Kimber…the best $400 1911 you can pay $1k for.
I’m actually a huge Kimber of Oregon fan & collect their upper end long guns.
Multiple AR’s.
A new Glock 29sf that would get that failure to eject with the fired case lengthwise but held by the extractor. Did it 3 times in the first 50 rounds. Returned it. Junk.
A couple other brand new Glocks, one a G30 gen 4 last year, that laughed as it popped me in the face with cases several times a magazine. Junk.
Kimber, yea, a .45. Wasn’t junk but had a couple failures to go into battery. Enough that I didn’t trust it.
Many other brand new guns with problems. Vector Arms, Llama, RIA, Ruger, PSA, Model 1, Taurus, Chinese shotguns, various AK’s, many others I cant recall at the moment.
So many that to this day I “generally” don’t trust an AR or 1911 to run an extended shooting session or class without a stoppage.
Worst pistols ever purchased: Sig Mosquito, Kimber 1911.
Did you talk to SIG about it? I had probs with my SIG Revolution (SN 11XXX), it went back and forth maybe four times (on their dime), but in the end it was right. Out of the box the best “stock” 1911 trigger I have. The trigger was never the issue.
I had forgot! I did get an early Walther P22 that sucked. Problems in order of occurrence were magazines would drop while shooting, rear sight would not hold adjustment(could watch the screw slot turn up to 90 degrees while firing), and finally the DA part of the trigger crapped out.
Called S&W service and they were kinda meh about the mags falling out even after I verified I was anal about not hitting the release, was told a large number of rear sights fresh off the boat wouldn’t hold zero and trying to fix was a crap shoot, sad finally the mention of the DA failure got an immediate return number that I assume was due to safety issues.
Can’t recall if it was repaired or replaced, but I verified the DA and sight were working and traded it off.
I had a Para Ordnance P10-45 that was the most unreliable turd I’ve ever owned.
Is Springfield Armory reputable?
Don’t know about now, but they used to be. They’re basic, cheap 1911s were the frames and slides upon which many a custom build was made.
I never cared for their “Loaded” model, but their TRP and the higher line was always pretty decent.
At some point you need to ask if it’s you or the gun lol. That’s a whole lot of guns to have issues with.
I have never once had a single issue with a BCM, Colt, or even SW M&P Sport AR. And I’ve had a couple 1911s that were turds but most of them have been just great.
Ruger American Pistol, service size 9mm. Purchased new about a year after they came out. Was totally looking forward to an all-American Glock replacement.
It threw shotgun patterns at 10 yards. Like 12" or so. I would shoot five other handguns in the same practice session and get maybe 3" groups at that distance with all of them, then have the Ruger not be able to hit a paper plate.
The trigger hurt my trigger finger. Not sure why, I use lots of other trigger-in-trigger safety systems, don’t like any of them but get along fine with Glock, etc. Not sure if there was a tiny bit of trigger slap, or if they just made all the parts sharp and abrasive.
Once disassembled for cleaning, it was easy to mess things up and have trouble re-assembling. This happened AFTER multiple accuracy tests, btw. I got it back together but it was about as difficult as changing the safety/decocker on a CZ P07 (fiddly little spring that requires a forked-tip screwdriver, for those who don’t know).
I have several hammer fired Ruger pistols, as well as the LC9, and they all work well for me. Along with various other brands. RAP seems to have been a failure, both functionally and in the market.
that would be my vote and submission as well
Colt… All American 2000.
What a friggin dumpster fire that was.
I was young, dumb and full of… well, in my defense computers/internet were not main stream and its a Colt… must be good right! Big mistake! Hope the guy that bought if from me doesn’t remember me!:blink:
we should flip this to, ‘best cheap no name gun you ever bought’
mine would be the bersa thunder9. Utterly reliable, not a single malfunction in over 7k rounds, cleaned that sucker exactly 2x and literally treated it like a used butter knife. I even once used it to hammer a nail lol
Bersa Thunder 380 is one of my closet favorite guns. It was always performed so much better than I expected with very low recoil, their carry 9mm was actually a really nice gun too but I ended up going with the Shield because of aftermarket support.
My good friend bought one right around the time that the COLT USMC 1911’s came out and I really wanted it because I knew I would never afford the Colt at the time. I remember him just furious that it would jam on so many different types of ammo. I’m pretty sure the money went to buy the knights rail for my A4 clone build
Back before the mag capacity ban I bought a pair of the worst pistols I ever had. I bought 6 hi cap mags each and 2 cases of .40. Neither could choke thru a mag with any type of round, hollow pointor ball, light or heavy. I thought these would be the shizzznit but instead they were the 2 worst firearms I ever bought.
S&W Sigmas…
Had two fixed FSB BCM’s that were good.
Had a S&W 5.45 mm AR that was probably good but mags were low quality with nothing better available.
I’ve had a Bersa .380 single stack and the Bersa .380 15+1 version. Both worked fine, although both would sometimes fail to ignite the Russian steel case primers. But striker fired guns sometimes fail to light them off as well.
We can probably do both, best BUDGET firearm you ever owned.
For me that would probably be a Systema 1927 (probably not fair since many were Colt contracts) but it was a surprisingly reliable 1911. They are well known performers but I’ll go ahead and say the Savage Model 10 I inherited from my father deserves it’s reputation.
Also found the Makarov to be impressively accurate but maybe it’s not fair to consider Soviet surplus a “budget gun.”
Also grabbed a Springfield SAR 4800 which was actually an Brazilian Imbel FAL and not only was it much cheaper than the FN models imported at the time (FN LAR) they had forged receivers while the FN imports were cast receivers. I think the SAR rifle was actually a third of the cost of the FN which were something insane like $1,200 back in 1987 while the Springfield / Imbel was around $450.
Colt series 80 combat commander in 9mm.
Safest place was in front of the muzzle. It was that inaccurate. And unreliable.
It was electroless nickle though and sure was purdy!