The dumbest trade?

[tuckerdog1]

This has probably been asked before, but I can't find it. What would you consider the dumbest trade you've made?

For myself, I have to split it between a revolver trade and an auto trade.

Traded a S&W 686 4" no dash + $50 for a Ruger SP101.
Traded a SS Colt Officer's model even swap for a Glock 26.

Not unhappy with either the SP or the 26. But wish I'd just paid cash & still had the Smith & the Colt.

Both of these happened long ago, and they still grate on me.

Tuckerdog1

 

[jad0110]

I traded a perfectly good and highly enjoyable Heritage Rough Rider Combo 22LR/22Mag SA revolver (paid $150 NIB) for a DA 22LR Taurus 94 that turned out to be a total lemon.

To make matters worse, I only got $80 for the Heritage on the trade so now I look back and ask "Why did I even bother?"

:banghead: :banghead:

Be careful what you trade/sell. I regretted my trade less than a month into it.

 

[10-Ring]

I wasn't in on this trade, but a shooting buddy traded a well worn Beretta 92fs for a LNIB AR15 w/ his neighbor We still laugh over that one!

 

[2TransAms]

Well, I made two fair-ish trades...I traded a Kimber Eclipse for a Sig 226R DAK...when I didn't like the DAK trigger I traded that for an older Sig 226. So essentially I ended up trading an Eclipse for a 226 in decent shape. I'm happy with what I ended up with, but value-wise I could have done better.

 

[.cheese.]

Every time I've sold a gun I've gotten like 1/7 what I paid. I consider that dumb, that's why I don't think I'll ever sell another gun.

 

[ball3006]

I traded a Ruger GP100....

with a 6 in barrel that would knock bowling pins off the table at 100 yards all day long for a Colt Cobra with a 4 in barrel that you could not hit a barn with if you were inside with all the doors and windows closed and the lights on with a full cylinder.........bummer....chris3

 

[CajunBass]

All of them.

I suppose the three I'd like to have back most would be my Series 70, Colt GM, a Dan Wesson 22 with a 6" barrel, and a Colt New Frontier 22. :banghead:

I don't even remember what I traded them off for now.

 

[wally]

Top this...

S&W 59 for 10 MB IBM XT hard drive and controller card.

New at the time cost vs. new at the time cost I was way ahead, but now the cash for that used S&W 59 would buy a low end PC that blows away anything available at the time. But now you can't buy a new computer that'd use the controller and a 10MB hard drive is totally useless.

--wally.

 

[armoredman]

UZI Model B for a Springfield 1911A1 and Davis .380, plus a boatload of ammo. The Davis was a gift to a semi-friend, and the Springfield went bye bye a long time ago. The UZI would be worth more now...

 

[Rinspeed]

Traded a S&W 686 4" no dash + $50 for a Ruger SP101.

That hurts.

 

[Hokkmike]

I would be too embarrased to put my worst trade up for all to see!

 

[todd740]

I just traded $1099 for a new Kimber Tactical Pro II at my local gun shop. I'm pretty happy with that trade

 

[Mikeo]

My dumbest trade goes as follows:
I had an Ithaca model 280 english 20ga side by side that was instnat death whenever I brought it to my shoulder. I had paid about $350 for it, sometime in the mid-seventies. Somewhere in the early 80s, I traded it for $750 plus a new Mossberg 500 12 ga Turkey gun. I used a portion of the cash to purchase a slightly used Ruger Redhawk. The guns I got were ok, but I sure miss that Ithaca SxS.
Mike

 

[Long Knife]

I feel your pain Mikeo. My trade was just plain stupid and it proved to me I am just too trusting. I entrusted my Ithaca/SKB Model 700 Trap Gun to the 99th ARCOM ameror to take to a gun show in Ohio and told him I wanted to trade for a factory Wincehster Model 12 20 ga. skeet gun. He came back with field grade 20 ga. Model 12. I sold the Model 12 for 450 and broke even but I sure do miss that trap gun now. I sold my 3200 skeet gun but that is another story.

 

[wcwhitey]

I traded a Springfield Tanker Garand (.308) for a Beretta BM59. Thought it was a great swap until I had the receiver bead blasted to refinish. The receiver was a reweld. I was ****ed to say the least. Just glad I did not shoot it. I miss the little Garand as well.

 

[Onmilo]

I traded my Dad's .32 acp Ruby that he carried all through WW2 as a B-17 radio operator for an Ithaca M66 single barrel 12 guage.

I only kept that shotgun for a year and it took another twenty five years to get that .32 back from the guy I traded it to.
He left it to me in his will, true story.

 

[slzy]

brock for broglio,still.

 

[chongfa]

Wow, whoever you traded with made out like a bandit. Did you trade with a gunshop?

I would like to think that my S&W 686 no lock worth at least $50 more than SP101.

 

[skeeter1]

You win

S&W 59 for 10 MB IBM XT hard drive and controller card.

Not a trade, but I paid $800 for my first hard drive (30Mb). Now I've got a laptop with a 100GB drive for the same price. Trade one of my firearms for a piece of electronic equipment? No chance.

 

[TonyB]

Like Ball3006,mine involves a 6"GP100.This gun was a tack-driver....but it was a 6" and I wanted a 4"..so I traded it for a Dan Wesson mod.15 w/ all the barrels,but the was a dog...it actually would lock up and not fire.
I still regret the trade.

 

[a454me]

Years ago I traded a Colt Diamondback .22 w/6" barrel for a S&W M57 W/4" barrel ,the guns were near equeal in value at the time and I thought I needed that big bore but I sure wish I had that diamondback now !

 

[Hokkmike]

1911 for SAR 1. Please don't boo and hiss at me for being so stupid!

 

[Innova]

I traded a model 29 with a sweet trigger for a TV and a new highpoint carbine. Sold the carbine the same week, and still have the TV. I miss that 29 though.

 

[roo_ster]

Never traded a weapon.

My dad, however...

Traded my great-grandpa's 12ga Win Mod 97 and my 20ga Win Mod1300 for some Italian-made 12ga O/U.

And before he traded the Mod 97, he tried to cold-blue it, then had it parkerized.

 

[bowfin]

I traded a minty CZ-52 for 2,000 Marlboro miles.

My sister-in-law came over ragging about her husband always picking up empty Marlboro packages when they were out walking together. She complained that he never sent them in anyhow. My wife later told me that the reason he never sent them in was because then his wife ragged that the shipping was too much.

So the next time he came over, I asked sister-in-law's hubby if he was still collecting Marlboro miles, and I would trade him a pistol for them (a handgun was also deemed "too expensive" to buy. He thought I was joking, but on the off chance I wasn't, he brought them next time, and I handed him the gun and a box of noncorrosive Fiocchi ammo. He walked out of the house with two things he probably never would have had: a handgun and the last word on a subject with his wife.