Have you ever bought a handgun on hype and reviews and were disappointed?

hori said:
I made a thread prob 10 years ago or more about this and there have been lots of new pistols on market since then. Tell us what you bought on glowing reviews and hype and were disappointed. Mine was new SP01 when they first came out. Everyone was raving about them and I loved the look. I bought one new and just could not shoot it as well as my P99 which had bad reviews at the time. This is not about guns that are POS this about good guns that you bought but never warmed up to or could shoot as well as others. Lets hear it.
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Nope. I pick my stuff based on reference from good sources.

-S.
 
Walther Q5 Steel Frame, bought one for my club, all excited to test it out, got it the club and was severely disappointed. Junk trigger, crappy rubber grips, grip too short as well. Not anymore accurate than any of our other pistols, or my own. Giant waste of money.
 
Colt 2000

Didn't buy it based on reviews, just wanted to try a 9mm semi auto made by one of the best gun manufacturers in the world. Colt makes exceptional firearms right? WRONG !

This was the most inaccurate pistol I have ever owned, tried every combination of 9mm I could find at the time, couldn't hit a pie plate at 15 feet, sold it within a month, that was late 90s, early 2000s
 
GLOCK 17 for me. When I first got involved in IPSC many years ago, I was told by more than a few people to get a GLOCK for production division. I used it for the first season and I didn't have any love for it. The grip didn't fit me well, I found it 'bouncy' and I didn't care for it being a plastic pistol. I sold it at the end of my first season and purchased a CZ 75B then later a SP01 Shadow. I liked the steel, the weight and the grip on the CZ much better than the GLOCK. My scores improved as a side benefit.
 
HK P7 M8

Never got used to the squeeze cocker. Did not have it long enough to try to get used to it.

Also I found the gun got really hot after firing 50 or more rounds.

Interesting gun, but not for me.
 
I bought a CZ P07 and Glock 34 and I'm 50/50 on keeping them. Some days I'm like meh bust out the Glock 34 and other days I wanna sell that Glock 34 and shoot the CZ so I am just indecisive.
 
PPQM2 .22

The YouTube videos were enticing. "The World is Yours." (The 'influencers' sold me.) I'd pre-ordered it from The Gun Dealer (which was a mistake) and then waited for more than a year for it to arrive (but it didn't), so they issued a refund and I got it from FOC instead. My PPQM2 .22 was very reliable, and it did fit PPQ holsters, but the magazines didn't fit PPQ pouches. The sights were horrible, the trigger was heavy and long, and the (non-adjustable) grip was too big for most of the very people for whom you would want a .22LR trainer. For full-size adults, it was okay, but for anyone needing a medium-size glove (or smaller), it just did not work.

The videos worked; (for me) the gun didn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO52onGqQ6c
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Slavex said:
Walther Q5 Steel Frame, bought one for my club, all excited to test it out, got it the club and was severely disappointed. Junk trigger, crappy rubber grips, grip too short as well. Not anymore accurate than any of our other pistols, or my own. Giant waste of money.
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Good to know
 
Back in the late 70's and early 80's there was lots of hype about Ruger and their Black Hawk revolvers; I picked up a really nice early model one that was just like new, in .38/.357. It worked perfectly, but I never got on to shooting it accurately, and as a result, never warmed up to it. My experience with that pistol, a friends 1022 that would not feed well, and a stainless Mini 14 that was "day of angle" accurate prevented me from considering any rugers until I caved into hype and reviews and bought a GP100 4.2" Blued. No regrets; it is presently my favorite centre fire hand gun.
 
For me it's cz P10c was looking forward to it and it was certainly well made but I hated how the beaver tail would ride my thumb joint at the web of my hand.

Another one is glock 19/23 due to grip as well ( no issues with g17 or even 43)
 
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