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Charter Arms .38 Undercover.

Quality wise Charter Arms has had its ups and downs, and my sample was definitely from one of the "downs".

I had a Taurus .22 stainless revolver that would bind up at a rate of about 30 percent of the time. I loved the gun and even dispatched a deer with it. But the timing issues made me sell it and I now happily use a 1959 Bearcat for the same purposes....

my P-85, my high power, and my other
whatever-it-was high cap 9mm para

I had an "up" and still don't miss it, because it was a nasty f'k to shoot.

Jennings .22 received free, gave it back a week later.

I think they only made about a dozen of those things. Everybody had to take their turn and then they could send it on down the line.

AMT .380 Backup. It wouldn't come close to feeding Silvertip HPs and had a hard time even with the Remington HP that was pretty much a solid with a toothpick hole in the nose. But it worked great with round nose solids 95% of the time. Never knew when that other 5% would show up.

Yours was more reliable than mine. Glad to be rid of it.

CZ 52 7.62x25 pistol. Trigger was so heavy I had to keep checking to make sure the safety was off.

Ruger Vaquero in 44 Mag.

Ruger Blackhawks in 41 Mag, 44 Mag.

I bought a new Jennings J22 back in the day for around $50. Never had a problem with it through a couple hundred rounds. Even dispatched a few vermin at close range. I don't remember getting rid of it but must have since I haven't seen it in a couple decades. Actually, I kind of miss it.

Don't miss, heck I don't even remember them.

I was being generous.

Regarding small frame snubbies...

Look at the bright side... You'll never shoot anyone on a whim. You'll pull the gun out and start to pull the trigger, but then stop when your brain kicks in to remind you how hard that little gun smacks your hand.

Had a scandium .357...OMG, most abusive handgun I've ever seen in my life! The shooter only comes out slightly better than the person being shot.

Before I opened the thread, I thought, "yeah, AMT's" and it was the first one listed

I'll add:

Glocks
Ruger Mk I & II's
Colt SAA variants, unless they are really tight and well fitted, which the new ones are not.
S&W revos, with MIM and locks.
Kimber 1911's, though I still have one left.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THAT POS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^except mine was a longslide, "slide" my ass, I took a chemtane cutting torch to that pos.

Winchester model 100 "Jamomatic" 308 in the early 70's. Couldn't trade it fast enough!

I had one as well. It once jammed so tight I had to beat it apart with a hammer

Anything Mossberg.

I cleaned mine to the hilt and even snail mailed and bought three new factory magazines, boom, JAM!

I cut that fugger up and let the pieces fall into a metal 5 gal bucket and finished filling it with pig iron parts and took it and a bunch of other scrap metal from around the farm and sold it at Yaffee's up in Ft Smith.

AMT Backup 9mm. That thing had about a 50 lb. trigger pull. I actually got a pretty good price for it when I swapped it for a S&W 442 Airweight though.

Para-Ordnance P-10, when they came out in the mid-90s. It was a 3" double stack super compact 1911 .45ACP, held 10 rounds. Could not get it to shoot, jammed constantly. It sat in the safe for years until I sold it off.