The sore spot, or guns you sold and regretted it.

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I'll start, and open myself up to vast ridicule. I got a CHERRY 10-2 with stock uh, stocks and a set or rubber grips for $250.00 about 10 years ago. Thing looked almost brand new. Anyway I shot the heck out of it for years and in a fit of stupidity, traded it off for a like new AMT Hardballer second design. While the AMT was a wonderful gun, I always missed that darn 10-2~ Still do to this day.

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Are you sure it wasn't a 10-1 or -3? The 10-2s I've seen all had the standard or tapered barrel.

Anyhow, to answer your question, I can't recall selling a gun I really wanted and decided to keep. I can live with the (relatively few) sales I've done.
 
Sold of or traded many. Usually because I changed my mind, something I wanted even more came along, change in taste...Sold/traded many including Garands, Lugers, Mausers, M&P (current semi autos). Haven't regretted any

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Oh, let's see...I moved to Chicago twenty five years ago, which I needed to do for business, so I complied with the handgun ban and sold my six inch Colt Python, two Jim Stroh custom Colt 1911s, an M60, and an M64. I'm in the process of fixing my regret by buying better guns than I had. I still miss those guns, though!
 
Yep, it was a 10-2. It was hard to find pics of a 10-2 with the heavy barrel when I looked before I got it. Are they rare? Now I feel worse.
 
The ones I regret the most....
A pre war Heavy Duty 5". It had been reblued, but very nicely. I got it for $250 because the store didn't know what it had. The grips alone were worth close to that. Traded it later on for something else.
A plain jane M&P 5". Great shape but nobody wanted revolvers at the time. Think I paid $195 for it. Can't even remember what I got for it.
Colt 1903 Pocket.
Walther PP in .380
 
In 1967 I was given a NIB Browning A-5 Light Twenty, 28" vent rib barrel, modified choke. Lovely French walnut. Loved the gun and took a lot of doves and rabbits with it. Then alcoholism kicked in, hard. I was catching hell from my then-wife about the cost of my drinking. Sold the Browning. Later sold a fine Remington 700ADL in .243 Winchester, scoped, for the same reason.

I've kicked myself for both ever since (and haven't had a drink for a very long time).

There have been others over the years, but those two screw-ups sting the most.
 
When I started I could only afford cheap guns,so those went with no regrets.The few good ones I let go,I no longer had a use for,so no regrets.Everything has been an upgrade.


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I've been so fickle in my life, changing my mind from one interest to another.. guns is not exception. I've lost count or can't remember every gun I ever owned but I wish I had all of them back. A Ruger 77 30-06 with tang safety comes to mind, a Marling 336 with walnut stock is another, a couple of Ruger .22 "Mark" pistols, A now very valuable High Standard "double nine" (it was actually stolen). a 98 Mauser factory chambered for 30-06, an 03A3 Springfield.... the list is seemingly endless. My self imposed rule now is "hang on to them no matter what" or I'll live to regret it.

I do still have my first .22 rifle. I've owned it for 64 years... a single shot Rem. 514. I've never considered selling inherited shotguns, I'm just the custodian of those. And I've owned my S&W 686 for 26 years, again never considered selling it.
 
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Have only sold a few, and never regretted it. Most of my regrets are for the ones that I didn't buy. I guess those are the firearms analogy to the "ones that got away" while fishing.
 
+1 for the last post. I've had several of those "is this a good buy?" while walking the isles at a gun show. I'll pass on it and go home only to discover that it was a steal. Of course, when I go back the next day, it's gone. I've decided to start trusting my trusting my instincts more.
 
Only sold a couple with no real regrets but I passed on a LNIB 3914TSW a couple of years ago because I thought it was $50 too high...still lose sleep over that one.:(

I did sell a 98% 6" blue Python that was a pretty gun...like shooting my Smiths better but wouldn't mind having it back just to admire now and again.:rolleyes:
 
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Have only sold a few, and never regretted it. Most of my regrets are for the ones that I didn't buy. I guess those are the firearms analogy to the "ones that got away" while fishing.
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So true, and with me it is usually when I see a deal and either hem and haw round till it is gone, or one comes up when I can't justify the purchase that month or week....GAH! Like the beauty 19-5 in 2.5in, nickel I lost out on by a DAY for a trade the 19-5 owner said he would have done in a heart beat if I had sent him the request the day before I did.
 
I only traded or sold 2 guns in my life and I regret both of them! Around 1969 I let my brother talk me into trading him my 3-screw Ruger Blackhawk .357mag for his pump shotgun. Not sure what happened to the shotgun but that Ruger was missed almost immediately!
I let a friend talk me into selling him my Factory bright nickel Colt MKlV Series 70 1911 I had bought brand new for $170.00 in about 1974! I, foolishly, thought I wanted a blued one instead. My brother let the replacement blued Series 70 rust and pit terribly when I loaned him the gun and forgot to get it back from him for about 6 months! I made him buy me another one to replace that one and, by then, the Series 80 had been introduced and it was a 1982 model. I still have it. All stock and pristine but the box and docs are long gone!
 
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I only traded or sold 2 guns in my life and I regret both of them! Around 1969 I let my brother talk me into trading him my 3-screw Ruger Blackhawk .357mag for his pump shotgun. Not sure what happened to the shotgun but that Ruger was missed almost immediately!
I let a friend talk me into selling him my Factory bright nickel Colt MKlV Series 70 1911 I had bought brand new for $170.00 in about 1974! I, foolishly, thought I wanted a blued one instead. My brother let the replacement blued Series 70 rust and pit terribly when I loaned him the gun and forgot to get it back from him for about 6 months! I made him buy me another one to replace that one and, by then, the Series 80 had been introduced and it was a 1982 model. I still have it. All stock and pristine but the box and docs are long gone!
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Oh my God! Don't get me started on all the 1911s I should have never sold. JUST to name a few,

Ted Yost SA Defender he did for me while I was there at Gunsite and he was affordable.
Dan Wesson Bobtail Classic, UGH!
First year Kimber Tactical Pro.
My first 1911, a Series 70 Gold Cup.
 
I learned early to purchase only the firearms I really wanted. I have a bunch now (need another new safe), but have never sold or traded one...can't seem to let them go. I have gifted two different firearms, a Colt Police Positive and a Marlin single shot bolt .22, but that is it. I have several firearms of a variety a good friend laments letting go (627-0, Colt Combat Elite [old version] among others). I tease him from time to time, but he needed diapers and school supplies on a young cop's salary, so doesn't feel too bad.
 
all of the 22 jets I sold over the years, all of the pythons I sold and the diamondbacks. the pre-war model 70 supergrade 375h&h with straight taper bbl. the list is endless.
 
I moved up to Anchorage, Alaska in 1969 when I was in the AF, and took all of my guns with me. While there, and short on funds, I decided I needed a very nice 1950 original Model 70 Supergrade in .257 Roberts. Problem was I had to part with an almost new M53 Jet, in 8 3/8" bbl, and newly fitted cylinder, an almost new Colt Woodsman, and a Ruger Super Blackhawk. Don't miss the Ruger too much, but the Colt and 53 still hurt!
 
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