What guns have you regreted selling?

My 1965 Sako Vixin Sporter in .222 Rem mag. A factory custom with raised chrome acorns and oak leaves. I purchased new at a discount store on clearence. It shot the same tight groups hot or cold. I used it for crow hunting.
 
I've never bought or sold a lot of guns. But the only one I now regret selling is a S&W model 10 2" circa 1983.

All the others had some characteristic that made me not want them anymore. When I got out of 12 gauge I just gave the two I had to relatives.
 
Have not sold or traded many I've regretted.

Other than a Rem M700 in 22-250 that I bought new for less than a 100 bucks in about '68 and sold to a friend 20 years later.

Absolutely the most accurate rifle I've ever owned.
 
Guns I wish I'd never sold

A 4" Python that I traded a Model 10 S&W and $100 for...
what a deal....I had $165 in the S&W.....

A 3" S&W 64 with the finger groove grips....but I recently acquired a 3" 64 with open backstrap Houges...spotless weapon...polished, slick trigger...paid $300 cash...that one ain't getting away this time.
 
Rapidray said:
I know we have all come to points of our lives were for what ever reason, we had to sell a gun or two. You still may be looking to replaced it. So what is missing in your collection?
My two are:

S&W md. 58 blue
S&W md. 547 9mm
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Funny but I have both of them! The one I do miss is a very nicely done Martini Cadet in 218 Bee. Never should have sold it. : (
 
That is funny...

Gun-runner said:
Funny but I have both of them! The one I do miss is a very nicely done Martini Cadet in 218 Bee. Never should have sold it. : (
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I just heard about the Martini in 218 Bee on another forum. About 2 months ago Martini guys were talking about there rifles and one posted a picture of his with beautiful wood on it. Custom wood. :eek:
 
Well, I have sold and bought many guns over the years. I regret selling a few Pythons(who knew they would grow so much in value), some really nice Hi-Powers, a few model 66's, 65's(3 inch), 29's, and one 629 in particular. Diamondbacks,and other Colts. Long arms, a matched set of Ithaca SKBs , Vintage BSA in .30-06, a couple of Winchester model 70's(Pre-64) I could go on further but the tears are making the keys a blurr!!!
 
One that I can think of was a Stevens 5100 double barrel shotgun. It was a 16 guage. It was my hunter. I had 12 ga. target guns, and loaded 12's, so I unloaded the 16, because it was expensive to shoot clays with. My mistake! Wish I had 1 again! Bob
 
Rapidray said:
I just heard about the Martini in 218 Bee on another forum. About 2 months ago Martini guys were talking about there rifles and one posted a picture of his with beautiful wood on it. Custom wood. :eek:
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That's how mine was. French walnut. I never should have sold it!!!
 
Custom 6" M-28-2 (high polished, RR/WO, smooth trigger, trigger job, custom Skeeter Skelton type grips)

3 P&R M-27-2's (all 6 or 6-1/2" w/ wood case)

early 80's 9mm Browning HP

Waffenproofed 7.62 Walther PPK

Waffenproofed Browning M1922

S&W 32-20 6" Pre WWII

Walther PPK in .22 LR

1930's Colt .38 Detective Spl

1975 Colt .38 Detective Spl

1982 Colt .38 Agent

Colt Python 6"

S&W M29-2 6-1/2"

Winchester Pre 64 Antique Model w/case hardened frame & saddle ring

Sig-Sauer P245

1984 S&W M686 6" w/factory polish

2 Colt Series 70 1911A1's in .45

German Drilling (SxS 16 ga w/ 10 mm rifle under barrel)

1943 Inland M1 Carbine

Beretta M92S

2 S&W M15-3

S&W M14-2

S&W M37 Airweight (wore out, bolt rod wore an elongated hole into frame. Factory and gunsmiths wouldn't sleeve it)

G1 Fal w/ Imbel recv

Trapdoor Springfield shotgun (Foraging gun)
 
I've always regretted selling the first handgun i ever bought in 1980 for $230 when I was 18 years old, yes you could buy a handgun at that age then. A brand new six inch model 586 no dash.
I sold it fifteen years ago and was a blithering idiot for doing so.
 
all of my deep regrets have been in the colt stable,
bp pinch frame saa.
three digit s.n. 3xx ,colt 1900 automatic with intact sight safety,
a 1914 colt 1911 number matching, us marked, duffle bag bring back.
a truck load of colt snake revolvers

the big buck guns went to help pay for daughters
college so i really dont hate it that bad
 
In the order I miss them the most:

70S Beretta .22LR bought new in the late '70s.

Colt Python Royal Blue 4-inch bought new in the mid '70's.

Colt Python Nickel 6-inch bought new in the late '70's.

Colt Diamondback 4-inch blue .38spcl bought new 1974. This was my first new handgun purchased when I turned 21. Wanted a Python, but could not afford it back then.:)

Colt SAA 4 3/4" blue .45LC wearing real stag grips-traded for it at gun show 1982 and then traded it off for a NIB German Walther PP in .22LR. which I did not care for and later sold.

S&W M39 Nickel bought new 1980.

Ruger New Model Blackhawk .357 stainless 4 5/8" barrel and custom western rig bought new around 1981.

Most of these were either either traded to fund another one or later sold off to pay the rent when I went back to school, along with some long guns and other handguns I do not miss as much.
 
I got a good one. About 15 years ago, I finally found a Valmet over and under shotgun, new in the box, 28" barrels, screw in chokes and the whole nine yards. I loved that shotgun but so did my cousion!

He kept after me to sell it to him and I have no idea why but about 11 or 12 years ago I sold it to him.

He has been thinning the heard some and bringing his rifles by the shop for me to sell. I havent been charging him anything. 2 nights ago he brought 2 by for me to sell and guess what? He also brought me back my Valmet and gave it to me for selling his rifles for him.

My baby has come back home. Sorry so long but it tickled me to death to finally get one back that I sold and regreated it every day since..
 
I've kept them all, except for one: my Model 17 blue that I traded on a shotgun in 1975. That was really stupid. Keep 'em all.
 
Being a machine gun guy I've gone through a bunch of 'em from MAC 10's and UZI's to the M2 Browning .50 and Solothurn 20mm, including a half dozen S&W Model 76's. But there is only one that I regret selling, a Maremont M60 7.62mm general purpose machine gun, aka "The Pig." I bought it right, had loads of parts for it, and really enjoyed bursting through a couple or eight hundred rounds on a Saturday afternoon in the desert. One day a very wealthy collector made an offer I simply could not refuse. I let it go. To this day it's the only one I wish I could get back. Nothing runs or sounds quite like a hot '60.
 

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I regret selling my S42 Luger in 1969, to get enough money for a High Standard Supermatic that I regretfully sold in 1970, but to get enough money to buy an S&W Model 41. I saw where this was heading and never sold any S&Ws. I did trade a Model 52-1 or -2 in 1970 for my first motorcycle, but bought another, a 52-2, in about 1979, and this I have kept. I have bought, sold, and traded numerous shotguns over the years and have not regretted losing any of them. But as the decades are running out, somehow the Smiths just keep getting dearer. I haven't looked at the pre-17 K-22 in awhile. Think I'll get it out and make sure it's well oiled. And maybe the .32-20, and the 28-2 with the red insert front sight. And, of course, the K-32. And maybe the Model 10....
 
My model 19-4 that a good member here bought. After a month or so of me not having it I was kicking myself in the rear. I just picked up a model 66 to replace it
 
I still have the 1st gun I got when I was 14. Revelation 12 gauge made for Western Auto (It was actually a Mossburg) Since then..in 41 years I have never sold a gun. But...I may sell my SW500 next month. WillI regret it?
 
Speedo2 said:
S&W Pre-29, 6-1/2"; 1st year production; ANIB w/ Jinks letter and all tools
Browning Medalist 22; ANIB w/ tools
Colt Match Target 22; ANIB w/ original grip adapters
Marbel's Game-Getter 22/410 w/ folding stock & original holster
S&W Pre-27 3-1/2"; ANIB, no tools
Luger DMW 1916; WW-1 imperial markings
Walther P-38 AC41, WW-2
High Standard Sports King 22; ANIB
Colt Python, 8" 357; near 100%
Walther TPH 22; ANIB
S&W Outdoorsman 38/44; pre-war w/ original magnas
S&W Pre-15, 4" 5-screw; near 100%
Mossberg 352KB 22 w/folding for-end
Savage M24 22/410
S&W Pre-28, 357, 6", 5-screw; ANIB
Remington-Rand 1911; WW-2 issue
S&W Pre-27; 357, 6-1/2", 5-screw

This has been a thought-provoking and difficult post for me to respond to (….I know, hard to believe, but true). I've bought and sold many guns over the past 15-to-20 years. Most sales have been done to acquire something that was fleetingly more appealing at the time (my erstwhile "upgrades"), or in a darker truth to either finance a gambling junket or to pay off a gambling debt. Now, as cheesy as that sounds, and before you all write me off as a itinerate gambler and reprobate, please know that I have managed to generally expand my somewhat eclectic accumulation of shootin' irons over the years and that I've funded it mostly from within my poker fund. My house is paid for; my kids have all been put through college, and my wife doesn't hate me. However, she does on occasion question my sanity with regard to time (and money) spent with Smith & Wessons and has also wondered aloud if the gun safe will eventually crash through the garage ceiling. I'd like to believe that my penchant for fame and fortune on the green felt adds a certain panache and mystique to an otherwise dull and unthreatening existence; that I am otherwise considered to be a pillar of my community, as I'm sure are most of you.

Now, having prefaced my "list of shame" with the above soul-cleansing confessional; upon review of my list, it strikes me that most of the listed guns were (for me anyway) moderately "high end" and glamorous things that were easily recognized as collectibles and were therefore easily disposed of. However, there are several that are rather plain and pedestrian. These, once again in all truth, are the ones that I regret the most because they were sold not at a time of need, but rather they were disposed of in a state of ignorance and/or stupidity.

That pre-15 that my dad gave me and the Mossberg 22 that I bought as a kid (back when kids could actually do such things) now have a much greater significance to me than when they were gotten rid of. I know that in the end they are just things, and we can't have them all, we can't take them with us, and that we're really just temporary care takers. But some of them did really have a spirit that came from historical connections and personal enjoyment. That's where the regret comes from.

My list is not a complete inventory of all of the guns that I've ever sold; not by a long shot. However, in no particular order these were the ones that came to mind as regrets; some more severe and painful than others. Do I wish that I could have kept them all? Hell no! Garage ceilings (and gambling debts) are expensive. –S2
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Speedo2; great post. We do what we have to do, and pray it's right. I'm in the process now of liquidating my collection of over 30 years. My health is heading south, and I don't know how much longer I can work, so now's the time for a little nest feathering. Best to you.
 
Every one I ever sold!

But specifically:
6" nickel 25-5, cased.
6.5" 27-2
6.5" 25-2
6.5" 624 (think I miss it the most!)
Customized colt series 70 .45

I'll also ad the one that got away: with dad at 1988 gun show, 5" m27 factory nickeled for $225. We were 2 rows past when dad decided to spot me the cash (was baby-poor). When we got back, it was gone, of course.

No regret: a Bangor-Punta m19. egawd that trigger made me yearn for a Ruger!
 
Wel, where do I start?.......Let's just say that they are too numerous to catalog.....leave it at that.
 
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