The worse rifle you ever owned

Lee enfield no1 mk4 sporter. Always shot great, except when it was aimed at a deer. 1st time the hammer went in real soft and wasn't hitting the primer hard enough to set it off. 2nd time the lens fell off the scope(!). 3rd time was the same as the first. 4th time the replacement scope lost its zero and started shifting it's POI all over the place( I was shooting 3 feet low at 30 yds!!! it was a garbagey low end bushnell). I know that the scope malfunctions weren't the guns fault but I blame it anyways. It was just bad luck. Every deer I killed when hunting with that .303 was using one of my buddies rifles.

Sold it after the 2nd scope crapped out.
 
Lee Enfield jungle carbine. Conical flash suppressor and small hard rubber butt-plate to enhance recoil. To be fair, the rubber was likely 50 years old and the gun had the living daylights beat out of it. In new condition I'll bet it was a good gun. It was in such poor shape I was afraid to fire it, so I sent it and a seized up old shotgun to the glue factory via the local constabulary.
 
Worst rifle

It was a Sharps repro in 45-110. Can't remember the make, but it was not a cheapo. No matter what I did with it, could never get it to shoot better than about 6 in. at a 100. Should have come with a tube of vaseline to ease the pain.
 
Ruger 10/22 with Butler-Creek 25-round steel lip mags. The f*cking thing jams after every 2 shots and the rounds become embedded in the magazine mouth vertically, sometimes badly enough that the bolt cuts the casing OPEN on it's forward thrust. I then end up spending 5 minutes on having to pry the destroyed cartridge out of the mag while it's spilling powder everywhere.
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Having said that, I don't think it's the gun's fault though, as it works flawlessly with original 10-round Ruger mags (with all kinds of ammo)... but it is extremely picky with aftermarket mags, no matter what I do to the mag itself. The worst thing is that these Butler Creek mags (2 of them) have cost me 100$ all in, while original Ruger mags can be had for like 15$/each.

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P.S. there is a thread somewhere on CGN that explains on how to modify Butler Creek steel lips to prevent jams (you have to file down a bit of the lip). I did it many months ago, but still no cigar. Butler Creek = POS. Stay away!
 
Tang safety Ruger 77 in 7mmRem Mag.Kicked like a mule,didn't like ANY of my handloads,and you could weld with the muzzle flash.Sold it and bought a .280Rem,that had none of the problems listed above! Mur
 
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Ruger 10/22 with Butler-Creek 25-round steel lip mags. The f*cking thing jams after every 2 shots and the rounds become embedded in the magazine mouth vertically, sometimes badly enough that the bolt cuts the casing OPEN on it's forward thrust. I then end up spending 5 minutes on having to pry the destroyed cartridge out of the mag while it's spilling powder everywhere.
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I had the same issue with an Eagle 30 rounder... great gun my 10/22 but that mag!!! ARG!!

Maybe a worst MAG thread is next.
 
A Winchester M-70 SS/CRF Featherweight with an octagon shaped chamber (reamer chatter). The fired brass would not even roll across the table and was a ##### to resize. And a WIN M-70 7 Mag that had not been crowned properly; only bits of schrapnell on paper at 50 yds. No wonder why BIG RED went tits up.
 
My old Kimber Montana 84M (stainless/synthetic). It left the factory with a laundry list of flaws so long I'd have to go back and look up my gunsmith bills to remember half of them. Firing pin protrusion was off by more than 1/3rd (too short), the crown was rolled in on itself, the headspace was so sloppy it made case-head-sep's like my 303 Brit ("match chamber" my foot!), etc. To make matters worse, the CGN'er who sold it to me swore it was a sub-MOA shooter, and the firing-pin protrusion problem which was about 2/3rds of the accuracy problem, caused occasionally inconsistent ignition, but not 100% of the time -- so I kept getting decent groups interspersed with bad ones, so I kept thinking that I was doing something wrong, rather than blaming the gun, and I kept working at it long past when I should have quit.

After $$$ at the gunsmith, and a lot of effort with handloads, I did eventually get it down to an honest 2MOA gun (down from 6+ MOA). At that point, I just wanted out, and so I sold it. The guy I sold it to (at a loss; I was a bit more forthcoming with the accuracy problem than the guy who sold it to me was) had Ron Smith re-bore the barrel in 338-08/338Fed, and it now shoots 3/4 inch groups.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention -- it wouldn't feed shells on the left side of the mag. A mauser that doesn't feed -- go figure! It was apparently broken by design, as the replacement mag-box/follower that Kimber sent me duplicated the problem. I spent a few hours of trial and error with some dummy shells and a pair of pliers tweaking the mag-box, and I did, eventually get it to 100% reliability in feeding.... but ... wow...
 
Mine is a 2500 dollar custom that went from a 3/4" factory rifle into a 3" tomato stake. If you get certain sponsors on this board to build you a rifle, ask them how much of their work gets farmed out before they do the build. Ridiculous, but they where very pleasant:rolleyes:
 
Browning Buckmark with a carbon fibre barrel. That POS would not print a 12" group at 25 yds. I tried about 10 different brands of ammo just to rule that out and then sent it to the gunsmith for warranty repairs. 18 months later approximately I got it back with a traditional heavy barrel instead of a carbon fibre one. I argued with Browning that I wanted a carbon barrel as that is what i paid for. No go, nor any appropriate compensation. Told me to effectively pound sand and get stuffed, it wasn't happening. I sold that rifle here on the EE without ever firing it again out of disgust. Damn thing was probably a great shooting rifle after all that but i couldn't bring myself to ever own a Browning again.
 
A Winchester 30-30 with a bent barrel that put the bullet 2 feet to the left at 100 yards and strung the shots up and down for about 8".
 
Winchester M70 Sporter Magnum in 7Mag. Safety seized up, trigger was junk(threads missing on adjusting rod) and at the end , it would print groups 8 inches high at 100 and then for no reason started printing groups about 2 ft low and to the left.
Sold it for parts and will never touch another Winney again for as long as I live.
 
Woodsmaster 742 (.30-06)
Kicked like an SOB, and jammed nearly every shot.

I've heard others have had luck with them though....
 
CZ550 in .22-250 Varminter

2 inch groups at 25yrd.....


Set up targets at 100m, guy beside me getting pi$$ed off as I was lobbing bullets on his target.

8" group at 100m. Tryed white box, hornady, handloads.... This rifle SUCKED.

As I was fairly unschooled in these things when I bought this rifle, I took it back to the nameless Red Deer gun shop, where buddy said he would bed it. No prob... Well, lets just say, the 1 hole target he gave me that I couldn't come close to matching...


Traded it to Phoenix in Edmonton, and they gave some guy the BS story how it seen 1 box of shells, guy upgraded etc..... In fact I know for a fact that the person who bought it is a CGN'R...... And could consistantly do dime shot groups........ All day, Every Day......:nest:

Rifle had some issues, that I never did sort out.
 
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