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What gun do you regret buying?

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#1 ·
There is a thread about what gun U would reach for first if ya needed it - so, what gun do U regret buying?

My first gun was a Glock 17 - it was jammomatic city. It never worked right. I knew that was unusual, so it didn'ts top me from buying other Glocks later - but, this gunw as horrible...
 
#29 ·
I have have several 25 cal raven,45 cal high point and 10/22 ruger.
Those are three I can think of in last ten years.The ruger been a pain
that is fussy when it comes to what type of ammo it likes.I'll take my marlin
model 60 over one any day!The other two are just plain junk! I now only
buy good stuff!
 
#30 ·
I really regret buying my first handgun, a Ruger Single Six with both the .22LR and .22 WMR cylinders. It was a lot a fun, but it started my addiction. I now blame Ruger for my periodic lack of money and overstuffed safes.
 
#31 ·
I really regret buying my first handgun, a Ruger Single Six with both the .22LR and .22 WMR cylinders. It was a lot a fun, but it started my addiction. I now blame Ruger for my periodic lack of money and overstuffed safes.
Sounds like a complaint ya dont really mind making tho.........:mrgreen:
 
#34 ·
NIB S&W auto's. :smt011 All were purchased due to good luck with past models. However, with very recent reliabilty and quality issues they have all been traded away. I've moved onto a better product line, Sigsauer. :smt023
 
#35 ·
My Charles Daly 1911. Jams up quite often and spits out empty casings and unspent rounds at the same time...sometimes. I did absolutely NO research prior to buying, and I was still fairly new to handguns at that time. I just pretty much woke up one morning and thought, "I want a 1911." So, I went and bought one that was in my college student budget, lol. You get what you pay for I guess!

Mah Momma says dat de Chaz Daly Nahnteen-Elevohn is a piece of sheeeat. It's de Debil. :smt076
 
#41 · (Edited)
Taurus PT140. I tried to shoot it at my first Bullseye comp. Very Dissapointing. Out of 60 rounds fired, only 6 managed to find the target. Talk about embarrassing. I went the next week and bought my Colt Serirs 70 govt and never looked back. Actually, my wife bought it for our first christmas. So I can't get rid of it, Dang it.
 
#44 ·
i do regret selling some of my guns but not the springfield 1911 i got new at a gun show. i had constant FTF & FTE issues. tried many different magazines even top dollar mags i borrow at the range. i couldn't get through 2 mags in a row without a jam. i sold the gun without a reget at all. only now, looking at the 1911 posts, am i starting to think that i just got a lemon. everyone here seems very willing to vouch for them, so maybe it was just that one. i dtill regret buying it since i sunk alot of money into an unreliable gun.
 
#46 ·
i do regret selling some of my guns but not the springfield 1911 i got new at a gun show. i had constant FTF & FTE issues. tried many different magazines even top dollar mags i borrow at the range. i couldn't get through 2 mags in a row without a jam. i sold the gun without a reget at all. only now, looking at the 1911 posts, am i starting to think that i just got a lemon. everyone here seems very willing to vouch for them, so maybe it was just that one. i dtill regret buying it since i sunk alot of money into an unreliable gun.
Did U ever try sending it back to Springfield?
 
#47 ·
i didn't, i had very limited knowledge on handguns at the time. i just thought that i got what a paid for. it was a 1911 A1 GI model. i had zero experience with 1911's and just liked the history and feel of the gun. this experience has really turned me off towards them.
 
#48 ·
OMC Backup .45 ACP. Light firing pin hits sometimes, so I get a click instead of a bang. Had feeding problems for a while, but the liberal application of money to a gunsmith fixed that. Occasionally ejects into my forehead, usually with the sharp edge first, leaving little bloody semi-circles above my eyebrows.

Still have it. Can't bring myself to sell it to somebody.
 
#50 ·
Regretable guns

I regret buying the PX4. I like a lot of things about it, but it wasn't really what I had in mind for that purchase. Totally reliable, but hard for me to shoot acurately. I'd give anything to go back and get the XD instead. I haven't given up on it yet. I might try some different sites at some point. I also just hung a streamlight light/laser on it. I'm hoping that will make for some better accuracy once I take it out and zero it in. At worst it will end up a reliable sock drawer gun.

The only other regret was my first gun. A rossi .22 pump action rifle that didn't always feed well. Besides even though I was 12 a hotter round would have been more versitile. I regret not having something with enough juice to go after the deer that were abundant on my property at the time.
 
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