Worst rifle you ever bought?
- Thread starter Rob
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Squires-Bingham "M16-R" .22lr. The only good thing about the gun was the telescoping mp5-style stock. Everything else was terrible. Sold it with full disclosure for cheap. Hope the guy who bought it had better luck.
A Rossi M62 .22 that would not fire.....returned for refund. (Co-op in Spirit River Ab.) Early 80's.
A 700 BDL 300 mag back in about 1979 that locked up solid on the bolt after firing factory......returned for replacement with zero issues. (Lutchers Yorkton Sask.)
Browning 78 6mm Rem that would not drop the hammer on occasion no matter how hard you pulled the trigger or how often...returned...serviced.....fired again...would then not eject...returned and exchanged for Ruger #1B.(Gorsline Olds Ab.)
All back in the day when you could still return the flawed ones.....now it seems it's up to you and any warranty they offer.
I'm glad I only own and buy old guns.
A 700 BDL 300 mag back in about 1979 that locked up solid on the bolt after firing factory......returned for replacement with zero issues. (Lutchers Yorkton Sask.)
Browning 78 6mm Rem that would not drop the hammer on occasion no matter how hard you pulled the trigger or how often...returned...serviced.....fired again...would then not eject...returned and exchanged for Ruger #1B.(Gorsline Olds Ab.)
All back in the day when you could still return the flawed ones.....now it seems it's up to you and any warranty they offer.
I'm glad I only own and buy old guns.
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- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
I guess mine was a short action 700 Remington in .350 Magnum that I got in the early '70s. It was stocked in the old thin forearm factory stock with pressed checkering, and by the time I had put a box of handloads through it, it had split rearward into the pistol grip, and forward from the front action screw to the swivel stud. The comedy of errors continued, when I sent it to a local gunsmith who was written up in Gun Digest for good stock work. His son had taken over the business, and subsequently went bankrupt, after first patiently waiting for my rifle, which took another year to recover, still unshootable. Disgusted, I think I sold it for $100. I think the buyer glued and pinned the stock, and is probably still shooting it.
Kel-Tec SU16! horrid gun broke the extractor on one trip, had to wait for a month for the warranty company to send me a new one, then the next range trip the whole receiver broke! waited 11 months in warranty limbo then got sent a new one! hated everything about that gun! Sights, stock, grip, action and the rest of it sucked.
Their shotguns are great.
No doubt this thread will carry on.
when you do the update, please include an estimate on the number of each brand of firearm in circulation. The old registry would have been very useful to find this data. That would allow you to develop a percentage rating.
by the way there have been a few times I've had multiple copies of the same gun. I can see that in some of those cases my opinion of them would have been very different if I only had one of them.
I have owned two JM Marlin 1894's in 44mag, terrible accuracy, and the worst action ever, the complete opposite of smooth. One guy was drooling over mine at the range and I let him shoot it, he said it would smooth out with use and offered to buy it on the spot (should have taken his offer). For all the hype they seem like a crappy design. My Dad had one back in the day, bought it for deer. Seen a big buck and shot and missed it, next round jammed it up so bad he had to take it apart to get the round out. And the deer ran away, he got home and hung it up on the rifle rack never to be shot again.
It's a shame as they are light, look beautiful, handle great and would make an amazing bush gun of they functioned. I see them for sale still and think about getting one, until I remember my previous experiences.
It's a shame as they are light, look beautiful, handle great and would make an amazing bush gun of they functioned. I see them for sale still and think about getting one, until I remember my previous experiences.
M-44 mosin nagant.
Only had two good things going for it.
1. It went bang when you pulled the trigger but accuracy was minute of Serengeti wilderbeast herd.
2. Is was long enough that when you brought the bayonet into battery it made a somewhat useful yet ungainly spear, preferably of the throw and forget type.
Biggest POS over rated firearm i have ever owned.
Only had two good things going for it.
1. It went bang when you pulled the trigger but accuracy was minute of Serengeti wilderbeast herd.
2. Is was long enough that when you brought the bayonet into battery it made a somewhat useful yet ungainly spear, preferably of the throw and forget type.
Biggest POS over rated firearm i have ever owned.
Norinco T97 Gen 1. Waited over a year after payment in full. Recieved a rifle that couldn't fire 5 shots in a row without a FTF. Also had a overdrilled gas port (as most Gen 1s do). Traded it away at a loss and was happy to see it go.
Remington 597 around 2002 or 2003. Stainless with laminated stock, I loved the way that rifle felt. Couldn’t make it through a single mag without malfunction or misfire. Multiple trips to the dealer to try and fix, and then I drop the barreled action on my basement floor and broke the cast aluminum receiver. Remington replaced it, but that took over a year. I think I sold it for $100.
Ha Ha, I was searching 'axis' to see what has been said about them (I just picked up one of the EE) and this thread was in the results. Cant say on it yet, just got it today. The worst I had would be a griz mag shotgun (norinco related?) the second time it fell apart, CanAm just took it back and gave me a credit. Next up would be the 10/22 I bought thinking it would be so great...... should have kept my Cooey mod60. That ruger was minute of barn. My uncle gave me another older one recently. Maybe I'll have better luck with it.
