Worst rifle or shotgun youve ever owned......

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Outlaw81

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Please think of and list the worst firearm you've ever owned and elaborate on why it was so. I'm doin some research on trends with certain firearm companies. My personal worst rifle.I've ever owned was a Remington 742 carbine in .308 win. It couldn't hold a 3" group at 50 yards with open sites. I traded it off at a show for a 740 woodsmaster in 30-06. It had a longer barrel and would shoot roughly .75 moa out to 500 yds. I thought that it must've been a bad 742 so I bought another one brand new. The thing still couldn't do any better than 2.5 inches at 100. Please feel free to comment and share.
 
Since you also said shotgun - that would mean the Ruger Red Label in 28 gauge - proof that when critical dimensions mater, their lousy castings can't hold up
 
Worst rifle. A Remington 700. To be fair some of the best rifles I have had were Remington 700's, but I got one dog.


Worst shotgun would have to be a Savage/Fox I bought new in 1974. I mowed yards all summer long @ $3.00 a yard to save up the $150 or so it cost. In the 10 years I kept it, it literally spent more time at a gunsmith shop than in my home. Never could get it to work right and I sold it at a Flea Market.
 
Only had one crapper & it was the same as yours but in 30-06 that Jam-o-matic.Sent it back to remington twice still no good.After not one but two fail to fire on trophy deer it got a new job as a monument to my stupidity,As I pitched a fit like a little girl stuck it in the ground like a tent stake & went to the truck.That gun is still there, will soon be 8 years.:mad::mad:.
would'nt even sell or trade it JUST DAMN.
 
worst shotgun

No problems with any rifles.

One shotgun:

Remington 870 Express.

Slug barrel shoots about 4 inches to the left at 30 YARDS!!!!!!!.

God knows where it goes beyond that. If I ever used it again for deer, I would limit my shot to distances that would be a double tap on deer: slug and wad.


Still have it, though; don't really know why; it sits far, far, far in the back of the safe.

Rmocarsky
 
Hmmm...

Last month's brand spanking new Remington/Marlin 795 with such a long, gritty, 7-lb trigger it went back for factory repair before ever being fired! Worst outta-the-box (albeit $114) POS.

However, the Ruger 96/22 lever action is it? A trigger pull of an estimated 14 lbs. that can't really be corrected. But I bought that used for a song.
 
Worst rifle...Mossberg Plinkster. Jam jam jam.
Close second was the Mosin M38. Completely useless.
Wait, take that back. Henry AR-7. I mean COME ON.

Worst shotgun...20ga NEF. Recoil was brutal, couldn't imagine the 12ga.
Not far off was the Benelli Nova 'regular' model. Too light, POA vs POI was absurdly far off and aftermarket parts were nonexistent. Plus it was practically designed to short stroke.
 
Smith n wesson sigma .40 cal... The trigger had a really heavy pull affecting accuracy .. No safety.. And it jammed twice in the first 50 rounds...
 
Mine was a poorly sporterized 98 Mauser. It had a nice stock and looked good but the head space was off, I had that fixed then the bolt was really hard to open. It had all sorts of small screw ups in the conversion work. The shop I bought it from let me trade it in on a Winchester 670 Ranger in '06 for 25 bucks more and that's been a good gun for me...

Tony
 
Worst Rifle: Remington 700 CDL in .243 Winchester... Acted more like a shotgun than a rifle...
Worst Shotgun: Remington 870 Wingmaster... This one was so bad Remington gave up trying to fix it and sent me a new one which I immediately had to send back to have the chamber enlarged so it would actually feed and eject ammunition :eek:
 
Gee you guys have good guns compared to my worst. It was a NEF 12 ga. shotgun with the barrel sawed off to barely legal status. The stock was "taped" onto the barrel albeit loosely. Every time I fired the gun it flew apart and had to be taped back together again. I bought that one as a joke from my BIL because he described what it was like. The thing had a spread pattern like you see on tv. It spread about 5 feet for every 10 feet the birdshot traveled. I shot it about 5 times just for laughs and sold it to someone else so they could get a good laugh too. Now if you have one that was worse and you actually fired it you have more nerve than me. I wouldn't have fired that one if my BIL had not told me he had fired it several times. He kept it about as long as I did. I have to admit it was funny as heck watching parts fly in every direction. Then I'd walk around picking up parts and tape them all together again and fire it and laugh like heck. The receiver and barrel were actually in good shape or I would never have fired it but it sure was funny anyway.
 
Old Stevens 77c pump 12 gauge shotgun. Even when cleaned and correctly oiled, that POS would jam up. The stock cracked just because! Are all Stevens/ Savage 77's like that?
 
God only knows how many firearms I shot in my life but there was only 1 gun I ever had that gave me trouble and that was a Ruger .22LR Rifle with a clip and the first few shots I shot with it the gun jammed ,then I got it shooting again then it jammed again and again. It was brand new from wal mart out of the box. I took it back and got my money back,I will never buy another .22LR Rifle with a clip again :eek:
 
Mine was a universal brand 30 carbine it jammed every 3 rounds or so, sometimes i would make it through a whole string without problems then it would start again. i changed recoil springs tried different mags changed ammo nothing worked. Last month the pawnshop gave me 200 when my dad paid 125 so it was a good deal to get rid of a pos and with the money i bought a nice smith 586!!! ;)
 
AR-7 "Survival" rifle, it floats, that's about it. If it wasn't for the fact I was worried about children finding it, or floating into someones propellers.

It could keep on floating down stream.
 
Rem 7400

In 270. I wasted about 200 rounds trying to get it to shoot a "pattern" consistently, and finally decided it was bad enough to trade. It would shoot 6" patterns at 100 yards, and the next trip to the range it would shoot that pattern somewhere else on the target. I considered taking up knitting, but traded it on a great Winchester 70 that shoots good and is consistent. Like women---keep trying and eventually you get a good one. :D
 
Another vote for the Remington 742. The one I had was in 30/06. No problems with jams if kept clean, but you couldn’t hit a dinner plate at 150 yards with it, even scoped. A coworker borrowed it, killed a deer and asked what I wanted for it. I was honest and told him I thought it was a POS, he said he wanted it no matter what I thought. Asked if I would trade for a then new Remington 760 I jumped at the chance. The 760 turned out to be a tack driver. He was happy and so was I.

The worst shotgun I ever owned was a S&W pump. I can't recall the model, but it started to shed parts the first time I shot it. I don't remember what became of it.
 
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