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Quoted: H&K P7. Way over rated, one of those that has a cool factor but really isn’t all that great. Squeeze cocking just didn’t do anything for me and in fact made it a hassle to shoot accurately. I guess if you normally have a death grip it’s fine. View Quote I carried a P7 for about 11 years. I like the P7 a lot as a carry gun with a couple exceptions: 1. Low capacity for the weight. 2. The manual of arms is so different than everything else, you sort of start to develop some bad habits you don't want to carry across to other platforms. You don't need to keep a death grip on the cocking lever. Once you pull the lever back far enough to cock it, it takes nearly no effort to keep the lever back and the gun cocked. I carry a CZ PCR now. |
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Rifle, one of the original Ruger PC40s.
Pistol, Khar tiny 9(whatever model the polymer frame one is). |
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Quoted: KSG....it would not eject "low brass" ammunition reliably. Additionally, I overestimated the function/usefulness of the KSG. It was slow to load and switching tubes involved activating a small switch (not something I think I could do consistently under duress). I paid $800 for mine and was glad to see it go. View Quote This. Hated my KSG. God help anyone who has to use one in self-defense. |
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Quoted: It's a weird thing, I love my G22. Shoot, I wish I had at least one more just because. But like the 320 that didn't work out for me, others love the 320 platform. That's why they make so many different ones I guess. To each their own. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Glock 22. It's a weird thing, I love my G22. Shoot, I wish I had at least one more just because. But like the 320 that didn't work out for me, others love the 320 platform. That's why they make so many different ones I guess. To each their own. Buy another! Can’t dual wield without at least two. |
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Quoted: I recently realized I did not like the extended mag in my FN 509c. Every shot the gap between the grip and the mag extension wanted to pinch my hand. View Quote While not my biggest disappointment I agree with this. I bought a bunch of the the 15 round mags thinking that’s all I would need for plinking. As it turns out, the 12 round mags are such a different feel and better mag to shoot with. I guess the 15s make good reloads for “oh shit” times? I’d say my biggest disappointment falls somewhere on one of the only two handguns I’ve sold: a Walther P99 and a Springfield “Mil-Spec” 1911. Neither were unreliable but I could never shoot the P99 well and the 1911 was just such a boring “meh” handgun. It wasn’t bad at anything but it wasn’t good either. |
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First was the HK USP. Bad trigger, blocky grip.
Next was Gen4 Glock. Finally a decent size mag release and nice grip texture. Grip angle still sucked. Most recently the PPQ. Bought it for the awesome trigger. Bad sights, more felt recoil than there should be. |
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HK 91, never could get it to run worth a crap. It just felt awkward to me.
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Quoted: @speedracer422 Cetme was my most disappointing sell, sold it to a forum member 13 years ago, still regret selling it... very reliable, very accurate awesome weapon... View Quote Well, you are not the forum member who sold me mine As far as century imports go, it was pretty decent fit and finish wise for a stamped receiver rifle, but...neither myself or local smith could get it to run an entire mag. Pretty disappointing. It had a "satisfying" recoil though...I wish I had one that ran good; God knows I tried lol. Speed |
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Romanian "Champion" .223 AK pistol. I'd bought a new one to eventually turn into an AIMR clone. Hard to believe it came from a weapon factory and not some cave where rifles were assembled by 5- year-olds with files and hammers.
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Kimber Stainless II - constant jams
M1A standard - jams every 3 rounds SPAS 12 - overly complicated and jams |
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SKS
first semi auto I ever fired besides a Marlin .22lr I thought it was fantastic until I fired a AR15, then I soon realized that a giant antiquated POS it was. |
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Quoted: Mine is also a Kimber. I have a Gold Combat that is garbage. Their customer. service is also terrible. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: What gun were you most excited to try or buy that turned out to be a big disappointment? I think for me it was a Kimber Pro-Carry 9mm I bought in 2007. I thought I was going to love that thing, and it ended up being very unreliable. Sold it within a couple years. Mine is also a Kimber. I have a Gold Combat that is garbage. Their customer. service is also terrible. |
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Franchi SPAS 12 for sure.
It looked good, but that's where it stops |
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SCAR16: Horrendously inaccurate. I’ll continue to work with it though.
Bren 10: junk VZ58: couldn’t get it to fit me with either stock |
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Stoeger Luger
I was a kid and had to have it. Conned my mom into doing the paperwork, as I was way too young, 16 yo IIRC, to buy it. It has NEVER fired a complete magazine without multiple stoppages. |
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Quoted: Kimber TLE II with the external extractor. After many calls to Kimber, who’s wanted to tell me how to fix it, instead of fixing it themselves and lots of internet research I got it running. Once I knew it was reliable I sold it. View Quote BTDT- solid top contender for the largest disappointment in my book. Also had a regular style internal extractor TLE II /RL that was purchased at the same time (both were LE trade ins). It is awesome as hell, accurate, just a great gun. The contrast between the two of them was astonishing. I still own that one. Kimber needed their head examined with that external extractor version, they sure messed it up... |
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Desert tech mdr
I’d call it flaming garbage but I don’t even think it would make a proper fire |
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Quoted: Mossberg 835. Plagued with light primer strikes. I would get up at the ass crack of dawn and get set up where the turkeys were the evening before. Or maybe have to run three or four ridges over because they busted the night before and moved locations. Make my best ready to breed hen sounds which I'm convinced sounded like Bella Hadid and Margot Robbie getting it on to a tom turkey. Only to have this piece of shit go CLICK instead of BANG on a 3-1/2" Federal Premium full of whoop ass. In my disgust, I sold the hunk of junk and you would think this is where the story ends. No. This gun was given to me as a gift from my then girlfriend, who is now my beautiful wife of 22 years. Immediately after selling it I had pangs of guilt and remorse. So what did I do? I bought the victim, I mean the new owner, a brand new 835 Mossberg and offered him cash to trade me back for my old gun. He traded with no boot and I still have this blursed 835. The thing is, he was like me in that he couldn't miss clays with that 835. I swear this damned thing will bust clays like a fine O/U if it will fire. View Quote Sounds like all you need to do is to check the tightness of the forend/action bar nut, if this is loose you can have headspace issues that would cause this, have seen it in an 870. If that is not it, then a new firing pin is the ticket. Should be a simple fix no matter what. @Hay_Bale |
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M&P .22 compact. It really is a pretty
nice gun, but mine has canted sights so bad that with the rear sight adjustment all the way to the stop, it still shoots to the right about 8 inches at 25 yards. I got it on sale from PSA for $250 though, that is the only thing that has kept me from hating it. |
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Anything Sig I’ve owned except for my Kilo 2000.
FN SCAR-17S. It was a shit show. Inaccurate and FN nixed the warranty on any that were shot suppressed. |
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Beretta CX-4 Storm carbine. Off a rest, it grouped over a FOOT at 50 yds.
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Sig 227. 12 inch groups at 10 feet. Sig won’t fix it, says it’s fine.
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Ruger LC9. Bought it as a retirement gift for myself. Had the worse trigger I ever saw. Sold it after 6 months and then Ruger wised up and came out with the LC9S. I promised myself to never purchase another Ruger product.
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Most recently would be the gen 1 Galil Ace 5.56 . Horribly
over gassed and odd trigger slap, not to mention pretty hefty for a 5.56 |
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Vepr 12
The thing kicks harder than a pump and it doesn't run worth a shit, the buttstock it came with was essentially a piece of scrap 2x4 painted black, and I paid way too much for it as a panic buy when sandy hook was taking off |
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Brownells Brn-180 was another let down for me, really wanted to love it but I never could get it running reliably.
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Kel-Tec PMR30 it took for every to get one, then once I did, what a let down. I’ve tried every solution and upgraded part that was offered in an attempt to get it to constantly feed. What a POS...
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Biggest piece of junk was a CETME.
My biggest disappointment was a Ruger 44mag carbine, I listed after one for years and when I finally got one it wouldn’t function properly, assuming it was just mine because the reviews seem good, I just got a lemon |
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Only gun I ever sold.
Remington 887 Nitro-mag. what a hunk of shit. |
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Marlin 1894 in 44 mag. JM stamped, so it can't be blamed on Remington.
It was so innacurate it made a mini 14 look like a target rifle. There were no loads or remedies to make it acceptable. |
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PCCs by a freaking mile.
Subguns are the bee's knees, PCCs are le ghey. |
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