Worst rifle you ever bought?

phinton81 said:
Having to try so hard with a gun brand is exactly the reason one should be avoiding them. Wanting a newer 700 so bad that you are willing to inspect a bunch of them before buying is the problem. There are plenty of brands a person could confidently buy sight unseen and stand a much greater chance of making a good purchase. Telling yourself these are still great guns whilst still recognizing the fact that you must pour through a bunch of boxes to find the properly finished/put together specimen is a bit counter intuitive, no?

Patrick
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Back in the grim days just after the rem takeover approx 1/3 of the remlins were duds out of the box.
Even at that most of them could be fixed if you were a bit handy.
Now most of the rifles pass inspection.

I've owned remlins that are significantly superior to the functional but junky cheap lines of savage and ruger rifles available today.

There is absolutely NO fitting, finishing or quality control at the Ilion remlin factory.
That function has been passed on to the customer who does (or should be) checking the product at the point of purchase.
That way the price stays within the reach of the common folk while still delivering an adequate profit margin to the remlin share holders.

But if you want perfection out of the box you can buy a browning, miroku winchester or a hand built and finished custom rifle for 2, 3 or 4 times the money.
 
Throttle_monkey1 said:
Half a chamber?! That's bad. Please explain!

The scout wasn't just gritty, that ####ing bolt would bind up way too easily to depend on that rifle for any fast shooting.
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The one I just picked up was very bad as well, bolt would bind just about every time I cycled the action. I was a little disappointed to say the least especially for the price they ask and from a reputable manufacture. After chatting with a another great CGN'er on here, he gave me some tips and she's night and day better.
 
I have/had 3 worst . A High Standard Riot Gun . No need for a trigger as it fired every time the pump was stroked forward . A Weatherby tube fed semi auto .22 that never fired semi . Full auto all the way . A Model 100 Winchester .308 . Same as the Weatherby . All bought old and used at gun shows . The most recent absolute POS is the new Ruger SP101 .22 revolver . It still isn't back from warranty . First shot the front sight fell off . I jammed it back on and the rear sight fell off . With a spring kit single action is about 9 pounds and double action is 15 . The trigger guard and hammer will bleed you as they are so sharp and it shoots 10 inches low at 10 yards . Apparantly it's from an over torqued barrel which now requires a shim kit and re-torquing . The worst hand gun i've ever bought .
 
freddyfour said:
The one I just picked up was very bad as well, bolt would bind just about every time I cycled the action. I was a little disappointed to say the least especially for the price they ask and from a reputable manufacture. After chatting with a another great CGN'er on here, he gave me some tips and she's night and day better.
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Ruger needs to spend a little more time in the fit/finish department if they expect to sell these things for $1000+.
I can understand Chinese rifles having unfinished cast surfaces or rough tooling, but not anything $1000 and up made in the US. A few extra minutes to polish or blast a cast surface so it doesn't look like #### and bind up is all it would take.
Seems Ruger is in the lead so far in this thread with the most "worst rifle ever" posts lol.
 
I had a old shot out sweed that worked but it shot so badly that I had to be under 25 yards to hit a deer in the vitals
I made the rifle work as is for years took a lot of deer and one moose with it too so not realy the worst
if it go bang when you pull the trigger it a good rifle just Sumtime the rifle is a handy cap and range has to be shorten accordingly

A jinx rifle you can't fix and that rifle you can't work with had a couple of them
And a lucky rifle you keep had a SKS that was luck pice of crap but deer just ran in frunt of it a stood there just like thay gave up with out Evan shooting
 
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At the Easter Calgary gun show I saw table after table of very good condition used hunting rifles that seemed to me to be reasonably priced and that went unsold: all kinds of Husqvarnas, Brnos, Mannlichers, Sakos, Belgian Brownings, plus plenty of older model Marlins, Winchesters, etc. etc. Why is everyone so eager to buy the new Chi-merican scrap metal at Canadian Tire when you could just as easily buy very high quality used rifles for the same price (or less in many cases)? Is there some kind of hypnotic new rifle smell?
 
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AP said:
well ... the dirty truth is finally out! Those Tikka M65's are a POS .... and if you are hanging on to one for some misguided reason ..... well let me just say that modesty has - in the past - prevented me from pointing out that I do a little charitable work now and again .... and if you find yourself stuck with one of those POS forged steel actions with a forged one piece bolt and with two pairs of lugs machined into them and a fully adjustable trigger with those nasty adjustable sights... you just let me know and I will take it off your hands for a few bucks as part of my charitable commitment to Canadian sportsmen. At least it will be a hundred bucks that you would never otherwise get .. and you can put it towards one of those excellent investment cast Ruger M77 ... and experience true happiness! Times awasting and my kind charity wont last forever - PM me here!








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Hit a sore spot did I.... kicked your puppy?

Note; I did not say that M65's are bad rifles... that was not the question posed in the OP... I said "MY" worst rifle was an M65... a gun that makes it through QC an inch and a quarter shy of a full .30/06 chamber is a bad rifle in my books... never ran into that with my "investment cast" M77's... ok, back to snuggling your 65 and working your "bolt."
 
Worst gun you ever bought

Thinking I'll eliminate a few squirrels without too much noise I bought a Benjamin .22 pellet air rifle with scope. Well it DOES make enough noise for neighbours (and squirrels) to hear and it really did not hurt the squirrels all that much unless I was with in 15 ft of them. But of course they're long gone at that range unless they are BLIND and DEAF!:(
 
My 2 worst rifles were both rugers. A M77 mark it SS 308 boat paddle stock that couldn't group at all ,minute of barn.After missing a few cranker bucks with that POS I dumped it.Second a mini 14 ,Jamomatic heavy over complicated garand type action .
 
hoytcanon said:
Hit a sore spot did I.... kicked your puppy?

Note; I did not say that M65's are bad rifles... that was not the question posed in the OP... I said "MY" worst rifle was an M65... a gun that makes it through QC an inch and a quarter shy of a full .30/06 chamber is a bad rifle in my books... never ran into that with my "investment cast" M77's... ok, back to snuggling your 65 and working your "bolt."
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:) :) ....well I certainly will go on snuggling my 65 and 55 and remingtons and steyrs and sako's etc (but no Rugers) and thank you for the suggestion.......But you have made a very serious allegation: that a Tikka M65 left the factory without a Proof test. .... which I have never heard of and find very difficult to believe. Unless of course your rifle had subsequently been rebarreled by an idiot AFTER leaving the factory? I imagine that Tikka would have been most appreciative of your communication to them if your M65 had missed this legal requirement. Did you inform them?
 
redrider said:
Remington 799 in7.62X39.. You better just throw the gun, it's more accurate then the bullet coming out the end.
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I had the same issue with my Zastava M85, but for $375 new the finish was very good with a great adjustable trigger so I wasn't ready to give up on it.
Took some tinkering, the inletting was bad and needed to be cleaned up, added a pressure point to the barrel channel, and found it liked .308 flat base bullets in the 110-130gr range. Now it's a 1-1.5" shooter.
But out of the box it was a bag of crap for sure.
 
AP said:
:) :) ....well I certainly will go on snuggling my 65 and 55 and remingtons and steyrs and sako's etc (but no Rugers) and thank you for the suggestion.......But you have made a very serious allegation: that a Tikka M65 left the factory without a Proof test. .... which I have never heard of and find very difficult to believe. Unless of course your rifle had subsequently been rebarreled by an idiot AFTER leaving the factory? I imagine that Tikka would have been most appreciative of your communication to them if your M65 had missed this legal requirement. Did you inform them?
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Lol.... "tikka guys" :)
 
tazzman said:
Remington model Six in 30-06. Worst ergonomics and bucked like a mule!
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Reminds me of a similar gun.
We had a little rem bolt with the vent rib in 350 rem mag.
Think it was a model 600 or 660??
My shoulder aches whenever I think of that thing.
Paw traded it for something or other.
He wouldn't admit it but that sadistic little gun pushed him around too.
 
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