Regret selling these, you?

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Only one so far 44 superblackhawk

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Spin The Wheel

I had a mint S&W Model 60, .38 Special snubby, stainless steel, pinned barrel, circa 1980. Like a fool, I sold it.

I later got another, pretty nice, Model 60, made circa 1985 (no pinned barrel). It's a good gun, yes, but it's not the same thing.

I also had a very nice Remington Model 1100, 12 ga. semi-auto shotgun, that I sold when I needed the money. Now the money is long gone, and so is the gun.

There's a lesson there...





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Nah.. not a bit.. just go out and buy something else..

Way to many to be tied down..

Very few missed in handguns and rifles. Maybe a little bit of regret for a mod 15 PPC pistol I let go some time back. Same for a CZ .22 AR upper.......

Shotuns are another story. REALLY miss my Beretta 590A Sporting. It was the first shotgun that I broke 50 birds in a row with and 25 was getting routine. The gun just fit me like a glove! Figured I was getting so good at various clay games that I deserved that $2000 Franchi O/U 12ga I had been wanting. Sold the Beretta for $600 to help finance the Franchi. Never could hit anything but wide open sky with that gun.
Sold it at a loss and never found anything that worked that well for me eer again.
Hard lesson learned.
Shiny and expensive doesn't always mean better. :-(

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Dave

There’s a Custom small Martini in 218 Bee out there, somewhere.
Short Bull Barrel, nice wood, the operating handle has a brass ball on the end.
If you see it, please send it back to me!

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NRA LIFE MEMBER

To many...

Unfired SIG-AMT (to fund a move back in ‘09)
German Weatherby Mk V Custom, 26” (.300 Wby)
1903 Springfield NRA sales rifle mfg in 1915
Beretta DT-10 12 Ga O/U

To name a few...the horror.

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Some Might Say.

The class A engraved 357 Magnum pinto in my meme photo. I'm keeping the meme to remind me.

On, and just before the first "assault" weapons ban, a mint HK91. You'd a thought I learned then...

I'd regret selling any of my Colt SAA'a too! they are probably the last guns I'd sell. In fact, I'm trying to figure out how to take my favorite pair with me!

Mid - 90's, (the decade, not me) I was in a bout of 1911-itis and needing funds for some related purchase or product.
Sold my M66 3" I'd had for ~10 years. $375.
At the time it was just a M66 you didn't often see...no big deal.

Have kicked myself repeatedly.

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Ret'd LEO
SWCA #2275

I've been slowly buying back what I've sold. The one that hurts the most is the 8" Colt Anaconda I got for free brand new - spiff contest while I worked at a fun store back in the early 90's. I took my first hog with that gun. The next is a M1 Carbine. Both will eventually be replaced.

I replaced the Blue Sky M1 Garand I sold to help fund college last Fall. I bought one of the CMP special grades. It was quite a bit more than I paid for my Blue Sky copy but wow...it's like a brand new rifle.

The only gun I truly regret selling was my 3" 65.

A G/43 ya had there? Yeah I would regret selling that too! Big bucks lately. My regret was a Model 19 snubby.

Interarms- Walther PPKs .380

Hansome pocket "square!"

All of 'em, I want all of 'em back!

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John 3:16
WAR EAGLE!

Too many to list, but about half dozen Winchester 1886's, three 71's, another half dozen pre 64 70's. Two 1950 Target .44's, three .38 Outdoorsman, a couple of Colt Bisleys--can't type anymore, afraid tears will short out the keyboard.

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DAV in honor of POP

The only gun I’m missing now that I sold is my ‘75 colt Python 357/6” blue. The three others I sold I bought them again.

I don't regret unloading any guns! Especially when I make a tidy profit!

I've posted these before, and I still regret selling them....

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Dean
SWCA #680 SWHF #446

The only one I left go that I wish I hadn't is a model 94AE in 44 magnum that I let my brother have for $400 last year.

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Robert
SWCA #2906, SWHF #760

Among others these come to mind; a S&W 4" 624 .44 spl, a pre ban
Beretta AR 70 .223/5.56 rifle and years ago a mint Winchester .30 Carbine.

Ruger 3 screw flattop .357 4 5/8” and a 3 screw flattop.44 mag.
Both with black stocks. Forty-four was a 7 1/2”.

They come and they go. normally when I sell anything there is a pang of sellers remorse but it's gone by the time I buy the next shiny thing.

As soon as I kiss the lips of another woman I'm gonna forget all about you. - Marshall Tucker

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Springfield 1903, ser. no. 1,212,987 (2/21 barrel date). Museum piece. Gave a beautiful nickle four inch 19-2 to my father when I graduated seminary. Someone in the family traded it off for a Beretta 92f. Ouch. Beretta S/S shotgun. Bored tight and tighter. Still, beautiful gun. All matching K-98. No duffle cut. But, had to keep my daughters in school. Colt Ser. 70 Commander. Oh well. They are gone but not forgotten. Sincerely. bruce.

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Short list, S&W 650 .22 mag, a friend bought a Browning BDA 380. HAD to have one and once in hand- couldn't hit the broadside of a barn w/ it. Model 469 I traded for a u
Univeral carbine that shot 8 in groups@ 25 yrs. and finally an .22 Charter Arms .22 Target Pathfinder, 3" in stainless. new the little gun cost me 165. NIB in '83. Sent it and had a Mag cylinder fitted. The little gun was lite and extremely accurate, traded it at a gun show on God knows what..... About a month later I got buyer's remorse and trolled local shops and gun shows to two years hoping to find it. Never have seen one like it since. Great little revolver for woods walking, still have the Nixon holster for it, but it's to small for my 36-6, which it my woodsy companion now.

That's a Mixon hl
holster- spell check will get you every time

A Ruger 2.75 barrel Security Six and this 639 that I never really cared for till it was gone.

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LIVE FROM THE DAWGHOUSE

Ruger #3 in 375 Winchester. I like odd ball guns and that one fit the bill.
Smith 60-10. Sold it to my brother for his wife who is an avid hiker and needed a good carry gun. That one fit the bill better than any of the others she tried. Love my SIL so away it went with me thinking I would find another with no problem. Finally did and it is a nice example and it has the box and papers, but it cost a chunk more than I paid for the 1st one.
Other than those two, none come to mind.
I buy em, try em and if they don’t flip the ol switch they dont hang around too long.
Have an SKB 200E 20 gauge I bought last November to try a SXS shotgun. Got to where I could shoot it well but the SXS failed to impress me as a better way to go than my O/U’s. So it hits the block here soon.

Beautiful pre-B CZ75. Very worn blue Security Six. Model 469. Glock 19. Remington 700ADL in .243. Gorgeous Belgian Browning Light Twenty A5. Rossi Model 88, a very nice smith M60 clone. Smith 4" 10-5. My all-time favorite shotgun, a Stevens 311 twenty gauge SXS, 28" Mod/Full. No serious regrets about others I've sold or traded away except my first Marlin 39A, nearly sixty years ago.

I've given away two I loved dearly, the second 39A that I used for fifty years and an almost pristine M15-3; but I gave them to my son and his boys, so I can't regret it much.

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Oh well, what the hell.

Several....

Smith & Wesson 28-2 4" S Series, Mint.
Springfield Armory SAR 4800 (the 5.56mm mini-FAL)
M1 Garands....2 each
Smith & Wesson 27 .357 5 Screw, 3.5"
Smith & Wesson 27-5 3.5"
Smith & Wesson 639
Benelli M1 Super 90

1987 moved to ok.. mother in law died -father in law cancer so
I ets Army and started over...
H&k 41
H&k 93
M1A super match serial 4433
2/ series 70 gold cups
AR 180 costa masa
S&W model 1955 pined barrel
Mini 14 GB
H&K p7m8
colt python 6 inch
1911 .45
S&W model 41 73/8 barrel

Way too many to list. I traded, sold, swapped like a fool. I use the term fool appropriately.

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I am a sheep dog!
1601 (ret)

LNIB 29-2 4". (in shipping box and mahogany presentation!!)

SO STUPID!!!!

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"Free dirt, you dig."

Well, I miss ‘em all, but it was time to downsize... There was this one, though:



Thing is, this guy was after me for a couple of years trying to buy it. Finally, I told him that I would sell it to him for what I had in it, figuring that would scare him off. But, to my surprise, it didn’t scare him off, and he came up with the cash. So off she went. Adios.

That one was a beauty!

Hamilton Bowen, who customized the gun for me, still shows it on his website. (Photos are mine, as he notes at the end of the explanation in the third pic.)

Nope, none, zilch!!! Never sold a single gun.... Just gonna take em all with me. Too many threads exactly like this one. Learn from other peoples mistakes!

Waaaaay too many handguns and rifles to list here, but the one that comes to mind the quickest is my Colt DE Gold Cup National Match. Now I am going to be depressed all day...

Have almost as many I regret not buying. The most recent was a 3.5" Pre27 5 screw I fondled at a Vegas show a couple weeks ago. Wanted $1795, but didn't buy it because it had 70s vintage targets.

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213th FBINA

I’ve only traded away 6 guns so far. 4 rugers and 2 smiths. Nothing that I really miss

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-Matt

Too many to list. When I was a younger accumulator I did not make enough to buy what I wanted. I ended up trading in one to buy another. Sigh.

Been there, did that, for many years....

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Dean
SWCA #680 SWHF #446

I try not to think about it. The hundreds of guns I've owned would have not be possible without dealing and selling. It's easy to think of the primo
guns I've had and wish I had now, for reasons other than value. The ones
I really think about were dozens of run of the mill guns from 60s and older
that I got rid of without hesitation. Today you have a hard time finding a gun of that quality without paying a arm & leg.

Ruger 3 screw, 4 5/8" barrel, .41 magnum.
Loaded down it was a fun afternoon of shooting, and loaded up it served any need I had.
Easy to load on my Lyman 310. Learned to cast 210 grain lead semi wadcutters for it.
Can't remember what or why I traded it?

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Jim

a 4 screw, pre 29, 5 inch.

It went to a good home with member SigKev, who graciously shares it with us often.

I still miss it several years later, even though I have put together a reasonable facsimile

Some things only the end of time will heal. Had a good dog once too.

Ned

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