What guns have you regreted selling?

[feralmerril]

I think I could come up with over a 100 guns here. I really wonder if I could have got by without selling any and would my life be any different today. I dont really know if had I not, would I or could I have bought the ones I kept? This is why I am "Gun poor". I have found in the past that if I sold one, a week later I couldnt tell you what I done with the money nor did I have the gun! But like in the book of JOB in the bible it says there is a time to buy, and a time to sell. I cant bring myself to act on that just yet but if I was more honest with myself at 73, I probley should start selling soon. Its like having to admitt to my morality and average life span, if thats the word.

 

[Pointshoot]

Like other guys, just every gun that I sold I later regretted. Gun interests can change through the years, and you can come back to something you put down for awhile or find a new application for it. (I've done this with guns that I later 'rediscovered' after taking a break from that type of gun for a few years. When you do this, it feels like getting a new gun!) Learning this lesson, I avoid selling any of them now unless upgrading to something better of the same type. I got one of my rifles when the seller was upgrading to a custom rifle chambered in the same cartridge. He needed to sell in order to fund part of the new purchase.

 

[Alexei]

Gun Regrets

For me this is an easy answer. I had my Grandfather's 1886 Winchester, half-mag, takedown in .33 WCF. My wife badgered me into selling it, to help pay for the downpayment on my first house. House and wife long since gone ( and don't miss either of them ), but sure miss that Winchester.

 

[TNDave]

Too many to list but a great Remington Rand Govt Model in the Boyt holster carried by a corpman in the Pacific tops the list. Most of them I can forget about once they are gone. I've had my fun and can't take them with me anyway.

 

[Pointshoot]

NEVER sell a gun with a strong family tie . . . to father, uncles, or grandfathers especially.
If you give a gun to a young person you care about . . . do it on condition that they will Never sell it. Make them promise to you.
There are other ways to raise money if needed.
Some day they will thank you and honor your memory for doing this.
Read any gun or hunting forum and you'll never hear of someone who was glad that they got rid of a gun given to them by their father, uncle, or grandfather years ago. Too many of us, as dumb young men in our 20s, got rid of cherished guns to raise fast money or get the 'next great thing'. I know this from personal experience.
These family firearms are special things and passing them down to the next generation is an American tradition (and an expression of Freedom IMO).

 

[rwsmith]

I had to sell my model 10

I had to sell my model 10 to get my 686. I'm determined to get another one day.

 

[JP@AK]

B&B Gun Shop was in a little industrial complex in North Hollywood.

First trip out was to Big Bear while my wife shopped I went to the range. It was a little wood framed range in the trees by Dear Fawn I think.

Interesting! My grandfather, in the 1930s, had a machine shop on Lankershim Blvd., near Magnolia Blvd. His home was just a couple blocks east on Burbank from the Lankershim/Burbank intersection, near Elmer. Built in 1921, it is still there and is now The House of Plants. The building next door (now the Valley Martial Arts Center) was built by my grandfather in the 1950s and was leased to a furniture retailer named Jeff, who operated as Elmer's Furniture.
One day in about 1934, after Grandfather repaired a Model A in his shop, the owner came in to say he did not have the money to pay for the repair and offered to trade a revolver for the work. Grandfather agreed to the offer. That revolver (a Model of 1905 Target) is now in my collection. It letters to April, 1908, and is shown in the photo below. The stocks number to the gun.
When I was a kid, Dad and Grandfather used to take my brothers and me up to Big Bear every summer. That was one of the places we learned to shoot. I wonder if the place you were referring to was Fawnskin, near Grout Bay on the north shore of Big Bear Lake? We used to play on the old, retired firetruck that sat outside the Fawnskin Fire Department.
When my wife and I were married, we took our honeymoon in Big Bear. 17 days later I went to 'Nam.
When I came back to the World, I was stationed at George AFB, near Victorville. There was a back road up the mountain that dumped you out in the Holcolm Valley and you could get into Fawnskin from the north on a gravel road. We used to go up there and picnic and take some target practice.
When my father passed away two years ago, my brother and I were going though his stuff (Mom died a year earlier) and we found pictures of their honeymoon, in 1945. Turns out they had spent theirs in Big Bear as well. I don't think they ever told us that.
Long story and not much to do with guns, so I apologize if I've bored anyone.

 

[Matt_G]

^^
You're not boring me by any means.
Thanks for sharing that story!

 

[Hamster65]

I had to sell everything several years ago to keep a roof over my head due to a 3 month stretch with no job so, with the possible exception of a Phoenix Arms .22LR pistol, I regret selling everything else.

Romanian AK-47 with 8-30 mags and 2000 rounds of ammo (I had a sweet muzzle brake on this one that reduced the felt recoil to about that of a 10/22 target rifle)
Romanian SKS (converted) with 2-30 round mags
Bulgarian Makarov 9x18 with 4 mags
Gen 2 Glock 19 with 2-15 round mags
Ruger 10/22 Carbine with 2-25 round mags.

 

[Fackler Rebel]

First of all bro, thanks for your service. I was in Korea while you were in the Nam. Great story. Love history, especially family history.

Reb

 

[Triggerman66]

Being a lawman during the 1970's I had a desire to own just about every model S&W made around that time. Then I sold off or traded the following for some dumb reason.
mod 49 nickel
mod 13 3" nickel
mod 58 blue
mod 35 6" blue
mod 66 4"
mod 39 nickel
mod 27 8 3/8 blue
mod 29 8 3/8 blue

 

[Tanners Owner]

My Ruger Redhawk and my Browning Hi Power

 

[Helderberg]

Three for me. 1) S&W E-1911Ta, 2) S&W pre lock 640, 3) Sig. 290rs.
Of these three I would do stupid things to get the 640 back. Makes me sick to think about it.
Frank.

 

[frankmako]

ww2 p38 (need history book in college early 70's), s&w model 36 (my first j-frame in the late 70's), t/c in 22 mag (new baby), tec 9 (same baby), and ruger 45 colt (just a dumb ***).

 

[RobertJ.]

My first S&W, a 4th Model Safety Hammerless, w/ 2" barrel, in pristine condition. I bought it in Idaho for $150, then traded it off a couple years later. I obviously didn't appreciate it for what it was, I used as my tackle box gun (!?) and there's no replacing it now, at least at a decent price.

Everything else I foolishly traded or sold, I've replaced with something better than what I had.

 

[feralmerril]

This model 51. I also had a .22lr cylinder fitted up to it. Also for some dumb reason I fitted it up with target hammer and trigger. Found some old stags too. I bought it new around 1971. I owned the gun twice. Sold it, bought it back and ended up trading it off for a nickle colt scout. Probley the worst trade I made in a stupid moment.

 

[Qmark]

Everything I've sold or traded I eventually regretted. My biggest mistakes were parting company with some class 3 full auto's about 20 years to soon.

A now deceased friend after his passing his son sold his Thompson with drum mags, violin case and a few accessories for $45,000. His late 50's Corvette for nearly as much but that's a story for a different board.

 

[mbliss57]

I have never regretted selling a gun.. because every one I have ever sold I could always replace..I have never owned a one of a kind.
I did sell a about 5 model 19-3 & 4s in 4" and 2.5" all in LNIB condition..I would like them all back...

 

[breakerofwind]

I gave up a S&W Model 411, .40 cal. - best semi-auto they ever made - clean, simple, reliable, and accurate.

 

[feralmerril]

JP@AK; liked the post. Probley because I know every place you discribed. Many years ago I lived in north hollywood, worked burbank and then palmdale lockheed. Been in B&Bs etc.