Colt 2000, it was really junk
Yeah I had a first gen myself and was really snappy with a trigger that felt 6 miles long.Ruger LCP .380. Wanted to love it, bought for EDC. Took it to the range and immediately hated it. Trigger feels horrible, sights are non existent, magazine was finicky and hard to seat. I ended up giving it away. I hear the newer LCP II’s are much better and they have a better trigger but I had such a bad experience I don’t even want to give it a chance. Ended up going with a Sig P938 for EDC and couldn’t be happier.
My LCPII is getting added to the list. Mine may be a lemon, but for the first year it was outstanding. Tiny little pocket rocket and super easy to carry. Then one day at the range it suddenly became a jam-o-matic. I tried different types of ammo, different mags. Just no idea whats wrong with it. I bought a P365 to replace it, and just never had the time/energy to sell it or get rid of it. I've been told to just send it to Ruger, but after a gun gives me trouble I have a hard time ever trusting it again. So, it will one day go up on the chopping block for a very low price and a big "buyer beware" sign.
Like I said, even if I send it back, I won’t trust it. It’s just how I’m wired.Send it in and Ruger will make it right for free.
Im wired the same way. Like a girlfriend that cheats on you and says i won't do it again, i promise. Yea right😏Like I said, even if I send it back, I won’t trust it. It’s just how I’m wired.
I bought a 6.5 Grendel AR and after a range trip was just unimpressed. At a 300 yd range (the max available to me) it did exactly the same thing as my 5.56 ar and cost more to shoot.
I have a Ruger Mk1 that was giving me hell with modern style magazines. At the only steel challenge match I've ever been to, one of the better competitors recommended I swap in Tk green springs.same sh...t with my Ruger Mk4 Hunter.
It kind of reminded me of an original Browning Auto 5 in terms of recoil.Ruger PC9 Carbine. Now to be fair, it was accurate, handy, balanced well. I really wanted to love this gun. But the blowback system made it recoil more like a rifle than a 9mm, and that recoil was just weird. Didn't feel like any other gun I'd ever shot.
That was going to be mine. It wouldn't run worth a crap.What about that Sig Mosquito 22lr?
Not the *most* disappointing, but a similar experience - my $ would have been better invested in 5.56 match barrel(s) and a pile of 77smk pills to get the same accuracy with better commonality with everything else in my safe.I nearly did the same thing. I looked at the ballistics on paper and thought they were neat, but at any ranges where I normally shoot, I just wouldn't be able to let it shine and it is much harder to find and more expensive than 5.56.
Kimber Compact Carry Aluminum, around 2001 or so. The only thing that worked were the sights as there was no mechanical function. Kimber "customer service" was not at all helpful. Failure to chamber, failure to eject, the list went on and on. Kimber, quite literally, told me it was my problem. lol I get a certain amount of satisfaction knowing their reliability issues continue to this day.
I'd be curious about second opinions on the M&P 1.0 being prone to issues as I am currently carrying one. I have not had any issues with it personally and it seems to be a late production model 1.0 as the factory night sights still have some life in them.Man! I've had bad luck no one will believe. I know some accuse MAC on YouTube of lying about malfunctions or trouble with well-known or popular firearms, but I have his back! I don't care how popular or "trendy" guns are, they can have lemons slip through.
Ultimate Stainless Colt Python .357 (1987) Bought from my cousin's shop and took straight to BLET for Firearms range session. First few rounds were okay, trigger became almost impossible to pull... Gun finally locked up and I couldn't even finish the course of fire. Meanwhile, the guy beside me with a Llama .357 never missed a beat. Sent back to at my cost, and received it back in about 2-3 weeks. Took it shooting and it did it again!!! . Sold it when it came back the second time. This was at a time when Colt workers/UAW were striking, and I was told this was why it slipped through QC(?)
Kahr K9 9mm (1996-1997) Bought one as soon as they came out after Massad's glowing review in Combat Handguns. All I could find holster wise was an Uncle Mikes IWB nylon holster. Qualified on it and carried it for several weeks and it rusted so bad you couldn't hardly get the slide open. Sent it back (they did issue a Fed Ex call tag so it was on their dime) and they did refinish it. Sold it.
Kahr P9 9mm (1999) Missed the K9 (as it was a sweet little carry gun) but refused to go though the rust thing again. When the P9 (polymer and stainless) came out I bought one and qualified on it and carried it for at least a year as I qualified on it a second time. After this however I needed some cash ASAP so I sold it to a friend. I had NO malfunctions over 250ish rounds. I sold it to a friend and the following day took it to the range and it wouldn't feed more than 4 rounds without a malfunction. I blatantly accused him of disassembling and messing it up but he vehemently denied disassembling it. I checked the assembly and recoil spring orientation, re-lubed it, etc, but it continued. Sent it back to Kahr for him and he sold it when it came back. Another buddy had one and we drove to Charlotte gun show. He bought a spare mag and upon getting back to the car he wanted to check the function of the new mag and put it in and ejected the magazine, the magazine catch, and magazine catch spring.
1911A1s in general. I've had about 8 over the years. While I had a couple that approached 100%, I NEVER have had one (to include Springfield, Colt commercial, Auto Ordinance, and even Kimber) than I consider as reliable as a SIG Classic Series or Glock. It must be me because I have heard more than once from friends that have "100%" 1911s and then when I was on the range, they had a malfunction...🤫 Go figure...
SIGP320s-Probably needs a separate thread but my agency wanted to change handguns and I was to head a committee to pick the successor to the P226 .40. We were almost unanimous on the G22. The then major, being a SIG guy heard the 320 was coming and wanted to "table" the recommendation and wait on the P320. I we got two guns in and we fired about 1500 rounds per gun with no malfunctions. We reconvened the committee and it was decided on the P320 by a good margin. In the meantime, based on that super positive result, my brother in law bought one. He called me a few days later and was angry and frustrated. He had taken his to the range and had numerous malfunctions with different ammo. I pushed him to contact SIG and he did and it was returned. Got it back and it still did this. I reached out to my LE rep and told him about this and how he purchased it on my suggestion. He arranged to have it brought through the LE side and it was fixed. It never malfunctioned again. We got ours in (about 85 guns maybe) and started qualification. It was a crap show. All kinds of malfunctions. Contacted SIG who sent the rep back out. Over the next 8-10 months, we changed frames on every gun (SIG claiming the frames were out of spec). Changed barrels in some. Some were sent back for SIG to inspect, usually coming back with letters saying the gun was "within specifications". I think they might have accused some of out SWAT guys of "limpwristing" them. By the next qualification these issues continued and we got with SIG and the distributor and demanded full credit toward new guns-which would be Glock G17s. So...I know they are cool and sexy and you probably have one and love it but I'll never carry one or trust one again. Don't bring up the military testing or we can talk about how that test was stopped abruptly and SIG declared the winner.
Smith and Wesson M&Ps. While I think the bugs have been worked out on this one, I don't care for the full size M&Ps. Since the local DOC uses our (Sheriff's Office) range, one of our instructors is paid to be on the range with them. I did this gig from 2003 to 2018. DOC had some .38 S&W revolvers that had started coming apart during firing and S&W agreed to replace these gun for gun with the (then) new semi-auto M&P. The M&P was new and unproven, and not known or adopted and S&W initially gave gun for gun (against the old well-used .38 revolvers). An armorer even confirmed this for me, saying that their computers showed "0.00" for cost on these. I noted S&W was then using this in advertising ("the choice of the NC Department of Corrections"...like it was some long grueling test with other makers...)
In the first 3 years, I seen COUNTLESS malfunctions, failures to fire, magazines dropping when a round was fired (even though the shooter's hand/thumb never touched the release), etc. The magazines falling out during firing became so common, some instructors even came up with range procedures the shooter had to follow! I actually heard some DOC instructors telling shooters they were slamming the magazines IN too hard...telling them they were supposed to gently push it in slowly, only until it barely clicked... Yeah, that would work in a gun fight... I seen two different veteran officers/firearms instructors go on loud profane rants on particularly bad days-cursing S&W, the M&P, DOC leadership for allowing such an abomination to be adopted, etc, etc. For any that would say the instructors were out-of-line...I agree with you. But I also say you didn't see 20-30 malfunctions a day, day after day, months/years after the issues were known to management and S&W. I recall courses of fire that should have took 30 minutes going 90 minutes or longer.
I DO like the Shield series though. I carried one for a couple years, and no problems. Bought my wife one, and she loves hers. I leave mine in the house so she actually has BOTH Shields. Until today, when I bought a Shield Plus as her main carry gun. The two standard Shields are "house guns".