Every now and then I regret letting go of my GSG-5. I custom-fit a Black Knight Armament aluminum handguard to it and she was a pretty sweet rig. Now, you can't even get them in N.Y.

Wish I still had it 4", barrel bought it new in 73 for 129 if I remember correctly. Traded it for a nickel Cobra

Same for me, I wouldn't mind having any of them back (or all of them back?)

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A whole bunch....but most recently I've been missing a 4" nickel 29-2 I sold off a few years ago......dang it.

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Even older, even crankier....

Too many to list. When I was a young lad I used to trade in my guns for whatever caught my fancy at the time. Since I had no money this was necessary. I still cry about some of them.

First or Second year of manufacture Colt Ace .22. Serial 375X, ANIB with original box and papers. Dang!!!

Colt Combat Target Model .45 ACP... DANG! I wish I hadn't sold it, but broke is broke and you gotta keep the roof over your head...

Much longer ago, I had a WWII era Browning Hi-Power; shoulder stock slot, tangent sight... What a shooter!

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Made my dog proud

Please make this thread go away. I don't want to talk about it. It has been nearly 40 years and it still makes me very sad.

Can someone please make the title of this thread invisible to me?

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Jack
SWCA #2475, SWHF #318

I was talked into selling two Colt Anaconda's to a "friend" one 6" and the other 4". Both .44s and both had about two boxes through them. I sold them to me with understanding that if he ever wanted/had to sell them that' I'd get first crack.

About six months later I found out through a mutual friend that both of them for sale at the LGS. They were sold before I got there.

These are all many years ago, but it still hurts some: Winchester M70 300 H&H; Winchester M71 .348; Winchester M12 Heavy Duck; Winchester pre 64 M70 featherweight in .264 mag; Ruger Blackhawk 44 Mag; Colt Woodsman .22; S&W M19; 2 ea S&W M53 (one with cylinder).......
Terry

Numerous: Colt python 4" NIB, Python 3" NIB. Model 12 Diamond Trap, Model 12 20 ga Pigeon Grade. Colt gen 1 1873 peacemaker, 44-40, Nickle. One of my 1911, Colt Navy target model, US marked. All the Remington Rands in the boxes. SiG 556 (1982). Model 19-3 4". Model 57-2. Model 29-2. Colt 1911, NMGC. Colt 1911 NM. M1 Garand NM, Winchester, 30-06 & .308. 1903 A3 Springfield NM. 08-15 Maxim MG. M60. P.S. I paid off ALL my debts!

Only one. A beautiful 6" 29-2.

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I tend to be an accumulator, but I've let half a dozen go over the years. Most I don't regret - only one (a Sig P220 I traded for with someone here, but I wouldn't give up the gun I got in the trade). I'll get another 220 some day . . .

No regrets: a Raven 380, a Taurus 94 (worst trigger ever), an old 2" M15 traded for a sweet Ruger M77 30-06 that shoots, a 1917 that I let a hack 'gunsmith' refinish and ruin, and my first S&W - a 25-5 that shot 6-8" groups on a good day (yes, I've since learned all about chamber throats and such, but for me why have a Smith in a Colt caliber - if you want a big bore Smith, get a 44, if you want a big bore Colt, get a 45LC).

S&W Model 19-4 2 1/2 inch, Colt Government Series 70 Satin Nickel & Blue that my Dad accursed and modified with a Blue Slide (Milled Octagon Top) and Millett Adjustable Sights, Series 70 LW Gold Cup custom build by my Dad as well... now deceased, "F.D. Kriegbaum... Custom Target Sights"

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Only two: A Smith and Wesson Model 15, and a Rossi coach gun with external hammers. Since that time, I haven't gotten rid of anything . . .

A 5" Model 27 that had been reworked to perfection at Smith & Wesson. It's been 20 years since I let her go and I still hate myself for it.

Colt Commander 9mm. My first handgun. It wasn't very reliable and I was just starting out so I had to sell it. I paid $335 for it (1992). I wish I could have had two guns at the time. It's difficult to keep guns when your a newly wed and the wife is humping laundry to the laundry mat. A washer and dryer was our first priority.
Now that I'm divorced, I wish I would have kept the Colt, and my motorcycle. But I'm not bitter... Lol

Model 53, 8 3/8", RR, WO, TT, TH, TG, box, inserts, extra 22 LR cylinder, ammo and brass, for $500 in 1992.

Smith & Wesson Model 15 First gun I ever owned

Smith & Wesson Model 18

Yeah.. I have three of those but one is most dearly missed. Back in the day (73or75) B&B Gun Shop was in a little industrial complex in North Hollywood. They were very small back then and only had three or four display cases. I was full of old gun book stories and pictures and wanted a .45 Commander. Well they didn't have a light weight but they had a steel Combat Commander so I bought that and two boxes of surplus ball ammo. It was not tight as we think of tight today. It rattled when shook but if fed bullets like the Russian River. It fit my hand and finger, pointed naturally and had a great trigger. 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. Eventually I succumed to gun fighter writings and had to have a Bar-Sto barrel to "accurize" my Commander. They were close by and I had them fit my barrel. It would put two bullets next to each other at 50 ft. I loaded up some Hornady 185gr target FMJ's at around 1050 and that gun talked big. Pillow gun belt gun any time gun it was the culmination of a little boy's years of reading gun books or gun bibles Rifleman magazines and catalogs. Whenever I saw those Commanders I would linger on that page and dream...... Whenever I see one now I linger on that page and dream.....thank you Bob K.

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I still have dreams (really nightmares) about the ones I sold and should have kept. There was a 4"28-2 (Nitex finish), a 6906, 681, and a 686.


I bought back the 686, bought another 6906, and then bought a 28-2 and sent it off to CCR for their CPII finish. So now I only have to find a 681 to replace the one I should have kept.

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Hey don't shoot me guys for mentioning the "C" word but she was a sweet ol' gun. Too hard and expensive to get ammo for.
Tony

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K-22 mint Outdoorsman with box and helpful hints....one of the most awesome I have seen.
27-2 3.5" with rosewood presentation grips.....forgot to pull the grips before I listed it.
Sold others, but they went to people that seemed to enjoy them more than myself.

I know this is a frequent sentiment, but I don't get it. I've probably sold/traded more than I currently own. I don't miss any of them because they were replaced with something that fit my needs better.

Holy **** where do you start?!?!?
Colt duo tone commander
Smith 25-5 6"
Smith 4" 27-2
Ruger #3 375 Win (This was the worst)

Ted Williams 30-30 rifle
Ruger .357 Blackhawk

Sometimes I've sold good guns without ever regretting it. For example, I've traded off a few Smiths that I liked, but usually for Smiths I liked better. For the most part, however, by the time I started buying S&W's, I'd already learned the lesson of not selling guns you like. I still occasionally do it, but not often.

Colt Combat Python 3". Bought in 1991 and sold in 1992. It was a nice looking gun, but not the greatest. The regret is purely financial. Who would have thought one of the Colt so-called factory custom offerings would fetch $7,000.00? Back then, any used Python was worth $400.00. I thought I was lucky to get $465.00 for it from a doctor in PA. Who would have guessed that Pythons would become so collectible, especially when there are literally hundreds of thousands of them? Also regret selling a super smooth and accurate 4" 27-2 and my early Combat Elite, which I had tuned up so well.

None yet. A lot of guns I passed on buying that I wished I did. I thought about selling my S&W model 19 4" 1978 good-great condition, that I might regret

I regretted selling my 65-5 a few years back. Then one day my buddy called me and asked me if I wanted to buy it back. It was at A pawn shop and he was about to lose it. So I bought it back for about half what I sold it for. Will never sell it again. Well I hope not.


Sent from my iPhone

My FNX-45.

But cancer made it impossible to shoot.

Yeah that.

The short list is the two that I didn't regret selling.
They were a Davis .380 (Piece of garbage, what was I thinking?) and a
Jennings .22. (Better than the Davis, but not much)

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Wow, this is the saddest thread ever.

I wish I still had the Colt NM HB, but it's not like I shoot HighPower anymore. Still...

I also wish I still had the 627 J-frame, not because I liked it, or the trophy wife that I bought it for, (hated it), but for my pistol classes, to make a point about lightweight J-frames. That, and I don't have a J-frame anymore.

DON'T regret trading the XD40. Never took to that gun.
Heck, that's about all I've ever let go. Not bad I guess. Probably helped by the fact that I didn't start collecting guns until I wasn't in a position to need the money more than the guns. If I'd started buying guns when I was broke, had really undependable cars, etc, the story would be different.

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not a handgun....1941 vintage Model 70 Winchester 30-06....all original....nicest wood i ever saw on a factory rifle....glass rod breaking trigger....sold it to fund a fishing trip....I am a moron

I don't think that is moronic. You traded a piece of wood and steel for an experience (hopefully a good one). If you had sold it to buy lottery tickets or beer, that would be different.

ALL OF THEM!!!!

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Sig210-6 with factory 22 conversion and target adj sights.
Bought it new about 20 yrs ago. Sold it after 10 yrs and made about a grand......... Forget why I needed the cash, but do miss the gun........

In 1969, bought a S&W Model 28 4" and a Remington shotgun for $100 as the guy wanted an outboard motor for his boat in the worst way. I sold the shotgun for $90 so I had only $10 in the S&W. A few years latter, on a whim, I sold the S&W and have regretted ever since.

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Everyone I ever sold. Some would bring a pretty penny today.

So you don't really miss them or regret selling, just that you sold too early?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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SWCA #2475, SWHF #318

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

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.

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