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Oh...and a Marlin 1895 45-70. The barrels was screwed in to the receiver so crooked that I couldn't use sights other than the stock open sights. Shame too, the gun shot really well, but I wanted a receiver sight on it.
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Model 7 .260. : Easily the most inaccurate rifle I have ever squeezed a trigger on. Nothing could be done to that thing to bring it under 6 inch 3 shot groups @ 100 yards.
TC Encore: Three of them (.223, .22/250..25/06) none no better than 2.5 - 3.0 inch groups and that stock just didn't work well for me at all
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Mine was a Smith and Wesson 7mm mag, (Howa manufact) I hunted for years with a Ruger 308 Ultralight, and decided I needed a Magnum, when it was offered for sale by a co-worker. Bought the 7mm mag, and never cared for it. Can't say it didn't shoot, but can't say it did shoot, as I only shot it a couple times. I just never could get used to the weight and length of it, it always felt clubby.
Luckily, I kept my Ruger. Sold the Smith and Wesson after a couple years for what I bought it for. Don't know if it ever became collectible. Anyone know?
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Early 90s Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle in stainless. Most miserable rifle I've ever owned. Never did get it to shoot better then a pattern. Finally traded it for a VLS 223. Still don't miss it. Same experience with my Mini 14. It's been gone for decades. Another disappointment for me was a Remington 7400 in 308. Totally unreliable. Sold that long ago as well.
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Ruger , seems to be the most popular name in this thread
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Yeah I had 2 Rugers that had issues. And one Remington, although it was a shotgun.
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A ruger number one in 25/06 and a remington 700 in 243. Both unable to shoot groups instead of random patterns. A Rossi 357 I bought before I knew better that tangled its own internals while shooting. Otherwise about 200 other guns I can't really complain about. Pretty good track record honestly
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Winchester 100 .284 Win. Loved the cartridge, loved the looks and handling qualities of the rifle but its accuracy was so abysmal, you'd have had a hard time committing suicide with it...
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Savage 99 .308; Ruger 77 several cartridges.
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I have only had one rifle that I couldn't wait to get rid of. It wasn't because of accuracy either. I had a savage axis in 243 that was accurate as all get out, but the whole long action only and trigger that you almost needed a winch on didn't impress me at all! Sold it to my buddy and it is his go to rifle. He liked it so much he bought another one in 308. He did shoot my 300saum and he got surprised when the gun fired, he wasn't expecting it because he was used to the heavy pull of the savage.
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I've never had a Savage 99. I've long had a desire to get one in .250-3000 Savage, though. So far, I haven't found the right intersection of condition and price. I did have a Savage 1895 in .25-35 that was a fun coyote gun and general plinkin' rifle. I'm curious as to the specifics about your 99 in .308 that caused you to find it lacking and whether your displeasure was limited to that specific example, as was the case with me and first No.1, or if you just decided that the 99 platform in general didn't meet your needs as you perhaps hoped it might? Savage never chambered the 1895 in 25-35. Fair enough. I stand corrected. It must have been an 1899, then. It's been 30 years since I sold it, but I seem to recall it saying "18Somethingorother" on the barrel. It had a thin schanbel forened with some kind of thumb-slide deal inset in it, like a take-down latch. It had checkering on the fore-end. The buttstock was checkered at the wrist and it had a kind of perch-belly shape to it. The safety was a sliding affair down by the lever when the rifle was in battery. When it was cocked, a little brass-colored pin popped out of the tang or rear of the action. It had a little window cut-out, so one could see a "round counter" on the brass-colored magazine spool. It wasn't drilled and tapped for scope mounts but did have a Lyman peep sight on it. I remember paying about $250.00 for it in 1983. All I really knew about it then was that it looked like the 99 in .250 Savage that I had read about in a book by a guy named Roy Chapman, or Roy Andrews -or maybe it was Roy Chapman Andrews... Whatever... It was from reading some book that I got the notion I wanted a .250 Savage rifle. While the rifle I bought wasn't in .250, it was at least in a .25 caliber cartridge, and coolness just oozed off the thing. I used to to shoot it a lot at the old Fish Canyon Rifle Range in Azusa, CA and there was an older gentleman there who always seemed to be the there when I was.... He'd always nag me to sell him the rifle. I caved in when he offered me about double what I had paid for it. That much I do remember, because I used the money from selling the rifle to that fellow to buy the Ruger M77RL Ultralight in .250 Savage that I've been shooting ever since.  . So yeah, it was probably an 1899. Thanks for the correction.
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My dream gun was a Remington 700 Mountain rifle in .280 Remington. I did not like the butt heavy feel of the stock. I traded it for a 7mm Weatherby for less than I could have bought another stock. The magnum shot better to boot! I did not look back.
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Voere O/U 20 gauge/222 mag
Ruger 77's, inaccurate, blocky, and heavy
Newer Savage 99's with the removable magazine, horrible triggers
Weatherby Orion 2 O/U 20 gauge
plenty of others.
best rifle for me is a Savage 99, except above
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a late 90's vintage Marlin 336C with that crappy safety.
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In high school I wanted an M700 in 22-250. My dad bought me a Ruger 1A in 243 for high school graduation instead. That gun shot 6" groups at 100yds. Absolutely horrible. Not to mention, not a fan of a single shot hunting rifle.
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Few years back when I first got into rifles I thought I needed a big magnum for shooting little whitetails across big bean fields. Found a used BAR in 300Mag in a local shop. It was one of the original style, not the newer Safari model, and had beautiful wood. Never got any decent groups out of it, but then I never shot it much. That thing kicked like a young mule even as heavy as it was. Guess it just didn't fit me well. I traded it for a BAR Longtrac 30-06 that is plenty accurate for my uses and is much more pleasant to shoot. Largest cartridge currently in my arsenal is a 7Mag and can't say I really need it for anything I hunt.
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I bought a Remington 742 from a buddy when I was still pretty wet behind the ears and had just started deer hunting. I had it about 3 months before I sold it, haven't missed it a day since - in fact it's the only gun that I don't regret selling.
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I've never had a Savage 99. I've long had a desire to get one in .250-3000 Savage, though. So far, I haven't found the right intersection of condition and price. I did have a Savage 1895 in .25-35 that was a fun coyote gun and general plinkin' rifle. I'm curious as to the specifics about your 99 in .308 that caused you to find it lacking and whether your displeasure was limited to that specific example, as was the case with me and first No.1, or if you just decided that the 99 platform in general didn't meet your needs as you perhaps hoped it might? Savage never chambered the 1895 in 25-35. Fair enough. I stand corrected. It must have been an 1899, then. It's been 30 years since I sold it, but I seem to recall it saying "18Somethingorother" on the barrel. It had a thin schanbel forened with some kind of thumb-slide deal inset in it, like a take-down latch. It had checkering on the fore-end. The buttstock was checkered at the wrist and it had a kind of perch-belly shape to it. The safety was a sliding affair down by the lever when the rifle was in battery. When it was cocked, a little brass-colored pin popped out of the tang or rear of the action. It had a little window cut-out, so one could see a "round counter" on the brass-colored magazine spool. It wasn't drilled and tapped for scope mounts but did have a Lyman peep sight on it. I remember paying about $250.00 for it in 1983. All I really knew about it then was that it looked like the 99 in .250 Savage that I had read about in a book by a guy named Roy Chapman, or Roy Andrews -or maybe it was Roy Chapman Andrews... Whatever... It was from reading some book that I got the notion I wanted a .250 Savage rifle. While the rifle I bought wasn't in .250, it was at least in a .25 caliber cartridge, and coolness just oozed off the thing. I used to to shoot it a lot at the old Fish Canyon Rifle Range in Azusa, CA and there was an older gentleman there who always seemed to be the there when I was.... He'd always nag me to sell him the rifle. I caved in when he offered me about double what I had paid for it. That much I do remember, because I used the money from selling the rifle to that fellow to buy the Ruger M77RL Ultralight in .250 Savage that I've been shooting ever since. . So yeah, it was probably an 1899. Thanks for the correction. Roy Chapman Andrews, the great Mongolian dinosaur hunting expedition leader and scientific generalist of Flaming Cliffs fame. RCA and China missionary Harry Caldwell were often cited in pre-WW2 Savage ads for their use of the Models 1899/99 and RCA's use of the 1920. A Savage 1899 in 25-35 with a cocking indicator pin in the receiver would be vintage 1912 to 1917/18. Savage made Lewis machine guns during WW1 and didn't continue to catalog the 25-35, 32-40, or 38-55 when civilian production resumed post-WW1.
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A Browning BLR in .358 Win. I already had two Win.94's, a Savage 99 and a Marlin 336 (32 Win Spl.) and liked to play with all of them. Just wanted a .358. Browning was not well balanced, felt clunky, lever throw was way to long, geometry was way wrong for use with iron sights, and accuracy was so-so. Sold it after firing two boxes of ammo.
About the same with a Savage 24. Seemed like a good idea to have one. Clunkyiest long-gun I ever owned. Accuracy non-existent over 50 yds but I'm sure that was the max design range for this type of weapon so not really knocking that. It was just that after a while every time you picked it up you asked yourself "why?" and set it back down. Went on it's way via the want adds.
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Remington 700 BDL in .30-06, hated the feel of the action, mediocre accuracy. Definitely not up to the reputation.
Remington 700 .30-06 ADL, .30-06, rough action, Tupperware stock, but it was accurate, but not very useable.
Remington 700 Mountain rifle, 7x57, fixed mag. About as accurate as a slingshot. Felt good, but useless.
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