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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #30 on: January 23, 2009, 09:49:00 AM »
22 darenger pistol I missed a grouse with it at 10 feet. I think the bullets go out sideways and it has a trigger pull of like 10 pounds.  :chuckle:
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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #31 on: January 23, 2009, 02:21:53 PM »
When we were kids, my brother and I made a .22 “zip” gun out of a couple of blocks of wood, a broken off car antenna, a nail and a rubber band.  The rubber band never worked but we could get it to fire if we whacked the nail a time or two with a rock.  It was hard to aim and not too reliable.  Luckily we both still have all of our fingers.

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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #32 on: January 25, 2009, 10:47:06 PM »
A winchester muzzleloader, made in Spain.  It's the worst POS I've ever owned.  It's about as reliable as giving $20 to a wall street banker and getting your change.

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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #33 on: January 25, 2009, 10:51:57 PM »
Oh, yeah.  I have one of those Spanish made muzzys.  Bought it used last minute so I could make it to an elk camp I was invited to the year I moved up here. Missed 2 elk with it my first year, missed another one the next year.  I give that gun full credit for me taking up bowhunting.  It looks cool hanging on the wall in my trophy room though...
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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #34 on: January 25, 2009, 11:05:14 PM »
I currently own a Helwan pistol...thats pretty much a turd.  It was supposed to be a Berreta copy.  Beretta opened a plant in Egypt so they could mass produce these pistols.  Lets say theyre not quite up to Beretta standards.  It usually jams after the first few shots and recently the spring in the magazine just blew out the other end.  So Im looking for another magazine...maybe I should just look for another pistol :dunno:
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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #35 on: January 25, 2009, 11:20:57 PM »
Yeah, I quit on the front stuffer, too, after this year.  I can more than keep myself occupied with my guns and bow, and they work every time

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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #36 on: January 26, 2009, 06:11:08 PM »
Had a walther p99 in 40 cal. with the titanium finish about 5 years ago.

Had it for about 3 months and the titanium finish rusted on me (manufacture defect)and shot like a lead of pooh. Nice to look at and better to feel in the hand but it lobbed bullets. Called walther and they replaced it with a straight blued p99 that wasnt any better so i got my money back.

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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #37 on: January 26, 2009, 09:45:49 PM »
Savage 110-i have two a 243 and a 7mm and have killed lots of stuff with both but they are just really cheaply made guns. i have had trigger springs break and the bolts that hold the gun to the stock have fell out alot.
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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #38 on: February 06, 2009, 11:10:19 PM »
My Ruger 10-22 is VERY picky about the ammo it likes. It will bind up for no reason at all. If I take it out plinking, I bring along another gun just in case.

As for the WORST gun... a compact Llama 1911. If you had two consecutive rounds go off without stovepiping, you were lucky. Hell, even my Mac-10 went off every time I pulled the trigger (where the bullet went after that was a different matter. Certainly not a straight line)

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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #39 on: February 07, 2009, 07:23:00 AM »
My grandpa gave me a .22 smith and wesson double action pistol 2 years ago. But the dang thing keyholed. we traded it in and bought a 12 gauge shotgun 8).

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Re: The Worst firearm you have owned?
« Reply #40 on: February 07, 2009, 08:22:30 PM »
my worst gun was a hand me down montgomery wards .410 bolt action. my great grandad gave to me. dangeruos gun. it had a pin on the back of the bolt for a safety if it wasnt locked in place when u loaded it and chambered a shell it fired. its just a show piece now it my safe removed the firing pin

 


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