What is the least fun gun you have shot?

[w0fms]

Jonk: +1!

[jwber]

Mossberg 500 12g with 3" Magnum Slugs - Made sighting in my scope just "fun"....

[L1A1Rocker]

Well that's an easy one. I don't have pictures of it, and it's the ONLY gun I've ever gotten rid of. In the late 80's I picked up (well, was given by my father as I was under 21 at the time) a Llama 45 ACP. Worst peace of **** on the planet - well, unless it was for the purpose of teaching failure drills. If that was it's purpose, it excelled.

[44 WCF]

My first Rocky Mtn Elk Foundation Banquet I won a Ruger 77 in 338 Win, the first Ruger synthetic skeletonized rear stock, Ruger inset Logo in Forend in it seems contrasting Green. Recoil pad was just a little wider than a single bit axe, and that is the sharp edge. Bought box of Federal General Purpose Rhino Stoppers, 250gr, First shot, sheared scope base screws. Wow, I thought, so after getting screws out, returned to the range. Two more shots,,,,tears,,,,real grape sized tears.....removed scope sold rifle and box with 17 remaining rounds. Was two more owners before a muzzle brake was put on that beast. I just love and respect Ruger firerarms, but that rifle was more than I could handle.

We have a fun gun thread- what gun that you have shot was the least fun, and why?

For a long time for me it was a Maelin 1804c. It wouldn't do better than 6 inches at 50 yards with anything. I shot it slow, fast, and in between. I tried 6 or more different bullets. The famed 358156 didn't do any better than the rest. Mag or special cases it was miserable.

Nothing worse than a gun that won't hit what it is pointed at. I have other Marlins, they all shot well, why wouldn't this one?

Spent over 8 months fighting it. Wondered why I ever bought it. Luckily I finally found the bullet it wanted and this all changed but that gun came real close to moving out of my house.

[chill45100]

For me it would be an 870 riot gun with an 18 inch barrel and magnum 00 buckshot. Fired 250 rounds of the stuff in 2 days at an instructors school. The speed loading drills nearly loosened my fillings! I still like 870 shotguns but not with those accursed 00 magnum loads!

[mikeym1a]

M-79

[Bret4207]

I am OK with recoil for a few rounds but my old Rossi "Puma" in 44 mag made me head straight for the catalog and a recoil pad.

Yeah, I got one of those. Hot loads will really get your attention! Lots more fun with 44 Specials at 800 fps.

[popper]

1920 vintage Caruso 12 ga, 30" full choke, no recoil pad, weighs in @ 5#. Three heavy dove load shots and I gave it to the BIL and told him to hang it on the wall. But dang that thing points great. Men used to be real men.

[rintinglen]

Evil guns..

Along the way I've shot several that were all I could stand.
Handgun winners
# 1 10 inch 30-30 contender with factory wooden stocks. I shot my first and only pistol silhouette match with it. My palm swelled up til my right hand looked half again as large as the left. I could not hold a pencil with it and had to go to the doctor to get prescription strength anti-inflammatory meds.
# 2 A 3 inch S&W 44 mag with full-house buffalo-buster heavy boolit loads. I fired two shots, handed the gun back and now wouldn't take one if you gave it to me.

Shotgun
Clear winner was an old, light, single-shot 12 gauge with a stock designed by the Marquis de Sade. It hurt me so bad my dad didn't have to take me out behind the wood shed--all he had to do was make me shoot it.

Rifle
45-70 Marlin CB with 500 grain boolit "loaded for bear." It will kill just about anything, if you can get it to shoot it from the bench. I actually split the web between thumb and index finger and ended up with 3 stitches from that combination. I made the mistake of putting on a glove, which caused my finger to hit the trigger before I had the gun fully seated on my shoulder. The recoiling tang sight base caught me in the web of my hand and split it like a grape.

These days I'm older and heal slower so I no longer play with hard kicking guns.

[Bret4207]

HA! Just thought if this. Remember when the 10 ga came on real strong? Not when the Ithaca Mag 10 came out first, but the later 10 ga craze when they mandated steel? Guy I knew couldn't swing a Browing or whatever the high buck shot guns were, but he could swing one of those H+R Long Tom 10's. First time he shot it the forearm detached itself and the barrel came back and clobbered him in the face! So he duct taped the forearm on and went out duck hunting. Stood up on his knees in the skiff and pulled the trigger on a bird and went over backwards into the drink! The rest of the story continued on like that. He was nothing if not stubborn. I saw him after one adventure with the Long Tom and he had 2 black eyes!

[Wayne Smith]

The other one I remember is an original Trapdoor Springfield - 45-70. First one that I have ever used, belongs to the brother of my best friend. It was in a house he bought in northern Wisconsin. He asked me to check it out and see if it shot and to load ammo for it. It was tight and the bore was great. I bought a Lyman 457125 mold, bought brass and I had BP. The first time I shot it I went out and bought a PAST pad! I was shooting at a public range and a guy next to me was shooting a Barrett single shot 50BMG. He saw me shooting big blooms of smoke and asked me if he could trade shots. I said sure! The Barrett kicked like a 12ga. After two shots he asked for his back, he didn't want to shoot the Springfield any more!

[jonp]

HA! Just thought if this. Remember when the 10 ga came on real strong? Not when the Ithaca Mag 10 came out first, but the later 10 ga craze when they mandated steel? Guy I knew couldn't swing a Browing or whatever the high buck shot guns were, but he could swing one of those H+R Long Tom 10's. First time he shot it the forearm detached itself and the barrel came back and clobbered him in the face! So he duct taped the forearm on and went out duck hunting. Stood up on his knees in the skiff and pulled the trigger on a bird and went over backwards into the drink! The rest of the story continued on like that. He was nothing if not stubborn. I saw him after one adventure with the Long Tom and he had 2 black eyes!

I was actually standing in a lgs oogling a sharps when a couple of kids came in to buy a duck shotgun. Just had to have a browning 10g. The salesman tried to gently disuade the kid buying it but nothing is as boolitproof as an 18 yr old with an audience so the salesman gave up and sold it to him. After they walked out I told the guy behind the counter that id be back for that shotgun next week and he just smiled and shook his head. Went in the next week and sure enough it was in the used rack. No I didn't buy it either

[bruce drake]

S&W Sigma in 40S&W. Worst gawd awful trigger I've ever shot in a pistol in 30 years of shooting. Gave it back to the Father-In-Law...

[Grendl]

+1 on a Ruger #3 in 45-70 pure misery with heavy loads and I'm not recoil sensitive as a rule.

[flounderman]

The 3 1/2 inch 12 ga pump, with the 18 00 buckshot load. This is the equivlent of firing 2 regular 12 ga loads at once. I loaded the stock with shot and with a full magazine it added more weight but it would still hurt you. Anybody over 40 has no business shooting it. It will put your neck out of joint and bruise you. I watched a guy shoot two deer with it and his front foot left the ground every shot. Told me afterwards he wouldn't shoot it again if I gave it to him. I wasn't impressed with its performance. The 3 inch 00 seems to have more velocity and is a better killer. 18 00 have to weigh about 3 oz and I don't believe they had the velocity they needed to be as effective as a 3 inch.

[waksupi]

I had an old milsurp 8mm Lebel years ago, that really made the snot fly. I think they designed it like that, so the troops wouldn't waste ammo. I also had a .62 flinter I built years ago, with a slow twist, and weighing just short of 7 1/2#. It needed 170 gr. 2F to shoot well, and killed at both ends!

[Jazzcat]

I was at the range trying out my new 12 gauge Coach Gun shooting 2 1/2 inch standard loads. The guy next to me was shooting a riot gun with 3" 00 buck magnum. He let me try one in my gun. One was enough for me. I had a bruise for weeks. Still have the gun and shoot standard loads of #4 buck for home defense.

[Chilmonty]

A buddy of mine and I took his dads Winchester .458 to the range many years ago.
We each shot it "ONE TIME", Holy ****!!!

[gandydancer]

Hard to believe it my self. But it was a savage 99 F "feather weight in 308. factory rounds only. 150 grains maybe?? back in 66 I was 23 yrs old and it beat the snot out of me. a few times I was spitting blood don't know if i bit my self or rattled my teeth. sold it off real quit.

[lead thrower]

Browning BPS. 12 ga. I hated the trigger and the feel or it.