The handgun you were most DISAPPOINTED in?

S&W J frame .22s,
I had two different J frame .22 Smith & Wesson revolvers. Both were crap. neither was accurate, neither could be worked into a good trigger pull, neither were what I would consider reliable.
I now own two S&W j frame .38s and they are great, smmoothe actions and accurate. (among many other S&W products)

Roger
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Plus 1.
S&W 63 resembled the above remarks.
My 360PD. The auto lock went on, and stayed on, after about 150 rounds, and, 3or 4 thousand dry fires.

Had to have it removed. For something that is supposed to cost near 1k, it sucks. Grips were horrible, as well. Why put little rubber grips on a gun designed to carry concealed, when the rubber catches on your clothes?

FA 83, only because I'm shocked I have to carry it as a 4 shooter.

Dr. S

Dishonorable mention:
Walther PPKS weighed as much as a full sized pistol, and, shot 380, which, 30 years ago was REAL expensive. Plus, it was a major pain to try and reload those tiny cases, with tiny bullets.

Charter Arms Bulldog, in 44 special. Shot it to pieces. My fault. I thought it would take light 44 magnum loads. I WAS WRONG.
 
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HK USP compact, P2000sk, and P2000. Heavy, poorly balanced, vague trigger pull, and that stupid magazine release LEVER!!!!!

Edit: and the holster selection is horrible.

Runner up- Ruger 9mm auto. Big hunk of poorly machine scrap iron ****. Felt like a small boat anchor on my belt. Fed sometimes... if it was in the mood. Trigger felt like a Rossi revolver that had been buried in mud for five years. One of the most inaccurate pistols I've ever shot. However, since it weighed so much, it was a decent backup baton.
 
The AMT back up... ( mine was 380 )... looked like a well put together gun, my 1st stainless gun... but would not feed / fire reliably... I bought it used... tried buying a new mag, worked it over a bit...still nothing improved, even with ball ammo... ended up trading it in, like the person before me...

could never trust my life on that gun, & as it's intended purpose was as a self defense gun, it soured me on small self defense autos... makes me paranoid to spend the money on a Seecamp, as they look similar
 
My brother in law's High Point, 9mm. Nothing happend when I took off the safety and pulled the trigger.

I pulled the trigger again, . . . nothing happened.

I let off the trigger and was just holding it when it finally went ka-boom.

Yeah, . . . you're right, . . . I wouldn't own one.
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Sounds like an ammo problem to me, not a problem with the gun.
 
My Glock 23, I got caught up in the hype. After using it for a while I traded it b/c it was bulky, uncomfortable to shoot, to hard for me to conceal, and I could not hit a damn thing with it. But it only FTE once during the few months I had it.
 
Sterling .22. I think it was the 302 Model. Never really shot a full magazine through it without a failure somehow to chamber or eject. Tinkered with the magazine endlessly, and the extractor. No avail. Bad idea as a backup gun since it was striker-fired, you did not want to keep one in the chamber.

Did do great as a deer gun, though.

Traveling Wisconsin roads at night, you have a tendency to run into herds of deer. Car horns don't work, but put a .22 out the window and fire off a shot in the air and they scatter. Never hit one after I started pulling that trick. :rolleyes::p;):D

Couldn't hear out one ear for a couple minutes though. :o

The Doc is out now. :cool:
 
You can't go wrong with a Bersa 380 CC. Good price, good function, easy to conceal. It is the only handgun that I possess, and I own a bunch of them, that has never failed, not once.:)

I was most disappointed in the Walthers PPK/S I had. I think it was demon possessed. I could never get the blasted thing to work even after a thousand rounds of various ammo types.:confused: I finally took a thumping and traded it in on an XD 9, which is a great handgun, a little bulky, but excellent in every other respect.

Michael
 
Smith and Wesson Sigma. They debuted to much fanfare from the gunrags. I bought one and did not like the trigger at all, gritty and heavy. I know some swear by them, but it wasn't for me.
 
Timely post. My bud and I went to the range several weekends ago. He had his wife's Raven .25auto. It wouldn't feed consistently, misfired several times and stovepiped about every third round it fired. I think the pink pearl grips had alot to do with it. Different magazines did not help. Glen is a real macho type. He uloaded the pistol, took the magazine out and threw it down range, turned to the bemused crowd and said: "It is my wife's pistol. I take no responsibility for that POS." The range officer was laughing so hard he had a difficult time enforcing the range rules on this one with a straight face.:D
 
Most unreliable

A second vote for the Sterling.
Interesting that there aren't very many votes for S&W 38/357? My models 13, 686+, and 640 have been stellar.
 
I forgot close bolt mac 11's. 9mm, huge, only liked ball, and, none of the fun with changed bolts, and full auto.

Macs in general were good for only one thing: home defense at close range, and, they really needed to be full auto to be good at that. Thought they were over priced POJ.

Looking back, the macs were fine.
I'd have to say I was most disappointed in my inability to understand how valuable, and, how endangered, those 300 dollar guns were going to become. I had on loan, a couple REAL nice ones, and, owned a couple myself. Selling them was really one of the dumbest things I've ever done...

Dr. S
 
For me, I think the absolutely most disappointing was a VERY expensive Colt 1911 "Combat Elite" that I bought back in the early 90s. It would NOT work - would jam on ball ammunition despite several trips to Colt for evaluation. Accuracy was also marginal - the gun was simply a lemon.

Another serious "downer" was the S&W 940. I REALLY wanted one of these as a backup to issued 9mm autos. I had two, both were terminally unreliable. Both, when sent back to S&W for warranty repair, resulted in me being given a refund or replacement of a different type of S&W, since they won't even do warranty work on these anymore...

I've had dozens of other pistols that I only owned briefly, for a variety of reasons, but I had much higher expectations from Colt and S&W, so those two really stand out...

Regards,

Kevin
 
Beretta 950 BS. Never got through a full mag without a jam.

S&W 2214. Ditto.

The above two were relatively cheap, and .22 semis are iffy at best, so maybe I shouldn't have expected much. So my award goes to: S&W 3953. Nice size, indifferent ergonomics, very high bore axis, and the WORST TRIGGER in the history of top of the line firearms - long, heavy pull, with no predictable break. I couldn't wrestle the thing onto paper at seven yards. It soured me on DAO triggers forever. Beyond that, I've come to believe that DA semis of any type are too hard to shoot well for any purpose. Cocked and locked or Glock/M&P/XD triggers make the most sense.
 
USP Compact

My USPc .45 SS - it sure does look pretty, but a $800+ gun should have an excellent trigger, not this crap they peddle. I really like almost everything else about the gun, but the trigger just plain kills it for me. :(
 
Ruger SP-101

They are given alot of praise in the gun mags (there is an article by Massad Ayoob about them in this issue of Guns), but mine was awful. It had the worst revolver trigger I have ever seen. It was full of catches and was very gritty. I put a Wilson spring kit in and it was still awful. The trigger would occassionally not go back forward after being pulled. I would have to push it back forward (not good on a carry gun). It also did not like .357 ammo. The tolerance was so tight in the cylinder that when the .357 cases swelled after firing, you needed a hammer to pund them out. I got rid of it for a Taurus.
 
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