Good guns that were DUDS!

A Great Idea that Didn't Work, poor marketing, poor quality control, poor warranty and customer service? Was the company improperly and poorly financed?
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In that case, the Auto Mag pistols, Wildey, and the Bren Ten should all qualify. None of them really went anywhere, and all are cult classics. All good ideas, all needed refinement, all were overmarketed and overpriced. But no one wanted a 5 pound automatic pistol in 44 AMP, or 45 WinMag, nor a $500 pistol you couldn't hold onto to shoot.
 
I feel like the sigma series from Smith and Wesson is a very under appreciated platform. The gun is very reliable and ergonomic. The down side people focus on is the trigger pull which is very revolver like. It would be an awesome handgun for someone making the transition from wheel gun to high cap semi auto. Also I think people turn their nose up at the price. Roughly 300 bucks, folks tend to think the gun is a DUD. I love the platform and will probably have one in 9mm (again) and .40.
 
Another vote for the S&W model 53. Ammo nearly impossible to find, slightest amount of dirt made extraction difficult, inserts for .22lr difficult to unload.

It was my first handgun and I didn't know what I was doing. Sold it and bought a 586 and have never been happier.
 
Might as well toss in the HK P7 'squeeze cocker' pistol.

It even got a little play in a couple of John Sandford (aka John Camp) mystery books as one of the favorite guns of the lead character Lucas Davenport but never really caught on.
 
The Browning BDM was worse than a "dud." It was positively a turkey. Although it felt good in the hand (the reason I bought one), it had some internal parts made of Zamak, and other internal parts held in place with Silastic silicon cement.
 
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