Ever buy a handgun on hype/ glowing review and was disappointed ?

SIG-226R-9-TACOPS

Bought it for all the right reasons & sold it 2 mths later at a huge loss. Dealer said 'just keep it - I can't give you what you paid for it' I said 'if I keep it - it'll be a safe queen - cause I hate shooting it'

The worst was the trigger - felt like I was squeezing a marshmallow. It this price point I want a trigger that breaks cleanly- not cold soup!!!

Man this thread brought up some bad memories...
 
My Para was awesome! but it was more gun then I could afford to shoot.

My new one, and a cheaper "downgrade" turned out to be a real win.

My Steyr M9 is great too! and people moaned about problems, but I have had none.
 
st1264 said:
Goes to show you that a gun that someone thinks is the "best ever" another person thinks it's the "worst ever". I think this thread is pretty worthless, except to rant about what you don't like. Luckily we have lots of choice and can buy what we like...
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Feel free to keep your "worthless" posts to yourself, no one made you read this thread, or post to it. If you don't have anything nice or useful to say....

Firearms are very personal, different skill sets, physical and mental attributes effect everyone differently. I find it useful to hear from others about their experiences and why something did or didn't work for them, everything of course needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
 
gwagen said:
Feel free to keep your "worthless" posts to yourself, no one made you read this thread, or post to it. If you don't have anything nice or useful to say....

Firearms are very personal, different skill sets, physical and mental attributes effect everyone differently. I find it useful to hear from others about their experiences and why something did or didn't work for them, everything of course needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
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No problem. Guess the irony wasn't evident in the first part of my post.
 
I have made two horrid mistakes....

I handled a Smith & Wesson Sigma 40S&W and it just felt right in the store, a bit top heavy, but it was a great match for my hand shape and design. However, once I had bought it and got it to the range I learned how horrible it was for me. I literally couldn't hit a torso silhoutte at 15 feet.

Then I went to a rental range and tried everything I could fire in a 9mm. I learned that that I like heavy bottom girls in my hands at the range. :p Give me heavy metal and good ammo, and I can hit that torso silhoutte at 50 feet easy. My favorite is a Colt-style six iron type of sporting tool.... :)

I also bought a lever action in .45 Colt, a Marlin I think, a long time ago: not my style being evident by my best grouping of 6" at 50 yards from a sled (after trying a dozen or more ammo loads).
 
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Aniest said:
I have made two horrid mistakes....

I handled a Smith & Wesson Sigma 40S&W and it just felt right in the store, a bit top heavy, but it was a great match for my hand shape and design. However, once I had bought it and got it to the range I learned how horrible it was for me. I literally couldn't hit a torso silhoutte at 15 feet.

Then I went to a rental range and tried everything I could fire in a 9mm. I learned that that I like heavy bottom girls in my hands at the range. :p Give me heavy metal and good ammo, and I can hit that torso silhoutte at 50 feet easy. My favorite is a Colt-style six iron type of sporting tool.... :)

I also bought a lever action in .45 Colt, a Marlin I think, a long time ago: not my style being evident by my best grouping of 6" at 50 yards from a sled (after trying a dozen or more ammo loads).
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Ironic, I should be posting this after you but +1 on the S&W Sigma .40 cal. Mine was a first generation model. I bought it because of a Guns&Ammo article and I thought it looked nice. It fit well in my hands but the polymer was so smooth the gun was jumpy in the hands. Wasn't all that accurate with the limited shooting I did with it and the trigger was so mushy that if you actually "squeezed" the trigger it would misfire with a light primer strike. You litterally had to yank the trigger. Luckily, I sold it for what I paid for it less the tax I'd paid.

Rifles? Well, the SR22 I own was busted after the first range session, both the Savage Mk2 rimfires I own are defective, the H&R Handi-Rifle I bought has a bad barrel and suspected rough chamber, and my latest fvck-up a JR Carbine 9mm, broke before while I was cleaning it for the first time with "0" rounds fired. All these guns were bought new.

I've wasted $1,000's on "highly recommended" POS firearms.
 
I like my Sig...love it ? no. I can't reach the controls with my thumb (mag release and de-####) without shifting my grip. LOVE the trigger.

My HK45 fits perfect, don't have to shift my grip at all to operate anything....trigger ? meh
 
Was the Sig 226 for me as well. Bought it based on the millions of people that love them and the sterling reviews they receive. I had zero issues with it as far as performance or durability, it went bang every time I pulled the trigger, but the ergos didn't work for me at all. The high bore axis just felt wrong in my hand, which effected my accuracy during any rapid fire drill, and with a high thumbs grip I hit the slide stop probably 50 percent of the time causing the slide to be hit or miss as far as lock back on empty goes. Tried my best to love it and just adapt to using it but after a little over a year of ownership I sold it in favor of other platforms.
 
The most recent handgun hype seems to surround the Walther PPQ. I don't see any disappointing comments here... I bought one and love it. Just sayin :)
 
I'm far too deep into the CZ75 shadow world to ever climb out. I had known then what I know now. I would have just got the lighter trigger and some competition stights on a glock.

Yes I bought the CZ on hype. I can't say its unfounded hype. I just believe now that the shooter has more to do with the results than the gun itself.

I consider some of my 1911s to be hype purchases too.

I have a few more 'hype' guns.
 
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I have a SIG P 220 .45acp, and love it. Surprised and disappointed to read bad reviews about the P226, but I`ve never shot or owned one yet.
 
Chiappa Rhino.

My first range test was glowing, but that was just a few rounds. Then after thinking it would settle in and be what the hype made it to be and giving her a full day run on a handgun course...its failings showed.

Recoil straight back with the stippled wood grips tore huge chunks of skin outa my hand and almost felt like there was MORE felt recoil although there is LESS muzzle flip, was accurate if i benched and rested it, but its a damned handgun, shooting it offhand like a regular handgun produced average to less than spectacular results for me. Promptly sold it and bought a Ruger blackhawk, and I still think the traditional SAA design is superior. Your mileage may vary.

Also owned a tupperware G17 for all of 2 weeks. I just hated it that much. Did nothing for me in functionality, esthetics, accuracy...nothing special that many other modern handguns can't do equally if not better and with a little style.
 
I warned the step dad over and over not to buy a sig misquito. He thought because it had SIG written on it, it had to be good. He was wrong, nothing but failure to feeds, failure to ejects, the bolt no longer locks back on any mag and to boot its not even very accurate. I would shoot my GSG 1911 side by side with him and fire 500 rounds of cheap federal with 1-2 failures on average to his 3-4 per mag with expensive ammo.
 
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