Valkman
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I bought a Winchester lever action 30-30 in 1973 when I was 18 for $80 new. Wound up selling it for about what I paid for it and have regretted it ever since. I've sold other guns but that's the only one I regret.
Guns you regret letting get away
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P5 Guy
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Only one, S&W 640 before the wisemen at S&W decided that 'J' frames should shoot 357MAG.
Though my 60 and 60-4 more than make up for the loss.
Though my 60 and 60-4 more than make up for the loss.
bullseye308
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Bushmaster XM15E2S I got from a friend for $400 with 100 rds through it.
SKS bought for $69 at the gun show picked from a crate that never malfunctioned and was super accurate.
Egyptian MAADI AK-47 got NIB for $200 that was a dream to shoot.
Rem 700 PSS 308 got NIB for $250 from a friend.
CETME Sporter that was superb and never malfunctioned, great trigger, and super accurate. $260 at a gun show.
TC Contender Super 14 30-30. Loved that gun.
2 Glock 17’s bought new.
4” Ruger 38( all I remember)
Sold all in a week to pay for a divorce, along with 45 cases of ammo, and 60,000 assorted pieces of brass and bullets. Breaks my heart to remember the good times we shared, but I got the house, car, and kids.
SKS bought for $69 at the gun show picked from a crate that never malfunctioned and was super accurate.
Egyptian MAADI AK-47 got NIB for $200 that was a dream to shoot.
Rem 700 PSS 308 got NIB for $250 from a friend.
CETME Sporter that was superb and never malfunctioned, great trigger, and super accurate. $260 at a gun show.
TC Contender Super 14 30-30. Loved that gun.
2 Glock 17’s bought new.
4” Ruger 38( all I remember)
Sold all in a week to pay for a divorce, along with 45 cases of ammo, and 60,000 assorted pieces of brass and bullets. Breaks my heart to remember the good times we shared, but I got the house, car, and kids.
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An Inland marked M1 carbine with original GI sights. Someone bubbaed it and refinished it shiny blue, but other than that original. Took this side of a hundred coyotes with it as well as a doe mule deer.
Colt Peacekeeper with a 6" barrel, parkerized. I needed transportation badly and a coworker had a car for sale and liked it...
Bushmaster A2. Nothing special, bone-stock, I hardly had time to shoot it. When Andy trotted out his SAFE act, I was in some dire financial straits and knew someone who was desperate to get their hands on any AR he could. I take neither pride nor shame in what I sold it for, because I was hurting and he had cash to burn. Paid my rent for six months, if you're interested.
Marlin 336 in 30-30. My first real deer rifle, great balance and hit where I looked. Started getting light strikes and like the young fool I was, traded up to a 30-06 bolt at the last minute before I headed into the mountains.
Colt Peacekeeper with a 6" barrel, parkerized. I needed transportation badly and a coworker had a car for sale and liked it...
Bushmaster A2. Nothing special, bone-stock, I hardly had time to shoot it. When Andy trotted out his SAFE act, I was in some dire financial straits and knew someone who was desperate to get their hands on any AR he could. I take neither pride nor shame in what I sold it for, because I was hurting and he had cash to burn. Paid my rent for six months, if you're interested.
Marlin 336 in 30-30. My first real deer rifle, great balance and hit where I looked. Started getting light strikes and like the young fool I was, traded up to a 30-06 bolt at the last minute before I headed into the mountains.
WestKentucky
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Winchester 94AE .357 octagon with gorgeous stock
Marlin Trap Gun
Early Colt DS
Llama minimax .380 (it didn’t go far, I will inherit it back)
Taurus 66
Ruger 10/22 that would actually shoot worth a flip
Standard length Ruger single six
Llama max-I .45 (commander)
The first Taurus pt99 I had
The custom (race) beretta 92fs
Custom Mauser .308
Walther PP .32
Smith & Wesson 22a.
Colt h-bar match
Ted Williams .243
This thread is depressing. I quit this thread.
Marlin Trap Gun
Early Colt DS
Llama minimax .380 (it didn’t go far, I will inherit it back)
Taurus 66
Ruger 10/22 that would actually shoot worth a flip
Standard length Ruger single six
Llama max-I .45 (commander)
The first Taurus pt99 I had
The custom (race) beretta 92fs
Custom Mauser .308
Walther PP .32
Smith & Wesson 22a.
Colt h-bar match
Ted Williams .243
This thread is depressing. I quit this thread.
WestKentucky
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I was thinking the same thing. New thread.
foxmeadow
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A Navy Arms 1861 Colt replica with a factory sight rib and adjustable sights. Traded it for a Ruger Blackhawk in.30 Carbine
A Ruger Blackhawk in .30 Carbine (yep, that one)traded for badly needed auto repair.
An 1895 Marlin octagon barreled rifle with a 4 digit serial number that I bought in an antique shop in Bisbee, AZ, a real shooter, traded for a Navy Arms 1861 replica with a factory sight rib and adjustable sights (Yep, same one).
A T/C Hawken traded for a custom made .308 Norma Mag., Fajen stock, nice trigger, accurate as hell.
A custom made .308 Norma (yeah, you've heard this song before)traded for a really cherry '94 Win. from the '30s
A Rem. 1100 all tricked out for 3 gun or just fun, sold for a about $ 100 more that I had in it.
Regretted all the ones that got away, and happy to have back the ones i managed to recover...
Edited to add a Ruger Single 6 with a 9" barrel and both cylinders, traded away for a pickup canopy, and a S&W M59 I traded for a leaky drift boat.
A Ruger Blackhawk in .30 Carbine (yep, that one)traded for badly needed auto repair.
An 1895 Marlin octagon barreled rifle with a 4 digit serial number that I bought in an antique shop in Bisbee, AZ, a real shooter, traded for a Navy Arms 1861 replica with a factory sight rib and adjustable sights (Yep, same one).
A T/C Hawken traded for a custom made .308 Norma Mag., Fajen stock, nice trigger, accurate as hell.
A custom made .308 Norma (yeah, you've heard this song before)traded for a really cherry '94 Win. from the '30s
A Rem. 1100 all tricked out for 3 gun or just fun, sold for a about $ 100 more that I had in it.
Regretted all the ones that got away, and happy to have back the ones i managed to recover...
Edited to add a Ruger Single 6 with a 9" barrel and both cylinders, traded away for a pickup canopy, and a S&W M59 I traded for a leaky drift boat.
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BlueHeelerFl
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S&W 3913 ladysmith. Great gun and loved shooting it. Recently I've seen 2 couple of non regular 3913 at some local shops. I'd love to get one but money is tight now.
Ruger Single Six, GP 100 and a Bird's Head Vaquero in 45 Colt.
A Beretta CX4 Storm in 9mm. Really loved shooting it. I actually replaced this one a few months ago!
Hopefully I can start replacing more soon
Ruger Single Six, GP 100 and a Bird's Head Vaquero in 45 Colt.
A Beretta CX4 Storm in 9mm. Really loved shooting it. I actually replaced this one a few months ago!
Hopefully I can start replacing more soon
Tommygunn
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Ruger 10-22, about 26 years ago. I'd bought it, shot it some, decided I really didn't need it, and sold it. While I had --- and have --- .22 rifles I like more, I still think I should have kept that Ruger. 
wickedsprint
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A mint Norinco 1911 to a friend
Gladius
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1. Norinco MAK90. New in box with all the goodies. Never fired it. Traded it off for something, I think a car.
2. Ruger old-model Vaquero. Blued with a 7.5 inch barrel and fake case hardened frame, .45 Colt. Great shooter. Don't remember why I sold it.
3. Ruger Redhawk, .44 Magnum and 7.5 inch barrel. Traded it in on a S&W 29-8. In retrospect, I wish I'd kept the Ruger...
4. Arsenal AKM with the underfolding stock. Probably more cool than practical. I never got the chance to shoot it; didn't look forward to that wire stock. Oh well, I still miss it.
2. Ruger old-model Vaquero. Blued with a 7.5 inch barrel and fake case hardened frame, .45 Colt. Great shooter. Don't remember why I sold it.
3. Ruger Redhawk, .44 Magnum and 7.5 inch barrel. Traded it in on a S&W 29-8. In retrospect, I wish I'd kept the Ruger...
4. Arsenal AKM with the underfolding stock. Probably more cool than practical. I never got the chance to shoot it; didn't look forward to that wire stock. Oh well, I still miss it.
theotherwaldo
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Outside of R/Gs, Arminius's, Ravens, and other found objects that could be confused with real guns, I've only sold six functional guns over the last 61 years. I've had another six taken by family members and sold or lost and five more stolen.
Only one has been missed and not replaced: an Ar-7 that I fished out of the Rogue River one summer and was sold to help finance a move.
Not because it was a particularly good firearm. No, just for memories of good times.
Only one has been missed and not replaced: an Ar-7 that I fished out of the Rogue River one summer and was sold to help finance a move.
Not because it was a particularly good firearm. No, just for memories of good times.
lightman
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There have been a few. A Ruger 22 target pistol with the Bi-Centinal stamp on it. A S&W "N" frame parts gun, a M-28 with a 44 barrel and the cylinder reamed out to 44 special. Not very valuable but a good utility pistol. Was having drinks with friends one night in a Tulsa OK motel room while attending the Tulsa show. One of my buddies had a Luger P-08 with matching numbers that his Grandfather brought home from WW2. He also had a Remington .41 Derringer. I should have bought both of them but I had decided that it was time to quit buying guns just to have to show off. Also at Tulsa, but a different show, I looked at a really nice Browning Super Imposed that an older gentleman was carrying around. I don't remember why I did not buy it? Also at Tulsa, a Stainless Colt Gold Cup in 38 Super. A friend actually bought it!
An LC Smith sxs field grade. Traded it off after the lead ban, thinking I had no further use for it. It was a good trade, but I wish I had the Elsie back.
Ouch.
Deus Machina
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My Saiga. More accurate than most AR shooters at the range, it fit me amazingly, and upheld the AK reputation for reliability. Its single malfunction was a Korean mag that was boogered up from the factory.
But, objectively, making rent was more important.
At least I bought it before the Obama scare, and sold it during.
But, objectively, making rent was more important.
At least I bought it before the Obama scare, and sold it during.
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Valkman
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Ouch! I bought one many years ago as a police turn-in and what a gun! That's one I hope to never sell!
tark
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In 1985 I sold an HK-91 at the Cow Palace Gun Show, ( Yes, California hadn't gone totally anti gun by then ) For $550. I have regretted it ever since, because that gun had obviously received some additional attention at the factory. It was a one in a million. It had a smooth, single stage, five # trigger pull, for starters, with a crisp let-off with no over travel. It shot one M.O.A. at a hundred with any garbage ammo it was fed. It was almost the most accurate center-fire rifle I have ever owned, second only to a Mk III Ross, which would usually put them in one hole at a hundred.
I sure wish I still had that German Masterpiece. At least I still have the Ross.
I sure wish I still had that German Masterpiece. At least I still have the Ross.
jar
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Two, a Smith K-22 and an early Smith 41.
22-rimfire
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I split up a set of bank Colts; a nickel Python and nickel Diamondback. I re-sold the Python the same day as I purchased the set. Wish I would have kept the pair together. I had very specific wants when it came to Colts and anything that didn't fit the mold I usually sold off. I was never really a Python fan.
FL-NC
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In no particular order: Colt Python, Colt SP1 AR15, P7 M8, S&W 66, Ruger SP101 357, Remington model 11, Marlin 1894 357 mag.
Legionnaire
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I used to miss my 7.5-inch Ruger Super Redhawk in .44 magnum ... until I found a SBH Bisley Hunter. 
JN01
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Colt Diamondback .22 LR, 6" barrel
Browning Hi-Power
S&W 686 Plus
S&W 3913
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