Guns you regret letting get away

[Hoppes Love Potion]

My only regrets are for the ones I didn't buy...

 

[joed]

I have only one gun I regret not buying and that was a Lew Horton 24-3. I've sold some nice ones but had my reasons for selling them.

 

[Space Ghost]

1. My Lee Enfield No 4 Mk 1.
2. My .450 Marlin.

 

[1MoreFord]

I've only gotten rid of two guns. Both revolvers. The first one was my first handgun. An old Military and Police Smith .38 Special who I sold cheaply to my father who traded it for something(Maybe my Smith 19). The other was my father's Charter Arms .357. I gave it to my fiance thinking it would stay in the family. Wrong, she broke it off. I want both of 'em back.

ETA - I do need to thin the herd but I'm a hoarder.

 

[Poper]

Savage M12BVSS in .243 Winchester. Shot 5 round groups you could cover with a dime at 100 meters so easy it was boring.

How many M12 BVSS in .243 have YOU seen? Not very many....$#!*@##%!!!

 

[Poper]

Hindsight....... Really messes with the brain.

No, it's a learning mechanism.

 

[Kendal Black]

What are the guns that you regret letting get away for whatever reason?

That'd be every one that is gone, on some level or other, but it really isn't a big deal. I'm fine so long as I have something to shoot that will do what I need it to... in fact thinning the herd and shopping more carefully has actually resulted in a better matchup to what I hope to accomplish when I shoot... I can't be proficient with every gun ever made, but for a while it looked like that was what I was trying to collect.

 

[hdwhit]

There are only two guns that I bought and subsequently sold/given away. Three, if you count one I bought, sold and later bought-back.

In no case do I regret having sold any of them. I bought both of them based on immediate desire and not based on whether or not I had an actual (or perceived) NEED for the gun. I gave one away and sold the other at a loss just to be rid of it.

I learned from those experiences to be careful in first assessing my NEED (not want) for the gun before looking to purchase it. For the subsequent four decades, if I can't identify a genuine NEED (rather than a want) for the gun, I simply pass it by and don't buy it.

 

[Bbear]

H&K P7m8 - 'Nazi Staplegun' Had 5 mags and the 22 LR conversion. (bought for $512 sold for $1500, but still...)
H&R Bull-barrel 223. Had the best trigger I've ever seen on one of those rifles. Shot any brand/weight/combination into a 1.25" group. With reloads it would print in the .2's consistently. Was hell on those Missouri and Indiana and Texas 'yotes.
In a moment of weekness...

Beretta 391 20ga.

 

[Ignition Override]

Not even getting into Any guns until age 52, back in '07.
Shooting a .22 a few times until that age made it a Very different "ballgame".

 

[9mmfan]

Of all the guns I’ve sold or traded away, the only one I really wish I’d kept was a 629 Mountain Gun.

I found it to be a recoil beast at the time.

For some reason I was put off by the fact that specials cost as much as magnums.

Didn’t know I would start reloading a handful of years down the road.

Now I’m annoyed all over again just thinking about it.

 

[CajunBass]

I don't even know how many guns I've bought, sold, or traded over the years. I can't say I really "regret" getting rid of any of them. They were just guns, and probably guns I didn't shoot all that much. Once it's done, it's done. There's always another one.

Having said that, there are couple I'd like to have back, but at the time, I was out of work and needed the money more than I did the guns.

A Model 24-3, 4" barrel, (44 Special) with box and papers. IIRC, S&W only made about 1700 of the 4" ones.

A Model 27-2, 3 1/2" barrel (357 Magnum). Just a really sweet gun. I'd like to have another, but I'm not going to pay the going price for one now...I don't think. I've got a 27-2 with a 4" barrel. That should scratch that itch.

 

[Waveski]

I've only gotten rid of two guns. Both revolvers. The first one was my first handgun. An old Military and Police Smith .38 Special who I sold cheaply to my father who traded it for something(Maybe my Smith 19). The other was my father's Charter Arms .357. I gave it to my fiance thinking it would stay in the family. Wrong, she broke it off. I want both of 'em back.

ETA - I do need to thin the herd but I'm a hoarder.

I hope the by "both of 'em" you mean both revolvers , not The Charter Arms and fiance...

 

[Arizona_Mike]

Sold a realy well milled Chinese SKS in the 90's. Was a little scared of the gun durung the Clinton years because when clean and well lubed (that was back when I still cleaned guns after every use) and using soft Rem primers it sometimes got a little exciting and you had to hold on until the ride was over. The steel case stuff was not so common back then, either.

Mike

 

[armedwalleye]

Bought a Colt Series 70 Gold Cup National Match, slightly used, but still in the box, and never fired it much myself. Was just starting into reloading, and, like a dimwit, decided I didn't like losing brass. Saw a change to sell it and buy a Benelli SBE. Should have kept the Gold Cup and bought the SBE anyway. Replacing that one has been a years long quest, still, sadly, unfulfilled.

 

[sarge83]

Springfield USGIGovernment model 1911. It was parkerized and I had a trigger job done on it, breaking cleanly at a touch under 4 lbs. It was a sweet shooter and accurate. My Dad wanted that pistol very bad and I hadn't been married long and my lovely bride who is still on the Christmas card list at my local body shop, wrecked her car, again. Being newly married and not wanting to go into debt I sold the Springfield to my Dad for the deductible on the car insurance. He still has the pistol and alternates carrying it or his Glock 19.

 

[mdauben]

The only gun I ever sold was a kit-build .50cal Hawken Percussion Rifle I put together when I was 18. I sold it several years later to pay for my college text books one semester but I have regretted doing so ever since. After that, I never sold another gun.

 

[22-rimfire]

Not even getting into Any guns until age 52, back in '07.
Shooting a .22 a few times until that age made it a Very different "ballgame".

It would certainly. I pretty much have been buying since I was 15 years old and I'm just a little older than you. I've just slowed it way down now to a trickle. There really isn't much I want anymore. I have been slowly selling off some of my collection. I doubt I will sell the long guns simply because it's a pain to ship them.

 

[luger fan]

I have been shooting, and collecting for 45+ years. My Gunbroker feedback is over 500. LOTS I regret selling.

 

[herrwalther]

I have had to sell a few firearms when money got tight. Looking back I really don't regret selling anything, as there was always something I did not like about them. Ironically enough, the firearms I would buy again were my wife's. She had a NAA .22mag and a M327 Taurus. Both of which I liked and miss on occasion. I may pick up a NAA Sidewinder with tax return money this year for a deep concealment weapon.

 

[aarondhgraham]

When I was 12 years old my Grandfather gave me a Springfield trap-door 45-70,,,
That rifle was in very good shape and shot like a dream.

Fast forward to the great recession in 1980's California,,,
I sold almost every gun I had to keep from defaulting on my mortgage.

That 45-70 was the only gun I really miss,,,
I should have sold the wife instead.

Aarond

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[mcmurry]

Ruger .44 carbine. And of all things it was over a girl. But I blame myself not her.

 

[Browning]

Ouch! I bought one many years ago as a police turn-in and what a gun! That's one I hope to never sell!

Yeah, I bought another one years after but it wasn't the same.

 

[Arizona_Mike]

1994 or 5 I had a chance to buy a Calico Carbine for $400. Tough to turn down at the time. I bought a really nice sporterized M98 at the same gun show instead thatt I hunted with for years. I probably would have not have been happy with the Calico's actual performance but given what kind of collector's items they are today, I really wish I had it.

I also wish I had picked up one of those Enfield.45-70 conversions when I could have. Apparently there is mag room to ream to .45-90 or longer (.45-110?) or just ream a really long throat for long-loading. I have never been lucky enough to see a .45-70 Siamese Mauser in real life but I really wanted one from reading Ken Waters.

Mike

 

[paulsj]

What are the guns that you regret letting get away for whatever reason?

I let many go starting around 2005 cause life happened.

I had to sell a Marlin 1894CS in 357 magnum which kills me to this day. If I knew it would be so hard to replace, and so expensive now, I'd have hung on to it.

This was hard, but I let one go to another home just today. This was BLE game gun 12/70 26" imp-mod splinter forend pg stock fine hand checkering gold-plated trigger hand-engraved scroll on slivered receiver. The price was $800. This was game gun version of rarely seen Browning BSS Grade II box lock gun (of time proven Anson & Deeley gun design) except it had quality scroll engraving instead of uninspiringly engraved game birds. Made by legendary firm of B..C Miroku and brought back to these shores in "green duffle bag" . Impossible to go wrong for price of only $800. I knew I would never see another like it. The trick is to resist when the urge is irresistable.