Your most disappointing gun purchase?

[Vonz90]

Universal M1 carbine that I bought when I was 16. It was reasonably accurate other than the elevation would float up down. I eventually found a work around for that, but it wouldn't take GI mags and it was very persnickety on ammo. I did get my first deer with it, but later sold it and used the money on a Savage 30-06. I haven't missed it.

[Steamforger]

HK USP .45. I was a newb to the gun world and I was looking to buy the ubiquitously awesome Glock in the most awesome American caliber of .45. Local gun store didn't have one, so the intrepid salesman talked me into spending more $$ on the USP.

I've had it for over 15 years now. At first, I thought there was no way I could ever shoot a full sized DA pistol accurately. After shooting other guns, I realized the HK trigger was an utter abomination for an $800 gun (or a $300 gun for that matter) I still hate the trigger. But there is the option of having a "tactical trigger" installed. Or I could take it to the job site and bang in 10d nails consistently. It is built like a tank and has never had any problems feeding and shooting any ammo. But the fucking trigger....

Go rent a CZ-100 (if you can find one) and it'll make you able to tolerate the HK trigger. It was like rubbing two rocks together.

[Mike OTDP]

Hmm...

I have a Gold Cup that was rather disappointing out of the box. Worked fine after getting it to a gunsmith.

A Pedersoli Mang percussion pistol. Shot OK...but terribly muzzle-heavy. I'd drop shots as a string progressed.

My Walther P22 does not impress me, but it's too cheap to be called a disappointment.

I've got an AK-74 build that I can't call disappointing, but is OBE. The events being two better AKs, an Arsenal and a Krebs build.

[McClarkus]

I got rid of it, 30 years ago and do not remember the name Ruger had for it. It was a .22 trail pistol of some kind. It was accurate enough and a semi auto. What I did not care for was that it took two men a a mule to get it apart and back together again for cleaning.

[slowpoke]

I got rid of it, 30 years ago and do not remember the name Ruger had for it. It was a .22 trail pistol of some kind. It was accurate enough and a semi auto. What I did not care for was that it took two men a a mule to get it apart and back together again for cleaning.

Some things dont change about ruger 22's...

[SoupOrMan]

I haven't been disappointed by any of my purchases, but I don't have the time or money to shoot them all as often as I want.

[D5CAV]

AMT Compact .45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4U6qFAeT4

This reviewer calls the trigger pull "Stout". I haven't measured it, but I'd say this is the only pistol with worse trigger pull than a VP-70.

No sights, so forget hitting anything past 20 feet, even if it had a reasonable trigger pull.s

Not even worthwhile for concealed carry since it's thicker than a Glock.

If you want a compact .45 for backup, go with a Glock or a 1911 variant.

[arctictom]

Yup the folding pos and I don't like autoloaders

[evan price]

OK, another:
My Glock 21.
I had my first gun at age 21 which was a Colt King Cobra.
So I wanted a semi-auto. I wanted the manly American 45. I had also just seen Freejack.
So I ordered- having never seen or held one- a Glock 21. It was the first one in my town gunshop. It was the first one nearly anybody had ever seen. This was early 1992.
The gun itself is fantastic. Has never jammed or failed in any way.
However it is just too honking big. I have big manly hands. It's still too big. I doubt that Glock has shot 500 rounds downrange, and still has the gold Glock grease on the slide rails.

I much prefer the Sig P220 single stack 45.
But I'm not selling my "preban" Glock 21.

[Kommander]

I bought a .38 S&W Webly once while the gun worked just fine and was fun to own, it was a pain in the ass to shoot. The trigger was long and hard and made it difficult to hit much of anything with it. Combine that with the difficulty of finding ammo in .38 S&W and the gun was a bit of a bust. I should have gotten on in .45 and gotten a basic reloading set up for it.