Thread: The WORST Firearm You Ever Owned

Originally Posted by Ultimitsu

in the States Malin 60 is about 160 while 10/22 is about 260, quite a big difference. here I think the difference is about 15%.


That must mean 10/22 is more popular then, if people are more willing to pay a bigger profit to the shops than Marlin. In fact more shops stock them should lead to more competition and therefore lower profit for 10/22 than Marlin.


I am not trying to decide which rifle should win the "rifle of the century" award. I am just saying 10/22 is the most popular semi 22 in New Zealand. For better or for worse people like it more here than the Marlin, it is that simple.



Not everyone does that, plenty of people do not shoot enough or care enough to find the best ammo. What they do is grab whatever they see and shoot for the weekend, then 6 month later go do shoot at a different place and buy some more last minute ammo. You may not care for ammo tolerance. That is completely fine (in fact, I personally do not either as all I shoot is CCI subs or SV). But there are many who find ammo intolerance annoying.

We have NZ's biggest 10/22 fanboy right here. Calm down bro - the thread is about the worst firearm you have ever owned.... for a lot of people that is a 10/22. Don't take it personally

Originally Posted by Nickoli

We have NZ's biggest 10/22 fanboy right here. Calm down bro - the thread is about the worst firearm you have ever owned.... for a lot of people that is a 10/22. Don't take it personally

I think you should attack the topic, not the person. in any event your attack is misplaced. I have said repeatedly that I think 10/22 is inaccurate and overpriced. I have no problem with many people finding 10/22 to be the worst gun they had - it would be a natural consequence of having the largest number in the pool. I am merely trying to give a balanced view that to improve accuracy does not cost "twice the cost of the gun".

Originally Posted by Ultimitsu

I think you should attack the topic, not the person. in any event your attack is misplaced. I have said repeatedly that I think 10/22 is inaccurate and overpriced. I have no problem with many people finding 10/22 to be the worst gun they had - it would be a natural consequence of having the largest number in the pool. I am merely trying to give a balanced view that to improve accuracy does not cost "twice the cost of the gun".

I repeat: calm down bro - there is no attack in what I said.
Balanced view in this thread isn't required: by it's very nature if a large number of people think the 10/22 is the worst they have had, it will be unbalanced.
Calm down - go hunt or shoot something; not everyone on the internet is going to tell you what you want to hear.

Originally Posted by Nickoli

I repeat: calm down bro - there is no attack in what I said.
Balanced view in this thread isn't required: by it's very nature if a large number of people think the 10/22 is the worst they have had, it will be unbalanced.
Calm down - go hunt or shoot something; not everyone on the internet is going to tell you what you want to hear.

While I said mine one shoots minute of rabbit out to 90 yards, my mates one could only hit a 2 litre milk bottle 2/5 times. I put it down to his shit shooting. Only mods done to mine is $30 trigger polish/lighten. But in saying that, never really changed anything

Originally Posted by oraki

While I said mine one shoots minute of rabbit out to 90 yards, my mates one could only hit a 2 litre milk bottle 2/5 times. I put it down to his shit shooting. Only mods done to mine is $30 trigger polish/lighten. But in saying that, never really changed anything

Mine had a backwards barrel. About 2 inches in front of the chamber it tightened up to about .20 to .21 then about an inch later went out to .23. (clearly made last thing friday evening before knock off). It meant that the bullet was swaged down just after leaving the chamber and barely touched the rifling after that. Made it a 3" barrel with a 12 inch solid steel flash suppressor / front weight. Had they turned the barrel around and chambered the other end the barrel would have tightened up at the muzzle and possibly been a real tack driver.....