Did you ever buy back a gun you sold...I mean the exact SAME gun?

[Mad Magyar]

Came close...I had consigned one of my Sistema's some time back at a local gun shop and it sold right away....About 5 months later, spotted it at a local gun show with a price tag about couple of hundred more...A different dealer had it...I looked it over, smiled, and passed on it. Besides, I had some more Sistema's at home.....

 

[klover]

Once the same exact gun,

(for $150 more--no more than hour later from the same guy). Another two times it was to replace a similar model. As if that wasn't enough, I even doubled up on seconds of these same models!

The double ups happen because I want backups to fill certain niches in my collection. People sometimes buy spare parts for their guns, I like the idea of a complete spare working gun. Nothing worse than a bunch of ammo and no working gun.

Did someone say follies?

 

[farscott]

Yup, a few times. Lost money each time on the round trip, but one does what one must do.

1) A Baer 9x19 Monolith Heavy weight that I sold to a dealer to help fund the purchase of a second home. Bought it back after cash flow stabilized.

2) A Baer TRS HD. Same deal.

 

[1911austin]

Guilty.

 

[jaysouth]

I owned the same smith M-64, Colt Commander and Norinco with bar-sto barrel at least three times each. At least two other compulsive traders in a gun club circle owned each one of the guns at least twice.

Before getting into a 12 step program for compulsive behavior, I bought and sold over 200 guns in less than three years. Probably lost 20,000 each year.

With my addiction under control, I an on a regimen that allows 1,500 calories per day, 1 drink per day and only one gun purchase per month. I only trade two or three per year now.

 

[Scorpiusdeus]

Yep,

Sig P228. It came back to me almost five years later with the same number of rounds through it as when it left.

 

[Turk]

In 1965 I purchased a 870 Wingmaster for waterfowl hunting in 1969 I sold it to buy a parachute and then sometime in the early 80's I bought it back.

Turk

 

[Cosmoline]

I bought the same Colt PPS twice, and I'd buy it again gladly if I could find it. But I sold it one last time and have never seen it since.

 

[Babalouie]

Wish I could.

 

[camp_gunner]

I have had the chance to buy a few back, some of which I or my friends have created. The one that was the most fun is a "Tanker" version of a SVT-40 Tokarov that a friend had created. Carl and I had a good laugh at the story concocted by the deal at the gun show came up with to explain the gun. He was somewhat deflated after we told him about some of the marks that had been placed on the gun, and then took off the handguards to show the marks.

 

[357fan]

I'm about to. A few months back I sold off my Yugo SKS in order to finance another firearm. I FFL I sold it to still had it last week, and if it's still there tomorrow, I'm going to bring her back home.

 

[Hokkmike]

I thought about it but the pistol I sold was sold when I went to buy it back.

 

[Deanimator]

Last year I bought a 4" S&W Model 29-2 back from a friend. I'd sold it to him about ten years ago when I was out of work and needed money. It had a defective forcing cone from the factory when I'd bought it used the first time, around '83. My friend didn't have the money to get it fixed and didn't want to get his name attached to it by sending it to S&W to be fixed.

After getting it back, I tried to get the forcing cone fixed by the guy who works on my guns. He was able to improve it, but couldn't completely fix it, since he needed a lathe to turn back the barrel hood, after the forcing cone was recut. I ended up sending the gun to S&W, who fixed the forcing cone and put a deep cut on the outside of the barrel in the process. To make a long story short, I had to threaten to sue them before they replaced the barrel and refinished the gun, which of course rendered it all but worthless. All of that took very nearly six months and pretty much took all of the enjoyment out of getting the gun back.

 

[hemiram]

I tried to buy my original Dan Wesson model 15 that was on Gunbroker a couple of years ago. The grips had an odd chip out of them that looked really familiar, so I got out my old paperwork, and then I called the place and it was my old gun, apparently unfired since I sold it almost 25 years before. I had put a brand new SS barrel tube in it to make the sale to a guy I worked with, and the guy I talked to said it looked unfired to him.

I missed it by just a couple of bucks! I got my 715 for a lot less anyway.