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Old 12-21-2011, 03:16 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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I've been through a few total pieces of garbage; my worst luck has been with AK clones.

I've had 2 Norinco AKs; one that was about as accurate as an old smoothbore musket with a bent barrel and one that had terminal jamming problems.

1 Vector Arms AK underfolder that had horrible headspacing and a gas pressure problem that kept it from cycling reliably.

A Maadi AK that also was completely inaccurate and impossible to sight in.

(I'm still looking for an AK that isn't a piece of garbage but cheaper than an AR, BTW)

A CVA Hawken Muzzloader that I had a hard time getting any accuracy out of, plus the stock cracked at the barrel pin when I was shooting it.

How about y'all?
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Old 12-21-2011, 03:19 PM
 
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Worst: Armalite AR-15, that and an AR variant I won in a contest and sold ASAP have been the only lower quality firearms I've had the misfortune of owning.
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Old 12-21-2011, 03:34 PM
 
Location: Columbia, California
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I was not happy with a UZI I bought new, the smaller pistol model not much smaller than the full size.
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Old 12-21-2011, 04:33 PM
 
Location: In a house
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A Winchester 94 trapper 44 mag. It just kept shooting apart no matter what I tried. I eventually had a dovetail cut under the barrel to hold the tube in but was soured on it by then & chucked it. Mostly I ponder a gun purchase for a long time so I get few surprises like that.
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Old 12-21-2011, 06:40 PM
 
Location: Columbia, California
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My Win 94 in 44mag is one of my favorites. Sorry it did not work out for you.
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Old 12-21-2011, 09:04 PM
 
Location: Visitation between Wal-Mart & Home Depot
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I don't really have any guns that I don't like.

I seem to have managed to find a really finicky Ruger No. 1. I've never met a rifle that's as sensitive to different pressures from different rests. I honestly think I could get a significantly different point of impact gripping the rifle with my weak hand at the end of the stock and at the base near the receiver.
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Old 12-22-2011, 03:11 AM
 
Location: Perry South, Pittsburgh, PA
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I own a Hi-Point 995 carbine whose bolt carrier was never tapped to screw in the charging handle so you have to stick it in and hold it in place when you put in a fresh magazine.

That's pretty annoying.

But the worst gun I ever had was a Ruger Mark III. The takedown for cleaning and reassembling process after are absolutely miserable.
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Old 12-22-2011, 08:31 AM
 
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About 20 years ago someone I knew needed some money and offered me a Jennings 9mm for $100. Constant FTF's (jams) and I could hit anything with it, so I traded it in on a different gun a few months later.
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Old 12-22-2011, 08:44 AM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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The first handgun I bought was a S&W CS9. I wouldn't say that it was poor quality, but I found it very uncomfortable to shoot and I never could shoot it accurately, no matter how much I practiced with it. When I bought my Glock a few years later, I was shooting nice groups on my first day at the range with it. That's when I realized that the CS9 and me just weren't meant to be together, lol. I held onto it for a while, but sold it a couple of years ago after realizing that I just didn't like the gun, and wasn't going to be shooting it again, ever.
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Old 12-22-2011, 09:20 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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It's a tie between an AMT .380 backup and a Titan .25. Both were jamomatics.

Traded the AMT for a Kahr CW 45 recently, and gave the Titan to my son for sentimental value (it originally belonged to his grandmother who used it to scare off a burglar 25 years ago).
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