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

Now that was a creative review!

Marlin 336. 3030. Beautiful rifle. Lovely walnut, lovely blue job. Was iffy this side of 20 yards but usable for home defense against fat blokes. It had no respect for space-time continuum and after 20 yards bullets landed in a different dimension.

Scratched every piece of brass I put in the same room as it.

-SS-
 
Rugers Mini 14, ranch rifle and mini 30- poor accuracy.
Remington 700 AS .308- would drop its floor plate upon firing and would not group- too much movement in forend.
An M6 survival rifle with bad trigger and poor sights and a design that leads to frozen fingers- how anyone could get a feed with one of these in a survival situation is beyond me.
 
WORST rifle
NEF heavy barrel in .223. The transfer bar firing pin mechanism failed after less than 500 shots. Brought it back for warranty work but same thing happened again. NEF sent a new rifle which I traded for a Savage 110-V.

WORST shotgun
Winchester 1200 circa 1973. Stock was too short and too much drop for me. Difficult to hit intended target(s). This shotgun was an OLIN Corporation junker! Traded the 1200 plus the 3 screw in chokes for an almost new recliner chair.

Jack
 
Why would you guys put known bad guns back into circulation by selling or trading?

destroy them or drive them into the ground like that other guy did.
 
Remington 710..(Wal-Mart Special). Actually this was a friends gun. When the gun was fired, the clip would fall out and when cycling the action the bolt would pull completely out...After put this "puzzle" back together several times, I advised him to junk it and buy something else.

Worst shotgun.. Probably a JC Higgins bolt action 12 ga. Sears recalled many of the bolts because the handles would come off. Second worst is nearly all Winchester Automatics circa the 1970's and early 80's
 
Worst Rifle: SKS-D (the one that takes AK mags). I wasn't expecting MOA, but I wasn't expecting MOMOUNTEVEREST either. It was ugly inaccurate.

Worst Shotgun: Charles Daly Multi-mag semiauto. 3.5" chambered gun in full camo. Looked nice. Shot soft and patterned well........When it shot.
It was a coin toss whether the firing pin would actually detonate the primer. Common problem with that design I learned later.
 
By far the worst rifle purchase I ever mad was buying two Smith & Wesson M&P15PS's that refused to function even after a trip back to the warrany repair center. They were very expensive and were total garbage. Just a huge waste of time and money. And ammo.
 
Most of these problems just sound like flukes, human error, or expecting a gun to do something it wasn't made for, but every Remington 742 I've had (probably 4 or 5) have been piles.
 
Remington 700 BDL years (1970's model) 7mm Mag. The bolt handle blueing looked brown and it wouldn't group because of an oval (out-of-round) chamber. You fire a round (would only chamber Winchester ammo and not Remington ammo) and rotate it 90º and it would not go back in the chamber. I dumped it and bought a Harrington & Richardson Ultra .243 automatic. What a sweet gun that was. Wished I still had it.

This was when everyone in here said Remington quality was so great. My brand new 700 SPS Buckmasters is made 10 times better.

Also a Mossberg 835 3-1/2" 12 gauge mag pump only because it kicked like a mule.
 
A Mossberg SSI (SS1?) in, IIRC, .308 Win. Felt like a 30 pound trigger pull (worse than any shotgun I've ever seen) out of the box; sent it back to Mossberg and it came back with the same problem. Mossberg said there was no problem. Traded it off (no safety issues) sadly, as I liked the style and feel, but could not hit a target because of the atrocious trigger. Oh, it was not a fluke. My buddy got one at the same time I did, with the same results. Take care. larry
 
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