P5 Guy
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I kind of wish I had kept the 640 I bought when I got my CCW. But the all stainless steel sights were hard to see in the dark indoor range I belonged to.
The gun you regret selling
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Easily the dumbest gun sale decision I ever made, was to trade the pre-64 Winchester 30-30 that my father bought me for Christmas in 1984, to a friend in exchange for some work I needed done. We estimated the value of the gun at the time to be $300. At that time, I had shot easily 200 pigs and a half dozen deer, including the first deer I took with a rifle, with that gun. My brother and I both got pre-64 Winchesters that year, and reveled in getting to know them.
Fast forward 15 years later and I still regretted that decision. I contacted that friend who told me he sold the gun to another mutual friend, and I was able to reach him. He wasn't interested in selling it back to me until I told him the story of how I got it. When I did that, he said "hell, there is no way I can keep it now - just get me a replacement and it's yours." So we were reunited after 15 years. I've now owned that gun for nearly half my life and plan to give it to my son someday, who is not a big gun guy, but when he reaches into my gun safe, he always comes out with that old Winchester.
I'm glad I had a second chance.
I've had other guns I probably shouldn't have sold, but that I can't say I regret selling. That Winchester though. I consider myself very lucky to have it back.
Fast forward 15 years later and I still regretted that decision. I contacted that friend who told me he sold the gun to another mutual friend, and I was able to reach him. He wasn't interested in selling it back to me until I told him the story of how I got it. When I did that, he said "hell, there is no way I can keep it now - just get me a replacement and it's yours." So we were reunited after 15 years. I've now owned that gun for nearly half my life and plan to give it to my son someday, who is not a big gun guy, but when he reaches into my gun safe, he always comes out with that old Winchester.
I'm glad I had a second chance.
I've had other guns I probably shouldn't have sold, but that I can't say I regret selling. That Winchester though. I consider myself very lucky to have it back.
FlSwampRat
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Love to hear stories of things coming back to the original owner, from guns to guitars and on and on, there's those special ones that we do form an emotional attachment to. Sometimes circumstances force us to part with them, other times their lost some other way, stolen or just simply lost, but any time we sadly part with one of those sentimental items and later get them back somehow, it's a nice, satisfying feeling. Glad you were reunited and it's going to become a family heirloom.
lysanderxiii
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Every single one that I ever sold . . . .
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