I wish I'd never BOUGHT that

[ejg]

Bushnell spotting scope. Pure rubbish. That's me finished with Bushnell.
edi

 

[libensvolenspotens]

My first cigarette.
If I only had the money that I spent on tobacco over35 years!!!
Buffalo Creek Scope covers
Howa 1500 .243 - I bought it in a hurry with the intention of upgrading to a finer rifle as funds allowed. Bloody thing still puts 3 rounds through a thumbnail at 100metres so I can't justify getting rid of it!

 

[buck52]

I fell for a set of folding sticks from the US when I started stalking. These things were lightweight carbon, all held together with a bungee cord that ran through them and supposedly configurable for all sorts of positions from standing to sitting. Bloody things sounded like a skeleton having a w ank in a biscuit tin when you tried to put them together, rattled your knuckles when they finally snapped into place, filled the ferrules with mud and crap, and generally would've been more use for buttering hedgehogs than used as a shooting aid

I took them back to the US on a hunting trip and left them there. I don't miss them

Read this a few days ago and still laughing at the skeleton bit!

 

[N1mr0d]

Sportsman Gun Center. Ordered new scope rings - sent old rusty rings, clearly 2nd hand in a plastic bag, even missing a screw and not in original packaging. Mistakes happen BUT - no communication, no apology, could not care less attitude when I had to call to chase a refund which had not been actioned despite them receiving the rings back.

 

[Erik Hamburger]

The worst purchase must be a plastic clip-on universal rifle bipod.
Ok it wasn't a lot of money, but I still remember it as an exceptional badly designed and badly engineered bit of kit.

 

[PeterH]

Had a 22 RF BRNO amazing accuracy then had a mental block thinking I needed a semi and swopped it in for a new Ruger 10/22 - soon found out that 10/22 meant that on a good day it would fire 10 of the 22 you loaded. If it had not been on a ticket I would have chucked it into the nearest duck pond. What annoyed me most was that it took me 6 weeks to realize what a piece of $hit it was.

 

[Woodsmoke]

Read this a few days ago and still laughing at the skeleton bit!

I'm tellin' you Stupidest piece of crap I've ever been dumb enough to fall for

Muir? I have the Hornady case cleaner that I bought from a chap here. I find it to be really good

 

[Nobleman]

A mobile phone.

 

[Cut+Squirt]

a Renault 5 Alpina turbo 2 in 1983.

left hand drive and the fastes car I have even driven on the public roads, nearly cost me my army carrier when posted to lulworth and then to Tidworth, but that's another story.

miss it more than I like to admit.......boy racer and a great bird pulling machine,

bob.

I had the Renault 5 GT Turbo (Raider edition).. .. Registration Number G555FFS.
It's nick name was God For xxxx Sake.. . Exceptionally fast wee unreliable bean can but don't regret ever owning it.

Ridgeline Smock was utter scrap.. Ridgeline Smock 2 was only marginally better.
Berghaus boots rubbish.. .. leaked and fell to bits within days of buying them.
Le Chameu boots no better.

 

[Chasey]

Only partially joking. Yes, the circumstances of that particular rifle were problematic, and I got taken up the bum by an incompetent smith. But having thought about it a great deal, and compared ther basic rifle with others, I've come to the conclusion that the 75 really is over rated. It's an ok rifle for its era (15-20 years ago), but isn't really all that special. I've owned 2, and neither were nearly as good as the Tikka T3s they replaced. Yes, the T3s didn't look or feel as nice, but they were substantially more accurate and uttery unfussy about ammunition. I sorely regret selling them - and only did so because I'd been stupid enough to pay attention to the hype surrounding the 75s. And the 75s certainly don't bear comparison with things like Heyms, which are in the same price bracket, but which are in a completely diferent league quality wise.

My guess is that the 75 DOES make a superb donor action when worked on by a good smith, but a basic factory rifle that would now be close to a decade old at the youngest is seldom going to be as good as a new T3.

I have a 75 RH 243 and a left handed Tikka T3

If the made LH 75s in SS id throw the T3 in the trash and buy one

 

[Chasey]

If we are on to non shooting related stuff?

OK first wedding ring is a given

Apple Mac PC

Cost a bloody fortune, refuses to merg Acess database so remains a toy I cant use properly for buisness, soooooooooo blody slow and overheats all the time. Wont last an 8 hour sesion in the office before it crashes due to over heating

People who rant on about how goodApple products over PC are talking crap

Posted brom my Windowes bassed PC coz the Apple has overheated and shut down again

 

[Sylvanius]

"Bloody things sounded like a skeleton having a w ank in a biscuit tin when you tried to put them together, rattled your knuckles when they finally snapped into place, filled the ferrules with mud and crap, and generally would've been more use for buttering hedgehogs than used as a shooting aid " That's got to be the best description of bad sticks I've ever seen!

 

[redrbr]

A pair of Le Chameau boots. They're comfortable, lightweight and totally waterproof.
But they squeak. I've had them for years and they still squeak.
I say squeak, but actually it's more of a shriek. You couldn't creep up on an artillery battalion in them, much less a deer.
Great for walking the dog in the winter, though. (Sigh ...)

 

[Sauer90]

If we are on to non shooting related stuff?

OK first wedding ring is a given

Apple Mac PC

Cost a bloody fortune, refuses to merg Acess database so remains a toy I cant use properly for buisness, soooooooooo blody slow and overheats all the time. Wont last an 8 hour sesion in the office before it crashes due to over heating

People who rant on about how goodApple products over PC are talking crap

Posted brom my Windowes bassed PC coz the Apple has overheated and shut down again

Shame the windows spell check is broken...

 

[Browser]

Any cheap tool, particularly with the name Silverline on them, as they just break or perform so poorly you end up launching them across your workspace in frustrated rage!

 

[Hornet 6]

Any cheap tool, particularly with the name Silverline on them, as they just break or perform so poorly you end up launching them across your workspace in frustrated rage!

I feel the same about them, but recently need a set of BSF/W spanners and they were the only game in town.
Got to say they have performed very well, even survived abuse with a large copper&hide hammer on a nut that
did not want to give up.

Neil.

 

[Taffcav]

I wish I'd never bought my BSA .308...... What a total heap of ***** that was.....

 

[rws243]

A neoprene cartridge belt, the loops were too loose and long so the cartridges worked thier way down and were impossible to get back out in a hurry

 

[marklestrange]

Butler Creek lens caps ... I agree .. two objectives snapped in first week of use!

 

[iain b]

A new Remington 700 sps in 7-08. Good round. Crap rifle. Threw away every thing but the barrel and action Remington now ruled by accountants. What a bunch of low life's, the old " nice rifle, make it cheaper and crap " new Remington, Marlin, tikka t3 all ruined by money men.