Guns you thought you would like...

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But didn't once you got them and why not.

I'll start us off:

Walther PPK .380 - cool gun, James Bond and all of that, sleek, fit my hand well. However, beastly DA pull and painful recoil. Sold it off after 1 box of 50

HK USP .45, full size - ah, the vaunted HK. Accurate and well-made, but long, gritty DA pull and high-profile made it easy to have a limp-wrist malfunction when firing one-handed (which I do a lot). Sold it after 3 years.
 
Ditto PPK recoil was not pleasant.

LAR .50, was just a pain to load (breech load through the buttstock) and didn't think much of the muzzle break.
 
Beretta 9000s in .40

Everything was exceedingly stiff on it, from the takedown lever to the decocker/safety. The front of the frame was taking the finish off the barrel. I spent $70 to send it to Beretta to be told that was normal.

I also discovered I really didn't like how snappy .40 S&W was. I traded it and a Browning BDA-380 for my 2nd HiPower. I was just glad to get rid of it.
 
Springfield Armory XD-40 sub-compact in .40S&W. I saw this in the LGS one day while “browsing” and bought it on a whim. Only shot it a few times and while the recoil was manageable the thing just never fit my hand right. So, I traded it in on a new SA GI 1911 and never looked back.
 
Bersa Thunder Plus

why: felt great in my hand, 15 round capacity, James Bond-like coolness.

why not: never got use to the trigger, couldn't find extra mags

Sold it to fund my M1 Carbine
 
Walther P-22, biggest jam-o-matic POS I've ever had

AR-15, just wasn't my cup of tea, I like my .223 bolt gun much better
 
Not a pistol but

Ruger 10/22. It was an old one that I bought at an auction, had the real hardwood stock and metal trigger guard. Rifle and I would shoot cloverleafs at 50 yds OFF THE BENCH, but offhand for the squirrel woods, I was mostly Minute of large tree. It just felt too light and I wobbled too much.

In guns as in gloves, "if it don't fit, you must acquit" or in this case sell to someone it does fit.:D
 
Sig Trailside.
I loved this pistol, but just grew tired of it's little quirks. Too finicky with ammo, did not like to function when dirty. Just too high maintenance for a working pistol.

HK USP40
Loved everything about the feel, fit, weight, controls. I just couldn't hit anything with it. Not the pistol, just something in the man-machine interface.

GSG-5
Super fun, but mine was about reliable as a puppy's bladder.

Every 1911 I have ever owned
For years, I thought I needed one in the collection. After about 4 different makes and models, I decided I didn't want one in my collection. Just not for me
 
Ruger 22/45

I wanted a rimfire for p;inking and for .22 competition nights at my range. I bought a 22/45 target model because I shoot 1911s and I wanted something that would feel like shooting a 1911.

It doesn't.

I still own it -- but I haven't shot it in probably at least five years.
 
CZ75 SA... nasty trigger, and it guts and safety were too loose/sloppy.
Great combat shooting characteristics and 100% reliable, but not much fun for precision and pure accuracy.
I quickly ran out of useful reasons to keep it.
 
good question....

Ruger LC9.... didnt actually buy it... but had the cash in my pocket and guy let me shoot it first...thankfully for that otherwise I would of bought it and found out the next day or so I'd hate it.

Ruger SR22.. actually I really thought it was a well made gun. Easy to strip and clean and it fit my big hands with the mag extenders. Shot good for a short barrel. But just didnt fill in as play/range practice gun. Liked it but didnt love it so it went within two trips to the range(10 days)

S&W mod 36 chief in .38. A snub wheel gun. Just didnt like it. Thick for its size. A point blank gun only. Bye,bye it went

The rest stayed. Except the m1 l... june 1941 all springfield correct. Sold it only because I was shooting the snot out of it weekly and ammo was getting expensive and hard to find. Also guilty about putting 150-200 rounds a weeked thru it. Also I dont own safe babys, if I dont shoot it regular it goes.
 
NAA revolver in 22LR. Seemed cool being so small, but was LOUD and pointless to try and hit anything with it.

7mm rifle. Remington 700 BDL lefty bolt. Rifle worked great, the 7mm was just too punishing. Trying to sell a lefty gun was a major PITA too. That's why all of my rifles are levers or semis now. :)
 
SW 651 - a nice J frame but the 22 mag rounds were really not suited in those days for the gun. It spewed unburnt powder and after about 50 rounds it would seize up with residue.

Perhaps today's short barrel 22 mags would be better.

Sold it.
 
Taurus Titanium Tracker in .357. the Titanium cylinder began to pit after just a few magnums. Sold it at a show and bought another Gp100 and never looked back again.
 
Marlin 336C in .35 Remington.

My younger cousin apparently short-stroked it on three occasions, jamming a round under the loading gate each time. One of those jams required a gunsmith to un-jam.

Too bad, as it shot nicely, when not jamming.
 
700 BDL Deluxe. Recoil knocked me into next week.

1911 didn't live up to the hype.

Browning Hi-Power ditto.

Steyr M9. Where's the sights! Oh, there they are!

Glock...I've held nicer 2x4's...and better looking.

SIG-Sauer P228. Bertha Butt, one of the Butt Sisters.

All of these are fine firearms, just not for me.
 
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H&K P30:

I LOVED the way it felt in my hand. It shot well. Sights were great. Could not get it to function reliably. Hated reloads. Didn't fare much better with different factory loads, either. When loading a mag, the slide would often go into battery. Found the slide release levers were loose/sloppy. Long story short, I traded it for something else. For full disclosure, I didn't send it in to H&K to see if they would make things right. So, I can't blame H&K.
 
H&K USP. I wanted to like that gun. Wanted to very badly... but for the life of me, the ergonomics didn't fit my hand at all. No way, no how. :(
 
Diamondback DB9. Small,slim, light 9mm. Appeared to be well thought out and made. It was decently accurate. It was NOT reliable at all despite doing what the company told me to do re: break in period with specific ammo. They refused to give me a shipping label to send it back, but they did promise to make it right and to send back an extra magazine. It came back without the extra magazine and even less reliable than before. It was essentially a single shot pocket pistol that required all sorts of gyrations to get another cartridge into battery. The Diamondback folks REFUSED to work on it again and told me they considered it fixed. Bad product backed up by worse customer service.
 
1. S&W M59.My first handgun, was a Browning HP,so I was an early believed the Wondernine concept. Found I didn't like that aluminum frame.
2. Colt Cobra-tried before I bought, decided No. Same Reason.
 
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