Regrets.....Regrets.....Ever Have Any.??

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Well..about 6 months ago....I got a wild hair and had to have an Interarms Luger...with a 6" barrel....and the guy I was trading with wanted my S&W Model 36-1 with the 3" heavy barrel.....after some haggling..we finally traded....couple days later....realization hit me....."Wish I hadn't traded that 3" barrel S&W"......Im sure you guys have done much the same thing....traded a pistol off....and shortly thereafter regretted it....well I did....until last nite...when I found the Twin of it for sale by a Dealer out west.....its now paid for..FFL copy sent...hopefully will be here end of week and i will post photos.....this time.....it will NOT be traded off..!!..and as its a twin of the one I had...hope to sneak it by "The Boss" .....now Im looking for a good used brown holster for it........if anyone out there has one that will fit the 36-1 with the 3' barrel...let me know....and I'm looking for a Belt holster by the way.......This is a Super site....altho I keep getting in trouble by being on it......this is the 2nd S&W I've purchased last two months.. :)
 
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only two in two months? it gets lots worse from here. first thing is get that "boss" deal fixed. good luck in your quest for smiths.
 
Get out a Crying Towel.

Several years ago I decided to have My Idea of the ultimate S&W handgun built. I started with an as new Model 25-2. We then ordered a new Barrel for a S&W 25-5 with Red Ramp front sight. A little Master Gunsmith work and we had a new 25-2 with 4" Red Ramp barrel, a perfect Deluxe Blue finish, and real rifling to shoot lead bullets. A Smith & Wesson that the factory dropped the ball on.

Like an Idiot one day I let a fellow look at it while at the gun shop. He wanted to know what I would take for it. I popped off a number that I thought was way too high. Guess what, he reached in his pocket and pulled out a money clip full of $100 bills and paid me.

That was a painful learning experiance. Never price anything you are not planning to sell.

I have others I wish I had back also. Traded to finance another project. All the S&W's I wish I had back were Blued guns. 24, 25, 29, 49, and a 586.

Bob
 
Here's my story, and I'm sticking to it:

I was assigned to Germany three times over the course of my career; each time I was authorized to bring firearms over. However, in 1999, the agreement between the US and the German governments changed, and all firearms had to be registered in the very restrictive German system. One of the changes I almost failed to track was that the ATF does not allow the importation of military surplus into the US by private citizens. I was fooled because I had brought an M-1 Garand back and forth, but because I had purchased it in the US and could show shipping documents, it was no problem.

My problem and regret. Last year, I forgot all this and bought a M1917. I couldn't believe that I found one here in Germany and had wondered what it's story must be. Last month, it dawned on me that it might be considered surplus, and sure enough; it's kind of hard to get around that big "United States Property" engraved on the barrel, "US Army" on the heel and US proof marks all over it. So I sold it as my return to the US is imminent, otherwise I might have to sell it at a huge loss or even have to give it away, which actually is not easy in Germany; you can't just give a gun to someone, especially a handgun. I miss it already, don't know which part of regret I have , that I found it at all, that I bought it without checking, or that I was forced to sell it. Not real happy with the ATF these days, needless to say.


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Farewell, old friend. :(
 
Sold a M-18, that had been given to me new in the box. Used the money to buy a used 17-3. I liked the six inch better. Don't regret buying the 17 but wish I had kept the M-18 as well.
 
Oh to have Time travel perfected!

Back in the early 90's I flew back to NJ to visit my parents. On the drive down Rt 22 from Newark Airport we of course stopped at Ray's Sport Shop in N. Plainfield.

In one of the cases there were TWO NIB K-32's in their boxes, along with a case of RP .32 wadcutter target loads. I looked at them through the glass and never gave them a second look...NOT what I was into back then.

In my defense...I DID come home with a circa 1966, blued M-19, 3T's gun, NIB for $325 shipped to my FFL here in MT.

NOW when I'd kill for a K-32 , those two guns still HAUNT me.

FN in MT
 
Regrets?

I had a blind date with an Ugly Monkey Lookin' Woman one time because my pal wanted to date her great looking friend and she would only go out with him if he got a date for her "friend". I just about passed out when I saw her. She kept asking me why I was sitting so low in the back seat of my pal's car.

I have retrets everytime I read the ads in the old Guns and Ammo Magazines from the 50s and early 60s.

Rule 303
 
I have a trainload of regrets over the last 38 years of trading guns, but as my father told me about 30 years ago, you may not be able to afford all the guns you want in your life, but you can afford through careful trading practises to own all the guns you want at least once in your life.
 
On a more sobering note on regrets; I wish I had started gathering my family history earlier---I'm the oldest surviving member of my family and having a two year old great grandaughter, it came to me recently that she would know of my grandparents. So, I began a search to build a history for her and my children and grandchildren, and it soon dawned on me that at some time, while they were all alive, I could have asked each of them to write or record his or her life history in their own words and how easy it would be to have this record available.
However, my biggest regret is twofold , one , that I never thanked them for all they contributed to my life, and two, that I didn't spend more time with them.
I would give everything I own just to spend one more hour with each of them.
lockouts
 
We learn from our mistakes. My Colts are gone.

I try to spend as much time with my whole family as much as I can. My new grandson is 4yo now. I try to spend as much time with him as I can. I know my time is short and limited but I enjoy life now everyday. My son's and daughter, grandson, their spouses and my misses mean the world to me.
 
I had a beautiful 98% Browning HP and I got in the Sig buying mode and sold it to buy a Sig I wanted. The Sig P220 was a great pistol and I really like it but I realized almost immediately that I really missed my Browning HP. So the search began and it took me four years to find a replacement and I wanted it bad enough to trade a S&W 27-2 6 inch for it. The same exact model HP with millet sights & Spegal grips.
 
How in the world does a thread that's over two years old get resurrected? Brought back my K-32 regret all over again too.
 
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