The worse rifle you ever owned

I think it's a 3-way tie between a stainless Mini-14, a Universal M-1 Carbine and a Savage 110.

The Mini would only come close to hitting the target at even a mere 50 yards if I completely unscrewed the rear aperture and duct taped it to the top of the rear sight mount. The M-1 Carbine would shoot so far to the right, that even with the rear sight cranked right over to the left it still wouldn't shoot to point of aim at 25 meters. The Savage bolt would fall right out of the rifle if held vertically and would not feed.
 
Worst gun ive had was a Dominion Arms Backpacker 12g. The handguard fell off after the first shot. It never fit again. Safety was busted out of the box.... Great sercive from Canam though, had it replaced in no time and i sold the new one.
 
Ruger 44 mag semi, the one with the long fore end stock.
WOW was it bad. So inaccurate it grouped 8 inches at 100 yards. It did however leave a nice groove in the hood of my fathers truck, (the only time that a bullet went where the barrel was pointed) stupid short barrel.
It would fail to feed one time.. then (I have no idea how) it would feed one in the pipe and another shell would try and follow it.
I sold it to a guy who seemed to think it was a colletor... towards the end it was... it collected dust.
 
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All 3 have been Ruger 77's. All sold/traded off and have sworn to never buy another.

I still have a 10/22 that is the least accurate of the dozen or so 22's I have in the safes.

Since we are on the Ruger = POS theme, out of my 6 pistols in 22, the new Ruger Mark 3 SS hunter is the least accurate and jams more than any of the others.

I better let Gatekeeper know about this thread........I might have to go buy a 375 hawkeye just so I can name it here! :)

Oh, and better add a dancing banana....I seem to see that whenever the swear word ruger is used.....:dancingbanana:
 
Ruger M 77 mark 2 in 7mm wsm, I shot 1 deer with it at 50 yards, after about a month of trying to get it to group good at 100 yards I sold it for a remington 7mm rem mag. A much better shooting rifle.
 
1980 era, Remington 870 Wingmaster. Jammed every 3 round and I have to litterally disassemble the gun tu remove the F****k round between the bolt and the feed ramp. Never again a 870...
 
i bought a 30-30 off my cousin, a fancy thing with a gold receiver. could not hit the broad side of a s**thouse with it. took it caribou hunting and the thing ran off after i emptied the mag trying to hit it. bought a smle lithgow the same year, and i am still using it now. got a 20 point moose last fall, neck shot at 75 m (i have a scope on it)
 
Get this..... Benelli R1 in 30-06! Paid a fortune for this gun. It just would not pickup the second round out of the mag.... 2 gunsmiths later and the guy that sold it to me doing handstands saying there was nothing wrong with it, I traded it in for a $300 loss. I shoot 3" groups with my friends identical rifle without a hitch.
 
jethunter said:
Midland 2100. made by Parker Hale, but they wouldn't put their name on it. It had a lot of issues right from the factory and spent more time under repair than it did working. The best group i ever got was pie plate size, and that was my best handload. It was my first centre fire rifle and discouraged me to the point i nearly gave up on shooting. I traded it on a used M70 winchester and nearly fainted when my first group from the winchester was sub 1.25 inches with factory ammo.

The only good thing abut that Midland rifle was that it forced me to learn a lot trying to accurize it - bedding, reloading, etc. But i wouldn't touch one now with a 10 ft pole.
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My midland was a 30/06, the holes for the scope mount where drilled at an angle so you could not even bore sight the scope.
 
rbmccourt said:
Dominion Arms Outlaw 12" Double Barrel. Not sure why I bought it in the first place but the first day at the range one of the hammers broke and the stock cracked.
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Nephew bought 1 new last year, in less then 6 months he had three break (original and two replacements).
The last time he got his money back and bought a pump
 
Mosin Nagant M44, sure it is a hell of a cartridge, loudest gun on the range, shoots fire, massive recoil especially with the steel but plate, but i couldn't even hit paper half the time at 100 yards, thats what you get i suppose for paying only $189 bucks, so much for it being in "good conditions"
 
Brutus said:
Hands down, Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle..........incredibly inaccurate!
A friend accompanied me, as I was trying to 'sight-in' this piece of sh#t. His wife was new to shooting, and he brought her along to try out, his sporterized SMLE.
His wife after a brief introduction proceeded to hit it, again and again and again, an empty bucket @100 yards, with the .303!
The piece of sh#t mini14 could not even accomplish this @100 yards!!!
Glad it is long gone........
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I have nothing to add.
 
Zokakoka said:
Mosin Nagant M44, sure it is a hell of a cartridge, loudest gun on the range, shoots fire, massive recoil especially with the steel but plate, but i couldn't even hit paper half the time at 100 yards, thats what you get i suppose for paying only $189 bucks, so much for it being in "good conditions"
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check the last half inch or so of rifling. some of them are so worn they are not even round anymore. this is what happens when you combine typical military over-cleaning juju with multi-piece steel cleaning rods/jags.
if you still have the rifle - a cut/recrown, removal of the bayonet and a trigger shim job should drastically improve accuracy.



worst gun for me was a Savage 24F in .223/12ga. on paper the concept of a 12ga and .223 sounded great, in actual use it fell painfully short of expectations and rather than being an 'all purpose' gun it was a gun that was ill-suited for any purpose.
no barrel regulation, poor sights, if you mount a scope the shotgun is near-useless, heavy/unwieldy/horrific balance, rust-magnet, and extremely poor and underengineered .223 extraction. the thing could barely ever extract a .223 case even after polishing the chamber, the linkage/pins that actuate the extractor were so thin/soft/underengineered that they simply bent. youd break open the action after firing a .223 round and the ejector would barely budge. it wasnt just my gun, since i made it a point afterwards to examine these at gun shows/shops and most that were in centerfire chamberings had the telltale signs of people prying underneath the ejector with a screwdriver/multitool/SAK to help it extract. i replaced some of the soft steel pins with custom ones i made from HSS drill bits and this helped a little, however extraction was always unreliable and the gun itself was just such a gimmicky, heavy, annoying POS i sold it at a loss. i now loathe Savage model 24s more than anything, except perhaps the Remington 710/770.
 
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