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pooptiest firearm you have owned

remingtonoaks
The lowest price point firearm that I still have is a 5-inch JC Higgins model 88 .22lr but I would say it's far from a poopy firearm... I inherited it for my dad who had it as I was growing up and I would run at least 10 bricks through a year as a kid, plus all my kids have probably another 20-30 thousand rounds through it. And it has never failed to fire with an estimated 60-80,000 through it... Probably more because my 3 brothers ran quite a few through it too. As many or more than I did,and I have since taking it out a couple of times with my girlfriend's son that has run a brick through it every time we've gone out and it's still going strong.. So with that said I would never consider it a poopty...

Which brings me to the my pooptiest thing I've ever owned, that was a nickel-plated Jennings Model 25, 25 caliber pistol... That thing I don't think ever would feed a full magazine through it without having at least 1 failure to feed. Plus every time it did go bang, some of the nickel plate would come off... It was given to me by my mother-in-law after my stepfather died... Needless to say I did not keep that thing very long. I really didn't think it was that safe with all the nickel plating flying off of it

What is the pooptiest firearm you've ever owned?
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  • wiplash
    quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
    Taurus M85 hammerless.

    Would fail to fire at lest once every 5 rounds, it seemed.

    Gave it away, advising the recipient of the above.




    I've owned two of them. The first went in on a trade and I still carry the second one every day. I've never had a single problem with either one of them.
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  • kannoneer
    Well, there are gun designs which are problematic and then there are individual specimens of proven designs that don't work.
    I like H&Rs, have several which are great for the money, but I have a 939 4" which is very inaccurate and I can't figure out why. It groups about 6 or 8 inches at 15 yards with many broadside imprints or keyholes. It is like it has a lump of lead in the barrel but it is as shiny as new. My other H&Rs group 1 to 3 inches at the same distance.
    I had a friend who had a Clerke .22 back in the late '60s and we could not hit a sheet of 3/4 inch plywood at 20 yards. It was made of pot metal with a steel sleeve in the barrel. We shot about 150 rounds through it and the frame broke at the top strap. We hung it on a tree limb and shot it at 50 yards with a .30/06. It completely disintegrated. Problem solved!
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  • bobski
    maybe we should have a topic on whats the most someone paid you for, a poopiest gun you owned?

    heres mine. a turn of the century 4th july report gun. 22 cal blank.
    I just tossed it out there on auction 10 years ago and someone bid it up to 125.00.
    holy cow.
    im thinking the shaving razor box was what they were after. lol.

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  • David Nunn
    quote:A Walther/S&W .22. made of zinc alloy (yeah, did not do my homework). The dots popped out of the rear sights with the first two shots. Accuracy sucked too. Any one need an anchor?


    Doc, I wish you had asked me before buying.

    For a long time, I had a hankering for a .22 LR caliber Walther PP. When I saw that Walther had re-introduced the PPK/s in .22, I got excited, figuring to get one for a fishing, tractor riding, knockabout gun.

    Then, I actually saw one in my friend's shop. It was HORRID. No magnet would stick to the slide or frame. It was made of zinc alloy castings, just like a Raven. Besides that, they changed up the internal dimensions so that no parts interchange. It was a piece of crap.

    So, I searched on GunBroker and found a dealer who had some very nice .22 caliber Walther PPs dating from the 1930s and 1940s. And I bought one. It's a great little knockabout pistol.

    I needed magazines. I felt it was a fool's errand (and I was right) but I ordered some new manufactured .22 LR mags from Walther. They didn't fit, of course.

    So, I bought a few from Triple K, and they were OK, but I really scored when I found some original Manhurin mags.

    Here is some truth: Walther sucks. Smith & Wesson sucks. Remington sucks. I'm sure there are others that are trash as well. It does appear to me that modern guns can't hold a candle to their 50-year-old brethren.
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