I know this thread has probably been done before, but I didn't find one when I searched, so I'm guessing it hasn't been done in a while. So, here's the question. What firearm do you feel is the most overrated firearm out there?

I'll go first. The first one that comes to mind is the Taurus Judge. Shotgun round out of a rifled pistol barrel is useless as tits on a boar hog. Shot spreads too quickly and is inefficient for a self defense round. .45 I would say would be a good defensive round, but in a Judge, the extra long cylinder required for the .410 shell is going to leave a lot of bullet jump before the throat, and that can't be good. You'd be better off with a .45 colt revolver in a Double action revolver (or a plethora of other choices)

2nd is a Remington 788. They have a reputation for being very accurate, and that reputation has been elevated above the gun's real accuracy IMO. Yes, they are very accurate for what they were (a budget rifle from the 70's and 80's), but Not amazing accuracy. Most of today's budget rifles are very accurate too. Don't get me wrong, I own, Love, and use my 788. And it is accurate. I just think the reputation has exceeded the rifle.

1911. Great gun but a 45acp isn't Mjölnir and at the end of the day it is still weaker than almost every centerfire rifle cartridge.

Remington 700

Any cartridge with Weatherby in the name. (<<that just caused a butt hurt report)

I fixed a Rem 788 owned by a buddy last year. The action was walking around in the stock 1/32", which might as well be a mile in this world. Pillars, bed, free float corrected the rifle problems. It was shooting 6" at 100 yards. After load development, I got it to about 1 1/4" at 200 yards. He handed it to a 16 year old boy this last week and killed two hogs. One at 225, the other at 245 yards.

Compared to a Winchester model 70 a 700 is a crude piece of garbage and I tell myself that every time I work the bolt on a model 70 and then do the same thing with a model 700. There's no comparison. Unfortunately or fortunately I keep spending a fortune on 700s simply because they are easier to work on and good enough gets the job done.

Swarovski Rifle Scopes, since I just got behind one.

Very picky about the focus knob setting.

I don't know, probably a Glock. They're damn good guns and when they came out it was nice that they were reliable out of the box as a lot of guns were not, but time has passed and there's a ton of guns that work great right out of the box that have more features and a better trigger etc then a Glock.

Maybe a sig 320 as well. Biggest turds out of the box today, but the military adopted them so people think they're great. Military should have adopted Glocks. I know that sounds a little contradictory since I said a Glock was overrated, but they do tend to work, not blow up, etc

One other thing that's overrated in the gun world is modularity. It's nice to be able to set something up how you want, but then after that most people leave it alone till they die. Might as well just have a couple of different models of guns and buy the one that's best for you and not make compromises

Also I'll give another vote for Taurus judge, I don't understand why anybody has bought one of them ever. But a sucker is born every minute 🤣🤣

Any direct impingement operated firearm.

I have to ask why on that one? ARS are very reliable and very accurate. Maybe the most accurate Auto loaders there are, so why do you think they're overrated? Obviously you're entitled to your opinion, I'm just looking for the reasons behind it

Mean time between failures of the gi issue M4 is 186 rounds. M16s have a slightly higher number. I doubt there is one for an HK G3 or AK47.

I don't know, I see stuff like that and always question it. I've seen ak's jam, of course I've seen ARS jam as well but overall I believe from personal experience and witnessing lots of people shoot lots of ARS that they're reliability issues are greatly over stated. That said, an AK and a G3 are probably going to be somewhere between 3:00 and 6 inch guns and a halfway decent AR is going to shoot under an inch and a half pretty easily, sometimes way under

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Take a hundred of them, screw silencers on them and see how many of the hundred are "very reliable". Many will be without any work on them, but some will not. I only have firearms that function 100% in any configuration. It's a trust issue of mine from my career.

Christensen Arms

Not any semi auto pistol cartridge is more powerful than almost every centerfire rifle cartridge

I agree 100% that they are not the best host for silencers. In fact when suppressed I have seen them choke A LOT. However, unsuppressed they are pretty dang reliable. Maybe it's because I don't shoot anything suppressed that I have a different Outlook LOL

Most revolver cartridges are not more powerful than almost every centerfire rifle cartridge as well.

No question, Christensen Arms!! I have no idea how they stay in business with the problems they have.

What is your source on the stats? I have watched 10's of thousands of rounds fired in a single day from over 200 M16A2 without a single failure, on multiple occasions.

I bought one specifically for shooting spiders off the tractor, much safer than a 22, and it makes me smile watching them explode.

Also works pretty well for shooting rats & mice off the tractor while shredding, just can't be very far at all or you have to shoot them several times. It's not cheap entertainment, but it's entertainment.


To the OP.......anything Tikka.

Anything Kimber.

I use a Taurus judge. It's my carry gun in my side by side. Not uncommon to see snakes on the trails on my land. What else is easy to carry/grab quickly and gives me an excellent chance to hit/kill/disable a snake of any size at close range?

When I don't have a judge with me on the land, my carry is a Colt 1911. Comparing pistols to centerfire rifle power is apples and oranges. I can't carry a 243 on my hip....nor would I want to, to be honest.

Yeah, I've got to question 186 rounds for AR....would be very interested in a link to that stat

410 Snake charmer, sawed-off 20 or 12 gauge, any normal revolver with rat shot. Or a hoe or shovel 🤣🤣


Or even a short 12 gauge that happened to have sights on it. Then you could drop a slug again in case you saw a pig you wanted to shoot at, assuming you have pigs at your place