Just a gun question from your personal experience.

[sealocan]

^ I understand, politics is a hot-button topic right now.

Especially when you consider the completely and absolutely uselessness of the maglock / Bullet Button BS laws and how those laws make a good firearm into a terrible one, yet doesn't do one thing to prevent real crimes from happening.

[Nasc50]

Worse gun I ever owned is a tie between a Australian leader T2 and a ar180 from England both are long ago removed from my sight!

[Kyle1886]

^ I understand, politics is a hot-button topic right now.

Especially when you consider the completely and absolutely uselessness of the maglock / Bullet Button BS laws and how those laws make a good firearm into a terrible one, yet doesn't do one thing to prevent real crimes from happening.

I've been lucky so far. All the arms that I've owned or shot work as they should except one 1911 .45 many years ago in the Corps. You had to "tea cup" hold it to keep the magazine in.

Shooting one handed, it was a single shot. That soured me on 1911s, yet I know that was a one in a million pistol.

(...and as a political point, once we are all declared "felons" then we can take off all those useless do-dads that compromise our arms and sleep well at night and not worry about becoming a "criminal").

Sorry Sealocan, my sincere apologies, but at this stage guns and politics almost synonymous these days.

Respectfully
Kyle

[rp55]

OK, I'll get back on topic. The absolute worst gun I have ever owned was a Charter Arms Explorer II I picked up in a hardware store in South Carolina. I kind of liked Charter Arms in the mid-70's. The first weapon I ever purchased myself was a Charter Arms Explorer, licensed copy of the Armalite AR-7 survival rifle. It has been manufactured by several other companies and is now produced by Henry. James Bond used on to shoot down a helicopter in From Russia with love as I recall. It was fun to shoot and the only thing I disliked about it was it had a 7 or 8 shot magazine and I spent more time reloading than I did shooting.

Two years later I bought my first handgun. A Charter Arms Target Bulldog in 44 Special. I really wanted a S&W Model 29 but you rarely saw one in a retail gun store and it was about 6 months pay for an E-5. I liked the Target Bulldog. I put a fancy grip on and it shot well. That pistol got me started on reloading so I could afford to shoot more.

So I had some goodwill for Charter Arms and when they came out with the "pistol" version I grabbed one.

The following are stock images and are not of mine.


As I recall the notches on the screwed barrel were opposite from the pistol so you couldn't swap them. Charter maintains that all the other internal parts were the same so I'll never know why I had so much trouble with mine. I don't think I was ever able to empty one complete magazine. It jammed. failed to extract, failed to feed. Everything that could go wrong in a pistol went wrong. I took apart, put shims in twice so it wouldn't bind all to no avail. Finally, in a fit of rage, I beat it into a lump of aluminum and threw it the trash. The only gun I ever got rid of that way.

I found the picture the parts of an Explorer II on the net. It is cheaply made and no wonder it was such junk.

[sealocan]

^ No apology needed Kyle because I agree with you, they are currently connected.

But if you have politics for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day you're going to get sick of it all and then the apathy might just kick in.

Or as I once heard a political activist say...

" If you or any group of people wants political change to happen
you better bring a lunch, because it's probably going to take a long long time."

[Calif Hunter]

The worst handgun I bought was a surplus Czech .32 ACP that resembled a Walther PP or PPK. While functional, the trigger pull was absolutely horrendous and tended to put a wound on my trigger finger.....

[Garv]

There is no such thing as a bad gun, just a bad gun owner....

My stock LC380 is just not fun to shoot, a trigger job will help.

[harbormaster]

Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with an SKS - don't miss them. But I did get 3 for a $100 so they weren't all bad - yes I'm that old.

[mikeyr]

don't have a least favorite, all I have for guns are old favorites. My favorite gun is what ever my last purchase was. I have never sold a firearm so I have lots of old favorites

[LAKA90034]

[SonofWWIIDI]

I guess I’ve been lucky over the years. Never owned a gun I didn’t like.

On the other hand, I have fired a couple of guns that I wouldn’t buy for myself.

A buddy has a KSG. Shot it with magnum slugs. Felt like a mule kicked me in the shoulder. Was much nicer with just regular buckshot. But instead I converted an 870 into a bull pup. Still haven’t fired it, but it looks cool.

Another friend has an 8” .460 magnum. It was a blast to shoot, and shot laser flat at 100 yards. But man, the cost of ammo, the cost of the gun, the heavy recoil...I’m no daisy, but that thing was mean. If money was no object, I’d probably buy one just to have it.

[PogoJack]

My dad had an M1 Carbine that was one of those Universal Arms pieces of junk. I hated that thing. Not really for anything else except the bullets looked and felt like pistol bullets. For bad shooting experience, I don't much like my Winchester 70 featherweight in .308 although I would appreciate it if I had to hike and shoot.

[deadcoyote]

[Old Flash]

Back in the 80's, I bought a mac-380. Neat looking and cheap gun, it had the threaded barrel with a long screwed on tube which made for a nice handgrip. I think it came with a 20 round mag too. But the retaining clip for the trigger pin kept falling out eventually rendering pistol non-functional. Probably could've had a gunsmith fix it but I figured it wasn't worth the money at the time.

[k1dude]

Kahr P380. Pure junk. It's been back to Kahr 3 times and still doesn't work. I finally gave up on it.