otis24
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Also a S&W .22 Jet revolver. Looked like NIB with inserts for about $400 IIRC.
The One That Got Away Before You Knew What You Were Doing
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625-7
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2 or 3 years ago a near perfect six inch m27 in a presentation box. I told my surrounding shooting buddies last thing I need is another gun! Steered one of them to it. Seller was asking $600.
otis24
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An online forum had an H&R 999 .222 for $275. I've been wanting one for a while. It was in excellent condition. Just a 2 hour drive away. It was sold before I could respond.
Had the Swedish copy of the L-35 Lahti, the Husqvarna m/40, that had Danish police markings and a serial number that was in the range of the guns supplied to the Danish resistance.
I let it go for the latest Walther plastic fantastic that was a lot more "useable" but ugh, what a dummy I was.
I let it go for the latest Walther plastic fantastic that was a lot more "useable" but ugh, what a dummy I was.
xfarfuldog
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We all have some unhappy stories. Mine include:
HKP7M13 bought through HK's Law Enforcement Program for $ 400+
3 Sequential M8 Jubilees for $ 600 each
Wilson Combat Professional for $ 1700
Sig P226 Sport w/extra slide
SA Professional 1911
Colt Diamondbacks
And the list could go on. Some I made some significant money on. Others were sold just before prices skyrocketed. Guns are all gone and so are the profits.
HKP7M13 bought through HK's Law Enforcement Program for $ 400+
3 Sequential M8 Jubilees for $ 600 each
Wilson Combat Professional for $ 1700
Sig P226 Sport w/extra slide
SA Professional 1911
Colt Diamondbacks
And the list could go on. Some I made some significant money on. Others were sold just before prices skyrocketed. Guns are all gone and so are the profits.
A few years back, the LGS had a 1917 Enfield and a Springfield 03 in the showcase. I'd been looking for an Enfield, bought it on the spot. On the way home, decided I should've bought both. Pulled a huey, went back to the shop. Too late.
OLDSTER
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Years ago, just married and short of cash, I sold ( gave away ) an original mint condition L.C. Smith, 16 gauge, featherweight, Specialty Grade, shotgun. 
6thtexas
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Too many to count, but the latest was about 3 years ago. An antique shop in Blanco, Tx had a beautiful 38/44 HD 4" marked $350. By the time I had the money it was gone, Should have stuck it on a card.
A number of years ago I bought a bright stainless steel unfired Colt Python for $400. Then some dummy offered me $500 so I took hist money and ran. I'd have been a fool not to take $100 profit............ or so I thought at the time
I did exactly the same thing, with the same gun, and it was cased. For about the same money. I bought it new in say 84/85. Let it go in 91
MetalMan
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A couple of years ago at a local gun show, I passed up a mechanically sound but somewhat finish-challenged 2" 10-5 priced at $500 for a pristine Model 36 (1968 vintage) priced at $450. Not enough cash for both, so had to decide.
Still kicking myself……..
Still kicking myself……..
First 2 that come to mind are ones I failed to buy.
A Freedom Arms 44 Magnum, with 5.5 inch barrel I think. It had the box and all that. I just wasn't into single actions and had never heard of Freedom Arms. Besides, they wanted almost $500.00 for it. ( LOL ) This was about 10 years ago.
Then a super nice Ruger Mini 14. I mean who would want one chambered in .222, right?
Also about 10 years back, it was priced at $450.
A Freedom Arms 44 Magnum, with 5.5 inch barrel I think. It had the box and all that. I just wasn't into single actions and had never heard of Freedom Arms. Besides, they wanted almost $500.00 for it. ( LOL ) This was about 10 years ago.
Then a super nice Ruger Mini 14. I mean who would want one chambered in .222, right?
Also about 10 years back, it was priced at $450.
Two tales out of many:
1. 1962 starting my 45 year LEO career, I had to furnish my own service revolver. I went to a local pawn shop with a 1915 DWM Luger with all matching numbers including the magazine, holster, magazine loader, and cleaning rod. The shop owner traded me even for a used blued 4" .38spl. Colt Trooper.
2. Police Pistol Range got in two NIB Dayton Combat Masterpieces. One Blued, one Nickeled. Purchased the Blued one. Returned Home to the news my bride was pregnant with twins. The rangemaster kindly refunded my money and sold it to a weathly friend of his.
1. 1962 starting my 45 year LEO career, I had to furnish my own service revolver. I went to a local pawn shop with a 1915 DWM Luger with all matching numbers including the magazine, holster, magazine loader, and cleaning rod. The shop owner traded me even for a used blued 4" .38spl. Colt Trooper.
2. Police Pistol Range got in two NIB Dayton Combat Masterpieces. One Blued, one Nickeled. Purchased the Blued one. Returned Home to the news my bride was pregnant with twins. The rangemaster kindly refunded my money and sold it to a weathly friend of his.
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panther
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About 11 years ago I found one of these Lahtis at a table in a gun show. The guy was willing to take $379 for it. I had it for about 2 months and traded it off for the money I had in it. They sell over a grand now.
Before that I had a chance to buy a police marked German Luger for $400. I passed on it.
Notice how great gun deals happen when one is cash strapped
I didn't have a chance to buy it, but I saw one of those once. I was a security guard at a private campground that had a shooting range. There was a fellow shooting one day (almost no one used the range) and I stopped to chat. One of his guns he showed me was a Colt Ace with three digit S/N...In the 750 range IIRC. Beautiful gun...looked like brand new.
On three occasions, I was the guy with cash listening to the "I have a gun for sale and need the money." Because of 'shame', I'll stop now.
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December 2015, a Smith & Wesson Model 629-1 went up for sale at my LGS on consignment for a mere $260 in Very Good Condition. I couldn't afford it at the time, so I let it pass. In hindsight, I should have found a way to scrape the funds together, even if it meant selling my bodily fluids.
RM Vivas
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Took a $400 pass on a single shot .22.Wan't smart enough to recognize a martially marked Winder musket.
Sold my Mexican Target Model of 1948 that went as a one gun shipment to Frank Jonas.
Passed on a cheap Springfield Armory M1911 with NRA stamp because I had a mortgage payment due.
Sold a Colt .22-45 conversion kit, complete in box, that lettered to USMC, Pearl Harbor, 1941.
Sold a '60 Army engraved to a PA Vol. Cav. CApt who was killed in battle and the Sgt who retrieved the body won an MOH for doing so. Didn't collect civil war stuff so.....
Had a guy bring two boxes that were the size of a small desk, filled to the top with Civil War and Span-Am War gear. CW sabre belts with officier buckles, paper cartrdige pouches with the big gilded lead insignia, dozens of Mills belts in all sorts of military configurations. Original Schoefield and Colt holsters.
The longer your in this world, the longer the list gets.
This posts needs a correlating thread, Best Deals I Ever Made.
Sold my Mexican Target Model of 1948 that went as a one gun shipment to Frank Jonas.
Passed on a cheap Springfield Armory M1911 with NRA stamp because I had a mortgage payment due.
Sold a Colt .22-45 conversion kit, complete in box, that lettered to USMC, Pearl Harbor, 1941.
Sold a '60 Army engraved to a PA Vol. Cav. CApt who was killed in battle and the Sgt who retrieved the body won an MOH for doing so. Didn't collect civil war stuff so.....
Had a guy bring two boxes that were the size of a small desk, filled to the top with Civil War and Span-Am War gear. CW sabre belts with officier buckles, paper cartrdige pouches with the big gilded lead insignia, dozens of Mills belts in all sorts of military configurations. Original Schoefield and Colt holsters.
The longer your in this world, the longer the list gets.
This posts needs a correlating thread, Best Deals I Ever Made.
My worst was probably the pre 29 5-screw that I bought cheap in the late '70s, used little, and decided it wasn't a big deal and I could easily replace it later, so sold it for what I paid for it, about $200.....
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