Whats your worst handgun make ever?

[SilentHitz]

42 folks so far voted for Glock to be their worst handgun

I don't think they're voting against the pistol, as much as they're voicing displeasure with those who always post Glock being the best thing since sliced bread LOL. They run...they just ain't "purdy".

I've owned a few over the years, no problems, just prefer the 1911 platform myself. Only one I kept was the one that fit my hands best, the 21

 

[LightningJoe]

Taurus PT145 Pro
bought it because it was tiny, sold it because after 150 rounds, the odds of firing a round when you pulled the trigger was maybe 1 in 3

Yours was broken. My Mil-Pro worked as well as or better than any other gun I ever owned. I stopped carrying it because it wasn't tiny enough.

 

[hemiram]

Why are Llama, Astra, and Star linked together? They hardly deserve to be.

Worst Revolver- My first gun, a Taurus Model 83, in nickel. Bad rifling, uneven face of cylinder, and bad timing. Soon sold after I bought a Dan Wesson Model 15-2, a great gun. I haven't had a single bad revolver since.

Worst Semiautos- There's a bunch. AMT Back-Up 380, insanely hard trigger pull when new, off the gunsmith's scale. Came back from AMT with a slightly better pull. After the local gunsmith worked on it, he said, "It hasn't got one single smooth part inside it". The AMT Hardballer Longslide I had was a jam-O-matic that looked great, but was totally unreliable. My FTL "Auto-Nine" blew the extractor off on the first shot, and again after being fixed used THE EXACT ammo called for in the manual.

The Colt Commander I had was really pretty, until Colt's service dept got hold of it, and scratched it all up. They didn't fix it. It had all kinds of issues, most of them due to not one part of the frame or slide was straight. My S&W 4506 had all kinds of issues, it would hang up just short of going into battery, so a stronger spring was put in, and it helped, a little. It had "limp wristing" issues if not held with a death grip. What a dissapointment. I've had a few other guns with "limp wristing" issues, and they were either fixed, or I got rid of them as fast as I could. I won't own one.

I have never had an issue with any of the four Astras I owned (I still have 3, two A-75's, in .40 and 9mm, and an A-100 9mm), they all shot great. My Star 30 was one I wish I had never sold, it was fantastic. All my Dan Wesson revolvers have been pretty much totally trouble free, and my EAA Witness .45 is one of my favorites ever. Almost all the problems I've had have been with brand new guns, the used ones have pretty much been great.

 

[Ian0351]

plastic fantastics

So I've never owned one, but I hate Glocks. I have fired several, and every single one has had a failure to eject in <1 magazine. Maybe it's me, I like big heavy guns like full lug revolvers and ruger p series autos. I could be guilty of limpwristing... or maybe it's the grip angle is jacked up for my hands... all I know is that for the "most reliable gun in the world" I would rather trust my life in a gunfight to a taurus SA/DA like my PT940, which has no polymer and slings .40 S&W every time I have ever pulled the trigger, and never has when I didn't.

 

[Monster4570]

High-Point

Ever handle a High-Point?

Enough Said.

 

[bugs]

Lies, damned lies, and statistics ...

Not exactly scientific. No way to correlate responses to the total number of guns in each category. S&W and Glock sell a lot of guns, so even if lemons are rare, the numbers will work against them. And although I am not a Glock fan, I would not vote that it was my worst handgun experience just because I don't like the gun. I suspect I do not speak for everyone here on that.

My worst was a jam-o-matic Bersa Thunder 380. Jammed on every magazine out of the box - 10 in a row. Had to mail it for warranty repair twice before I could make it through a box of 50 cartridges without a jam. I have had good experience with S&W and CZ products.

 

[Firepower!]

Congratulations to Taurus for winning this poll.

This is in response to a concurrent "Taurus Question" thread on TFL.

 

[riggins_83]

hi point Comp 9 tied with any Taurus..

 

[ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ]

Cobra .380

 

[rmocarsky]

Jennings J22

Neat little thing to look at and hold . . .

But it very rapidly degenerated into a single-shot headache.

Got rid of it . . . the only firearm I ever got rid of and did not regret having done so.

Rmocarsky

 

[woad_yurt]

OP:
Why are Llama, Star and Astra grouped together as a single choice? They're separate entities and Star and Astra are quality guns. Llamas can be sketchy sometimes but the other two made some good stuff.

Hemiram: I noticed your post after I posted. I have a Star Mod 30MI, the monster 9MM. Star 30s are great ones.

 

[FM12]

Sterling Arms .22LR. Constant failures to feed.

 

[raftman]

I've had a couple of bad ones. The worst experience though, hands down, would be with the Iver Johnson TP-22. These generally have a decent reputation, but mine exploded, breaking the trigger guard, and cracking the frame and slide too.

 

[darkgael]

cobra derringer

In general, I'm satisfied with every pistol that I own regardless of make (Colt, S&W, Ruger, Taurus, Browning, High Standard, Cobra, Webley, Beretta, Ishmash, Pardini, Bernardelli, Glock, FN, T/C, Nagant).
The little .38 Spl. derringer in question is the loosest - kinda rattlely - it does go Bang, though.
Pete

 

[JustAGunNut]

Worst experience

Was chambering a round in my 1927 German Luger in .30 and when the first round chambered, it fired off the whole magazine! Fortunately, as is my habit, I had the pistol aimed at the ground and down range. I much prefer my Pythons and TRP. Is this Luger problem common and what is the fix?

 

[bubbaturbo]

It's been kind of funny to watch someone chime in every few posts about how questionable the poll results are when they don't support his opinion of Glocks and how great the poll results are when they do support his opinions of HK. Hope he doesn't have anything to do with elections in say Florida or Afghanistan or Pakistan.

 

[gyvel]

Cody Thunderbird .22 revolver

A Cody Thunderbird .22 revolver; Click, click, click, bang, click, click, click, click, click, bang, click, click...

 

[Straightshooter629]

another pathetic handgun would be Rossi. Absolutely junk

In response to Firepower...

I can't speak for your experience but I daily carry a Rossi model 462 ss snubby in .357 with close to a thousand rounds through it with absolutely no problems. For my money.it's been an excellent gun.

 

[Firepower!]

I have had Rossi in .32 and it was a decent gun. However, the one I have in ss .22 is what made my experience sour. It so poorly made that at time I cant open cylinder after shooting, and accuracy wise its way off the target.

 

[raftman]

Dishonorable mention would probably go to the Sterling .22 pocket pistol. The gun actually had a few nice things about it. Decent construction, easy field-stripping and cleaning, surprisingly accurate, and I really liked the trigger. However, the dang thing was a jam-o-matic of epic proportions. I did what I could to make it right because of all the things I did like about it, tried different kinds of ammo, tried painstaking cleaning, polishing, and so on and it just wouldn't perform. I ended up using it to experiment with re-bluing and sold it not long thereafter.