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

SeanSw said:

The gun is very nice and I have thought about contacting Ruger for a replacement cylinder but we can't afford to shoot .45acp let alone .45 colt these days!

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Sorry. That's too bad man! And from everything I've heard and read, "these days" isn't the time to get into handloading.

Wow

A Stirling .22 autoloader, or should I say a Jam-o-matic...

LOL..... I research before I buy anything. So....for me I have zero regrets about selling anything, because I've never sold anything. It's a one way proposition....."you can check out, but you can never leave"....

A Sig Mosquito. That pile of hot, sweaty chicken guts baking in the sun on the day of your mother's divorce was one of only two guns I ever owned that I intentionally sold at a loss just to get out from under it. Manually racking, round by round, a 500 brick of HV .22LR through a gun that's allegedly semiautomatic will do that to you. I hope the engineering kraut at GSG who signed off on its design and testing had his schnitzel mauled off by a dog.

A used Ruger Single-Six sold to me as a .22 LR. It shot kind of funny, so I did some investigating and it turned out to have a .22 Magnum cylinder that was not marked as such installed. As in, .22 Mag shells fit and fired in the cylinder just fine, but it said .22 LR on the frame. This was one of those rare occasions when I thought Rugers' rep for durable construction really mattered, as I had already fired plenty of .22LR through this gun! I'm still uncertain how this happened; the cylinder had the machined grooves in it the way .22 LR cylinders do, and was unmarked. It was clearly sold to me as a .22LR, so I had no reason to think otherwise until I shot it myself. I resold it as a .22 Magnum; I had never wanted one of those.

Charles daily 45. The thing would slam fire something awful.

Ruger Mark IV Target with a long bull barrel. It was just so heavy it was no fun to shoot, and a 22lr that isn't fun just has no business. No business at all.

Taurus Raging Bull in .44 magnum Second handgun I bought that went out of time.
Taurus PT92 First handgun I bought and the sites were canted with a bad trigger.
Colt Gold Cup Sent back multiple times for hammer follows.
Springfield 1911 in 9mm Impulse purchase that I regretted.

I have 1 gun left in 40 S&W. I don’t miss the CZ 75B Tutone in .40 S&W, or the early Gen 4 Glock 22. I regret selling the HK USP 40. I still have the Sig P226, that one is a keeper.

First gen Glock 22, just didn't work for me at all. AK47 (civilian copy, natch) and SKS- poor fit and finish, lousy ergonomics, poor accuracy, etc. for both guns. Mini-14, poor ergos, shot about 6 MOA.

Taurus PT22 poly
Never got 3 shots off in a row.
Sent back 4 times.

AFS

A Phoenix hp22a, one of the most finicky pistols I've ever shot. Hard to disassemble and reassemble, not overly accurate, 3 or 4 safeties (made in Cali, nuff said), really small, jam-o-matic.

Good riddance. I upgraded to a S&W M&P 22 compact, excellent 22 pistol.

An Uberti replica of a Colt 36 cal Army cap and ball revolver. It was just poor quality. That was in the mid 70s. Every other one I ever parted with I regret . . .

WVGunman said:

used Ruger Single-Six sold to me as a .22 LR. It shot kind of funny, so I did some investigating and it turned out to have a .22 Magnum cylinder that was not marked as such installed. As in, .22 Mag shells fit and fired in the cylinder just fine, but it said .22 LR on the frame.

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IIRC, at least some if not all of those came with a regular .22 cylinder and a .22 mag cylinders that you could interchange

I don’t usually sell any of My guns. But broke Every bone in My right wrist several years back. After doing so I was nervous about shooting My 50 S&W pistol again. To this day I regret selling it. I still My have been nervous shooting it. But should have never sold it.
I guess it did go to a good Friends Son.

Kimber Compact Aluminum 1911, .45 - Total Garbage
Sig 229s, .357, and .40. Worked fine, as you would expect, but the finish wore off very quickly and the small parts rusted enthusiastically.

I traded a nice Deagle in 357 Mag as I just didn't get the hype.


Traded it for a very nice H&R Garand and an Springfield 03A3.


Best trade I ever made!

A Hi-Point 9mm pistol and a Bulgarian-made 9mm Makarov.

The two guns couldn't be more different. The High Point was Zamak and plastic. The Makarov was steel and so solid I'm positive it could've been used as a hammer to drive nails. But the recoil was a problem with both. The Hi-Point's grip was poorly designed (fancy that) and combined with a blowback action, it just was a b*tch to shoot with anything but pipsqueak loads. Th Makarov was a beast just because the only ammo i could get for it was hot as hell. These and later experiences have convinced me that blowback actions just aren't a great idea in pistols bigger than .32.

Some that have moved on from me through the years, these are the ones that stand out as particularly troublesome:

Beretta Bobcat and Taurus PT-22: Fun at the range, but never could get them to not jam. Tried at least 5 brands of 22lr in them with no success.

Polish P-64 in 9x18 Mak: Kicked like a mule and heavy DA/SA trigger pull. Great for carry, never enjoyed my range sessions with that one. At least it was cheap at the time (2004-ish timeframe).

Walther PPK/s in 380: Bit the web of my left dominant hand every time, drew blood, left a scar for a while. Lovely looking though, and heavy for carry compared to other 380's.

Kimber micro 380: Prettiest handgun I have owned. As a new, old-stock pistol it jammed more than any other gun I have owned. Never got it to function properly. Total disappointment after hearing how great the brand is through the years.

Pawn shop .32 acp Italian pistol/Walther PPK clone. I can't remember the model or make, jammed every round. Sure wasn't a Beretta- that I remember. The pawn shop took it back.

Star BM 9 mm: Jammed every other round. It was a cheap surplus pistol, and I found out why it was cheap. It looked better than it functioned.

Seymour380 said:

Some that have moved on from me through the years, these are the ones that stand out as particularly troublesome:

Star BM 9 mm: Jammed every other round. It was a cheap surplus pistol, and I found out why it was cheap. It looked better than it functioned.

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I’m surprised about the Star. They are excellent handguns I collect them and have several different variants of them. All of them function as they should, including a BM. Every manufacturer has lemons and it unfortunately seems you got one. Not the norm though.

I enjoyed this thread because I agree with so many posts. Also, because some of the guns that didn't work out (Bulgarian Makarov, Taurus guns, CZ 82, and other CZ products, are some of my favorites. The CZ82 for example. I liked this gun so much I bought seven, and it lead to many other CZ's including my EDC. Out of 9 Taurus guns I've never had to send one back. It shows how different WE are. I like that.

Rockrivr1 said:

I’m surprised about the Star. They are excellent handguns I collect them and have several different variants of them. All of them function as they should, including a BM. Every manufacturer has lemons and it unfortunately seems you got one. Not the norm though.

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Thanks Rock. I was surprised too. Really like the looks of the BMs. Seemed well-made, but didn't work for me.

I had 3 or 4 of the early Ruger Mini 14s back in the the 1980's/90's. I thought those were the cat's meow for needing a handy little truck carbine. There was one problem, I could never get one of them to shoot less than a 5-6" group @ 100 yds., accuracy was just horrible. Finally gave up on them, sold them all and bought bolt actions. I hear the accuracy is better on the newer versions but don't think you could run fast enough to give me one.