Thread: Buyers remorse

My first centerfire was a Remington 742 woodsmaster 243.
Went ok shot well-cant remember groups but good enough for me.
Only thing is it would jam up unexpectedly. Did it on my first deer-wouldn't feed the next round-several times. Big debacle-just made a really easy shot hard and cost another deer.
second time was on a hunting trip last day before coming home. everyone was having some target practice. My one and only shot the bolt went all funny-hardly any spring tension and sort of sat in the middle of the travel.
Threw it into the tent in disgust and left it. Went back later and it was fine. suspect maybe some rust/material in the piston assembly. stripped it when I got back home (as much as I could)-couldn't find anything wrong with it. never trusted it after that and stopped me shooting for a bit-bought a win70 lightweight 243 which I still have and traded the rem in on the loopy scope
It never did it when sighting in or having a bit of a play.
Found out years later that the acquaintance I bought it off knew it did silly stuff like that on occasion before he sold it to me. He knew me WTF?
Other than that I haven't really had anything that I truly regret buying. If they played up I usually fixed them or got them sorted if it was out of my league.