Bought, then sold, then bought again?

[smithnut357]

Just once, I think. I cant remember the model # off the top of my head, but it was a stainless Marlin .22 mag with a tubular magazine. I sold it to my dad, who promptly sold it to a mutual friend of ours. Maybe a year later, the friend called out of the blue wanting to sell it back for what he paid for it. Except he bought it with no ammo, and it came back with about 300 rounds of assorted .22 mag! I bought it about 10 minutes later.

 

[commygun]

Several times unfortunately. The ones I kick myself are the ones that were cheap the first couple of times I owned them and now seem to have doubled or tripled in price. Why did I sell that $140 Webley or that $350 Walther PP?!

 

[CajunBass]

I do it all the time. No big deal to me. I've had a half dozen 10/22's, more than a half dozen Model 10 S&W's, four or five Model 15's, about that in 19's, three or four Model 39's, a couple of 29's, four Dan Wesson 22's. I just bought another Dan Wesson 22 as a matter of fact.

Now that I think of it, there aren't many guns I haven't bought more than one of. I buy, sell, swap, trade them all the time. I don't worry about selling one because I know I can always get another one.

 

[DeepSouth]

I've bought several from friends in financial stress, (aka....broke) then sold them back when they got caught up, then bought them back ect, ect. Some of the guns I wouldn't even want and never shot but have bought 3 or 4 times.

Other than that I've never bought one back that I sold, but I will hopefully one day own another Sharps so it may be my first.

 

[xxjumbojimboxx]

Oh man I've done this so many times. Most recently I found myself without a shotgun (again). When my buddy invited me to the skeet range I had to go out and buy another. Ironically I bought the first 12 gauge I'd ever had. A Mossberg Maverick 88. The first one I bought saw probably around 10k rounds between myself/friends/family members. And I can hit ~97% of the clays I aim at with it. So why buy something more expensive to replace it?

 

[monk d]

Re-bought the same gun 3 years later

Back in '95 I had had a Colt Commander that I owned for several years that I loved, and well money got real tight so I sold it to a guy. Well, 3 years later my wife and I were in a LGS and I happened to look in the used handgun case and there was a Commander that looked just like the one I used to have. I asked to see it, and sure enough it was the exact same gun I sold 3 years earlier (in 1995). He wanted $425 for it, I had originally paid $650 new, and sold it for $300 to the guy back in '95. Money was better, so I snatched it up AGAIN.

Man I loved that gun, but not enough apparently. The following year (1999), I traded it and and some cash for a NIB Kimber Compact Custom, which I kept until this past September, when I traded it for a Super Carry Custom

That is the rest of the story

 

[Reloadron]

Bought, then sold, then bought again?

Once. Sold a friend a S&W Model 29 he really wanted. A few years later he called me asking if I wanted to buy it back for what I sold him the gun for. I bought it back. About a month later he died of a sudden heart attack at about 40 years old. He was an only child with deceased parents and are you ready for this? No will and he was an attorney. His gun safe and possessions became a feeding frenzy for some cousins I guess. Damn glad that Model 29 came back.

Ron

 

[MacTech]

Multiple times with the Ruger 10/22 rifles....

I'd buy one, typically an older, inexpensive used one, have fun with it for a while, then get bored with it, and trade it towards the latest gun-of-the-moment that had caught my attention

I've ownED more 10/22's than any other gun, for now, I'm back down to two, and these look to be ones I'll finally decide to keep for good.....