Sold it. Regretted it. Getting it back!

[marksman13]

Anybody here ever sold a gun and then deeply regretted it? I would wager that most of us have sold a gun and at least felt some seller’s remorse. Well, I’ve done it a few times. I’ve had a couple of Ruger No. 1s that I sold when other shiny objects caught me eye, only to later wish I still had them. Well, the one gun that I most regretted selling was a Ruger M77 MKII in 6.5x55. It didn’t have any sentimental value. I don’t know if I’ve ever even killed a deer with it, but I just wanted it back as soon as I watched it drive away with its new owner.

Fast forward a year and the guy who bought it from me texts me randomly about another gun. I asked if he still that that M77 and he did. I asked if he wanted to sell it. He said no. I stewed on it for a day or so. Cussed my stupidity and bad luck, and decided I’d go buy myself a new Tikka T3X Hunter in 6.5x55. Figured that would do the trick. The Tikka is most likely going to be more accurate. It’s a slicker, lighter package than that Ruger. It’s more suited to me, BUT that M77 wouldn’t leave me alone.

Well, I got a text yesterday and the guy has decided that he will sell that M77, and long story short, I’m picking it up tomorrow. I’m going to have more money invested in that M77 than I had in it before, but the heart wants what it wants.

Anybody else here ever gotten a gun back after experiencing seller’s remorse?

 

[Pivot Dr]

Yup, a Model 42 Winchester, it took about 20 years though! It’s not going anywhere anytime soon!

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Anybody else here ever gotten a gun back after experiencing seller’s remorse?

Nope.
Have never sold a firearm!

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Yup, Astra A600. Traded it towards a Luger, it sat in the guys case for a year. Bought it again and now I have both.

 

[commygun]

Oh, jeez. Where to start…

4 Webley Mk IV’s. Keeping #4!
2 S&W 1917’s. Definitely keeping #2!

Didn’t get back-

A mint Sig P225
3 (or maybe it’s 4) Sig P239’s
2 excellent condition Walther P-1’s
2 S&W 19’s (one from an unusual government contract)
A very nice S&W 29

Give me one of each back. I’ll trade you a polystriker for each one.

 

[WisBorn]

I have bought and sold several different firearms. A couple I wish I would have never sold.
There is truly only one rifle and one revolver that I regret selling.

The rifle first - a Winchester 1886 45-70. I often feel that I should replace it even though I have no practical use for it.
The revolver- a S&W 657 41 mag. I may replace it with a 57 classic for a range gun and maybe carry it during rifle season.

 

[WisBorn]

Nope.
Have never sold a firearm!

I'm afraid that if I hadn't done some trading , I would have missed out on trying different firearms....

 

[marksman13]

I'm afraid that if I hadn't done some trading , I would have missed out on trying different firearms....

That’s how I feel. I don’t want to own them all, but I’d like to be able to say that I HAVE owned them all.

 

[Legionnaire]

This one. Stupidly sold my first. Took me years to find another pre-lock with non-fiber optic sights.

 

[WestKentucky]

I will inherit most of the ones I regret turning loose. The worst one for me was a pair of Taurus guns. I had an incredible shooter of a pt99 and sold it. A few months later I sold a beat to death Taurus 695 6” blued with wood. I know where both went, and I will never see either of them again, but I now have what is probably my 8th pt99 and it’s almost as good of a gun as my first one was. I keep looking at 695 guns but the money just doesn’t make sense on them. $500 for a gun I got out of a pawnshop in 2000 for $160 just does not sit well.

 

[Riomouse911]

The one I sold and have and always regretted it was a Savage 99F .308 my Dad gave me. I was broke, between jobs and needed rent money. I will never see that gun again.

The only one I may be able to get back, possibly, is a SIGSauer P226 that was worked on by Robar and Np3 coated. I fell for the hype of the H&K USP .45 so I bought one of those. ( Big mistake, second worst duty gun I have ever carried .)

I then traded the P226 for a very clean Winchester 1894 Trapper .44 Magnum. I believe the guy I traded with still has the SIG, and I still have the Trapper. (Which isn’t going anywhere.)

Maybe someday I will reach out to see if he still has it and wants to sell it back.

Stay safe.

 

[Riomouse911]

This one. Stupidly sold my first. Took me years to find another pre-lock with non-fiber optic sights.

My 317 is the newer one with the hi viz, lock equipped and alloy framed. Like you, I really like the original one you have .

Stay safe.

 

[.308 Norma]

Nope.
Have never sold a firearm!

I'm afraid that if I hadn't done some trading, I would have missed out on trying different firearms....

As I've said before, my wife (of 52 years this month) is as into guns as I am, and she probably has as many of them as I do, maybe more. If neither one of us would have ever sold/traded off a firearm in 52 years, we'd have run out of room in our gun safes long ago, and then we'd have run out of room in our house for more gun safes, and then we'd have needed to buy a bigger house, and then.... Well, we're both in our 70s now, and we're not about to go into dept in order to buy and move into a bigger house just so that we won't have to sell any guns before buying more.

 

[earlthegoat2]

Real regrets…no. The ones I sold were all means to an end that may or may not have amounted to anything.

For better or worse, life’s disappointments have hardened me to trivial things like losing a material object.

I am glad you got your rifle back though. Sometimes there is more to an object than the object itself.

 

[Rubone]

5 screw very early S&W .44 mag. Sold it back to the gun shop I bought it from at a loss.....this was 40 years ago and still haunts me!

 

[ms6852]

Never have sold one but have given a 35 Remington 336 marlin and a 450 marlin to my brother. Could not say no to him, as he has given me too much as it is.

 

[PistoleroWadcutterGANG]

Awwwwww DANG, the memories. Thanks Marksman! I thought I was over them. Now I gotta go find JACK. lol

 

[Mark_Mark]

All of them! never should have sold them.

Winchester 94
Glock 23
JA22
10/22 takedown
M77 .243 light weight

 

[LoonWulf]

I was actually just sorting my registrations last week looking for some old paperwork. The "old" pile is about 3-4x the size of the "current" pile.
Having actually LOOKED at the records of every firearm I've owned, I can honestly say I've never had a gun I regret acquiring. I can also say that I don't actually regret selling, trading, or giving away any of them.

 

[gbw]

My 317 is the newer one with the hi viz, lock equipped and alloy framed. Like you, I really like the original one you have .

Stay safe.

Worst Smith I ever had. Mine was a newer one also. Cylinder locked up, back to Smith, again, and again. Gave up and sold it, cheap, and yes I did tell buyer history. One I surly don’t miss. But I’m tempted by the Smith 43c!

 

[DustyGmt]

Anybody here ever sold a gun and then deeply regretted it?

Only every time. Every time I did it I thought I knew what I was doing, only gun I ever traded off and didn't regret was a Remington 770. All the others including a number of Colt's, Ruger's, S&W's and a handful of others, I really regret.

Same with Knives......

 

[Bazoo]

I had an early norinco sks for quite a while. Sold it to a friend, and he sold it to another. I got it back for a hefty price some 5 or 6 years later. Then... I GOT STUPID! and swapped it again. I've regretted it ever since. That gun had a lot of character and shot well. It was all stock. I think I shot like 4k rounds through it, and it never jammed. It sure was a fun gun to shoot. I'd recognize it from 50 feet in a rack of 100 others. Yeah, I regret selling it.

 

[jdc1244]

Only one: a Rossi .38, some 30 years ago – even the buyer commented how nice and well-balanced it was.

Otherwise, no; everything I’ve sold was either a mistake to begin with or something I can no longer use as intended.

And any regrets are quickly assuaged by how much I got for it the benefit of this sellers’ market.

 

[PzGren]

I sold hundreds of guns over the decades and only miss one gun really, a S&W 625 that I had gifted to my son. I know that it's in good hands and he lets me borrow it occasionally but doesn't want to trade it for something else.

 

[JDeere]

I use to say I am never selling any of my firearms. As I got older and firearms were selling hot, I started looking in my safes and saying it has been years since I had this or that out to the range. I started thinning my herd at some nice prices. That being said I bought some new ones that I have been giving quite the range time. Have I sold anything I regret? Some I think about but I don't miss...