Has anyone shot a gun and it not be "all that its cracked up to be"?

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Has anyone shot a handgun that just didn't quite meet there fancy as far as performance or feel? I'm not trying to start a "brand battle" but we have all shot a gun that just made us go "eek". I recently started shooting in my local "Springfield Tactical Shooters Club" and used my boss's Sig Sauer P220 9mm (not having a sufficient handgun yet of my own) and with the amount of stove pipes and jams i was the laughing stock of shooters yet I had the deadest eye witch saved my rep. It was his wife's gun and not yet broken in and rear sight has not been adjusted since factory but it was still fun and everyone understood but for that matter, never will i buy a sig p220 9 lol. And another incident, my brother in laws Mossberg 500, I am a Remington 870 hard core fan and when I shot his 500, wow never again ( he loaded a turkey slug on my first 12 gauge experience when i was 15 ) and it felt like it was going to fall apart in my hands. just some fun experiences. anyone care to share theirs? :D Most of us i am sure has fired and gun and it not be all what we expected it to be:p.
 
I bought a S&W SWVE40 several years ago. Felt good in the store, but when I went shooting, absolutely hated it. I have small hands and for some reason it just didn't fit right and the heavy double action striker fired gun didn't agree with me. Sold it and have never bought a striker gun again. I like seeing the hammer and knowing exactly what is going on.
 
"turkey slug" WTH is that?
Did you use your boss' gun or your wife's unproven gun or is your wife your boss?
I've handled and shot a lot of firearms which didn't meet expectations for one reason or another. I've also driven a lot of vehicles which came up short and dated females who didn't perform as hoped. That's why there's so many variations and models.
 
Kimber. My buddy had 3 of them, and while they were gorgeous, superb looking / finished pistols, ALL three were jamming / stovepiping on us (with various mags filled with HARDBALL!), while my "Cheap"(compared to the cost of a Kimber), Colt 1991A1 gobbled up everything. Sometimes basic IS better. ;)
 
Glock

All the Glocks I have ever shot just did nothing for me. I know they seem to be favored by many, but they didn't feel right to me. I have tried several times to like Glock, but they feel wrong to me. Also Taurus PT740. It was too much power in too small platform for me.
 
1. Taurus (yeah, I know, but this was nothing to do with reliability so hush) UL85. I found it extremely uncomfortable to shoot (and I like my DE .50 AE), and very hard to be accurate with.

2. I don't like Glocks. I don't like their looks, their feel, their manual of arms. More for you guys who do.
 
Three...

...H&K USP's. One, a full-size .45; the second a mid-size .40 S&W. They're both superbly made. Just never warmed up to either one of them. They both felt a bit top-heavy.

The third was a Glock 27. It never felt right in my hand. No mag extension ever made it feel right. Well made, not a problem with it; just not "my" gun.
 
Almost all of them were not exactly what they were "cracked up to be." However, some were better, some were worse, at least in my hand. Eventually you learn not to believe everything. But in any event, it didn't make much difference regarding the desireability of the particular handgun, even if you had to do without it to really find out what you thought of it. And the more you hear about a particular gun, the more you really learn when you finally get one. Take the .45 auto, for example.

The old fashioned Colt .45 automatic has a greater reputation than any other handgun, probably, yet there is more said about it that is false, misleading or not for everyone than most other handguns. Maybe one's opinion is a result of which particular example you had to fool around with. My own experiences have led me to believe it is accurate (provided it isn't 50 years old), soft shooting, but also big and heavy, though it is pleasingly thin and flat. I'm only referring to factory stock versions. Is it all it's cracked up to be? In most respects, yes, but I'm surprised that some folks consider it a "starter" pistol, meaning something that's only good if it is heavily modified.
 
Owned a Glock and shot a lot of Glocks. Never owned a Sig pistol but shot a lot of them. The only Sig I actually liked was the P238 .380 Colt knockoff.
 
Two: First was a Glock 21 in 45acp rented from a range. Multiple failures to load after one or two shots left a pretty bitter taste in my mouth. Since it was a rental, who knows if it was abused, dirty, or what, but it still was annoying. The second was a Ruger p95 owned by my brother's roommate. It had a similar problem and jammed several times for several people. Later found out that there was a problem with one of the springs (can't remember which one, since it's not my gun), and he replaced the spring then got a Kahr of some sort for carry instead. Either way, I won't be very likely to purchase either of these models for myself in the foreseeable future.
 
Before I had ever shot or ever owned a gun, I had heard so much about HK and their amazing capabilities. When I finally did get a chance to shoot one it didn't live up to the lore. Don't get me wrong, I love HK's but when you don't know much you'll believe a lot.
 
@OP Are you sure it was a p220 in 9mm? I would think it a bit odd to find a pistol that hasn't been in production for a while(Since the early 90's IIRC) that hadn't been "broken in" yet.
 
S&W Model 10

It wasn't bad, but since it's supposedly a "classic" I just imagined it would be better somehow.

I had more fun shooting the 586 with 38 spl than I did the Model 10.
 
I wasn't even going to respond, mainly because the OP started out with no previous posts and irroneous info (P220 9mm). Every pistolero on the planet knows it is, was, and always has been one of the best .45 ACP's on the planet. The fire control configurations were the biggest change they made in the 220. The only other 229's I know of were only sold in the European market, similar to the Glock .380's.

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^ If I ever get to fire the Glock 25, I'll probably have a similar experience..

"This is what all the fuss was about? - bleh."
 
@a7 there are 9mm p220s they're just old, 9mm was one of the original production calibers for the p220. It was also imported for a brief period as the Browning BDA. But it would be somewhat odd as previously mentioned that a 9mm p220 hadn't been fired much or at all if it was acquired recently.
 
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