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Kimber Montana in 300WSM.... had to send it back because it would not even chamber a factor round of ammo... then still could not get it to group at 100 yards.... sent it down the road... only bolt gun I have ever had that I could not get to shoot good enough that I felt comfortable enought to kill a deer with.

Tikka T3 in 338 fed. Tried 4 different bullets and several powders.......just didn't shoot. Took a loss and traded it.

32" Long Tom, single shot shotgun! Ouch.

J-22 gets my vote, too. Given to me by a relative. I held onto it for years waiting for one of those "gun buyback" programs to come to town so I could get a $50 gift card to a Safeway grocery store or something. Never happened.

I eventually sold the magazines on Gunbroker, disassembled the pistol, and threw away the pieces into separate garbage cans.

A guy came to the range once to sight in his brand new browning octagon single shot ?rolling block 7 mag. It would only fire about half the new box of cartridges.

A caulk gun and nail gun! They always seem to take away from my extra curricular activities...

Winner, winner, chicken dinner

A great looking pre-64 Winchester 100 in 308. It was a very complicated single shot.

That is my "worst gun purchase" also. I bought and returned it before the waiting period had ended. It was dirt cheap and so was everything about it.

A Blemington Super Express 870 (3.5in). The only shells I could shoot in it were Remington, all others would be come stuck in the chamber after firing.

A Spanish 10 ga Magnum side by side ( unknown mnfg )
Took it out to the cabin with a group.My boss discovered it would go off when snapped closed rapidly

He took out a box of clay pigeons at three feet while my buddy was bent over 'em

He stood up covered on mud and his wife screamed, thinkin he was hit.

Just mud back splash, thank God
We got it to repeat several times.

I shot both tubes at once into a junked truck tail gate.
( Sent it spinning off like a playing card in the wind )
But after the auto discharges, took it back the same shop , the same day and traded it off.

No more unknown big bores for me!

All of them, guns can only lead to crime, murder and mayhem. I think I am going to saw them all up this afternoon.

S&W pump shotgun, don't even know the model number. We took it to the range the weekend after I bought it and after the 4th shot, I went to chamber a round and the slide bar broke.
I returned it to the gunshop that day asking about fixing it and when they learned that they had sold to a minor (they never asked how old I was, and I didn't know a 16 year old couldn't buy) they were more than happy to refund my money and asked me not to come back till I was 18.

Smith @ Wesson 4006 , thing weighed a ton and jammed every few rounds.

Had one of these too. Literally could not hit a barn door, well at least a 9" paper plate at like 6 feet. I was new to handguns at the time and really couldn't fathom that one could be so bad. Had a Jennings 25ACP since that proved otherwise.

Although almost 770 embarrassed to say, many years ago, I purchased the all time biggest POS ever, a 'sporterguised' Enfield 303. Thing had a home built 3/8" thick aluminum plate side mount scope mount, chopped barrel, rubber buttpad with metal poking through the heel, a wood 'grip' added, a leather padded comb and two worn out magazines that would not hold shells in consistently.

Sometimes, buying the best is the cheapest.

Interesting how no one has mentioned a pre-64 Model 70... :P

When I was in HS I obtained a knock-off .22 revolver, a Ruger Single Six lookalike but not a "Shootalike"! I didn't understand at the time why or exactly what was happening but the cylinder would not line up with the barrel and did so differently each time. Bullet bits would shave off, splatter out the barrel cylinder/barrel gap and the misshapened bullet would spit out way off one direction or another. A gunsmith told me it was not worth fixing but he tried. Had a .22 magnum cylinder too but I didn't dare to use it. The trigger ending up breaking along with the hammer.

Charter Arms Bulldog.

First barrel looked it was threaded and had chunks gouged out of it.

Sent back with the tag still hanging from the trigger guard.

I asked for a barrel replacement from a time when the quality control folks were sober.

Came back with a new barrel and does what I ask of it as a carry piece, never did a lot of accuracy testing as it is only meant to be used for social occasions other than "Fam Fire" function check once in a while.

A Remington lever action .22 I bought used. I can't find info on it on the internet but it was probably a model 76. It had a wood stock and a detachable magazine. I've never seen one before nor since.

It would fire about half the time when the action closed, incredibly unsafe and it was ugly. The gun dealer would not refund and i was leary of "fixing" it, so he gave me the purchase price toward a Ruger 10/22.