Thread: Question: What’s the worst (hunting) rifle you've ever owned/used & why?

Hi

I was thinking the other day that I've personally owned in excess of 200 rifles/shotguns over the past 20years. Some were good, some not so much...but most were pretty much the same despite the make or model.

But out of all those rifles the worst by far for practice hunting was my Styer .308 police tactical model. It was set up for me when I was culling deer in the UK and the law changed forcing us all to use suppressors. The choices were limited, so I put a BR Reflex T8 and added a Zeiss 8x56 fixed power scope, plus a Harris. Man what a pig of a rifle to carry, it must have weighed 15lb's!!! It was only dumb pride (I didn't want to loose face after spending all that money on it and admit I'd made a mistake) that made me preserver with it for 6 months use before finally admitting that I'd fucked up and it was a total lemon for hunting with! I ended up buying a Tikka M595 as a replacement and still own that rifle today 10 years latter...and it’s still my favourite rifle of all time.

So what was your ''dream rifle'' that turned out to be a turd?

kj