The handgun you were most DISAPPOINTED in?

Ruger P95. Sloppy tolerances,off center firing pin hits. Cost me $45 to ship it back to Ruger. They fixed most of what was wrong, but the tolerances are still loose. A buddy has a similar P95 and his is nice and tight.
 
Interesting; 5 pages & no mention of a Hi-Power

Both of my browning Hi-Powers have been great, one 9mm one .40. Stone cold reliable and accurate. Excellent feel in the hand. Not cheap however.

Roger
 
1. Most disappointed was not the gun's fault, being a conversion/customization. Few years ago, Glock model 30 with .400 corbon conversion barrel. Necked rounds nosedive jammed in mags.

2. Second most disappointed was/is a currently owned gun, a Taurus 4410. With .45 Colts, horribly crappy accuracy, which is weird considering that Tauri revolvers are usually very accurate. I'm not giving up on it yet though. Gonna try some .452 bullets and seat them long in .454 cases.
 
mine was a colt Target 22. Started out life as a POS. multiple FTE, than broke the stryker(2x i believe). Never could get it to shoot a full mag. All this plust two trips to colt. Finally Just traded it away. Only reason I wish I had it back is so I could sell it for 3 times what i paid for it.
 
Ruger 45 Blackhawk..

Purchased new in '99(?)

This particular .45 Blackhawk that had two chambers that were not only bored .002-.003 off their 60 degree centers- they were also off-axis, too. The gun would keep four shots in 5" at 100 yards, and then toss two shots 14"-16" out at 2 O'Clock. It was repeatable, identifiable, and conclusively traceable to those two chambers. The grip frame also 'missed' the main frame by about .006 on one side.

I had bought the gun about a month before deer season, and I managed to kill a fat doe with it by indexing a 'good' chamber up first. Once that was done I drew a layman's blueprint of the cylinder, and included a letter asking them to fit a new one and correct the grip frame misfit. The whole works got shipped in.

It came back in exactly the same condition as I shipped it. I called and got the 'within specs' line; and after much debate I got them to say they'd take another look at it. So I shipped it back again- except this time to the front of the letter & blueprint, I stapled a copy of my sales receipt marked 'REFUND ONLY-Sender will NOT accept return shipment." They mailed the check.

I like Ruger revolvers, but my take on them is that you either get a good one or you don't. Luckily, the odds of getting a bad one are still pretty small. If you do get a bad one, you are just about SOL getting them to fix on the first try- and I don't do 'seconds'.
 
i had a titanium 44mag taurus,one of the new ones and it shot great. the only problem was that the front sight is way to high so its only accurate on anything over 200 yards away:D
 
Hi-Point

I have a hi-point .380 that has had problems from the start. FTF/FTE every 2-3 rounds. I have tried most of the .380 rounds I can find too. But hey, it was my first gun and I still loved shooting it. Not to mention it was only $99 NEW! (you DO get what you pay for:p)
 
H&K full size 9mm, it felt all wrong when I took it to the range. I was expecting something similar to a Glock but it was very different and felt uncomfortable to me when I fired it.
I sold it for the same price I paid for it and the person that purchased it loved it.
Go figure. :)
 
Glock 20

Hard to hold, hard kicking, expensive ammo, and junk plastic sights. It was everything I ever wanted in a combat handgun, and it turned out to be nothing like I expected.
 
Ruger P90

I have to admit I bought this one used,but what a p.o.s.The magazine would fall out after the first shot only,was very inaccurate and had a horrible trigger.I traded it and $150.00 for a HK USP40 which I love.
 
Early Kahr K9. It suddenly developed failure to feed problems after more than 1k rounds by the previous owner and over 300 by me. Even after many trips back to Kahr, it wouldn't go more than 30-40 rounds without a stoppage regardless of the ammo used (even hardball). They replaced the gun, I sold the replacement unfired.

Chris
 
I was the original owner of MTNBKR's Kahr.

I bought it new, and never had a SINGLE failure with it of any kind.

It was one of my favorite handguns, but I finally decided to get rid of it (along with a Beretta) when I managed to get both a Browning High Power and an HK P7PSP.

I still feel badly about that whole scenario because of the grief that it caused him.
 
It wasn't your fault. I put more than a few rounds through it before buying it and quite a few afterwards before the problems appeared.

Either the way in which I shot the gun changed or something very subtle failed or wore out. The replacement was probably fine, but I was soured on Kahr and semiautos by that point.

What bugs me most is that I sold a nice Beretta 92 to buy the Kahr.

I still won't carry a semi for CCW purposes.

Chris
 
Believe it or not, a Colt series 70 Mark IV. I put fancy sights on it, had the rrigger done, ramped, etc, and I still could not hit anything with it. And I am a decent pistol shot.

A friend of mine showed up with one of the Ruger 9MM autos, one of the first they made. That had to be the most innacurate pistol I've ever shot. I could out shoot that pistol any day with my Beretta 92F.
 
S&W model 610. Maybe my expectations were too high, great trigger, great feel, beautiful, and deadly accurate out to five yards. :eek:
 
Colt Combat Commander in 9mm that I bought NIB during the mid 70's. The ONLY gun of any type that I've ever gotten rid of.
Beautiful gun, wicked recoil, and it would not reliably feed hard ball. It was reasonably accurate but I will not own a gun that doesn't run 100%. It got traded toward a G19 with nights. The Glock runs flawlessly.


Nail
 
Steyr M9. It was my first pistol and I bought it w/o even testing trigger pull, let alone holding one. It was when CDNN had them on clearance for $250. While waiting for it to arrive at my FFL I wandered into a Gander Mtn and saw a Steyr M40 (for $350). It felt nice in my hand, but when I tried the trigger pull I was disappointed. I figured since my M9 was already on the way that I would give it a chance.

The first 500 rds had numerous FTEs, double-feeds, and stovepipes. It would also eject wildly, sometimes right at my face. The Steyr Club forums showed that quite a few people had similar problems and recommended a detail strip and cleaning the extractor thoroughly. It was one of the later serial number M9s so it already had the lighter trigger than the older models.

After that no more failures, but I still couldn't get used to the weird trapezoid sights and the trigger. Mine was gritty and you could feel a distinct catch. Looking at the frame as I pulled the trigger you could see the transfer bar edge just catching on something before it contacted the sear. The transfer bar used spring pressure to hold it up against the sear. I bent the spring down a little and that solved the bar catching about 70% of the time. I tried bending it more, but then it wouldn't contact the sear. I considered putting 3-dot night sights on, but I couldn't stand the catch in the trigger and ended up selling it. I was disappointed because it was definitely an accurate gun, just that I couldn't get used to it.
 
1. A Taurus Pt-22. I got it as a bug and/or plinker. I got a great price on one of the fancy chromed, nice grip models. It was a horrible jammer. Every mag after a round or two. It would eject whole rounds rather than feed them. Once, it closed the slide on a whole round it was half way ejecting and bent the round in the middle about 45 degrees. This was a live round, not the casing. I sold it and took a 20 buck loss. It wasn't worth sending it back to Taurus.

2. An SW 651 - a very nice gun but if you fired about 30 rounds, it would stick shut with unburned powder. At 7 yards, it would cover the target with unburned powder. Sold it - of course now, they have doubled in price. :(

I've friends disappointed with various Kel-tecs for some spectacular failures
 
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