Do you regret selling your first gun?

By first gun, can we include our first pellet rifle? If so, yes, I miss my Sheridan.

:banghead: Keegan, I regret letting go of every gun that I've liked! I've let many, many go over the years and the ones that I sold or traded for this and that, that I really loved have in there way come to haunt me. One that really burns was my S&W 66-3(Treasury model)that I traded for a fishing boat.
Take my advice, keep the ones you know you're gonna miss as in many cases their not as replaceable as you may think at the time. Honestly, in this day and age, if you're working a regular paying job, there's no reason you can't suck it up and buy stuff on lay-away over time. If I could do it over, I'd have hung onto almost everything I let go. You know that would be a great thread by itself, us older members listing all the hardware we've parted company with over the years, a lot of you youger folks would be shocked at whats slipped through some of our hands...:banghead:

You bet I regret it. In 1972, I bought a real nice S&W M 48 with an 8 3/8" barrel that I let go a year later so I could afford an Italian 10-speed bicycle in order to pursue my infatuation with a beautiful redheaded cyclist. She's long gone, of course. So's the Atala 10-speed. Wish I still had the 48.

Yep, it was a High Standard Marshall .22 revolver. BUT, I used the money to buy an S&W Model 17 (in 1975) which I still have so I guess if I hadn't sold it, I wouldn't have the Smith.
I also regret selling the Colt Commander LW, the Steyr GB, three Colt AR-15s, the S&W 66 snub, the S&W 66 6", two S&W 36s , etc. etc.

first guns

The first gun I bought myself was a Ruger 10-22 during college, 1973 or 74. It is still in gun locker, still my "go to" .22 rifle.

In 1976 I bought a Ruger Standard .22 semi auto pistol. Still upstairs in the gin locker with a couple of other Ruger .22 pistols. It was my practice pistol for many years, I still shoot it although I have a stainless Mark II I had setup for IMSA competition that I tend to shoot the most for .22.

I would regret having sold either of these, and they have real sentimental value. I have sold and traded other guns over the years, although I tend to be of the buy em and keep em camp.

Still have it. Lives beside my wife's side of the bed, keeping her safe whenever I'm not around to.

I suspect most of us who've sold/traded guns regret most of those we've sold or traded ... Even when I got a great price, or a great gun in trade, I've missed just about every gun I've given up. I still have my first, but traded off my second, third, fourth ... plain stupid. Miss 'em all.

Not really. It was a Commission 88 cut down to short rifle length, probably by the Turkish Forestry Service. It was fun as a first gun, but nothing special and as I subsequently learned, kind of dangerous with the ammunition available. The initial story was that most of these Commission 88s had been rebarreled to .323 "S" configuration like WWI and later generation '98s. Turns out that wasn't true. By and large, they'd just been given more freebore so that the .323 bullet wasn't jammed into the .318 bore QUITE as fast. They were very accurate guns though, often more accurate than Kar98ks made fifty years later.

I haven't got a place to shoot the long guns I have now, so it (and the Commission 88 I have now) would just sit in the safe with the rest of my long guns.

My first gun was a present from my father when I was 11 years old. It is an Remington single shot 22. He didn't want me to get a pump or a semi-auto because he thought the time and effort to load a single shot weapon would make me a better shooter. I think it did. I hardly ever shoot the thing anymore but I would never sell it due to the sentimental value it has to me. I don't think I could get another one that is in shape mine is in due to the fact that it was purchased in 1966.

To me, if you don't have such a sentimental attachment to your first gun, then by all means sell it and upgrade. New guns are always nice to have. Everytime I get one I tell my wife that this will be the last one, "I Promise". I have broken that promise many times now. Just can't help myself!

Good luck

dont do it you hate yourself later
just save up and get it later or spend the $ now

I still own my first rifle. I sold my second rilfe as I wasn't shooting it and a friend of my Dad's really wanted it. In hindsight, I wish I would have kept that 243 since not shooting a gun is no big thing to me anymore.

My first handgun was sold after owning it for 5-6 years. It had no sentimental value what so ever and I don't recall exactly when I got rid of it. I bought a Colt Diamondback after owning the other for a couple years to hopefully upgrade my shooting. It worked and I never shot that first revolver again.

I still have my first gun (not including all the BB and pellet guns as a boy). It is a Remington 870 Wingmaster that my wife's uncle bought new and hunted with just once before he died (which was six months before we got married). My father-in-law inherited it and gave it to me shortly before I married his daughter. I will never willingly sell it, but it will be given to my son eventually.

My first handgun was a .22 pistol I bought to teach myself and my son good handgun technique. It served its purpose and was sold with no regret. I have sold a few other handguns with no regrets because I ended up with something better as a result.

I did consider selling my SIG P228 once. That would have been a foolish decision, no doubt followed by immense regret.

I only miss one gun I traded in. It was a Bersa Thunder 40 I purchased last year. I traded it, a S&W 9 and an off brand .22 revolver for a 1903 Springfield. Miss the .40 but love the 1903