Sig Mosquito. Jammed all the time until it broke in, then worked all right for a bit till the cast zinc slide cracked and rendered it useless. Has been at the warranty depot for 10 months, will get it back in another 2 years or so they tell me.
The worse rifle you ever owned
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The Shooting Systems Dittrich MP-44 repro rifles . Not only did the first one give me a migraine ( failure to eject, failures to extract at least once per 5 rd mag). The replacement did the same as well. Just something inherently wrong in the way they were built. The second one's hook (on the bolt) broke as well. All with factory ammo. Even had a new, deeper extractor made (at no small expense) to try and fix the trouble to no avail. 
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Really too bad, 'cause a working Sturmgewehr (that you can actually take out and fire legally) is the Cat's a** at a WWII re-enactactment. Well, at least I got my $$ back.
. Really too bad, 'cause a working Sturmgewehr (that you can actually take out and fire legally) is the Cat's a** at a WWII re-enactactment. Well, at least I got my $$ back.
Browning A-bolt in 270. Bolt felt all wrong, and the most inaccurate gun out of the box I have ever owned. Lucky to get 5 shots on paper at 100yds. DId everything humanly possible to get this POS to shoot. Nothing worked. Sold this one at a very healthy loss, as I informed the next owner as to what a POS this rifle was.
A Lee Enfield with a hammer? Must have been a rare prototype I'm thinking...
Believe it or not it was a toss-up between a Parker Hale Midland in 22-250(absolute, across the board crap) and a Sako Classic in .308 with high grade wood (a gorgeous looking piece of crap). The Sako was a real surprise because I've had several and the rest were wonderful but this one was rough, the bold would bind so hard it was almost impossible to close on occasion and it wouldn't feed reliably.
SVT-40. Definitly the SVT-40. Couldn't get the right setting on the gas plug. Had more problems loading, shooting, ejecting than I've ever seen in my life! Glad it broke and turned it in for a camera for the gf who lost her's in Pizza Italy, @ the leaning tower.
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
To those who have problems with your Ruger 10/22s......have 'they' read the sticky on our rimfire forum, entitled "Tips & techniques" by Goose25?Head to the rimfire forum, there have been a few complaints on 10/22's
Mine is flawless in operation with a little TLC. (polished bolt, volquartson release, hammer, extractor, & a buffer)
One must disassemble and clean the factory ten round mags as well sometimes. As far as a full strip & cleaning, I usually can go as high as 600 to 750 rounds before I do this teardown/detailed cleaning.
I must say, mine is almost as equally reliable, as my M1 Garand.
- Location
- Central BC
Marlin Model 782 rimfire 22 mag...close the bolt and the action would rotate in the stock. accuracy was minute of micro, should have thrown a rock, all this brand new out of the box...back it went, no more Marlins for me
- Location
- Grande Prairie, Alberta
haven't shot one, but the worst gun i've ever handled was a Remington 770. what a piece of ####. Remington should be ashamed to have their name on that. the gun store has the 770 packages (gun and mounted scope) for $599. they also have the Savage 111FC package. it's $499. i'm considering the Savage package as a loaner/back up gun.
A 303 savage 99, shot out & tumbled bullets. I also ordered a Sako 375 in the short carbine, when it arrived I was appalled! The wood fit was crap. The warp caused it to be tighr on one side and huge on the other. I did not take delivery.
An early stainless Remington 700 ADL .30-06 that couldn't hit the broadside of a barn from the inside. I tried 7 different kinds of factory ammo and handloads with 2 different primers, 5 different powders, and at least a dozen different bullets. I floated the barrel. I glass bedded the action. I adjusted the trigger a bit. I tried different scope mounts and rings and 3 different scopes.
The best it would do was a little over 3" at 100 yards. Ended up selling it to someone who wanted the action for a custom rifle. Now I know why I got such a good deal on it.
Oddest part about it is the BEST hunting rifle I've used (my friend owns it) is one of the new SPS Stainless guns - he got a .30-06 as well. I added a Timney for him at his request and bore sighted a nice Monarch 2.5-10 for him (newer shooter) and we hit the range. You basically can't miss with it, 150gr Federal blue box, 165gr Wincehster Power Points, 180gr. Silvertips, 150gr Hornady handloads, 180gr TSX handloads, every 3-shot group we fired could be pretty much covered with a loonie. My TSX loads were .1 under max book loads and his gun was throwing them over 2800fps. Bastard.
The best it would do was a little over 3" at 100 yards. Ended up selling it to someone who wanted the action for a custom rifle. Now I know why I got such a good deal on it.
Oddest part about it is the BEST hunting rifle I've used (my friend owns it) is one of the new SPS Stainless guns - he got a .30-06 as well. I added a Timney for him at his request and bore sighted a nice Monarch 2.5-10 for him (newer shooter) and we hit the range. You basically can't miss with it, 150gr Federal blue box, 165gr Wincehster Power Points, 180gr. Silvertips, 150gr Hornady handloads, 180gr TSX handloads, every 3-shot group we fired could be pretty much covered with a loonie. My TSX loads were .1 under max book loads and his gun was throwing them over 2800fps. Bastard.
