The worse rifle you ever owned

Remington 742 .30-06

it was my fathers, late 70's vintage. gorgeous gun, nice wood, deep bluing. jammed every other round, and grouped like #000 buck. spent loads of $$$ in reloading to try to make it shoot.
 
Kimber 8400 270WSM...thing would fire if you had the safety on, pulled trigger and then put safety off....boom. Also didn't feed properly. Had to plead with a gunsmith to fix it all for me because they thought Kimbers quality was so poor.

But on a good note, it did shoot ok.
 
Winchester M70 classic in 7mag, LH, nice wood, slick action, good blue job, wouldn't group worth a s**t. Put it in the safe and didn't take it out until I found out that they used hot glue to bed it!!!! Took it out, dug out the rubbery crap, did a proper bedding job, including pillars, now it does about 1 1/4 at 100, acceptable, but what a disappointment originally.
 
Another one is a pre '64 Winchester '94 carbine with a Williams peep sight. Point of aim changed every time I fired it. Turned out the Wiliams was junk so I turfed it. Shoots fine now. :D
 
Cooey 64B was the worst for me and I bought that new back in the day. Seems like many had problems with it.

I've never owned these, but for modern firearms it appears that the Ruger Mini 14 .223 seems the most inaccurate, Rem 742 Woodsman 30-06 and Rem 597 top the list in jamomatic and Dominion Arms 12 Ga falls apart.
 
My Cooey 64B went full auto when the shoulder on the sear finally gave out. Scary. I don't like my SKS much either, but I keep it around since it is so much fun and so cheap to shoot with that nice corrosive ball ammo. Yes, I have replaced the firing pin with the one that has the spring. Don't want any more Cooey episodes.
 
I guess I haven't had a lot of crappy guns, since the worst one was a ruger 10/22. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it wasn't up to my standards for accuracy. Looked kinda like a shotgun pattern when I'd shoot at 100 yards. A rough 8 inch circle was the norm for that range.
 
Worst gun I had I didn't even want. Long story short a dealer in NB sold a gun that I bought and replaced it with a 742 in 308. Big waste of metal. Brand new mags wouldn't stay in the gun, lots of light primer strikes even after a new spring ect. I payed $200 for it and sold it for $200 to a guy that used it once and never again.
 
coonkilla said:
I guess I haven't had a lot of crappy guns, since the worst one was a ruger 10/22. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it wasn't up to my standards for accuracy. Looked kinda like a shotgun pattern when I'd shoot at 100 yards. A rough 8 inch circle was the norm for that range.
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I'm surprised to see the 10-22 mentioned here. Once the actions are bedded they will shoot through the same hole all day at 50 yards with an inexpensive scope mounted. Even at 100 yards the groups are pretty nice. Try bedding the action, if you still have it.
 
woodlotowner said:
I'm surprised to see the 10-22 mentioned here. Once the actions are bedded they will shoot through the same hole all day at 50 yards with an inexpensive scope mounted. Even at 100 yards the groups are pretty nice. Try bedding the action, if you still have it.
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The problem I had with that particular gun is that it would have cost me twice as much or more, than what I paid for it, to make it an accurate shooter. By the time you change the trigger, hammer, barrel, get it bedded, etc. you really don't have a Ruger 10/22 anymore. When I bought it I didn't realize I was going to have to put a lot more money into it just to make it shoot half decent. It is probable that the one I had was a lemon, as my wife's 10/22 isn't as bad a shooter, but could still benefit from the forementioned mods. ck
 
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