Worst rifle you ever bought?

Rob

Rob

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Lots of posts about best rifles...but what about your worst?

Mine was a used rifle from a very well known Canadian gun importer and was a well known European brand. The ad admitted that the stock had been painted and the clip magazine was missing so the price had been lowered some...but obviously not enough. When it arrived I also found that the barrel had been shortened, hack-sawed off on about a 45 degree angle. Okay, easy enough to fix. And I had a spare clip for it. Then I figured I could remove the paint and refinish the wood Except that under the paint I found the stock had been reshaped and built up, but not with wood or even plastic wood. Instead, fully a third of the stock was made out of Plaster of Paris!!!...Plaster of Paris? I gave away the stock and sold the rifle as an action only. Took a bit of a loss on that rifle and I don't deal with that importer any longer. But it was almost worth it just for the humor...Plaster of Paris? Who does that?
 
Worst for me was a JW25a that came from Marstar, The front sight came tilted (think 30 degrees) plus the bracket for the front sight was horribly mangled/bent. The retailer was only willing to sent me a front sight because i had voided the warranty removing all the grease... problem was there was so much grease I did not notice the problem till it was clean, assembled and I held it up for the first time. I took it to a local gunsmith who told me it wasn't worth their time ($rates) given the cost of the rifle and that they felt they would break it. It took me quite a bit of amateur gun-smithing to file out a new groove for the front sight and have it aligned. Fortunately the result was good and with irons I can now shoot a decent group and with a red dot in shoots within 2 inches with cheap 22lr and better with nicer quality stuff. Still after initial cleaning (I used mineral spirits) then oiled the metal parts prior to reassembly. I would not use this method again as the bolt developed small amounts of rust after rinsing the mineral spirits with water then air drying with a compressor. I use this method on all of my other metal guns and this issue has me sworn away from Norinco firearms completely.

In short after much repair and tinkering I got my rifle to work and well but I doubt it will last the years required to hand it down to my daughter.
 
Ruger American...
Worst workmanship I've ever seen. On par with Chinese garbage made in highschool shop class. Stock was flimsy garbage, mags were lightweight plastic garbage, just a pile of #### all around....yet people defend them.


 
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Over the years I have purchased 12-13 new Remington 700's I would rate them as the 12-13 worst rifles purchases I ever made, ever single one of them needed work either to make them shoot or even function properly.
 
bunny said:
Over the years I have purchased 12-13 new Remington 700's I would rate them as the 12-13 worst rifles purchases I ever made, ever single one of them needed work either to make them shoot or even function properly.
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Have you learned your lesson yet or do you need 14?
 
Hitzy said:
Ruger American...
Worst workmanship I've ever seen. On par with Chinese garbage made in highschool shop class.
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LOL, Its a 349$ hunting rifle. Who cares what it looks like. It groups better than my Savage 10TR hahahahhahaha

Never had an issue with it filling the freezer. Yes its horrible workmanship, But I beat the crap out of my bush guns so it doesn't matter at all.
 
Mossberg Thunder Ranch short barrelled over under. The barrel opening level has found six different stopping places during the 30 rounds I fired from it. Once it even opened when I fired one barrel after the other. Traded it as a parts gun for a Savage 42 plus cash.
 
DILLIGAF said:
LOL, Its a 349$ hunting rifle. Who cares what it looks like. It groups better than my Savage 10TR hahahahhahaha

Never had an issue with it filling the freezer. Yes its horrible workmanship, But I beat the crap out of my bush guns so it doesn't matter at all.
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Well they are up to $550 now for the cheapest version which is crazy....they are a $250 rifle at most, even then I'd be disappointed in myself for buying one lol.
I'd rather have a 70 year old Mauser that's been dragged behind a truck for $250... Might look like crap but at least it's well made!
 
CRF Winchester featherweight 7-08, grouped like a shotgun. I gave a smith a few hundred $$ to make it shoot minute of barn door, I cut my loses and traded it to a happy dude for a plastic savage
 
bunny said:
Over the years I have purchased 12-13 new Remington 700's I would rate them as the 12-13 worst rifles purchases I ever made, ever single one of them needed work either to make them shoot or even function properly.
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You have to be either the world's unluckiest gun owner or else a chronically dissatisfied shooter. If you had 12 or 13 faulty 700's, you have just hit the list for the worst luck in gun history. D :)
 
Hitzy said:
Well they are up to $550 now for the cheapest version which is crazy....they are a $250 rifle at most, even then I'd be disappointed in myself for buying one lol.
I'd rather have a 70 year old Mauser that's been dragged behind a truck for $250... Might look like crap but at least it's well made!
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You do realize its 2017 don't you?
 
I've had my fair share of rifles that shot bad and or were built poorly, but I learned something from them.

The only rifle I can say I actually regret buying was one of my Marlin 1895GS's.
I bought it used NIB (and it was), after 5 shots of factory 405gr Rem ammo the receiver was stress cracking on either side of the barrel.

I just ended up stripping it for usable parts and scraping it.
 
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