I wish I'd never BOUGHT that

[Pedro]

In the car department, it has to be a Volvo 244. Bought it for it's safety record when the kids were young. It was safe most of the time. Kept blowing up the engine and wouldn't go!

In the shooting department, it has to be a Sabatti Alpen Eagle 12b o/u shotgun. It's a nice looking thing with side plates on it and a fancy name. But it's got the workings of a Browning Medalist, the stock broke at the grip and the top lever opens the gun but the top lever doesn't always stay across, so you put more cartridges in and the thing won't close. Sad thing is that it shoots really well for me, but spends most of it's life in the cabinet. Always the bridesmaid.

In the open category - Anything from Poundland. Whatever you buy lasts less time than you spent buying it in the first place.

 

[sikasako]

Also regret buying a Browning Medallist (which I believe were actually made by FIAS)
Got one brand new and had problems with it failing to fire on second barrel from day one.
Bad idea for Browning to market this model. Fair spoiled their reputation for me.

 

[RPA 6MM BR]

Did it ever do more than 100 miles without blowing the turbo off or some other disaster ? Well know for being possibly the most unreliable car ever made

Toyota 3ltr td hilux, fuel guzzling over heating bag of c**p. Never another Toyota, over rated junk.

You want to get a push bike! Perhaps as every vehicle on the road is so unreliable it's your driving? Just a thought! Millions of satisfied Toyota drivers worldwide yet according to you they are unreliable!

 

[RCS Deer Management]

Ruger 10/22 poor reliability and abismol accuracy. hatsan escort 12ga (I know of 8 owned between me and my friends, every one jams regularly) roedale moderator, me and a mate brought one each at the same time, both blew off the barrel after 30 rounds, roedale accepted no responsibility and blamed it on negligence.

 

[Sauer90]

Academics opinion and a ruger 10-22

 

[bogtrotter]

Car - Austin Allegro 1100 c.c. in 1977 - I am only just getting over the experience.

Guns, Scopes and all things shooting related - in general anything where I didn't buy the best that I could afford.

Who else would make a car with an oval steering wheel?

 

[scrumbag]

Voere 7x64. Pretty much got it sorted now but what a palaver!

 

[bogtrotter]

Ruger 10/22 poor reliability and abismol accuracy. hatsan escort 12ga (I know of 8 owned between me and my friends, every one jams regularly) roedale moderator, me and a mate brought one each at the same time, both blew off the barrel after 30 rounds, roedale accepted no responsibility and blamed it on negligence.

I bought a Ruger 10/22 carbine in 1982 still have it , reliability nothing gone wrong with it in that time, apart from a couple of years ago it started to jam,mag strip and clean as good as new again, as for accuracy while I have heard the horror stories, all I can say is mine is every bit as accurate as any other.22.
I won't be parting with it any time soon.

 

[Woodsmoke]

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

 

[bogtrotter]

Ridgeline monsoon smock.

Great piece of kit, I do think Ridge line are missing out on marketing though, I lost more weight than if I had joined weight watchers

 

[Mungo]

Academics opinion

Did you just not understand it? They do use big words, sometimes.

 

[sauer]

sounded like a skeleton having a w ank in a biscuit tin"






Oh Christ that's funny !!!,

 

[Highlandsjohn]

Sako 75 in .243.

The single most ludicrously overrated piece of equipment I have EVER owned. And I have had various kit addictions for most of my lifel.

Your joking right! This rifle is one of the most accurate 'out of the box made' Between you and your RFD you f...ed it. No fault of the rifle you took bad advice.john

 

[Pine Marten]

Voere 7x64. Pretty much got it sorted now but what a palaver!

Have you had more trouble with it since the original difficulties where you had to send it back to Austria.

 

[Mungo]

Your joking right! This rifle is one of the most accurate 'out of the box made' Between you and your RFD you f...ed it. No fault of the rifle you took bad advice.john

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.

 

[tackb]

No problem, differ if you wish

oh goodness I do , I still have the files on all my landrover products , one bad one I would have accepted but all of them? really ? come on !

I had a ten year gap in disgust with them whilst I run a couple of Toyota landcruisers , trouble free , and I mean trouble free ! just normal servicing , that's it !

now in my utter stupidity I've brought a range rover again , in the dealer more than out , fails in it's basic vehicular function of getting you from A to B and is backed up by a landrover dealer (marshalls of Cambridge) who's customer service is staggeringly poor (I guess they are busy with all the super reliable vehicles that are in bits in there workshop?)

I'm looking for a landcruiser to replace it so I can relax for 7-8 years of trouble free motoring !

 

[tackb]

Toyota 3ltr td hilux, fuel guzzling over heating bag of c**p. Never another Toyota, over rated junk.

4 landrovers personally and three (dad) all rubbish reliability
2 land cruisers personally and two(dad) all fine reliable motors

my findings agree with all reliability surveys worldwide , yours are in contrast , maybe try a bigger sample?

 

[scrumbag]

Have you had more trouble with it since the original difficulties where you had to send it back to Austria.

Oh it never went back. Voere customer service was terrible!

 

[Siggy]

A right handed sako 75 in 243...lovely rifle, most accurate rifle I have ever owned...but I'm left handed. Should of held out for a lefty Sako or Tikka 6.5x55 - if I had done that I probably would have never got the Remington 308, and then the T3 223. I would have saved myself enough money to customise the Sako 6.5x55 that I got when I finally gave in to the inevitable!

 

[sir-slots-alot]

Webley patriot FAC air rifle.

So inaccurate as to be funny - The vibrations and recoil destroyed two scopes , and most of my fillings fell out.

Worst rifle ever