Guns you avoid

[PolarBear]

I'm also not a Ruger or Taurus fan.  I will never own a 7mm mag.  Just don't care for the round.

[Dhoey07]

I've never met a gun I wouln't shoot. 

[rtspring]

Ones that dont go bang when your animal is broadside at 50 yards....

[JimmyHoffa]

Classic Winchesters, especially the lever guns....horrible.  I have a good disposal system, so save yourselves the headaches and send them my way.

[grundy53]

Like I used to say when I was single. I love em all.... even the ugly ones.

[magnumb]

Walther PPKS's and the Jennings (teflon/J-22).  I get that the Jennings is/was practically a 'throw away gun' (which I did dissasemble eventually and tossed), but it was absolutely useless with FTF's every other round.

The Walther......just never liked that .380 platform nor the weight/size ratio.  Nice lookin', but just not for me after a few years of tryin' to like it.

Remingtons...........only because of their unwillingness to do the right thing in a timely and responsible manner, resulting in catastrophic accidents that needn't have ever occured.

Mossberg 12 gauge.....my first scattergun when very young.  Stock started to split and even though it ran good prior to that, my youth and inexperience with firearms just put me off the brand.  Whether the most reliable brand out there today or not, such incidents, whether small by comparison to other issues, left that 'not again' feeling with me.

[splitshot]

   not trying to jack your thread.   the ammo to avoid:  wolf and tulammo.  they are hard on the gun and some semis wont recycle them.    mike w

[Skillet]

I've heard that Rossi quality has improved since way back when, but I wouldn't risk any of my hard-earned money to find out.

[pianoman9701]

I have to avoid guns that have any connection to biggerhammer, whatsoever. I can get in a lot of trouble with those.

[runamuk]

Nope I like them all.

But I stay away from heavy recoil.

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and I started with rugers and liked all 3 I have had, rifle, pistol, revolver. My rifle did have an aftermarket trigger put in and some other minor improvements. 

[mburrows]

My friend's homemade sawed off 20ga New England shotgun...my friends laughed harder at my fat lip and bloody nose than i did.

[Mongo Hunter]

I like this there are a lot of good responses! I also throw in Keltecs. I have only ever shot one and it did work just fine but I have noticed that their consistency is all over the map. Some work perfect, some work after 2 or 3 trips back to keltec/gunsmith, some never work. also have heard of gunshops that wont carry them just for that reason, again that's hearsay but it tells me that there are some defiant QC issues at Keltec. and with the VAST market of quality guns out there I see no reason to settle.

[WapitiTalk1]

Red Rider - Not enough power to kill a rabbit, only enough power to shoot your eye out.

Classic 

[thinkingman]

Ruger and Remington.
Rugers (I own two) are crude and engineered for the cheapest manufacturing techniques money can buy.
Remington for the same reason(I own two Rem 22lr's, two 870's and 1 11/87).

[Biggerhammer]

I have to avoid guns that have any connection to biggerhammer, whatsoever. I can get in a lot of trouble with those.

  Sometimes it just follows a guy.