What guns have you regreted selling?

My 1965 Sako Vixin Sporter in .222 Rem mag. A factory custom with raised chrome acorns and oak leaves. I purchased new at a discount store on clearence. It shot the same tight groups hot or cold. I used it for crow hunting.
 
I've never bought or sold a lot of guns. But the only one I now regret selling is a S&W model 10 2" circa 1983.

All the others had some characteristic that made me not want them anymore. When I got out of 12 gauge I just gave the two I had to relatives.
 
Have not sold or traded many I've regretted.

Other than a Rem M700 in 22-250 that I bought new for less than a 100 bucks in about '68 and sold to a friend 20 years later.

Absolutely the most accurate rifle I've ever owned.
 
Guns I wish I'd never sold

A 4" Python that I traded a Model 10 S&W and $100 for...
what a deal....I had $165 in the S&W.....

A 3" S&W 64 with the finger groove grips....but I recently acquired a 3" 64 with open backstrap Houges...spotless weapon...polished, slick trigger...paid $300 cash...that one ain't getting away this time.
 
Rapidray said:
I know we have all come to points of our lives were for what ever reason, we had to sell a gun or two. You still may be looking to replaced it. So what is missing in your collection?
My two are:

S&W md. 58 blue
S&W md. 547 9mm
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Funny but I have both of them! The one I do miss is a very nicely done Martini Cadet in 218 Bee. Never should have sold it. : (
 
That is funny...

Gun-runner said:
Funny but I have both of them! The one I do miss is a very nicely done Martini Cadet in 218 Bee. Never should have sold it. : (
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I just heard about the Martini in 218 Bee on another forum. About 2 months ago Martini guys were talking about there rifles and one posted a picture of his with beautiful wood on it. Custom wood. :eek:
 
Well, I have sold and bought many guns over the years. I regret selling a few Pythons(who knew they would grow so much in value), some really nice Hi-Powers, a few model 66's, 65's(3 inch), 29's, and one 629 in particular. Diamondbacks,and other Colts. Long arms, a matched set of Ithaca SKBs , Vintage BSA in .30-06, a couple of Winchester model 70's(Pre-64) I could go on further but the tears are making the keys a blurr!!!
 
One that I can think of was a Stevens 5100 double barrel shotgun. It was a 16 guage. It was my hunter. I had 12 ga. target guns, and loaded 12's, so I unloaded the 16, because it was expensive to shoot clays with. My mistake! Wish I had 1 again! Bob
 
Rapidray said:
I just heard about the Martini in 218 Bee on another forum. About 2 months ago Martini guys were talking about there rifles and one posted a picture of his with beautiful wood on it. Custom wood. :eek:
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That's how mine was. French walnut. I never should have sold it!!!
 
Custom 6" M-28-2 (high polished, RR/WO, smooth trigger, trigger job, custom Skeeter Skelton type grips)

3 P&R M-27-2's (all 6 or 6-1/2" w/ wood case)

early 80's 9mm Browning HP

Waffenproofed 7.62 Walther PPK

Waffenproofed Browning M1922

S&W 32-20 6" Pre WWII

Walther PPK in .22 LR

1930's Colt .38 Detective Spl

1975 Colt .38 Detective Spl

1982 Colt .38 Agent

Colt Python 6"

S&W M29-2 6-1/2"

Winchester Pre 64 Antique Model w/case hardened frame & saddle ring

Sig-Sauer P245

1984 S&W M686 6" w/factory polish

2 Colt Series 70 1911A1's in .45

German Drilling (SxS 16 ga w/ 10 mm rifle under barrel)

1943 Inland M1 Carbine

Beretta M92S

2 S&W M15-3

S&W M14-2

S&W M37 Airweight (wore out, bolt rod wore an elongated hole into frame. Factory and gunsmiths wouldn't sleeve it)

G1 Fal w/ Imbel recv

Trapdoor Springfield shotgun (Foraging gun)
 
I've always regretted selling the first handgun i ever bought in 1980 for $230 when I was 18 years old, yes you could buy a handgun at that age then. A brand new six inch model 586 no dash.
I sold it fifteen years ago and was a blithering idiot for doing so.
 
all of my deep regrets have been in the colt stable,
bp pinch frame saa.
three digit s.n. 3xx ,colt 1900 automatic with intact sight safety,
a 1914 colt 1911 number matching, us marked, duffle bag bring back.
a truck load of colt snake revolvers

the big buck guns went to help pay for daughters
college so i really dont hate it that bad
 
In the order I miss them the most:

70S Beretta .22LR bought new in the late '70s.

Colt Python Royal Blue 4-inch bought new in the mid '70's.

Colt Python Nickel 6-inch bought new in the late '70's.

Colt Diamondback 4-inch blue .38spcl bought new 1974. This was my first new handgun purchased when I turned 21. Wanted a Python, but could not afford it back then.:)

Colt SAA 4 3/4" blue .45LC wearing real stag grips-traded for it at gun show 1982 and then traded it off for a NIB German Walther PP in .22LR. which I did not care for and later sold.

S&W M39 Nickel bought new 1980.

Ruger New Model Blackhawk .357 stainless 4 5/8" barrel and custom western rig bought new around 1981.

Most of these were either either traded to fund another one or later sold off to pay the rent when I went back to school, along with some long guns and other handguns I do not miss as much.
 
I got a good one. About 15 years ago, I finally found a Valmet over and under shotgun, new in the box, 28" barrels, screw in chokes and the whole nine yards. I loved that shotgun but so did my cousion!

He kept after me to sell it to him and I have no idea why but about 11 or 12 years ago I sold it to him.

He has been thinning the heard some and bringing his rifles by the shop for me to sell. I havent been charging him anything. 2 nights ago he brought 2 by for me to sell and guess what? He also brought me back my Valmet and gave it to me for selling his rifles for him.

My baby has come back home. Sorry so long but it tickled me to death to finally get one back that I sold and regreated it every day since..
 
I've kept them all, except for one: my Model 17 blue that I traded on a shotgun in 1975. That was really stupid. Keep 'em all.
 
Being a machine gun guy I've gone through a bunch of 'em from MAC 10's and UZI's to the M2 Browning .50 and Solothurn 20mm, including a half dozen S&W Model 76's. But there is only one that I regret selling, a Maremont M60 7.62mm general purpose machine gun, aka "The Pig." I bought it right, had loads of parts for it, and really enjoyed bursting through a couple or eight hundred rounds on a Saturday afternoon in the desert. One day a very wealthy collector made an offer I simply could not refuse. I let it go. To this day it's the only one I wish I could get back. Nothing runs or sounds quite like a hot '60.
 

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I regret selling my S42 Luger in 1969, to get enough money for a High Standard Supermatic that I regretfully sold in 1970, but to get enough money to buy an S&W Model 41. I saw where this was heading and never sold any S&Ws. I did trade a Model 52-1 or -2 in 1970 for my first motorcycle, but bought another, a 52-2, in about 1979, and this I have kept. I have bought, sold, and traded numerous shotguns over the years and have not regretted losing any of them. But as the decades are running out, somehow the Smiths just keep getting dearer. I haven't looked at the pre-17 K-22 in awhile. Think I'll get it out and make sure it's well oiled. And maybe the .32-20, and the 28-2 with the red insert front sight. And, of course, the K-32. And maybe the Model 10....
 
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