WHAT WAS IT THAT YOU WISH YOU HADN'T SOLD??

Sturtyboy, thanks...the pain remains. I got good money for it at the time but I really would like to have it back. Today it goes for about three times that amount and I tripled my money when I sold it. I can't really complain.

regards

yashua
 
Sold/traded all my 19s and 66s (except for my 3" 66s) in the early 90s thinking "heck there are millions I can always get another!" And the 3" guns will serve my cc needs..... and a 686 is GTG with .357s

About the middle of the Assault Weapons Ban; kind of thought a 4" 66 would be nice to have.......none anywhere....panic.........

.....took me at least 5-6 years to acquire "nice" 2 1/2" and 4" Model 19s and 66s..... and a couple of shooter grade 4" guns from LGSs
 
4 barrel COP 357 mag.
Bought it at local shop for $175 bout 18 years ago. Sold it for $300 10 yrs ago and regretted it ever since.
 
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Seriously, I have a few guns I think about selling all the time. I feel the best way is to not try and get top dollar but to find a good home for them, like to someone here on the board. You may not get as much as from a gunbroker auction, but I think knowing it went to a good home will make you feel better about it. I learned this from watching American Pickers. Well, actually, I kind of already knew this....:)
 
Collects said:
Why do you guys whine about selling guns?

They are objects.

You can buy another one.
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Right you are! But sometimes...like many have said, finding another is sometimes impossible. it seems to be our nature to want what we can't have or to regain what we used to have.

It's fun to commiserate at times and think back. But not always healthy. I started this post just to have fun with our regrets. There are so many great posts about our new acquisitions, I thought it would be fun to look at the so called blunders.:p

One more...my 40 Cadillac 62 series. what a beauty. We sold it for a down payment on our home. Much happier living in our 4 bedroom home than a 4 door Classic.
 

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  1. The Smith M1917 that I bought from a long closed shop in Oak Lawn, Illinois. Even with what appeared to be a bullet strike on the side of the barrel, it was wonderfully accurate.
  2. The Colt Official Police I bought while I was at Ft. Knox. It was a very nice gun. I eventually traded it for something else. Just as well, since after I'd gotten out of the Army, I was contacted by the shop traded it to. They'd been contacted by the BATF because it had been stolen in California ten years previously. They wanted to know where I'd gotten it. I called the gun store and told them I'd bought it from another store in the Louisville area. They never notified the BATF of my location, and that was the end of the story.
 
I have many, but the latest tragedies were my N-Frame P&R guns back in 2012. Here's my 28-2 and 27-2.

The worst part was that the guy who got the 27-2 sold it to another guy. Sweet Sorrow as I was able to see her again a couple of months ago.

Oh yeah, I had a 6-inch Python back in the mid 90s that I bought from a friend, sight unseen. Since I don't care for long barrels, I had it sent to the Colt Custom Shop in '95 and had them mount a new 4-inch barrel, go through the piece and fix what needed fixing and had them re-blue it in Royal Blue. It was the most accurate revolver I'd ever shot. In a moment of desperation (need a place to live), I sold it for $500.







 
The only thing I regret selling inst a firearm, but a working vintage Superman telephone. I sold it for about 1/10th of its value, just to give some money to a gal I was involved with at the time.
 
I did have a custom small action Martini.
It was a 218 Bee, bull barrel and pretty wood.
Brass ball on the end of the lever.
A cute little rifle!
Haven't a clue why I sold it.
 
I had a 66 2.5 inch round butt with bobbed hammer, trigger job, pinned barrel and a second 4 inch barrel that was interchangeable. It gave me a four inch 66 with a round butt. Looked beautiful!! Shot great!! Accurate! Gave it too my son and he is still looking for the 4 inch barrel that he misplaced in a move. I may have to buy it back... if I can convince him to let go of it. Gotta find a four inch barrel replacement and have fitted. What was I thunkin'?
 
pharmer said:
You win! The only positive comment about the COP that I have ever heard (except for the gun rags when it came out). Joe
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You mean mine wasn't the one with a firing pin issue??? :D. Still liked the look and idea of it.
 
AR-15 9 MM pre ban and a NIB Colt Phython that I sold on a Sunday and read on Monday that Colt quit making them.
 
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