The handgun you were most DISAPPOINTED in?

Hands down, it has to be the Colt Combat Commander I bought new in '79. Jammed constantly, was downright crude inside, and all a trip to Colt got me was a scratched up gun that still jammed on anything I put in it. I sold it as fast as I could.

I have never had a problem with any Beretta handgun, period, and I want to buy another 84 or the near twin Browning BDA .380 as soon as possible.
 
75 Vette, it sounds like your trigger pull was similar to the one on my AMT Back up. Way over 40 pounds (The gunsmith's scale went to 30) when new, a trip back to AMT got it down to about 35 or so, and it maybe was 20 pounds by the time I had enough of it and sold it. The local gunsmith I took it to said it was about the worst gun he had ever seen inside that functioned correctly. He polished it up as best as he could, but he could only do so much. It was hard to keep it aimed vertically when you shot it, since it had to be squeezed so hard to fire it.
 
Mine was a Smith &Wesson SIGMA 9mm...

Nothing Wrong with the gun, it shot great..... my problem was i wanted a glock because alot of guys had them, Did not have the money for one ,so the gun shop said try this,i convinced myself it would work for me and it was alot less money....OOPS....
went to shoot it...grips were to big (i Knew that when i bought it)

Never buy a gun because it is cool (lesson Learned):o
 
My first pistol, a Glock 30 - the gun was reliable, but as ergonomic as a brick in my hands, and I couldn't stand the plastic Glock sights. I bought it because Glocks are the last word in handguns, and .45ACP is the only semi-auto pistol cartridge worth carrying for self-defense (or so some experienced handgunners told me). I sold it a few months later.
 
Disappointment is often equal to expectations... with that in mind, the Browning Hi Power. I read so much great stuff on it that I was sure it was going to be magical. Nope, lousy trigger, and really nothing special for me. I was making good money at the time so I sent it to Novaks and had $1k worth of work done to it, and it still couldn't touch my STI 9mm 1911 in any way.

My other big disappointment was my Glock G36. I loved everything about the gun, and it seemed like I finally found a .45 I could carry 24/7 and my long search for a carry gun was over... but it was never reliable. Even sent it back to Georgia and they sent it back to me saying they couldn't find anything wrong with it. That was a bummer.
 
HK USP-40

I broke the trigger bar with about 2000 rounds through it, and I took VERY good care of it. I replaced the trigger bar and still have two of these guns, but it's not all it's cracked up to be IMO.

It doesn't have the capacity of a Glock, the trigger isn't as good as a Glock, the barrel is waaay too high in the gun and HK will need a total redesign to fix it.

I really like it for the most part, but in my twenty years of handgun ownership it's been my biggest disappointment by far. I've owned it since 1994, I believe this was when they first came out.
 
most diappointed

Newbe here. I only own two guns angot them this year. Not disappionted with either. Taurus pt111 and taurus pt145. Both work as advertised. Put bullets in gun pull trigger goes bang. Every bullet on target. Holes in tarket get closer the more I shoot.

1 happy camper, sorry:D
 
Charter Arms Bulldog .44 Sp .After hearing so many good things about it reading gun rags in the 80's, I picked one up. And have been sorry ever since cause I passed on a used S&W 66 that was only a little bit more. This Bulldog....where do I start? Hardest trigger pull of any weapon I've ever fired. Crazy inaccurate even for a snubby. Eats only top notch brass and even then....I often have to tap/pound the ejector on the bench to get brass out. Forget about Blazers, damn near have to Dremel them out.
It now sits near my back garage door and I throw it at cats I find in yard. No I haven't hit one yet. Figures.
 
Broomhandle Mauser (C96) with shoulder stock affixed to it. Hammer bites. Tried it in Germany and it bit me with almost every shot - and I have small hands too.:(
 
Glock Model 22. The ergonomics are horrendous, trigger left a lot to be desired, and it recoiled considerably more than I would expect a pistol of that size and caliber to recoil.:(
 
Tanfoglio TZ 75. It was a jammomatic. Very accurate when it did work, but couldn't get a whole mag through it without some sort of malf.
 
Colt Combat Commander 70 Series. Traded a S&W M25 Mountain Gun for it and immediately regretted it. I wasn't accurate with it and it felt overly heavy & unbalanced for its size. Tried to like it, but we all know better than that.....it never works. Ended up selling it and donating the funds to the Red Cross for Katrina victims. Also ended up replacing the M25 almost immediately.
The Colt is the only gun I've sold and not regretted selling and ended up replacing. Just could never warm up to the thing.
 
Wow, where to begin?

Rossi M-69. Every shot, the cylinder would unlock and try to swing free. That would prevent the subsequent trigger pull from indexing the next chamber. A firm slap on the left side of the cylinder would return the revolver to battery...for one more shot. :(

Colt 1911 (pre 1911A1). Would not feed anything but ball, and even ball was far from a certainty.

Springfield EMP. Wanted it so bad, bought one of the early ones (s/n 10xx). Beautiful, small, smooth. First box of 50 rounds had literally 20+ malfunctions. FTF, double feed, many light hammer strikes, locking open on a mag with rounds remaining and failing to lock open on an empty mag. Nearly every type of malfunction possible. I suspect that the IL had something to do with the light strikes, but disassembly showed nothing conclusive.

Called Springfield, and they asked me to try a different brand of ammo. I did, and experienced more of the same. Sent them the pistol and the box of 50 empties so they could see the light hammer strikes for themselves.

Called back about a week later, and they had disassembled it and in so doing had broken something requiring frame replacement (?). So I had to wait until they ramped up on production again. About a month later, they sent me a replacement. Don't know whether to try it or sell it unfired...
 
Colt Combat Commander 70 Series. ... I wasn't accurate with it and it felt overly heavy & unbalanced for its size.
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Oh you mean a pre-Series 80 Combat Commander FROM the 1970s. (There were no "Series 70" Commanders.)
I too agree that the Combat Commander just doesn't balance right. Feels too light at the muzzle for me. I love my 5" all steel Government and I love my 4¼" alloy frame Commander.
I must confess that I do have an all stainless steel Combat Commander but it's chambered in Super .38 ACP and it balances a little better that the .45 models.


The gun I have been the most disappointed in?

Easy, it was the H&K Model 4 I bought NIB in 1974. It was a pocket sized automatic that had multiple slides and barrels to convert it to .22lr, .25acp, .32acp and .380acp. I had read about them for a few years and just HAD to have one. I ordered one and waited well over a year to get it. Beautiful gun. Very well made. It just didn't work.
I spent months working on that gun trying to make it work. I think that's where I became so obsessed with magazine performance. After five or six months I finally got it as reliable as I could.
It actually worked the best when set up for .32acp. In ,32 you might get through two magazines without a jam. But usually every other mag load would jam. .25acp was the next reliable. One jam per mag with an occasional full mag withou problems. .380 had one jam per mag sometimes two. We used to count the shots and take bets on which rould would jam. It was never the same round. As for the .22LR. At least every fourth or fifth shot would jam.

I kept it for almost two years and finally found someone stupid enough to buy it even though I warned them. All of these menories came flooding back about a month ago when a friend of mine showed me his latest trade. A NIB unfired Model 4 with all of the conversion kits! Due to my proclivity for convertable guns he felt sure I'd drool over it. He was wrong. Drool was not the fluid I had to suppress.
 
My dissapointments are tiny in comparision to many others here. I bought a 380 Government Model Colt that jammed way too much for me. I sold it off. I hope the next owner had better luck or wanted to fiddle with it. I have no interest in fiddling with a gun. It shoots and functions or it's gone.

I was never very pleased with my H&R 999 revolver. It worked. Dumped it when I started to learn about firearm craftsmanship.
 
Gonna tell you why I like this thread. Its proof that any manufacturer can make a gun that does not perform up to our lofty expectations. Thats a nice way of saying the gun sucks : ) On this website I have read posts that sing praises to Rossi, Springfield, Glock, Charter Arms, HK, Smith & Wesson, Taurus, etc. On this one thread I've read posts that criticize all of the above. Just goes to show you......
 
My 2 cents

My disappointments:

1. Ruger Mini 14, .223 cal. I couldnt hit a standing barn with it, not too mention it would FTE about every 10th round. Bought that new, my mistake.

2. Sig Mosquito. What a POS that turned out to be. And from Sig ???

3. Kimber 1911 Tactical Pro II. Talk about tempermental... as bad as an ex-wife.

My conculsion after 30 yrs of shooting, owning, trading, etc.... each manufacturer can produce great guns as well as turds. It's up to me to do my research and spend due diligence at the range.

Great thread, by the way.
 
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