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Biggest P.O.S. you ever owned

wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
What is the biggest Lemon (guns only) you've ever owned? Don't list the junk (Jennings, Davis and the like) Only the ones that should have been good but were'nt. I had a Remington 742 in 308 that you couldn't hit a 10 plate at 50 yards with. Bought it new and no one in the family could get it to hit. Never figured out why. Finaly let it go for a song.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    According to some my $1000+ Bushmasters, heard they won't kill if and when they fire!
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Taurus PT140 Millenium Edition .40 S&W pistol. Piece of crap. The trigger was crunchy, the slide was so poorly matched to the frame rails that I would find small pieces of metal after shooting (it looked like the slide was being filed down).

    I've owned worse guns, but this one wasn't inexpensive, just CHEAP!

    I'll never own another Taurus.



    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    7mm, If only they were in 7.62x54, and you were in a forrest of 6 inch poplars.

    Woods

    How big a boy are ya?
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  • mcneely77mcneely77 Member Posts: 411 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Charter Arms .22 revolver I bought for squirell hunting. Fixed sights shot 4 inches to the left at 10 yards. Never again.

    IALEFI, ASLET, NRA, and proud owner of a pair of S&W revolvers.
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    S&W Sigma .380. Over 50% ftf out of the box. Sent it in to be fixed and when I got it back it was jam city. Gave the pos away.

    PC=BS
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    7mm
    I said quality guns don't go bringing in the Bryco/Jennings/ Bushmaster junk
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  • royc38royc38 Member Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mas49/56 in .308 cal. Could never shoot more than three in a row without a jam. Very accurate though. Other one was a armalite ar180. Best looking club I have ever owned.
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, if yer not gonna count Jennings, Davis, etc., my biggest disappointment was my Remington 597 .22 rifle. Never could get it to run through one full mag of ammo without either jamming or failing to fire.

    Often there would just be that sickening "click" as the firing pin fell, denting the rim without firing the round. My ammo all worked fine in all my other .22's, so I know the ammo wasn't at fault. Sent the critter back to Remington twice with no improvement.

    Got my local dealer to give me dang near what I paid for it in trade for a new Ruger 10/22. MUCH better gun, in my opinion, many more aftermarket goodies available, no failures to function yet, after a couple bricks of ammo through it. Think I'm keeping THIS one!
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll probably get a lot of guff from this one. The worse rifle for accuracy I ever owned was a Ruger No 1. in 22-250 cal. When they first came out many years ago, I purchased one and couldn't bench rest 6" groups at 100 yards. I know it must have been a rare lemon, but no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to group. Factory shells and my reloads had the same results. I took it back after a month of trying and traded it in on a Ruger M77 and never looked back. Still have the M77.
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Without a doubt, my stupidest most idiotic notion was to purchase a Kimel Ap9, supposedly a much more reliable version of the Tec-9. If it wasn't double firing or going full auto, it was jamming. Couldn't hit squat, gawd awfullest pos. I could have had another Ak for what I paid, I'd say how much but I'd get laughed off the board. I ended up getting half what I paid for it, and I laughed all the way to bank.


    Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    Been a couple that are about equally bad IMHO. First was an M-16 POS but I was able to dump it and use an M-14. Second was a Glock that a friend gave me, was able to trade it in right away so it didn't infect my safe.

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Muley...Don't be upset...If it didn't shoot it didn't shoot! No reason to keep a bad weapon around just beacuse it says RUGER on the barrel. Beach


    P.S. Somebody said Bushmaster was junk???? My match Bushmaster AR-15 looks fairly well made to me and I've had not heard of quality complaints from others. Maybe there are some bad ones out there. Beach
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Beach
    The Bushmaster crack was a private choke to 7 about another thread.
    The are a quality gun Now that I've spread the oil on the toubled waters, anybody got a match
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  • sgt.207sgt.207 Member Posts: 41 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have about a thousand rounds through my Bushmaster so far - no problems, yet!
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Actually it is not a bad plinker if not a match target pistol, but my Grendal P-30 is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. Up there with a lot of Ruger semi-autos-brick with a trigger.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Badboybob: I think that may have just been a bad one. I have the Sigma 40 cal Smith and I can't make it jam. Of course I have only put a couple of thousand rounds thru it. Still waiting for that first malfunction.

    Worst gun: a single shot 20 gauge shotgun, made in Brazil. I can't even remember the brand. But it is a starter shotgun, not supposed to go more than one season.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • PupPup Member Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He Dog......For future reference Ruger auto's are not "bricks with a trigger". They're better described as a "meat&potatos" kind of weapon Sure they're not as pretty as the 1911's or the Brownings or Sigs or HK's or 'Smiths, but at least they don't look as bad as a Glock

    Politicians, like diapers, should be changed often and for the same reason.
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  • CAndres35CAndres35 Member Posts: 453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i have an almost new[10yr]old rem.22 auto that refuses to eject the emptys about half the time. i taped a ramrod to it when i went squirrel hunting so i could get the emptys out. it was a real pain in the ###. i broke down and bought a customised 10/22 and have put untold rounds through it without any real problems. ocasionaly it fails to totaly throw the empty clear and the bolt jams against the empty but i can live with that as long as it doesent happen to often.
    CARL
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A Taurus PT92. Went back to the factory twice. 6 inches low and seven inches right at 25 yards. Got rid of it soon after it's second return from the factory.
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Beach....I know what you're saying. I've shot other Ruger No.1's that were great. But, I could never own one. Hence, my nickname......stubborn to the core and hold a grudge forever. Shoot, I'm still mad at 1st grade teacher, and that was back in '46.
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  • faldumfaldum Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Clearly, a Daisy VL. This "smokeless ammo" noisemaking fiasco should never have been marketed by such a legendary organization.
    I'll take one of their Red Ryder's any day....
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  • old single shotsold single shots Member Posts: 3,594
    edited November -1
    A ruger m77 in 220 Swift.Nothing i tried would make this gun group better than 5-6 inches at 100 yds.I switched to Rem. 700's and have never looked back.I know many of you are fond of Rugers and probably for good reason.Myself,i am soured for life.
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  • laxcoachlaxcoach Member Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's time someone jumped in with a scattergun--my personal POS was a 20 ga mag Rem 1100. Was I proud of that gun (I use the term very loosely) when I brought it home !! Then, I put it to use during duck season, when one could shoot lead. It was undoubtedly the best single shot I ever owned--never failed to fire once--EVERY TIME !! Tried clean, dirty, dry. lightly oiled, saturated with oil, and everything in between, and it performed beautifully as a single shot. You could bet the ranch that, if the temperature dropped below 50 degrees, it transformed itself into an H&R Topper ! Sent it back to Remington and they kindly returned it "repaired"---- and I still had a single shot. It now resides in front of my favorite duck hunting spot on the Staunton River in central Virginia in about 6 feet of water for the last 20 years !!!
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  • SawzSawz Member Posts: 6,049
    edited November -1
    Bought a Remington synthetic fluted varminter in 22-250. Thought it would produce half to 3/4 inch groups out of the box like all the other rems seem to couldnt find a load it liked to save me.It would always throw about 1.25 on up inches at a hundred yards my old BLR 22-250 shot better I traded it off for a real sweet handgun I found in a pawnshop somebody built up off a ruger 41mag frame, custom 10.5 inch heavy barrel,sweet trigger,hammer, ventrib target sites 45 long colt the guy must of dropped over a grand into it. Thing shoots where I aim.
    Also real dissapointed in a Henry .22 lever I bought for my boy jams at least 2 or 3 times a mag full, and it hits all over the place. Rear site is so flimsy you can adjust it without the screws just push side to side it just wont stay put.

    By the way old single shots every ruger rifle Ive owned comes with tons of pressure on the end of the stock against the barrel Ive always improved em by free floating the thing. Cept one and its my 270 I leave it alone cuz it groups 3/4" and under at 100 yds. If it aint broke dont fix it

    "Respect your Tools"
    "Freedom is not Free"
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've had a lot of guns go through my hands, only two of my own come to mind. A Springfield 1911 clone, would not extract cleanly out of the box, a new extractor took care of the problem, but I swore if I ever had one jam out of it that I'd get rid of it, it jammed once, a few months later, and I sold it soon thereafter. The reason I have such a great disdain for automatics, though, is because of the gun I had just before that one. A Marlin .22, tube fed semi-auto, dont remember the model, bought it in 88 brand new, it would not fire a large amount of the time, and failed to extract cleanly just as often, I got rid of it, and I blame Marlin for my auto. phobia, thanks Marlin, I've never gotten over it. The only guns I trust that are an auto is a Ruger 10/22, and a Colt M-16.

    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • hunter280manhunter280man Member Posts: 705 ✭
    edited November -1
    Remington 742 in 30-06, actually it ws my grandfathers, no-one was able to hit a damn thing with it!

    Though I was born to royalty, I was snatched at birth, so treat me as the noble I am!!!
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  • oldfriendsoldfriends Member Posts: 167 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hate ot own up to it bu I have a Remmington Viper. Now, talk about a POS. By the way, it's for sale. I have to add the vehicle here also: Ford Escort. Real POS.

    Life is Tough!It's Tougher if You're Stupid
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Woodsrunner,
    I took my .270 Colt Sauer with Swarovski 2-9X out and tried to shoot down a 6" tree, 4 shots later and unable to fell the tree.....I threw the rifle in the garbage can.....
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have not yet owned a P.O.S. firearm but have shot quite a few of my friends - the most recent was a Marlin .22 mag bolt action (very accurate, crap trigger, bolt did not extract empties, poor mag fit).

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • ked-marked-mar Member Posts: 89 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    S&W 586. 83\8" barrel. I bought it new, and when I checked it over, the barrel lacked 2 threads being screwed all the way into the frame. I pulled the side plate, just for the hell of it, and their were enought burrs sticking out to peel potatoe's on.
    The barrel was stamped, and the letters stood up, about .010 . The finish looked like black shoe polish.The scratches, where they sanded it were very visable.
    I took it back to the dealer I bought it from,and he sent it back to the factory with a letter.
    6 mon. later I was still with out a gun.The dealer kept calling, and they said they had to replace the barrel. The next time they said it was at the range!
    The dealer asked them (the factory) if they would please sent one with nice finish, for the time it had taken them.Finally the day arrived, my gun was back! I opened the box, and was better, it only had one thread exposed, and the finish was the same.
    I handed the box back to him, and said sell it.I found a older one with great blued finish, and smooth as glass,and boy does that thing shoot at 100 yds.


    LOOK TWICE,SHOOT ONCE.
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    Bought a .45 caliber Llama Compact Semi-Otomatic at a gun Show. Had about a 50# Trigger Pull. Sold it at the next gun show and never even shot it...Just Dry Fired it a couple of times with Snap Caps....

    KIMBER: Pistol du jour
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