The One(s) You DON'T Regret Trading or Selling

Llama IX-A 45acp
Ruger LCP
Metro Arms Commander
Yeah, I think that's it. The metro arms wasn't even sold off, it was stolen. I was pretty peeved at the time, but in actuality, they probably did me a favor. That thing never ran right. Actuality, none of the above ever ran right. My bar for liking a firearm is pretty low...if it will reliably go bang, and hit somewhere in the general vicinity of where I'm pointing it, I generally want to keep it

TEC-22. Yuge pile of garbage - only magazine it would run on was a Ruger factory 1/22 ten rounder, and that was iffy.
CZ 100. Yes, I am a CZ guy, and I a guy sold me a CZ-100 .40SW for $1, one dollar, because I was the CZ guy he knew. I shoulda known. Trigger was so atrocious that accuracy past ten feet, (not yards), was suspect at best. There was a reason that contract overrun pistol was quickly discontinued by CZ after they ran out of the premade parts.
I won a Taurus 38 snub in a contest I forgot about entering. The timing was off when I got it, sent it to Taurus who did repair it quickly and correctly but the dark shadow was already on it, so I traded it away with zero regret.

Two that I didn't mind selling were the Taurus 40/7 Pro C and a FIE Titan 22lr pistol. While the Taurus 24/7 was accurate, I could never get past the mile long trigger pull on it. The FIE Titan was junk. I never could get it to feed reliably even after cleaning up the chamber and barrel face from previous owners dry firing it.

I have a couple…

Remington R51 - Grrrr
Mine was Gen 2. Still a POS. After 3 trips to Remington they exchanged it…for a reworked Gen 1. Dirty sons of……..

S&W 60 Pro - their fix for a sticking extractor rod and not releasing cylinder? Turn the outer barrel shroud to release pressure / binding on the extractor rod then it shot 6” to the right at 10 yards. I sent it back 3 times. When they finally corrected it I sold it. “Performance Center” my butt!

Kel-Tek P3AT - 8 ounces of torture when firing. It bit my finger, slammed my index finger knuckle and hurt my wrist to fire it. Reminded me a split wooden ball bat. Looked great but hurt like hell in action.
Sold for exactly what I paid for it.

Sig P365...ditched it for a Shield Plus and a Kimber Micro 9 Rapide because the grip was way to small.

Colt Series 70 .45. I got it for what I know now was a suspiciously low price. Someone had gone to the trouble of shortening the slide so it fit on a Commander frame and bubbaed it in other ways not readily apparent. It would NOT feed more that two or three rounds without jamming, went through seven or eight different ones without success until I stumbled across a pair of absolutely trashed mil-specs that somehow worked perfectly.
Since I got it for a job (dancer's bodyguard), that was unacceptable and I ended up carrying my CA Undercover I wanted to replace it with anyway, so I just cashed out for a loss, but no regrets otherwise.

Don't know about glad to be rid of, but since I don't have any I've sold that I really miss, I guess all of them.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

Cant remember the model, but I also had a gorgeous stainless .44SPL Taurus 5-shooter. Fixed sights and it shot about 12" right at 8 yds......dont miss that one at all, lol.

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Interesting...I have a stainless Taurus adjustable sighted 5-shot .44Spl that is a very nice revolver.
Quite accurate out to 25yds with my handloads of 240gr coated LSWC with 6.6gr of Unique.

Ducktown Disaster. That was the name I had for my leinad double barrel 410 derringer. It was reliable but it was also brutal.

I have tried Glock several times in various configurations. They eat up the knuckle where my thumb joins the hand.

Franchi 48al 20ga. Couldn’t hit squat with it and made $200 when I sold it. It was the only shotgun I have ever shot where I couldn’t find a natural point of aim in a box of shells. I don’t use beads, I just pull it up and roll with it so I can’t blame the sights, but they were off too when I forced myself to try them. That must have been a mandatory overtime special in the heat of the summer… but it was pretty.

How do you shorten a Colt 1911 slide to fit on a Commander frame ?

I had a Remington 30.06 742 semi auto that I got rid of several years ago. I just didn't like that rifle for some reason.

Ruger 9MM American. It would throw flyers for no reason that I could find. 15 Yards three shots perfect one round five inches high, right. It did this all the time with different types of ammunition. I had my Son shoot it, same thing. Some times two flyers out of five shots. Sold it to an EMT who couldn't have cared less since he never shot past ten yards. ERMA .22 M-I Carbine. Sights were terrible. I couldn't group it at all. Not worth spit alongside a Ruger 10/22. Traded it in on a Taurus M66, Probably the most accurate centerfire revolver that I own. Polish P-64 looked great for a CCW and a 9X18MM punch. Took two men and a boy to pull the trigger DA and SA was almost too light. Sights were almost invisible and it didn't recoil it kicked so hard after one magazine you didn't want to fire a second. Sent it back for a full refund. Sterling .22 that's been mentioned already. There's others but I'm getting depressed.

Taurus G2C, Remington RM380, S&W SD9VE.

Taurus 709 Slim, felt good at the gun counter but the ergonomics just didn't work for me when shooting it.
Charter 44. special, just couldn't warm up to it. Shot well but there was no love.
Ruger 9mm carbine, another one that I couldn't work up any affection for.
Kel Tek sub 2000, was not designed for a human to shoot.

Bulgie Mak.

Old_Grouch said:

Okay, we have an ongoing thread about regrets. Here's one for guns you're glad to be rid of.

Just off of the top of my head mine are:

S&W 4006 (It was a .40. The only one I've ever had or will ever have)
S&W 4516 (Feed problems)
Taurus .44 Spl (I don't remember the model, but it confirmed everything I'd heard about Taurus)

I'm sure I'll remember others as the thread progresses.

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Most guns I've "re-homed" over the years, I'm well rid of.

Jennings J-22. Tied for "worst gun ever". Did I get $25 for that?

FIE .38. derringer. The other "worst gun ever".

Traded a 1988 vintage Taurus 66 and a CZ-100, even up for a Springfield XD. Thought and still think I came out ahead on that.

Bersa .45 that tended to eat parts.

The only one I might want back is the Taurus. I'd do further troubleshooting on the problem it had that wouldn't stay fixed.

It wasn't mine per se....the wife saw a Charter Arms Chic Lady at the gun store and liked the feel of the grip. Decided to get it for her; it would fire every other round in the cylinder; light primer strikes.

The wife said "to hell with it" and we sold it. Traded it for some muzzleloading supplies.

Lots of guns that went away went away because I didn't want/like/need them any more. Kahr CM-9, Glock 19, Garand, Ruger 10/22, Marlin 39A, Swede Mauser, XP-100, and on and on..............

I had a FEG PA63 in 9x18 some years ago. Aluminum frame. It was actually quite well built, reliable, attractive, and stupid light. Kind of what a Commie version of 007 might carry.

The thing bit. For a relatively anemic round, it was just plain unpleasant to shoot. The single action pull was very good, so fine accuracy was possible even with the nubby little sights...so long as you didn't flinch before the hammer dropped. I'd liken the felt recoil to firing a .357 Mag snubby with full power light bullet loads, only the .357 snubby has better grips, so the "bite" still isn't as pronounced. I was happy to sell it off to somebody who fell in love with it and didn't mind the setting an M80 off in a closed hand sensation. He actually thought that was cool, and a fun surprise when friends came over to shoot.

Taurus 745. It shot well but the safety didn’t work. With the safety on, it would still fire. Took it back to LGS where they returned it to Taurus. I then got a MP40.

S.A.M. 1911 Commodore.
Total POS, metallurgy sucked.
After fixing the two problems I knew it had. I Traded it for a SKS.

Walther P22
Magazine fed single shot, biggest piece of junk I’ve ever seen. In hindsight I kind of wish I had destroyed it rather than sold it and saved some poor soul a headache, but money was tight at the time.

Mauser 380 HSC!! All promise and grace but a jamomatic to the max. niemals wieder !!!

Carried a .357 Dan Wesson 2 3/4” revolver, when they first came out, as a service weapon. Very large, heavy concealed gun, the flame in low light conditions was blinding. Down the road it went.

W. German PPK/S cut me every time I shot it.

High Standard .22 mag derringer, really no use for it, same for a NAA Arms tiny revolver and a .25 Colt Jr.

I’ve bought and sold hundreds of guns, most for good reason on both ends, so there’s very little regret at either end.

What came to mind this morning when considering firearms of which I’m glad to have rid myself, might be surprising to some folks:

I sold my last Garand about 15 years ago, and I’m glad I parted with it when I did. I’d spent a lot of money on Garands to that point, at the advice of the gunsmith I apprenticed under and further of other Service Rifle competitors. They were freaking money pits. I had sold off my “second to last Garand”, losing a ton of money on my total investment, but then found a Springfield which had been rebarreled by Blue Sky at a farm sale which sold low... I spent some money having it tuned up, and quickly reached a point where it was going to become very expensive again. One afternoon after a match, driving home, I inexplicably drove past the highway exit to my house and found myself at a pawn & gun shop 40min past home... I handed him the Garand, took a stack of ten $100 bills, which was six more than I had given for it, and built an A2 clone AR-15 the next week from inventory parts my gunsmith had on hand. I’m certain if I had kept the Garand, I would still be sinking money into it, or another like it, to my own chagrin. I was on the verge at the time of trading up to an M1a, but I’m glad I short circuited that path and instead jumped directly to the AR-15.

Less surprising, I’m also grateful that I’ve sold every Mini 14, Mini 30, Mini 6.8, and Ranch Rifle I’ve ever bought and sold, and glad to have learned my lesson.