Sold it. Regretted it. Getting it back!

[Show Me]

Heck ya. Going through that stage now. Grass is always greener till you walk in a circle. Educational circle for sure.

 

[Simple Shooter]

A dear friend custom built himself a Ruger MkIII. He traded it away years ago and regretted it every day.

In September’21 the guy he traded it to contacted him and asked if he wanted to buy it back, which he gladly did.

The joy was short lived, as weeks later he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He went downhill fast and passed away 3 months later without ever having a chance to shoot his MkIII again. Just before he died he shipped it to me and asked that I care for it and think of him when I shoot it. I was honored and do just as he requested.

The moral of the story? Get back that one you wish you had not traded away. Buy that one you have always wanted. Shoot that safe queen. You can’t take it with you. Enjoy life while you can. Because you never know what tomorrow may bring.

 

[jonnyc]

Sold my Swedish Lahti to fund a Luger purchase. Ended up moving the Luger along on an upgrade and bought the Lahti back. I was a happy boy.

 

[PistoleroWadcutterGANG]

Yup! I replaced a Glock 35 with a 1911 40sw. After about two months of back of the mind stewing. I quickly got it back. Also a MKIV target 10 that I TK’D out.

 

[jmorris]

I have some I am starting to regret not already having sold them.

Once I make the difficult decision to cut relations, we’re done. I am lucky enough to have never been forced into having to sell something I really liked though.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I sold a Gen 3 Glock 23 that I regret, looking to get it back.

 

[citizenconn]

No, they were both Glocks.....

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Nope. Never regretted it. If I sell a gun it’s because I’ve been losing interest in it for a few years.

Once time, I don’t miss it.

 

[SeanSw]

I haven't regretted selling much. There's a Ruger security six that I didn't really get a good price for and wish was still around. It was replaced with a gp100, a nice one, but it isn't the same. Sold a cz82 for a makarov but it was a downgrade. Made a bad trade or two but I've made just as many good trades so it's a wash.

 

[woerm]

sold Norinco 213 9mm (TT-33 clone) as I had found and repaired
a 1903 Colt
found another one years later
and now it is my usual CCW
very good fit in my hand

 

[kell]

Dan Wesson 14-2, 2 1/2" bbl. mirror finish blue. - Colt detective spl 2" - Marlin 336 30-30 - Winchester mdl 94 1985 30--30 case hardened receiver. (went crazy at a gun show one week-end) (figured I didn't need 50+ guns - sorta like a man with a large family selling one of his kids)

 

[Rick McC.]

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?

I bought “back” (from a third owner; not the guy I sold it to) a Colt LW Government Model. I’d called the guy I sold it to, he’d sold it a few days before, and gave me the new owner’s number.

This is “the story:”

I liked it so much that I actually bought mine twice!

I was very happy with it, but didn’t carry it that often, so it became one of two pistols that I sold to buy a Triumph Bonnieville motorcycle.

A few months later, I called the guy I sold it to about buying it back. He’d sold it to “his gunsmith” three days before, and gave me the guy’s number. I called the “smith,” who advised that he’d done “a lot of upgrades” for the previous owner, so it’d cost me quite a bit more than I’d sold it for.

I worked out a deal for a trade, plus some cash, and met the guy at his house that evening to pick it up, where he met me in the carport, with no lights turned on. I opened the Colt box, saw that it was my pistol, and left. The next morning, I got to checking things out, and saw that it was the wrong box, it was the wrong mags, most of the W/C parts were drop-ins which replaced the Colt parts (but they were stainless, so they looked “more cool” on the black pistol [really?]). Then, the W/C thumb safety that comes with a .002 oversized diameter pin for use in pistols that have experienced some wear (I knew because I’ve fitted those myself before), obviously hadn’t been properly fit, as the thumb safety was hard to move, and I had a bit of a time removing it (it must have been driven into place with a rubber mallet, or on second thought, probably a claw hammer).

So, after the screaming cussfight with myself had subsided, and I could see again, I called up the guy that I’d sold it to, to see if he (maybe) had the correct box, magazines, and any of the original parts. Lo and behold; he had! I was able to get the box, both mags, and all of the original parts except the hammer, which he’d sold. A call to Brent Turchi, the Colt Custom Shop and Warranty Manager at the time, had the correct hammer on the way to me in short order.

So after a few months, and some mutilation by a couple of young guys who didn’t know any better; the Colt LW Government Model XSE came home, never to leave again!

 

[D.B. Cooper]

My Dad gave me a Winchester 94AE 30-30 for my 18th birthday. I stupidly sold it to a friend who gave it to his son for his son's 18th birthday. His son went to kill his 1st deer with it, and his dad died a few years later, so now it's sentimental to him. I'll never get it back. What was I thinking?

Sold a Ruger Security Six (4" stainless) because I was beginning to compete with a Beretta 9mm. Sold to a co-worker. Used the money to buy a Taurus PT99 as a practice gun. Sold the PT99 to the same friend to whom I sold the 30-30. It was stolen in a residential break-in. Won't be seeing those guns again.

I thought about buying replacements for all three on the secondary market. The draw on the Winchester was sentimental, so that can never be replaced. I hemmed and hawed over the price of the Security Six ($500+ in my area and they almost never come up for sale.) I hemmed and hawed over the PT99 because Taurus' reputation is so bad that I figured I'd never get one as good as the one I had.

 

[bannockburn]

Rick McC.

...the Colt LW Government Model XSE came home, never to leave again!

Very much the same way I feel about my Colt Lightweight Government!

Not going anywhere, any time soon!

 

[Bennj]

With the hoops we have to jump through buying/selling in NJ, nothing is leaving my meager collection, unless I go first.

 

[Necessary_Nutrient]

Windham Weaponry SRC in 7.62X39. Delightful gun and I sold it when I needed money.

Found a great deal on GB and made it happen