Which gun was the LEAST reliable?

Charter Arms Police Undercover in .38 Special. Oct. 2008 production. Misfires all the time, fails to engage cylinder in cold weather, has been back to the factory twice and once they had to over torque the barrel and cut the sight down to half height.

I'd probably do better throwing it at an assailant than shooting it at them.
 
S&W 969

Yeah, I know that dates me. It was the first of the compact Wonder 9. POS!! 3 return visits to S&W. The ting wouldn't even feed 124gr FMJ reliably. Traded it for another out of the box POS AMT Hardballer. The Hardballer after a massive polish job became reliable.
 
Taurus 617 7-shot .357 ... jammed after a few cylinders, had a horrible trigger ... HOWEVER ... $85 to an excellent gunsmith gave it a glass-smooth trigger and opened up the cylinder-barrel gap and it's now one of my faves ...
 
I had a Taurus PT22 that couldn't get through a mag jam-free, and the slide was so strong you couldn't pull it back which is just confusing.
 
Para ord was the worst. Then Taurus and Kimber
Best in no order Colt 1911's from 5" to 3" , Dan Wesson , Bersa, KelTec . all old 2 number model pin barrel S&W revolvers :D
 
I had a 475 Wildy that jammed every few rounds. It had a tunable gas port, but I never could get it to function properly and sold it.
 
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My least reliable is a Taurus Model 94 .22 revolver. Bought NIB. After 18 shots the trigger felt like there was sand in it; by 50 shots the cylinder was binding. Sent back to Taurus. It was returned a couple of months later. Trigger felt good, things were working. After 32 shots the trigger felt like there was sand in it, after 50 the cylinder was binding again. Trying to decide if I want a gunsmith to look at it or just saw it apart. I can't ethically sell it to anybody.
 
Tie:

Bersa Thunder .380, which had chronic problems with failures to feed. Normally, it would feed acceptably for less than 1 box of ammo, then it would have issues. If fed what it liked, it would feed reliably for 2 mags.

Bersa Thunder 9 Full Size, which had chronic problems with failures to extract. It got worse with time.

In both cases, I was really sad about it. I liked both of the guns. I wanted them to work. In both cases, I finally gave up and they went by the wayside, replaced by a Keltec PF-9 and a Taurus PT-92, respectively. Both of the replacements have been 100% reliable, and in retrospect I kick myself for not replacing the Bersas earlier.
 
That is no problem, answering that question: Ruger target .22 semi auto pistol I bought back in the early 70's.

After about 100 rounds, it would gunk up so bad, I had to take a knife to it in the area where the bolt closed up. If you looked at the rear of the breech, it would have been about 7 o'clock.

Black dirt, carbon, whatever would pile up there (and the ammo did not make any difference) and eventually the bolt just would not go home, . . . click !

I don't remember how I traded it off, . . . but I don't have it any more, . . . have two Buckmarks and neither of them exhibit such, . . . ugh, . . . tendencies.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
dan wesson razorback 10mm.

slide locked up tight after the first mag.

took a few emails and large mallet to break it loose.

it would not jam every other mag or so till recently, but now at least 1 ftf per mag, and the safety just broke.

all at less than 1yr/1500rds.
 
dan wesson razorback 10mm.

slide locked up tight after the first mag.

took a few emails and large mallet to break it loose.

it would not jam every other mag or so till recently, but now at least 1 ftf per mag, and the safety just broke.

all at less than 1yr/1500rds
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Oh MY GOD, the Dan Wesson Freakazoids are going to be all over you LOOK OUT ...there almost as bad the Glockoids... :eek:;)
 
Had a Ruger MkIII that was the biggest POS I've ever shot.

Pop>JAM>Pop>JAM>Pop>JAM and so on to infinity. I tried every conceivable type of .22 ammo I could find, I tried a whole slew of magazines, I cleaned it every which way, I even sent it back to Ruger. Still Jammed every other round.

I see people talk about how wonderful and reliable their Ruger .22's are and it just makes me mad. Most frustrated I've ever been with a gun.
 
Tho I've had many I didn't like, only 3 stand out as unreliable.
AMT Long slide was probably the worst. The first single shot pistol I ever owned. Funny thing is my brother has the one built right before mine and it's still his favorite pistol.
Charter Arms Explorer that I had wanted forever, traded a flawless Pheonix for it. Accuracy was non-exsistant, sometimes I could get 3 shots in row before it would jam.
S&W Sigma 380. Like the Longslide, pretty much a single shot pistol which was just as well since if you loaded a full mag in it more often than not the first shot would drop the mag.
 
Lorcin .380 was the worst handgun, I've owned. I could never get through any of both mags. without a FTE.
 
least reliable gun

Taurus 380 SA pistol. The lever that depresses the firing pin block broke rendering gun inoperative. Sent it back, mfr "fixed" it, 3 mos. later same thing occurred. I concluded this would never be dependable and traded it in on a different make. Have never had a Taurus since.
 
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