What guns have you regreted selling?

do a lot of swaps. should have kept PPK 22 German mfg. a couple colt SAA`s come to mind. 38-44 outdoorsman , was not a shooter so better to a collector. and i would say a couple of WW2 1911A1`s that i destroyed first. checkering , cut in sights, tighten up and so on. i should have never done that , and kept them original. so i guess its good they are gone now, would just make me sick to see what i did to them. i could say that as well for a few 70 series A1`s have been past my tools and hands. turned what are now collector guns into shooters only. crapper, all hindsight now, if only i would have...
 
Browning High Power
Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Mag
Savage Anshutz 22 Target
Remington 870 Wingmaster 12 Ga.
 
I traded a Benelli M1 Super 90 shotgun for a pre-ban Poly-Tech AKS-762 rifle once.
 
No regrets with gun sales-only regret was not being a better businessman with a couple of them,where I should have held out for a few more dollars.
 
Both sold/traded for motorcycle parts.....
Mod. 19-3 nickle 2 1/2" for a rebuilt 4spd tranny.
Mod. 39-2 for a rebuilt 8"over wide glide front end.
Tranny still going strong, front end lunched in '88.

Chipmunk6
 
4" 29-2, 3" 66-2(Ashland), 1954 4" 38/44 Pueblo PD. There are a few others that I miss but these I truly regret.

In my life there have been some very rough times and if I had to sell a gun here & there due to tight times so be it. I had a fairly large Colt SAA collection (all 1st gen) I liquidated in 1979/80 to help my parents out & don't regret selling a single one, it was the least I could do to help them out.
 
Interests do change, I had some military surplus rifles that I bought in the early 2000's, and I was like " I am NEVER gonna sell these! Ever!" and guess what, most of them got sold, traded and I have already forgotten them. A lot of them were "must haves" that got fired a few times and then became gun rack anchors. Today's "Gotta Have It!" is tomorrow's trade fodder in some cases:)

A truly good gun is like a special woman, you just KNOW when it's right and you don't want to let it go...........I have S&W and Ruger revolvers that I would sooner live in my parent's basement before I would even think of parting with them. They just have "it".........other rifles and handguns, I bought and sold and never looked back.

I am in a similiar situation as S&W fan........I'm in a situation where if I can come up with about $7K right now I could relieve a lot of financial burden, i.e. pay off my car loan (finally) and pay off an old credit debt that has come back to haunt me...and give me some breathing room to look for a new job......if I can get these weights off my back I will feel much better and not be chained to the current job I have (and hate every day of). So..........guess what, I'm liquidating the bulk of my rifle collection........sure, I will miss some of them, not care about most of them since I'm sure most would never have seen another live round........but if it comes down to getting rid of some rifles and not being behind the 8 ball, those rifles are gonna go in a heartbeat. Those rifles are mostly shooters and tools to me........nowhere near as special as my revolver collection.
 
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I only regretted selling one gun, a no-dash, tapered-barrel Model 67 with the best revolver trigger pull I've ever experienced. I sold it to a friend who sold it to his brother who traded it for a small, cheap .380.

The good news is that I got a phone call from my friend 2 years later and was able to buy it back for the same price I sold it for originally.

I learned my lesson and will never sell it again.
 
This is gonna be strange in this forum, but the ones I regret selling the most:
M3 Grease Gun (registered and transferable)
Remington Hepburn original Creedmore gun (ca 1885 factory 1000 yd target gun)
M7-9 Vietnam era Flame Thrower (operational)
The only S&Ws to leave were a few traded for other S&Ws to upgrade collection but, I still shouldn't have let the 317 go.
 
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A early M-57 .41 Magnum 4 inch with the smooth grips.
A old M-58 .41 Magnum
A 1969 manufacture 6 inch .22 Jet M-53
A 8 inch nickeled .38 Python Target (wish I knew how rare it was before I sold it years ago)
 
yukonb said:
I regret selling all of them, but mostly my model 28 I carried on duty for many years. Therefore I do not sell any of my guns now.
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I always regretted selling my service S&W Model 10-6 4" hvy duty barrel in 1989. I sold it along with my Colt snubby to get a Walthers PPK .380 Semi autos were becoming the 'rage' at that time.
Finnally this year, it bothered me so much, I was able to track it down, calling in a few favors from here & there, locating it and actually buying it back from the present owner.
It was like finding a long lost family member.:) I still get those chills when I take it out to the range to pop off a few. Try tracking it down and get it back where it belongs.
 
quinn said:
This is gonna be strange in this forum, but the ones I regret selling the most:
M3 Grease Gun (registered and transferable)
Remington Hepburn original Creedmore gun (ca 1885 factory 1000 yd target gun)
M7-9 Vietnam era Flame Thrower (operational)
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ouch...:eek:

for me it was a mint 3" 625
 
Old school Colt Officers Match .38 special with King ramp sights...I really kick myself for trading that straight across for a new Trooper back in the mid 70's. Of them all thats the one I never will have a chance to redeem myself, I have managed to replace all the ones I let go and of course paid the premium for that...at the time of sale or trade it always seemed to be a good deal. With the Colt I traded it to a well-known and respected dealer, in fact the guy I bought the Colt from previously. I went in and layed it on the counter announcing that I wanted to trade up into a .357, forgetting what a beautifully crafted, accurate little pistol it was. We walked over to his display, I pointed to a 6" Python and he said "I was thinking more on the line of this" and pulled out a nib Trooper. I held it worked the action asked about a box of shells thrown in and he didn't balk....the warning bells and flags shoulda been all over the place but I signed it off and walked out happy as a clam. Couple of months went by and I had a buddy looking for a rifle, we went out to see what old Ed had. While I was there I walked over to the pistol section and there in the special case was my old Colt with a $350 price tag on it. I asked Ed what the deal was I had just traded it for a pistol worth all of $175...Ed said "You probably didn't know that King died."
 
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