What is the worst POS firearm you've ever owned?

[crotalus01]

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Evil Ernie wrote:

Oh, I don't know. I have 4 mags for my C9 and I've yet to jam once and have lost track of how many rounds I've fired thru it. Well over 1000 I know of. Now if you're limpwristing it, well, there ya go. But I'm sure your a big beefy guy with wrists the size of telephone poles so thats out of the question...

I am about 220 and NOT limpwristing, also no telephone pole wrists. I have no problem with accuracy with the Hi Point, just jamming issues. Actaually I have been told they will go away the more rounds you put through it, and that it is a pretty common issue in the newer Hi Points (so-called break in period).

Also, please don't jam on me, I don't swing that way :what:

 

[Evil Ernie]

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Ah, now you tell me...yeah, run about 500 rounds thru her, then polish the feed ramp. I little tinkering with the feed lips on the mag, and she should run smooth as buttah...Once you get'em broken in, cleaned up, and a little tweaky tweaky action, the C9 is a very reliable handgun.

No jammin? Jeez, dude...expand yer mind....LOL:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Jack Hollowpoint]

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I've come to realize that I can't possibly own all the firearms . . . so I just buy the good stuff and avoid owning the POS.

 

[thx997303]

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Well, I think the point is to find out what firearms you came across, that seemed good at the time, and turned out being POS's.

 

[Boomer654]

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Ihad a Charles Daily 1911 clone that was a POS from day 1. Initially I found that sometimes when I pulled the trigger it would just fall down into "half cock" position and not fire. Then there was the issue of feed problems.... so I sent it back to CD (lifetime warranty) and they returned it... improved (now the hammer fell all the way), but I was still having feed problems. It was never reliable enough to carry, which is what I bought it for. I eventually traded it and a SIG 226 in 9mmfor a SIG 220 .45(+ store credit) which I love and the 220 has YET to malfunction. I loved the 226, but really wanted a .45, sooooo it seemed the best solution for my cash starved lifestyle. The 220 even fits my 226 holsters so I didn't have to buy new carry gear. Love it.




I have aPhoenix .22and I boughta target barrel for it. It ISa POS, but I don't use it for a carry gun, just a plinker, so I don't mind so much.

 

[MoparGuy]

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Theworst gun I've ever owned was a piece of crap Davis Industries .380 Auto, with a 5-round magazine. You could look at this thing cross-eyed and it would jam.

 

[brolin_1911a1]

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I've had two that would tie for the position. One was an Auto Ordnance 1911 Govt. model I bought in the mid-eighties. The barrel actually had an annular ring around the inside about 1/32" into the rifling just in front of the chamber. Looked like the chamber was a shrink fit over the rifled part and shrunk too much. It took three attempts and three new barrels before Auto Ordnance finally sent a one-piece barrel without that problem. Then I had to deal with the soft slide rails and loose fit. The slide actually looked bow-legged by the time I got things tightened up enough for reasonable accuracy.

The other POS gun I've own (actually still own) is a S&W mod.2214 I bought new from an S&W Outlet store in Branson, MO. When I got it home, I went to clean it and couldn't get a cleaning rod down the barrel. It appeared, according to the S&W gunsmith, that the rifling reamer had broken halfway down the barrel at the factory. So S&W replaced the barrel.

The new barrel would jam, shortstroking, about every other round. The top of the barrel on which the slide rides had tooling marks so bad that it looked like a file. Instead of sending it back to Smith & Wessson again (shipping gets expensive) I took some stones, hones, and a dremel and polished things myself. It's pretty decent now but the sad, sad quality control that S&W demonstrated in 1999 was enough for me to list that gun as a POS.

 

[FightingGlock19]

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I hate to tell a bunch of strangers what the worst guns I've owned have been, but it's the only way we all learn so ...

Hi-Point C-9 along with a Taurus PT111

 

[TheMrMitch]

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Jennings .22 that shot surprisingly well. Just not good enough. Gave it to daughter....got stolen and returned. Got her a Makarov.

 

[Shotgun]

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12 ga. zip gun made from 3/4 inch pipe and some odds and ends that probably cost no more than $5 from a hardware store. Firing pin was a nail. Makes your Phoenix, Cobray, Hi Points, etc look like Purdy's in comparison, but it never failed to go "bang."

As far as a gun made by "a major manufacturer" the worst has been a Ruger P-90 that failed to go into battery so often I wouldn't ever consider it as a carry gun. In a long gun, Remington Model 522 "Viper" --- not accurate and somewhat of a pain in the ass to break down and reassemble.

 

[TheMrMitch]

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Shotgun wrote:

12 ga. zip gun made from 3/4 inch pipe and some odds and ends that probably cost no more than $5 from a hardware store. Firing pin was a nail. Makes your Phoenix, Cobray, Hi Points, etc look like Purdy's in comparison, but it never failed to go "bang."

As far as a gun made by "a major manufacturer" the worst has been a Ruger P-90 that failed to go into battery so often I wouldn't ever consider it as a carry gun. In a long gun, Remington Model 522 "Viper" --- not accurate and somewhat of a pain in the ass to break down and reassemble.

Wow...forgot about my 'zip'. Similar and had a screw on a hinge for firing. I shot it ONCE and tore my hand up. Was lucky.:uhoh:

 

[Nelson_Muntz]

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Tec-9. Stiff action and extremely picky on what it ate. Stovepiped on all but the most expensive stuff.

 

[ThunderRanch]

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My worst POS was a Glock 21. I know the Glock lovers will flame me for saying that, but after shipping the gun back to Glock six different times, they finally sent a new gun, which I promptly sold. (Glock customer service was superb, but I want a gun that will actually function properly more than I want good service when it doesn't!)

I know lots of people love their Glocks and I don't believe my experience was remotely normal for a Glock, but I won't ever own another one!

 

[Shotgun]

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ThunderRanch wrote:

My worst POS was a Glock 21. I know the Glock lovers will flame me for saying that, but after shipping the gun back to Glock six different times, they finally sent a new gun, which I promptly sold. (Glock customer service was superb, but I want a gun that will actually function properly more than I want good service when it doesn't!)

I know lots of people love their Glocks and I don't believe my experience was remotely normal for a Glock, but I won't ever own another one!

Won't flame you because your experience is what it is. I own 4 Glocks and they've all been exceptionally reliable, as has a Ruger P-95 that has functioned 100% reliably from the day I got it many years ago. I've been fortunate because the only two guns I have that I wouldn't trust my life on are the P-90 mentioned earlier and a Super Redhawk, which isn't a defensive gun anyway. Even my "cheap" Kel-tec has been 100 percent reliable-- so far!

 

[Weak 9mm]

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I had a good experience with my Kel-Tec, it never once failed to function in any way.

 

[Alexcabbie]

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My worst POS is also now one of my fave guns. Strange I havent read any kvetching about the Walther PPK/s especially the SW stainless version, ovewr at gundirectory.com ther's a whole thread on this piece and it's a running debate over whether it's a POS or a trusty companion. Mine had a double-feed jam on the third shot out of the box, so bad I had to put on the safety and field-strip the piece to clear it. But once it had a couple hundred rounds of expensive .380 run through it the jamming lessened. I concluded that SW was making the tolerances too tight so I got some jeweler's rouge and applied it to the rails and other slide contact points, took out the slide spring and racked the slide back and forth a few dozen times, clleaned her up and oiled her and voila! a dependaable weapon that fires every time. When I first got her I named her "Jammi'n Jenny" but now she's jusr plain "JJ"and I'd trust my life to her. BUT if that had been anything but a Walther it would have got returned the next day. The Walther PPK/s: from POS to gem with just a little tinkering. :celebrate

 

[duffydog]

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agree, my Hi Point 9mm shoots great. ugly yes in the eyes of some, cheap, i say

afordable, made in the USA life time warrenty. i both my wife a SW mod. 10 $560

i will be getting the Hi Point 45 soon. Auto's jam thats a fact. look at the m16

jammed with the smallest amount of dirt. I carry my 9 and yes will stake my life on it

if it ever comes to it.

 

[Weak 9mm]

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What is it about the internet that makes people so terrible at spelling? It also causes extreme errors in grammar.

Warren is a name.

A warranty is a warranty. This forum even has spell check, at least it does for me. You get a big red line under the word that tells you that you've failed. It's just sad to see so many grown people who cannot write in their own language. Granted one mistake is no big deal, everyone does that. But the problem is that I don't believe most things I see like that are a typo, I think the people actually believe that the way they spell something is the way you're supposed to spell a particular word.

Come on dude, what's up with the lack of capitalization, insane spacing and hitting enter seemingly at random? All of these things make the simplest statements WAY more difficult to read than they should be.


Most people on here don't rant quite like I do btw, lol.

 

[ThunderRanch]

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Weak 9mm wrote:

What is it about the internet that makes people so terrible at spelling? It also causes extreme errors in grammar.

Warren is a name.

A warranty is a warranty. This forum even has spell check, at least it does for me. You get a big red line under the word that tells you that you've failed. It's just sad to see so many grown people who cannot write in their own language. Granted one mistake is no big deal, everyone does that. But the problem is that I don't believe most things I see like that are a typo, I think the people actually believe that the way they spell something is the way you're supposed to spell a particular word.

Come on dude, what's up with the lack of capitalization, insane spacing and hitting enter seemingly at random? All of these things make the simplest statements WAY more difficult to read than they should be.

OK, that was way off topic. In response, the internet didn't necessarily make this happen. The whole idiotic educational system, and the requirement to teach a child to "pass the SOL test", made this happen. There is also the culture that, with the popularity of text messaging, punctuation and grammar have been replaced by "shortcuts".

Run on sentences are also an issue. People end up using commas where they should have used a period. But we won't get into that one.

 

[RockyMtnScotsman]

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The only "POS" firearm I've ever owned is one that most everyone does not associate with poor quality...

H&K USP :shock:

I know the one I had was a lemon but it still left a sour taste in my mouth for H&K. Less than a week after I bought it the safety/de-cocker lever broke so that it would free-spin 360 degrees. I sent it to H&K for repair and got it back about 8 weeks later. A couple of range trips later.... same thing. Back to H&K and another 8 weeks....

When it broke in the same way for the THIRD time I asked H&K to replace the entire gun. They refused but repaired and returned it again. I sold it immediately after i got it back as I no longer trusted the firearm nor the manufacturer and haven't looked at an H&K since....