The gun you regret selling

Some years ago I sold my Smith & Wesson model 686. I loved that revolver. Don't know what got into me at the time but I regret it now!

Mine is a .22 single shot that was my first rimfire rifle. Dad gave it to me for my 17th birthday. It was styled like an M1 carbine. It had what would be a carbine length barrel so it wasn't terribly accurate but it was a cute little rifle. I've never seen anything like it since. I have an old .22 barrel so I may try to build one like it.

Way too many to list but here’s a start.

colt Army issue 1911 from 1917 95%
Remington Army issue 1911from 1942 90%
Mauser Broomhandle 9mm with wooden holster and cleaning kit 95%
P-38 don’t late WWII unfired
3 M1 carbines including an original paratrooper all near mint
P17 Enfield 1917if I remember correctly mint
Several rare 1903’s in mint condition
Colt WWI issue 45 acp revolver in superb condition can’t remember the year
6” Blue Python
Contender with bull 223 barrel and Leupold 4x scope

Now I’ll take a breath.

Only one I regret selling is a Norinco SKS. It was heavy and tough to reload but I liked it. Reasonably accurate for my purposes and pretty fun. I regret selling any semiauto rifle in this day and age, but it helped finance an AR upper, so it’s a wash.

Worse is that I regret buying only 1 AR lower when I could have bought 2 at a discount. The days before MA went full retard were magical.

I have kep every platform that performs well for me. Sure I’ve bought $3000 guns and if they didn’t shoot well for me I sold them. I am very pleased with the platforms I have kept.

Last one I sold I regretted was a SLR107FR, I really didn’t need to but sold it to fund a UR, When I was in the process of selling it the wife says “ya should have kept it silly” and the whole time I was under the impression the UR funds had to be replaced....
Lesson learned.
I will never sell another rifle
or sell one to fund another....

shootstraight57 said:

Some years ago I sold my Smith & Wesson model 686. I loved that revolver. Don't know what got into me at the time but I regret it now!

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Did the same...

So many guns over the years that I couldn't afford to keep and get the next greatest gun I just had to have...

My first gun ever was a Browning BLR22 Grade II. Sold it in my 20's because it was losing accuracy.

Ruger Mini-14 blued Ranch Rifle with factory folding stock that was the only Mini-14 I've owned that was accurate.

My first .22 pistol, a Ruger Single-Six made in the 70's.

A Glock 24c, long-slide ported factory Glock. Very accurate and very hard to find these days.

not mine, but I wen't out with a friend who had an emotional attachment to a Whindam Bushmaster, but sold it because it malfunctioned a lot and he didn't know how to fix it. When he found out it needed a new bolt for around $45 AFTER he sold he was pretty miserable about it. Also know a guy who would buy milsurps, and decent pawnshot specials, but didn't know they were serviceable. So when something broke, it went in the trash, or got sold, like a CD player that skips.

In 1993 I sold an M-1A from Springfield Armory (Illinois). I wish I had that gun back, because every part on that gun was milsurp TRW.

When I was in the Army, I bought a nice Colt Official Police from a gun store in Cosmosdale, Kentucky. I kept it for a while, then traded it to another store in Elizabethtown for something else; I forget what.

It was no big deal. After all, it's not like Colt was going to stop making revolvers...

Actually, it wasn't such a bad thing that I'd gotten rid of it, despite the fact that it was a good gun.

After I'd gotten out of the Army and eventually moved to Ohio, I got a letter through the Army Locator Service from the store to which I'd traded it. They said the BATF wanted to know how I got the gun. It turns out that years before I'd bought it, it'd been stolen from somebody in California. I called the store and told them that I'd bought it on a 4473 from the store in Cosmosdale. I never heard anything else about it. I suppose at some point, I'd have been without the gun or the money I'd paid for it.

I sold a High Standard Victor Military Model .22 that I used in Bullseye shooting when I was younger. Boy do I ever regret doing that but I was done with Bullseye shooting and I wanted a .357 for CCW.

Only gun I ever sold was a God Cup 45 - circumstances dictated it but I miss it to the day.

Must have made a lasting impression on me as I have not sold another since in the last 30 years and I do have some in the safe that have not been fired in decades- out to clean and check them but that's it.

Guess whomever gets them when I am gone will not hav the same emotional problem in moving them along

gary0529 said:

Only gun I ever sold was a God Cup 45 ...

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I've heard of "holy grail" guns, but "God Cup" is a new one!

My S&W 586-4 6” in high luster blue finish. It was the best looking and shooting gun I’ve ever owned

A Winchester model 21 20ga with #4 engraving done by Pauline Murelle at Winchester Custom Shop. It had the original Straight grip stock and forearm with additional B carved pistol grip stock, beavertail forearm and skeleton buttplate from Winchester custom shop. Cody letter, letter from Pauline Murelle (retired) and a story of who the gun was especially made for. Gun was pristine in every way. Bought for a song at a Scheels Sports store ( they didn't know what they had )...sold it at auction. I made an excellent profit but wish I had it back now. A gun dealer once told me if you have a model 21 never sell it. I guess he was right. Also had an autographed copy of Pauline's book 'Winchester, The way it really was'.

We do not have enough beer or enough hankies to talk about guns I regret selling. From a lightweight frame, full size Government Model with Colt .22 long rifle conversion to a Royal Arms Martini-Peabody rifle re stocked and rebarreled to .45-70 Government... Sorry, I'm staring to tear up.

Too many to list!

Mostly older S&W K frames, a few J frames, every Ruger Security Six I ever had, a Beretta Model 90, and a Browning BDA .45.

A Smith & Wesson Super 12 I bought while working in a Gibsons Discount Center in 1984. Best shooting dove gun I ever had. I sold it five or six years later to a guy who worked for me and to this day I can't remember why I did.

Sold a 70s S&W M29 because I needed the money BAD. Traded a Brownimg Hi-Power and Colt Gold Cup because I am stupid

Jeff

What is this ‘selling a gun’ of which you speak...???

Disclosure: Just because one may have liked your post does not mean one liked to see you lose your gun!
Just liked the firearm.......
Sorry you had to sell it!

Oh man, where do I start?

I guess if I had to boil down the ones that I regret the most, it would be an early 90's S&W 686, a Marlin 1894 .44mag (sans crossbar safety), a mint Swedish M1896... quite a few more come to mind.

Due to all these "regrettable sales", I'm extremely hesitant to sell anymore.

However, over the past year I did sell a Swiss K31 and French MAS36 for about a 300% profit that I don't really feel bad about.

The one I regret selling the most wasn't collectible and had almost no monetary value, but I miss it every day, and buying another like it just wouldn't be the same. It was an 80s era Rossi 68 snubby. I bought the gun new and had many years and thousands of rounds of enjoyment out of it. The only reason I sold it was someone offered me way more than I paid for it and I had an itch to buy something else at the time. The gun had gotten me out of a scrape a couple of decades earlier, had served as a weekday and beater gun, and was my favorite plinker for many years. The timing was precise and it still locked up tighter than some much more expensive revolvers with less rounds through them. What's done is done. Sigh....

The only times I've sold/traded a gun is when it was such a good sale/trade (in my favor)
that any "regret" rising within me was immediately "overwritten" with the joy of profit.