Gun Buy remorse

What's the most expensive or best gun you've bought only to find out it wasn't what you were after , shot like crap , or wished you had your money back.
Disappointment in your purchase

Remington 700 CDL 7mag.

Browning Citori, just didn't fit me well.

My Taurus 357 Mag and my brother's Taurus PT145 (45 acp). Both had major issues. If it says Taurus on it, I stay away.

#1. 3rd gen Smith and Wesson 5943, now dont get me wrong, it was reliable and smooth, but I'm not a fan of the long DA trigger.

#2. Sig P6, another great gun, sweet trigger, loved the size, the feel and it was smooth, but it would'nt feed gold dots(my SD ammo of choice) so off she went.

I will say I experinced no buyer/sellers remourse. I got awesome deals on both and sold both for more than I paid. I wouldnt mind getting my hands on another sig P6, if it had an updated feed ramp profile.

have had a few, I have to agree on the taurus, will ad both kel tec's that I have owned, two xd's. bushmaster carbon 15, and probably a few more

Luckily the more expensive ones I've loved . Only rifle I've owned that I didn't really like was an h&r 22-250 .... Even my old mossberg .270 shot pretty well, trigger wasn't the greatest but for a cheap rifle it shot well .

Shot my buddy's m&p sigma .40 and I'd throw that thing in the trash . The trigger is worthless

none

my wifes 22-250.

two different marlins 270 and 25-06

For the past 30+ years I've shot the .41 mag in three different Ruger Blackhawks. I always wanted a Marlin 1896 in .41 as a big brother to my pistol. Two years ago I finally spent the $$$$$$ and bought one from a collector. After shooting a box of 210 grain hp's thru it and shooting a doe it, and trying my best to like it I just couldn't get use to a lever gun. So I traded it for a Springfield EMP. Both are great guns but for me I prefer the EMP.

Mine is a PT145 also couldn't hit a thing with it. Wanted a carry gun so bad that I traded my baby eagle that I just bought strait up for it. Now this was when i first got into guns and didn't know any better. Now I have I guess traders remorse everytime I think about it.

Yeah, I bought a Taurus once too

It wasn't very expensive but a Lama 357... it was a piece of dookie! I guess ya get what ya pay for...

Diamondback DB380. Bought it here on the forum. I knew the hit or miss history of these little guns but the seller swore he had never had any feeding or ejection issues with it so I took a chance and bought it. Well maybe he did or didnt have any issues with it but I know I dang sure did. Didnt matter what ammo I ran through it the gun would jam.

1. Walther PPKS. Stove piped out of the box, hardest slide to rack plus a god awful DA trigger. Gave it away after about a year.

2. TCP Cheap POS

WBY Mark V 257wby Accumark..should have went to the remmy custom shop

kahr 45 biggest jamming piece of garbage I have ever bought

New;
1 well known custom rifle builder 7-08
1 another well known custom rifle builder .264wm
1 Sako- .300 wm.
2 Weatherby- .460 mag, 25-06
3 Tikka's- 2,7-08's 1,.243
1 Rem 700- .257 roberts.
2 Savage- 1, 7mmmag, 1 .308

Man, you've had some bad luck there!!

Kimber Solo...havent even shot it yet and miss my Sig.

Remington Express, and CZ Bobwhite.

The Express because it felt cheap, and the Bobwhite because I knew I should've held out for a 20ga instead of a 12ga.

I dont own either now.....but I do have a couple of Wingmasters and a 20ga CZ SxS lol.

Kinda speaks for it'self.

Taurus.

Rossi .357 revolver.Looked good.You could wiggle the cylinder & it would free wheel.Hit or miss if it would line up.I never shot it.I took it back & traded it for a Smith&Wesson.

I purchased a Browning Stainless Stalker L/H when they first came
out, put a good Leupold Scope on it..ran a patch thru the bore and felt like I was ripping a bed sheet..looked in the bbl..and
saw strings hanging from the lands..Spent about $1000 and 1 1/2 yrs making it shoot and finally got 1 1/2 in groups..and sold it
to a pawn shop in Kerrville..Last Browning Rifle I purchased..and
I used to get quite a few of them..Don

Bought a rough rider .22 on a whim. Gun functions well but it isn't a lot of fun to shoot. I can't stand the bisley grips. Lots of other .22 revolver options out there that would have been a better choice for me.

That mistake only cost me $100. could have been worse.

Been happy with my other firearm purchases.

Larue Predatar for me , function and quality was fine just not what I expected after my long wait.

Rustler pm me your gun builders that did you wrong if you don't mind. I have a custom in the works

S&W .40 model SW40E. Glock Wanna Be... Trigger you had to jump on it to get it to fire FTF/FTF right out of the box..
Only Smith I'll buy now is Older Revolvers.

Sig mosquito

I had a custom Springfield Hi-Cap built for me - and it was awesome. 15+1 rounds of 45 ACP. It had all SVI internals and shot like a dream. The problem was that I shoot lead, and that barrel hated lead after about 50 rounds. It would shoot FMJ all day, but as soon as it had 50 or so rounds of Lead SWCs through it, the chamber gunked up like crazy and would. not. shoot. for. a. damn.

My TRP eats lead all day. I probably could have replaced the barrel on the Hi-Cap, but the whole situation made me frustrated so I decided to get rid of it and replace it with a 9mm or a 22.

Yes - I made sure to tell the buyer when I sold it that it did not like lead!

The Bushmaster XM-15 with 2 Pmags that I paid $3000 for last month.

A Kimber 84M Classic in .243 Winchester. Handled like rimfire rifle and was gorgeous. Shot 2-1/2 to 3 inch groups no matter what I tried. I don't keep rifles in the safe if they spray like that. I think it may have been the worst rifle I've ever had for accuracy.

Back in my twenties, I bought a sweet Browning Citori in 20 ga with 24" barrels and the straight classic English stock. If there is a sweeter-looking little field gun out there, I haven't seen it.

But I soon learned a couple lessons. I shoot upland game better with longer barrels (say 28") because I have a bad tendency to slow up my swing when I should be following through. And the classic straight stock of the Browning is ergonomically poor for me and I tend to shoot high. So any flushing quail or flying dove had plenty of time to admire my Citori whilst I performed a feat of plain and fancy missing!

A Red Label with 28" barrels, or even the lowly Yildiz, will serve this field gunner quite nicely, thank you.

Marlin 1894 , long barrel, ballard rifling, in .357
all 2 H&R's I had.

Taurus PT-945 with a inline ported barrel. I kept blowing the extracter retaining pin out. After that Ill never buy another taurus firearm again.

F.I.E. .22 single action. It was great out to about 10'. At 10.1' all bets were off. My BIL just had to have so he got it.

I don't how to take your comment HWY MAN.
I occasionally buy rifles to try out, when I find an exceptional one I keep it, the rest get sold.

I don't consider it bad luck at all.
The OP asked about "gun buy remorse, disappointment in your purchase", the ones on the list were a waste of time & money for me.

Kahr cw40 with NIB crimson trace and accessories. Poured money into whatbi thought would be the perfect concealed carry handgun and holster, but was greatly disappointed. Sold it for probably 60% what I paid...

A Steyr MP9.

Walther P22

First handgun I ever bought, Taurus M44 w/6" ported barrel. I could spit groups better than it could shoot.

None for me so far. I like all of mine.

I've never regretted buying one. I regret the heck out of trading my CZ75 Compact last year though.

Kel-tec..not expensive, though.

Sig P238.

S&W Bodyguard. just dont care for "snappy" guns, I suppose.

Shane

I too sold one of the good baby eagles and bought a Glock26. Shot one mag full and wished I had the BE back.

SON, Son SON!


I thought Me and Paul/Steve taught you better!

That was a sweet shooter.

My buyer remorse is an Academy 700 ADL Syn in 243 Win. It started out shooting patterns, like a shotgun.
Took action from stock and retightened. Took scope and mounts off, locktighted, all good.
50yds 4" groups, 100 yds 6-8" groups.

Took it to a Rem warranty repair and they kept it a couple of weeks. Best they could get was 3.5"-4.5".

Wrote Remmy a nice letter with 8x10 color glossy pictures.

Reply was, Rem does not have a accuracy guaranty and for a hunting rifle 3-4" was suitable.

Well, The Remmy stayed their and I took home a New Tikka Whitetail Hunter 243 Win and never looked back.

Too scary for me to sell off a half inch gun to buy a crazy expensive custom unless their was a crazy good guarantee.

Glock 27 was a disappointment, my first .....and last Glock!Just not for me, reliable and good shooter but I tend to climb up the grip, especially in the summer with sweaty hands, and slide bite HURTS. I got to where I would hesitate to pull the trigger, not good when it was my carry gun! Traded even for a compact Witness .40, been my carry gun ever since....

Rossi .243. Not an expensive gun, but none the less it wouldn't eject the spent casing and wasn't very accurate.

Joe

Oh I'd love to have it back, although it has led me to a Sig 226.
But for how long...?

What about the sig p238 was such a disappointment, if I may ask? And what year was it made?

Glock 17 Gen 4. Jam-o-matic! Managed to get it fixed and sold it to a friend, full disclosure. Will think long and hard before I ever buy another Glock.

Got caught up in the AR craze a year ago dropped a bunch of cash on an Armalite heavy barrel 5.56 with all the goodies. Shot it quite a bit and just couldn't get into it. Sold it and took a beating, should have waited to get rid of it I guess.

x2. 1st I've heard of this.

I have noticed some of yall have knowingly bought some serious pc's of crud going into it.

Did you do the free repair Glock offered? They fixed that issue pretty quickly.

haven't had buyers remorse yet but definitely had sellers remorse a couple times

DB 380
Judge

Kel-Tec PLR-16

An AR pistol (PDW) with 30 rounds ... crappy accuracy and the energy of a 38 special.

Same here. Not the most expensive thing I own, but certainly the most expensive thing I don't really like. I was underwhelmed by it's overall performance. Not that any one thing was hugely wrong, but a bunch of little things I didn't like about it.

Lew Horton S&W 29 snub nose - gorgeous but hurt to shoot

Taurus 617 - miserably worthless piece of unreliable crap

S&W 1006 - just couldn't get it to fit my hand

Ss/lam Ruger No. 1-B 243 - too heavy

Savage 223 Varmint - waaaaay too heavy

Freedom Arms 454 Casull - action locked up after 3rd shot

Kimber Ultra Ten II. I loved shooting it. It didn't love to be shot. FTE's and FTF's regularly. Kimber denied there was a problem. Got rid of it. Will never own another Kimber anything. To expensive a mistake to do twice.

I'm in the same boat.

Ordered a new ultra light arms in 25-06. Six months later a .30-06 came in with a scratched up ss barrel. I would of kept it, but not with the scratched up barrel. Sent it back, two months later got my .25-06. It would'nt eject unfired ammo. Bolt was rough for a custom rifle. Called the man and he offered me his 100% money back satisfaction gurantee. Got all my money back. From what I've read on the net, he suppose to have some nice ultra light accurate rifles. Got ahold of my first kimber Montana that would'nt shoot in .25-06 just before I ordered the Nula. Kimber fixed it, but it was to late as i figured I could be 1.5 months into a custom build. Neither went so well! Ugh, my luck.

I sent a Glock 30 to Robar back 2004...the Glock frames for the 45's are just too wide for my hands and i thought reducing the front and back just a shade would make this gun into the perfect carry weapon....i ended up getting their NP3 finish , beavertail , night sights , the whole works and end up spending close to a $1000 more on this gun....when i get it back it still feels thick in my hand when i fire it one handed...my gun-friends at the local gun store have a fun time making fun of the Robar Glock , names like the Rock(Robar Glock), the Flock(F##king Glock), or the B#ob Job(that name when i was explaining to a guy that all the work done on the gun was cosmetic and on the exterior and nothing was done to the internals for function) ....i still have this gun, maybe i need to trade it

Never ,

I have remorse over some I should have bought( Mannlicher-schoenauer 22.250 , Colt Saur ), and some I did buy and later sold ( Ruger #3 .22 hornet , Winchester 94 Texas Ranger commemorative )


MO

The one I didn't buy, J.P. Sauer & Sohn, german drilling 16 ga SxS over .243 win - $650, went back 1 hr later & was gone forever!!!!

I got a 226 not long ago from pokerj2. Purty too.

Never bought one yet.

Bought a Series 70 National Match Colt 1911 from a guy that I know is a race-gun shooter. Got it at a really good price, but it just would not function any more. No telling how many hundreds of thousands of rounds had been through it. I ended up parting it out, NM bbl, Novak Lo-Pro sights, etc, and trading the NM numbered frame straight across for a stainless target model 6" 686 Smith. I love the 686, the trigger is as good as if not better than any of my Pythons, but my how I wished that National Match 1911 would have worked out.

Only gun I've ever owned that I didn't like was a H&R handi rifle.

Shot good, but it just didn't suit me

I once had a Colt 1911 Commander that had feed problems.

After I took it to a well known local gunsmith,it wouldn't even feed hardball reliably.

Not mine, but I bought my Dad an HR Handi Rifle in 223 for Christmas once. That gun is good for deer hunting, but after a few shots, the barrel gets so warm, the groups look more like a shotgun pattern.

Sig 556R. Upper and lower fit so poorly the gun rattles when you pick it up. Sent it back to Sig and they said that's normal.

To add insult to injury, their customer service guys are snippy. Nothing like dropping $1200 on a firearm then being treated like you are an idiot.

That was my experience as well with a Kahr MK9. Biggest lemon ever.

DANG !!!

Im 48 yrs old and wanted a Savage 99 since I was in my 20's and finnally bought a beautiful 99 delux model from a friend. It had been a safe queen for years.
Took to range,sprayed bullets size of Waffle House waffles.
tried new ammo, NO !
must be scope so sent to Leupold to get fixed.
Put differant scope on, NO !
Got scope back from Leupold, Oh boy ! NO, NO ! DANG !
Took gun to gunsmith, He said sell it first gun show that comes by. REALLY ???? DANG !! That SUCKED !

x 2..Didn't have ejector problems but it would not shoot even a 6 inch group consistently at 50 yards. Bought the gun for my son to use and ended up getting rid of it and buying a youth model mossberg in .243. My son killed three deer with it this year. I never will buy another rossi.

Colt Frontier Scout. It was one of the commemrative models and I paid a pretty penny for it. Turns out I should have left it unfired because when I shot it I was so dissapointed I traded it for a LCP and $100. Took a beating on that and was happy to be shed of it anyway.

Browning Stainless Stalker 7mm-08 Factory ammo and around a dozen handloads and it wouldn't shoot lest than 1.75" groups. I tried everything in the world to get that gun to shoot over about two years before I sold it.

Walther P22.

Nice looking pistol and fit my wife's hand like a glove. It was for her.

Extractor failure right out of the box. The factory fixed it, but I lost all confidence in it after that. I haven't tested the "fix" yet. I'll probably sell it right after I confirm that it works.

Ruger .44 Carbine, the old one. Bought it for $325. With the peep sight it shot 10" groups at 50. With a scope it shrank to 8" at 100. My contender 10" .44 shoots 2 1/2" at 100. Sold it for $400 to a guy that thought 8" 100 yard groups were "fantastic".

1. SKS
2. Remington 700 VTR .308
3. Remington 7400 still have it only because my dad bought it for my first deer rifle...50yds and 2" groupings is all its good for…
3. 300 blackout AR15...ONLY because finding ammo
(Hoping Dallas Reloads comes through )

Ditto on the Walther P22. Broke right out of the box, went back to S&W. They fixed it but jams regularly.

Biggest disappointment was a winchester 94 in 44 Magnum.
12" high at 50 yds. Sent it back to Winnie, big improvement.
Only 6" high at 50 yds with lowest sight setting.
Kicked like a mule, too.

sold it, bought a 336 Marlin and never looked back.