What firearm to do regret purchasing?

[Drag357]

Okay, admit it. We've all bought a firearm that we later wished we hadn't.

For me, it's the Sig Sauer .22LR Scorpion. It consistently fails to feed and the type of ammunition has no effect on functioning.

So, might the Assembled Multitude have suffered similar situations? Interested in your experiences.



You can't have too much ammunition, too many books, or too much red wine.

 

[Rat76]

Mine was a Ruger. Almost 20 years ago I picked up a Mark II Target with a scope at one of the Tulsa shows. Soft case & all, nice setup.

I literally could not hit the broad side of a barn with that thing. Scope or Irons no difference. I think it was a combination of the grip angle & the bolt slamming back. Anyway, I passed it on to a friend & he had the same experience. He traded it off for something else.

 

[The Preacher]

Sig Trailside 22 LR. Years ago I made the mistake of buying one when they first came out; wasn't cheap. Long story short, I went through three of them. My original purchase. Returned, and they sent me a new one. Second one was the same as the first; sent it back and they sent me another new one. It was like the first two; FTF, slide refuse to hold open on last shot, slide peening from the slide stop. Traded it off and cut my loses... No more Sigs for me...

 

[Larsman]

I have regretted many purchases and this is the land of no returns.

 

[Actnbill]

Walther P22.....jam-O-matic.....jammed more times than it reliably fired....POS...

Century Cetme/ HK 308..... barrel was welded on crooked.....fired about 10" left at 50'....

Federal Ordinance M14.....worst quality M14 / M1a you could find....lots of jams...

 

[hittman]

LC9
LCP
AMT Backup 45

 

[3manfan]

The Charter Arms version of the AR-7 .22 cal Survival Rifle from the 1980's. Mostly aluminum.
Man, what a p.o.s.

 

[9x19]

AMT Hardballer, 1911 clone.

 

[PRichardson87]

Kahr P45, could not find a single hollow point round that pistol would run. Other than that model I do like Kahr pistols.

 

[thinckley]

Nothing I regret buying, but I wish I could have afforded better when I bought a used Savage 110 for my son's first hunting rifle. I'll have no qualms about sending that one down the road when he decides he is ready to upgrade, either to my 1903 or the 1903 he will inherit from his grandfather. Hell, he could even go with my M77 Mk II in .308. Entirely up to him.

 

[Watertender]

A Squires Bingham .22 semiautomatic rifle from Kmart. It was a Junk-O-Matic Supreme POS. It jammed and stovepiped like crazy and then I started tinkering with it.

The next thing you know I pulled the trigger and it went Brrrrrrppppp!!! The damn thing went full auto on me. I tried it again with the same result.

I ended up cutting it into pieces and disposing of it because I didn't want to get jammed up or get anyone else in trouble.

 

[RC44Mag]

Intratec Protec .25 ACP. Impulse buy out the door of gun shop with a newly purchased one and like candy at the register to get kids to buy the same thing with the .25. For under $100 I said why not.

 

[JohnL]

Auto Ordinance Model 27. Jam-o-matic. I bought it second hand from a retired law officer who had the same problem which was not disclosed. Why? I should think they would have this problem behind them.

 

[Don Lovel]

Several years ago I ordered a Marlin 1895 rifle from Bud's Guns as a birthday present to myself.
I had a FFL & shipping snafu taking 3 weeks to get it and then when I got it, first time I loaded it, cartridge feed stop broke, jammed the gun requiring disassembly just to get the chambered round out. My gunsmith said "dis FUBAR send it back"
I shipped it back to Marlin, UPS had it stuck in transit in Ohio for a week due to snow on the way there then Marlin had it 75 days, sent it back. Went to the range, loaded it and it did the same thing it did before. Disassembled it now that I knew how and got it unjammed at the range. Fired 4 shots single loaded, could not shoot it good and went home.
Went to gunshow 2 weeks later and sold it.
Bought a Rossi 454 Casull that cycled and shot every type of 45 Colt & 454 ammo really good and had that gun until I sold a bunch of guns to fund copays for neck surgery that was life changing for the better. Now I have an octagon 45 Colt and will probably deer hunt with it next Saturday.

 

[davevabch]

I guess I have been one of the lucky guys that have had great luck with all my guns. And I have no problems finding small issue that can make a gun Perfect or as near perfect as a gun is suppose to be. Like everything in life there are some times exceptions. And that exception is the Bersa Thunder 22.cal I love shooting this gun, I like the feel, it is fun, but a total Jam o Matic. My gosh, I have worked over and over on this gun, tried every thing I could find to get it right. Hours spent on it, had it sent in as well. Nada, This gun cannot be every be anything but a Jam er.

 

[farley]

Taurus GX4. Total crap.

 

[hittman]

Small “mouse” guns in 22 seem to be the most commonly unreliable semi-autos ever made.

 

[NC FNS]

Old Walther model 4. Tried 3 shots, the barrel bushing flew off each time, now I can’t get the slide off. It sits on the "future gunsmithing project" pile now.

 

[the_leper_colony]

Back in the 1970s, a relative suggested that I purchase a Colt SAA - IIRC, they were going out of production, and he figured it would go way up in value if I didn't fire it. Long story short, I figured out two things pretty quick: 1) I didn't like owning a firearm that I believed I shouldn't fire, and 2) I especially didn't like having a lot of my scarce supply of cash tied up in a gun I couldn't fire. So, I sold it a year or so later and got my money out. In retrospect, maybe I should have ignored his advice to keep it in new condition, and shot the heck out of thing (might still own it, if I had done that).

 

[Cofaler]

Walther P22.....jam-O-matic.....jammed more times than it reliably fired....POS...

The P22 is high on my list.

I'm a left-handed shooter and always shot right hand bolt guns. I finally bought a left hand Remington 700 and hated it. Too bad, it was a nice rifle. I would still have it if it was right handed. Sold it to a bench rest guy.

I'm a Glock guy and tried several times to get a G21 I could like. I was a slow learner on that one.

 

[bedfordboy]

Probably my Remington RM380, impossibly hard trigger pull… should have bought the Ruger LCP

 

[btmonnat]

Nothing I regret buying, but I wish I could have afforded better when I bought a used Savage 110 for my son's first hunting rifle. I'll have no qualms about sending that one down the road when he decides he is ready to upgrade, either to my 1903 or the 1903 he will inherit from his grandfather. Hell, he could even go with my M77 Mk II in .308. Entirely up to him.

I did the same for my oldest son for his 1st gun in a 270 win. One of the more accurate guns I ever reloaded for. I would consider it a good purchase for 250$ at the time. Not pretty to look at and the action was far from smooth but a great shooter

 

[BarryinIN]

Being a Ruger forum, I'll start with them.

P90 .45ACP.
It couldn't get through a magazine of ball ammo. I probably could've worked it out, but I had a chance to dump it back to the place I got it and took that opportunity.

Ruger Blackhawk .30 Carbine.
Nothing wrong with it, but I couldn't find a use for it or reason to keep it. So in that respect, it fits the definition of regret buying.

NAA Mini Revolver.
Tumbling bullets. The chambers had firing pin peening after a few shots. Not from dry-firing; from shooting live ammo.

A Sig P229 and P239, both in 357 Sig.
Guns were fine. Cartridge didn't do anything my .38 Supers couldn't do, but with less muzzle blast and easier reloading.

Just about anything I tried in .40 S&W.
I tried. I tried to give it a fair shake, but couldn't like it. I have kept one; a Browning HiPower. I kept it because it was the only one that shot good groups, and because it's a HiPower. They are hard for me to part with.

Bren Ten Marksman Special (.45ACP).
I regret buying it only because I traded it off after a year or so and they are now bringing a bundle. If I hadn't bought it, I wouldn't have traded it away and be kicking myself now.
Yes, I had magazines.

Walther P99.
I never got used to the operating system. It had sorta/kinda three trigger pulls, depending on what condition you put it in.

Remington 1100 20 ga.
Made in the 2000s/2010s, not during one of Remington's better quality eras. I never could get it working right.

Springfield Armory Inc M-1 Garand.
Not a government arsenal-made one. Newly-manufactured in Geneseo, IL. The quality was not at all to the level of the real thing, of which I have a few. I only got it because I was trading some things away and that was the only thing in the price range I had any interest in. I thought maybe I could use it to save wear and tear on my "real" ones, and let it be the one I let people shoot to try one out.

 

[roylt]

My first two guns ever were a P89DC and a Glock 17. I still have and don't plan to rid myself of those but continue down the road of life some and I got into smaller pistols as one does and so I got the new Glock 43. Little 9mm pocket / carry pistol. I so wanted to love it but can't hit anything with it. Paid up too as it was a new design etc etc. So it sits in the safe and I really don't want to take a loss on it.
Oh well, live and learn. Could have been worse...

 

[Watertender]

The Charter Arms version of the AR-7 .22 cal Survival Rifle from the 1980's. Mostly aluminum.
Man, what a p.o.s.

I had one of those but my POS brother stole it. The Henry AR7 is a much better version.

 

[3manfan]

I had one of those but my POS brother stole it. The Henry AR7 is a much better version.

Lol....& my brother gave it to me as a Xmas gift one year.
I wanted to like it but man, I don't think it ever made it thru a whole mag without at least one jam & usually more. The accuracy also stank with everything we fed it. He felt bad that it turned out to be crap, I gave it to him to see if he could get it running right since he was more into light 'smithing than I was at the time. I never saw it again & that was ok by me.

 

[davevabch]

Small "mouse" guns in 22 seem to be the most commonly unreliable semi-autos ever made.

And yet my LCP 22. has run great for me. While the SR22 is not small, it has been totally reliable and I have owned it since it first came out.

 

[Chief]

When I was a lot younger and very new to guns, I decided I would like to have a 1911. Unable to support the cost of the Colt, which at the time was the go to as the clone phenomenon had only just begun, I stumbled upon the Crown City Arms guns. They looked good to my unpracticed eye and had some cool options like stainless steel construction. At that time stainless steel was not used in 1911 manufacture ( I was to find out why later). Galling , jamming, feed issues. Exciting times. Also got a Universal .30 M1 carbine. That was such a POS. I never even fired it. I got sent down the road to partially finance a Ruger .45 BH.

 

[jules]

Nothing I regret buying but I regret plenty I sold.

 

[ole442]

Rossi Ranch Hand in 44 Mag! Neat gun but very brutal to shoot. Sold it and never looked back!
Yes, I haven't sold many but all but the Ranch Hand I have regretted!