Top couple of guns you REALLY wish you hadn`t let go?

[DaStray]

For me it would be a mid 80`s 586 w/6" barrel. Now that was a beautiful gun. At the time I just wanted OUT of the marriage and stupidly let her have it. Found out later that she hocked it within a month or two after the split...wish I`d have given her $$$ instead. Still makes me ill.

A Browning Challenger II .22 automatic is my second regret. Let a friend talk me out of it for some obscure reason. A beautiful and reliable .22 that shot better than I ever could.

So, from the voice of experience, hang onto your guns because at some point in time you may wish you didn`t get rid of them. Pass them down after you`re gone?...of course. Just don`t...
1) Give them to exe`s
2) Let someone talk you out of them.

Can anybody beat something as stupid as what I did with the 586?

 

[Breakaway500]

It would be much easier to list the ones I didn't mind selling..

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

7.375" Model 41 with custom Herrett target grips and Bomar rear sight. Serial # 90919.

 

[ContinentalOp]

3" 65-3, circa 1983, IIRC. Had some custom work, too (action job, bobbed/DAO hammer). Ahrends grips.

Also a 2" 64 with factory bobbed/DAO hammer. Former LE gun, IIRC.

 

[Targets Guy]

So far I am good. No regrets. Yet.

 

[llowry61]

I have regretted selling every gun I have ever sold. So, now I just don't sell. Maybe sometime, but not now.

 

[NCBeagle]

Never regretted selling a revolver. Have not sold many. My only regret was selling a Marlin 1894c lever gun (.38/.357 JM stamped). Bought another right away. Well, a 1894cs. Crazy thing is...probably going to sell this one. Only fired it a couple times in 3 years.

 

[Willyboy]

Seller's regret

Around 1970 I sold my Colt Target Woodsman for about $75 I think.
When I got back into shooting 30 years later it cost me $600 for another one. Willyboy

 

[JohnRippert]

Too many to list, but just S&W's?

4inch Model 625

4inch Model 29

 

[Valmet]

A "12-15" dated 1903 Springfield NRA sales rifle that I foolishly sold back in 2001-02

A killer Devine, TX M1-A very early gun with wood upper handguard that I traded for a gun I can't recall.

Unfired SIG-AMT I sold back in 2009 when I moved.

Can honestly say I've never sold a S&W (I have eight of them). Gave a 642 Airweight to my cousin as a gift two years ago, which I don't regret.

 

[Hopper]

No regrets with letting go or trading away any of my polymers. The only plastic gun I have left is a Ruger SR22, which is too much fun to let loose.

The only metal gun I sometimes wish I'd kept was a Ruger GP100 Match Champion. But I traded it at the LGS for a brand-new spotless NM 66 4.25", which began my affair with S&W. So ultimately no serious regrets over the MC, but it was my first revolver, and is directly responsible for starting my love of wheel guns.

 

[Capttjk1]

I had a 696 I wish I had not sold long ago.

 

[Snapping Twig]

Original year Mini 30, the one that has the tapered bore so you can shoot either .311 or .308 bullets.

Fortunately I found another within 50 units going by the S/N. Very accurate with 150 .308 NBT.

Passed up a DW PM7 for low $$ LNIB. Grrr! Also passed up a W. German Sig P220 in 38 Super with 9 extra OEM mags for ... I don't even want to say it was so low....

 

[Edknn123]

Wish I had my Colt Detective Special back. It had less than 70 rounds through it. It was in new condition. I sold it for $750 and have regretted it ever since. Too nice to mar up with carry. It funded a 442 pro and an SD9VE. Also read it was hard to find gunsmiths that knew how to work on them and parts if needed. Live and learn.

 

[Dancer145]

I let a M1 Garand & a Model 72 22 go in the seventies big time want the M1 back

 

[AlwaysArmed]

1- S&W Model 63 .22LR four inch square butt six shot

2- Walther TPH .22LR

 

[CajunBass]

The one I'm really sorry I sold/traded was a Sears/AYA side by side double 20 gauge I bought back in the late 70's, early 80's maybe. Word at the time was AYA had apprentices who did the engraving and checkering. It was a really nice little gun that shot just fine. I have no idea what I traded it for, but I sure wish I hadn't.

Another I sold during my "personal economic downturn" and wish I hadn't, was a S&W Model 24-3 (44 Special), with a 4" barrel, box, papers, etc. I've replaced the gun since then, but I still wish I had that first one back.

 

[CH4]

Too many to list, but mostly Sako rifles for European cartridges.

 

[BAM-BAM]

A really nice 4" 581.......and a really really nice 4505..............

The 581 traded into a Model 19 or 66 IIRC....... the 4505 became a 4566!

Not a Smith but a Walther PP in .22lr.............. fun little gun but didn't fill a nitch at the time!!!!!

 

[Green Frog]

Well, the one that comes to mind first is the 6" Model 16-4 I ordered when they were first announced. I enjoyed shooting it (and its companion RBH combo 32 H&R/32-20) but then got a serious Jones for Winchester single shots and sold off most of my handguns including those two. I miss them both, but that longing inspired Project 616!

The other one I miss most is a Colt Combat Commander in electroless nickel. It was mated up to a blued 38 Super upper for a sweet two caliber package... tuned by Fred Schmidt, feeding anything... why did I ever let that one go???

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