Worst gun deals you've made?

[Ted_Bell]

The ruger super blackhawk thread reminded me of one of mine. In my early days of gun buying/trading, I had an older super blackhawk in 44 mag with a really long hunting barrel and nice leather holster. The gun was in perfect condition, but I rarely shot it. I did a straight trade at a gun show for a new in box, unmodified 10/22. I barely got the words out of my mouth before the guy said yes to the trade.

[Ted_Bell]

The ruger super blackhawk thread reminded me of one of mine. In my early days of gun buying/trading, I had an older super blackhawk in 44 mag with a really long hunting barrel and nice leather holster. The gun was in perfect condition, but I rarely shot it. I did a straight trade at a gun show for a new in box, unmodified 10/22. I barely got the words out of my mouth before the guy said yes to the trade.

[toolman9000]

Before y2k I paid $50 too much for a Winchester Defender 1300... Oh, well... it's a great shotgun and I have used it a ton.

But, that is the worst deal I ever made...
-toolman9000

[ivanimal]

Walther P22 -$300 and it has never cycled a full magazine yet. I have a baseball bat that is more useful. The factory had the gun more often than I did. Still sucks.

[Turbinator]

Lucky me - I've always been a buyer, never a seller. It boils down to very careful buying - never had a really bad purchase, so I've never needed nor wanted to dump anything.

Turby

[bwiese]

Around 1987 got hold of a nice-looking S&W 645 -45ACP autoloader. This was from Smith's early 80s Bangor Punta ownership.

Terrible. Gritty trigger. Only liked 230gr FMJs, everything else turned it into a jam-o-matic.

Got rid of it as soon as I could.

In 1988 I got a Beretta 92 Compact. For whatever reason, accuracy wasn't very good - except with Winchester SilverTips. Eventually sold that...

Bill Wiese
San Jose

[slowjon]

I'm with turbinator, never really had a bad purchase. The worst was a Glock 21. Nothing wrong with the gun but I couldn't shoot it very well. Got what I paid for it though so it worked out. I learned to stick with 1911 style pistols. For me it was always the gun I didn't buy that haunts me. More AW's before the ban, etc. I passed on an all original Rockola M1 carbine a couple years ago. Guy wanted $1000. Now you can't touch one like that for less than $1500. Oh well, still getting by ....

[trempel_ry@yahoo.com]

All of the guns that I've ever owned were always good performers. At least for the money that I payed for them. The only real dissapointment was a .22 LR Remington 597 rifle that I bought new. The thing wouldn't work right from day one and I eventually sold it. I sold it for $10 less than I payed for it. I figured, for the ten bucks lost I learned a valuable lesson - don't waste your time and money on crappy, unproven designs.

[Ted_Bell]

ivanimal -- my understaning is that there was some issues with early mags that caused feed prob's. Have you tried new mags? I pretty much only shoot rem golden bullets through mine and it's almost 100% reliable. Maybe we need a "lemon law" for guns.

[ivanimal]

Ted I am going to shoot it this weekend with Hi velocity only. It has new mags courtesy the factory the last time it was in. We will see.

I forgot to mention a Moison Nagant bought at big 5 the headspcing was so bad the guys at Sierra Gunsmiths told me to hang it on a wall, or spend more than I payed for it to fix it. Fun.

[ivanimal]

Hey Ted the new mags worked great no hiccups in 150 rounds including Americn Eagle, the same box that did not cycle before. Maybe its fixed or something.

[endings1@aol.com]

Selling off my gun collection when money got tight.

To name a few:

Hungarian SM-58(AK Sporter)
Norinco MAK-90
Russian SKS w/ Choate Drag stock, cheap scope and Harris bi-pod
Glock 19
Remington 870 w/ Choate folding stock
Bushmaster/PWA AR lowers

This was way before SB-23, I thought I'd be able to get back on my feet and replace them before they got banned permanently. I wasn't. Now, I'm able to purchase maybe 1 gun a year with post-ban specs. Oh well.

[PJA]

Sold a First Generation Colt in.41 Cal and a sporterized Krag for $90.00 total to buy a car in 1955. Still having nightmares.
Pete

[bwiese]

Selling my HK91 in 1996? (back) to FJ Vollmer's.
Made very nice $$ off the deal short-term.

Back then I foolishly figured they wouldn't pass another useless BS law like the '89 CA AW ban since they had that and they also had a Fed law in 1994.

Didn't wanna deal w/reg papers for HK and other various limits when I had my AR (Colt Sporter).

Stupid and foolish.

Bill Wiese
San Jose

[shooterx10]

None of my guns were so problematic that I had to get rid any of them. Any of the few with problems were solved with a quick trip to the gunsmith.

I did buy a Norinco SKS on impulse and overpaid slightly. However, the current prices of them have caught up, so I don't feel so bad.

However, I do regret selling a pre-ban Colt Sporter and a MAK-90 with four 30-round banana clips at dirt cheap prices. I made up that Sporter exactly like a Colt Delta AR-15!

Oh freakin' well! Live and learn.