bought a Ruger. Linebaugh or Bowen can do more with a Ruger.........well, that doesn't need an explanation

[Ecramer]

Old Model Ruger Deerstalker carbine. The tenon that connected the trigger group to the upper was either cracked when I bought it or cracked on my second shot. Sent to Ruger -- early models had male lowers, female uppers. Ruger put my original trigger springs into a new group -- a lot model one with a female lower, to somehow mate with my female upper. Whole rifle went back to Ruger -- they offered me credit on a new rifle, but the credit they offered was less than I paid for the thing. They finally fixed it and I killed a small doe with it four years ago. I keep it around because it's pretty and matches my 10/22 in appearance. I wouldn't feel right about tradiing it to someone else.

[Reload3006]

I am kind of like Will Rodgers or was that Roy? heck I dont know ... "ive never met a gun I didnt like" well he said man but ... some are better than others and some I like a lot more than others but they are all pretty good kind of like sex.

[ebner glocken]

Wow, I own desert eagles and a BFR w/o any problems and called customer service at MR and didn't get treated like that at all. Not saying it didn't happen, just really surprised. BTW only reason I called them was for a different front sight, no issue with the gun itself.

Back to the original thread topic. Worst revolver I ever bought was a taurus 605. It went back to Florida twice, came back with the same problem twice. Cylinder would either lock up tight or not lock at all. When it did function before the end of the cylinder full it would shave lead. Not anything you would want out of a defensive gun. It was traded off on a LR-308 w/o any regret. On the other hand I own two other tauri w/o any problems what so ever.

Ebner

[GaryN]

I bought a brand new Dan Wesson 357 magnum in a case one time. It came with four different barrels. Two inch, four inch, six inch and eight inch. It had a couple of grips too IIRC. I took my brand new gun home and cleaned it. Two of the barrels were heavily pitted. When I bought it it was kinda dirty. I couldn't really tell it was pitted. But when I saw the new gun with pitted barrels I didn't even shoot it. I just took it back. They gave me my money back.

[pricedo]

Two, the Marlin in .44 mag and a Bisley that my hands can't take. Both are gone.

I had a Mosberg bolt action 12 gauge that was a piece of junk.

It should have came with a couple of pipe wrenches that action was so stiff.

It went back the same day.

If you want a good .44 Mag lever get the Rossi R92.

At $400 it won't break the bank like a new Winchester (Miroku) 92 will.

My 16" model is a light (4.8 pounds) fast gun & will digest any ammo I feed it including .44 SPEC.

The little safety will bug you at first but you have to admit that when you are unloading a 92 there is a small fraction of a second during each unloading cycle that the action is closed and the hammer is cocked over a live round.

Having a firing pin block safety engaged at that time isn't a bad thing in case of a careless slip (we all make em from time to time).

I, as a 92 purist, find the little safety switch on the receiver less conspicuous & less "legacy detracting" than the eyesore tang safety on the Winchester (Miroku) 92.

Never saw the Duke carrying a 92 with a tang safety.

[chemteach]

Bought a Sig P250 Compact in .40 S&W. Failure to fire, failure to feed, light strike, you name it, it did it. On the third trip back to the shop, I asked Curtiss, the customer sevice rep, and a nice kid to boot, to please consider looking in Sig's refurbished guns box and find me a 226, 229, or 239 or something, and swap even up for that 250. He did. I now have a german made, metal frame, 239 that eats everything I feed it and I love it and I carry it without a glimmer of doubt that it will perform if needed.

[Christorbust]

S&W Bodyguard 380ACP.
FTF and FTE from the getgo with factory ammo and reloads. It went back to the factory 4 times and on it's last trip I asked for a full refund and received it.

I toyed around with the thought of this gun for ultra concealability when my regular CCW wasn't practical.

I've heard some have trouble and some love 'em.

You happened to remember what you serial number started with (I'm hoping it was the earlier ones that had problems and have since been tweaked by S&W)?

[dave22250]

The biggest mistake was getting into contender and encores,can't stop buying barrels,they add up quick,and I always want another I have a few for two years and I have'nt shot yet.

[o6Patient]

Most of them... to second guess ALL these years down the road: I would make
more sense with gun selection; Mostly I've regretted ones I've sold.
Sell the more useful ones for more overpriced less flexible choices.
I think that if we can't look back in hind sight and think we could have been
more logical means we were a very smart jack indeed. I wasn't one.. but still love
most of them.

[kweidner]

P90 ruger dc. most innacurate handgun I ever touched and a Taurus judge. Wouldn't shoot 45 colt for anything. Both long gone. p90 turned into a Loaded springfield 1911 and judge aa camo dip on custom smith 29.

[rintinglen]

CZ-24--won't shoot 5 rounds without a jam. It was cheap, but it don't shoot for beans.

The most disappointing gun I ever had was a S&W 624. I had bought into the hype thrown out but a couple of departed gun writers and was overjoyed when Smith came out with the 624. I just had to have a 6 incher. I got one and boy was I disappointed. At the time I was a pretty good PPC shooter, my scores with a 6 inch M-14 were high 1300's to low 1400's. That 624 was much less accurate. The best I could manage with it was 2 1/2 inch groups at 25 yards, nearly double what the M-14 would do. I eventually sold it and a M-459 and helped pay for my 2nd Daughter. Don't regret either of those guns leaving.

[wch]

Browning t-bolt 22: lousiest trigger on the planet and no "fix" that I can find.

[midnight]

Of all the hundreds of guns that have passed through my hands (actually most stayed with me) there is only one that I never did get to work. That was a Browning B-2000 12 gauge semi auto. One of the prettiest shotguns I have owned. Never did get it to fire more than one shot at a time with any ammo I could lay hands on. Nobody would take it in trade cuz they knew all about them. Finally found a young kid at a Gander Mountain store who thought it looked pretty and I traded it for a Remington 870 Wingmaster 12 gauge 3 inch. The always work. Now that I am a lot older, my son shoots ducks & geese with it.

Bob