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David in FL

I have never sold a gun and not regretted it later in life.

Having said that, I've been lucky enough never to own a lemon that didn't live up to my expectations.

I'll never sell another gun, unless that aforementioned lemon finally finds me.....

I may need a bigger safe.

coffeecup

Several. Most memorable are listed here: 2 Kimbers that had issues the factory refused to fix. They told me that the guns needed to be broken in even after I had stumbled my way through over 2000 rounds through each of them.
A Mossberg 500 trap gun that kicked like a young mule.
A Remington 870 that broke the hammer the very first time it was fired.
A Perazzi TMX that regularly threw the vent rib off.
A Kreigoff O/U that insisted on doubling.
An Auto Ordnance, Thompson knockoff, that should never have left the factory---all sorts of issues. I bought it used and soon saw why the guy was so anxoius to get rid of it....LOL.

bushlight

Jennings 380

goldshellback

My old SIG P229.......I never had a more problematic firearm, and I bought it on repuation alone. Spent two years of trying to get it to work right. Before of after I've never heard of a SIG being so troublsome. Think I got the one "lemon" off the sig tree.

bmcgilvray

Virginian Dragoon .44 Magnum: gorgeous fit and finish, big and meaty to handle the .44 Magnum, but pearced every primer of every cartridge ever fired in it and gave signs of high pressures and hard extraction, even with factory .44 Special loads. The stoutest magnum loads didn't look any worse than did the mild rounds which was wierd. No obvious problems as far as headspace, tight chamber throats, or barrel. Every screw loosened on each cylinder-full fired. It was maddening. My S&W Model 29, purchased in 1980 cured the problem.

Ruger Red Label 12 ga. Utterly lifeless shotgun. Had all the personality of swinging an oak 2X4. Tried to like it for some 10 years but it was a disappointment. Give me my ol' Winchester Model 12 Skeet Grade any day. Certainly not in the class of the Winchester 101, or Browning Citori or Superposed. Ruger products and I have never gotten along and they leave me cold, which I realize is different than most opinions in the shooting world. Don't buy into the "built like a tank" cliche at all. Don't really care for anything they've made 'cept maybe one of those cute little Bearcats. I have a single early 70's M77 V in .220 Swift that's a shooter but not too keen on several features about it and I've had and seen other M77's that just wouldn't shoot to suit.

Marlin Model 1894 CL .32-20. When this one came out I was so excited to be able to purchase a modern made .32-20 and my first Marlin product that I immediately ordered one. Thought it could take some heat off my 1896 vintage Winchester Model 1892 .32-20 saddle-ring carbine. Nope, was a piece of junk from the word go. Barrel blank had a large pit in it that had been rifled right over. Failed to extract 3 out of 5 cases. Trigger took two men and a boy to pull. Even scoped it'd shoot groups twice as large as the old Winchester with its open sights at 100 yards from the bench. To Marlin's credit they did offer to take it in under warranty. I was just so disheartened over it that I allowed it to stand in the corner of the gun closet for 15 years until I sold it to a lever rifle silhouette shooter who rebarreled it to .357 Magnum and reworked the action.

mousehunter

fwiw I really like my little red label. It is ugly enough to allow me to not feel bad dragging it through brush - yet is very reliable when I do my part.

Ducktown side by side .45/410 derringer. The only remorse I had about getting rid of it is that some other poor fool would shoot it. If there ever was a gun worth less than it's scrap metal price. I kept it for years, hoping to donate it to some gun grabber for $50, but ultimately traded it in to get the safe space back. fwiw, it was impossible to move it from saftey without inspection. 7 of 10 times you could not pull the trigger. And when it did decide to fire, it usually drew blood (due to rough edges on the finger guard).

Juggernaut

A blued PT1911 that stopped working so well around 450-500 rounds.

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randytulsa2

Great idea for a thread!

1) an EAA Witness Compact, 10mm. If you get a good one, you're going to be very, very happy. If not, like me, you can't get the darned thing to shoot an entire magazine without jamming, ever, no matter how many mags you buy, no matter how you adjust the springs (magazine and recoil), no matter what kind of ammo you use;

2) Taurus 85, aluminium framed jobby. It went "bang" every time, but it hurt me to shoot it, it never shot consistently to any particular point and it never shot to POA;

3) Smith & Wesson 296. Good gun, as in reliable. But I couldn't get it to shoot accurately, it hurt the web of my hand to shoot it, it didn't shoot to POA, the groups I shot out of it were very, very wide, I constantly shortstroked it (I have small hands and it wasn't made for a small-handed person), and it was too big (for me, anyway) for pocket carry.

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Pistolman1974

early Charles Daily 1911..jam-o-matic.
Century arms g3 clone...lets just say made by caffinated monkeys with wrenches