Most disappointing/surprising pistol you've bought

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Most disappointing A Taurus 945. Gun shoots great but it hammer bites the hell out of me. I also cant get a set of adjustable sites for it.

Dont laugh but the most surprising pistol I've ever had was an Intertec Scorpion. It was the one that had a threaded barrel and use Ruger 10/22 mags. It would double or triple off when I first got it but they repaired it and it shot great. I got spooked for some reason and sold it at a great loss later but it impressed me at the time. Saw one at a gun show several months ago for $400. WTF? :)
 
Most Disappointing: Sig 229 ~ .40
Horrible ergonomics for me.

Most Surprising: Bersa 223 ~ .22 LR
Accurate, reliable, fun! :D

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Make mine lean, mean, and 9x19!
 
disppointing- Beretta m21A .22lr. POS never fed 1 mag of any ammo type w/o jamming.

surprising- Taurus PT92. Very accurate and was cheap in price only.
 
I KNEW you'd jump on this thread about that dang ASAI! Worst so far was probably the first style AMT .380 single action. Followed closely by a *&* 909 that would not group to save its life even after a trip to the factory. Best would be between the HK PSP and the Kahr.
 
Best: Witness wonderfinish 45acp,with Makarov really close second.

Worst: Hi Standard 22 semi autos. Had 3, all of them jammed constantly.

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Plateshooter
 
Most disappointing: S&W 4516- Not very accurate, sucked as far as recoil control.

Most surprising: Glock G31C- muzzle flip control and follow up shot speed is amazing conmpared to non-comp'd G31. Also very accurate.

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The Glock freak formerly known as Chris...
 
Disappointing: Taurus PT-908. Great ergonomics, but horrible trigger and could hardly feed anything reliably. Inaccurate, too.

Best Surprise: Russian .380 Makarov. Picked it up on lark at a show for $125. Shoots straight, reliable with anything I've fed it, crisp SA trigger.

---hemlock0013
 
Most disappointing:

Davis 9mm derringer. At 6 feet it woould not group on a 10"x14" paper.

Most Surprising:

An Egyptian military Helwig; poor trigger, but very accurate and 100% reliable.
 
most disappointing--22/22mag bounty hunter,EAA
total junk although has the heavy feel of
a colt 45, sent back twice they can't/won't
repair.

Most suprising--Makarov(bugie) never had
one before, but will own many more, accurate,
fun to shoot, great gun.!!!

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Disappointing tie:
Colt Anaconda in .44
Colt Series 80 Gold Cup
Spingfield Armory .45 Super V-16 (still trying to salvage that one

Surprising:
Kimber Classic Custom, actually made me look like a decent pistol shot
 
Most disappointing: S&W Model 48 (.22 WMRF). The cases stuck in the cylinder so badly that the extractor was practically useless. A trip to the factory helped a lot. But I still frown when I think about it. :(

Most surprising: Glock 17. I never expected to like Glocks. But this gun made me a true believer. :)
 
The Glock G36 on both counts. First 150 rounds jammed on every magazine, sometimes more. Never had a Glock do that. Every one has been perfect out of the box. Trimmed the excess polymer from around the metal lips and Slick 50'ed the rails and for the last 200 has eaten everthing with zero malfunctions. Sweetest shooting .45 for it's size I have ever shot.
 
Biggest disappointment:
Glock 21 that would jam on ball ammo, tried 12 different brand new factory pre ($$$) and post ban mags trying to make it work. If you ever see Glock 21 SN BRD-427 spit on it once for me.

Biggest surprise:
Traded the 21 even up for a NIB Colt 1991A1 .45 100% reliable with 230gr Hydra-Shok, would put 5 rounds into 1.25" at 15yd. I had Wilson Combat Nite-Eyes tritium sights installed and carried that when I didn't want to sweat all over my Wilson CQB.

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Biggest disapointment: Sig 239 .40S&W bought about two years ago. The recoils spring was plastic and was out of spec for rigidity, the take-down lever was broken as well. It would not break down new-in-the-box. I had to send it to Sigarms before even shooting.

Biggest Surprise: Ruger P 97 .45ACP - Relatively thin, acceptable recoil, .75" at 10 yards, digests anything, anything you run through it inhaling 185 and 230 grain HP's the first time I shot it---------all for $333.33 + tax.

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[This message has been edited by Will Beararms (edited July 02, 2000).]
 
Worst/most disappointing - Walther TPH. Rarely will feed a complete magazine without jaming. When using double action 90% of the time the hammer will not fall all the way. A few months ago when I dug it out again and decided to start trading out parts to see if I could make it work I found that 1) European parts don't work in the Am. version and 2) they don't make parts for the Am. version any more.

Best/most suprising - an early Jennings .22. Has never jamed, feeds anything I've run through it to date. Off a bench with good light (when my eyes were younger) it'd do about 3 inches at 25 yards on a good day. (CCI Mini Mags) At the time I bought the Jennings it was only about 1/6th the price of the Walther. Go figure.

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Good surprises: Makarov, any Glock, Eddystone P14 (most accurate gun I own for $85), shortie Garand. Tommiegun...like shooting a full-auto air gun, harly any recoil.

Bad surprises: SW2206 (felt right in my hand, performed fine when I test-fired it...could hit anything since and functioning was poor till I had it rebuilt)

Ruger Mini14 Ranch...poorly built and not too reliable

HK MP5 - poor egonomics
 
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