The most unpleasant gun you've ever shot

I HATE shooting my P3at. It's just a light weight, miserable shooting, snappy recoil, absurd little gun. I'd rather shoot my Tarus 605 with 357's. At least it's a real caliber and I expect the recoil.

My wife hates when I take my Model 94 in 30/30 to the range. I enjoy it, nobody close to me does. lol
 
S&W 329PD
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My nephew has one of these, and he likes the wood grips because they look cool.
I love me some magnum, always have. You really gotta try to turn me away from one, but S&W did so with this thing.

My lil' Sis has a 327 Federal Magnum LCR. Shooting it with full house 327's in it was aggrivating, but a set of Pachmayr Diamond Pro grips cured that. The stock 2-finger grips were a joke.

But I don't think there's a grip made that can make that 329pd handle with any sense of civility. The gun is only good for one thing. Shoot a bear and run away. Which granted, is what it is made for.
Still...if you wanted to turn off a newbie to shooting this would be a perfect choice.
The most powerful of the Smith & Wesson PD revolvers is the .44 Magnum 329PD, which is the subject of this review. My first experience with a 329PD was not a good one. I was handed one by a S&W executive at a shoot as I was standing on the firing line at a range. It was a very early gun, and the first that I had seen. I was shooting a Ruger Super Blackhawk with 300 grain Cor-Bon loads when he handed me the gun, so I loaded the cylinder of the Smith and touched one off. Recoil was brutal, and one shot locked the gun up so tightly that I had to open the cylinder with a brass hammer and punch out the fired case with a screwdriver. I then handed the gun back, not shooting another one for a couple of years.
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At a friend of mines bachelor party we all went out shooting and someone brought a .50 cal single shot rifle. Don't know the brand or anything else about it. You physically remove the bolt, attach the .50 cartridge, put it back and then fire. It wasn't >terrible< from a seated position with it on its bi-pod. But the guy bet I wouldn't shoot it standing and unsupported for $20...so $20 being $20, I picked it up, tried to aim the beast through the scope and cracked off a shot that hit somewhat near the target. It wasn't very pleasant and something I woulnt want to make a habit of. But I enjoyed the easy $20.
 
Kahr CW40, no regrets getting rid of that gun. Kick didn't hurt, it was just to snappy.

S&W 340PD with 357, by the 3rd round, my palm had enough.
 
NAA Guardian .380.

Being an all metal .380 you would expect it to soak up recoil, but it was straight blowback so, no.....

It bloodied my trigger finger on every outing from the trigger guard whacking it. Never had that issue before with any other micro .380 I've owned including a P3AT and LCP. Also never had that issue in the Guardian .32NAA (.380 case necked to a .32 bullet). The .32NAA was potent but I'm guessing the lighter bullet didn't give it as much backward twisting recoil as the .380 did in that platform.

Ended up selling both NAA Guardians.
 
I have some fairly big bore rifles and have shot pistols up to 50 cal, 10 ga and 12 3.5. Not my favorites but don't mind if they get the job done. Only rifles I do not like are anything chambered in the Remington Ultra Mag line of cartridges. Hell of a pressure spike that I hate. I don't mind recoil, but damn!
 
I've not shot many larger bore rifles. I did think I wanted a Mosin carbine at one time, just for fun. Shooting one curbed that interest.
 
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Walther P22. Sure it was good practice, but the constant FTF and FTE were not pleasant in any way. Eventually got it where it could usually shoot high velocity rounds. Usually.
 
Walther P22. Sure it was good practice, but the constant FTF and FTE were not pleasant in any way. Eventually got it where it could usually shoot high velocity rounds. Usually.

I had a Ruger MKII that was a FTF/FTE POS. Every third or fourth round, regardless of ammo or mag. So maddening.
 
Most unpleasant experience was not the gun so much as the ammo. I had a Ruger Security Six and a buddy had a S&W K frame, maybe a Model 19... don't really recall.

We went halves on a Rockchucker press and set it up in the spare bedroom of his apartment. We would get together a couple nights a week to load ammo and then go out to the local sand pit on Saturday afternoon and shoot it up at tin cans.

We were loading 357's way above book and would dare each other to be the first to try each current week's batch. On a bright sunny day there would be huge muzzle and cylinder gap flashes.

It was a couple years later when I started shooting competitively that I realized what a flinch that crap had given me.
 
Bond Arms .44 mag derringer
Felt like a stick of dynamite going off in your hand
They immediately stopped production when someone claimed they broke their finger when firing one
 
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An AR-15 Rifle..

The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.
 
An AR-15 Rifle..

The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

Ha! I remember that tool. You need sarcasm font.
 
An AR-15 Rifle..

The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

Ha! I remember that tool. You need sarcasm font.

Ahhh yes ... the great Gersh Kuntzman. His (and that pronoun may be questionable) last name is so fitting.
 
I shot 1 round from a Glock 19 once. I was going to throw it away but my SIL wanted it. A freak in the lane next to me said "I see you're a glockfanboy too, you big sexy hunk". Never again!
What range lets blind people shoot?
 
My buddy at work came in laughing a couple years ago. He went goose hunting with a friend earlier. This friend had borrowed someone's over/under shotgun and got excited when the geese started coming in. My friend said he pulled both triggers at the same time with 3" 12 gauge goose loads.
 
Between an old S&W Model 10 with a 2" barrel or a NAA 1 5/8" barrel in 22 mag.
 
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Marlin 444 straight grip, hated that damn thing. Sold it to a moose hunter up north.
 
I give you the most painful 9mm experience ever in the world, the Keltec pf9.

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I've never shot a PF9 but the P40 is the most painful pistol I've pulled the trigger on. It made the bones in my hand ache after 2 mags.
I don't think I'll be firing another one.
 
Between an old S&W Model 10 with a 2" barrel or a NAA 1 5/8" barrel in 22 mag.

I had an 1 5/8 NAA in .22 mag, I could not hold on to it worth a crap. That thing would stand straight up in my hand.
 
S&W .357 airweight. Son of a fun weighted 12ozs empty. You drop it in your pocket and forgot about it but when you shoot it it feels like you raped an electric pencil sharpener with your index finger or got it smacked with a hammer.
 
Browning A5 Sweet Sixteen with 2 3/4" #1 Buck.

Dad thought it was funnier than I did lol
 
An AR-15 Rifle..

The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.
Johnny wins the internet!
 
Remington .270 7600 BDL. Hands down the most painful firearm I have ever shot. Just an all around turd of a gun.
 
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Mossberg 500 Persuader with the pistol grip only, no stock and high base 12ga shells. Looks cool, but you can't really aim the thing or brace it properly. I'm not recoil shy, but that gun is the only gun I've ever handed back to someone and said, "Here, you shoot it a while." The owner felt the same way. "Naw, why don't you keep shooting it." The grip angle would bust my knuckle every time I shot it. I was bruised for a week.
 
The worst thing I've ever shot was a BOHICA 50 cal single shot upper on an AR lower with a rigid M16 style stock and no muzzle brake.

Shot it laying over the trunk of my car at the time and it damn near stood me up. It was a buddies gun and he said "Go ahead, you can go again if you want" I was like "No thanks unless I can shoot it on the back of my shoulder to knock it back into place".
 
I have a Ruger 480 with some 275 Speer loaded too dang hot (has be reduced since) that like to ripped my hand off....I was shooting it though the crony and was scared/amazed when it said 2200 fps.

Now it slings the 275 pills around 1600 fps.
 
A .458 Winchester Magnum built on an Interarms Mk X that belonged to a friend hurt to shoot it. That was probably the beginning of my chronic shoulder issue that ended with rotator cuff surgery.
 
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