The One That Got Away- What Was Yours?

[Kingcreek]

around 1975
trade-in, like new with box and papers, 6" .22cal Colt Match Target for $110
I didn't buy that one but I later paid $400 for one.

 

[BADSBSNF81]

Walther 2000 in 300 Win Mag. I was more into into handguns at the time (early 80's) I should have sold the handguns and bought the rilfle.

 

[Ala Dan]

Sold

(Wiping Tears From My Eyes)

a brand NIB factory nickel Smith & Wesson model 39-2

 

[Chrontius]

Kahr K40 for $400

Didn't have the money available at the time.

 

[jrpeterman]

The only one that I regret not buying was an H&K 91, 5-20 rd. mags, and soft case for $450.00 at a gunshow 15 years ago. I've been crying ever since. :banghead:

 

[GREYGHOSTt]

1979 or 80 barrett m 82's for 700.00 to 800.00 each should have been maxing
out the credit cards instead of laughing .

 

[jefnvk]

A WWII vintage Army Jeep for $100. Would have gone great with the M1 I now have.

 

[Hawk]

High Standard .22 with the 7.5" fluted barrel.

I miss that far more than the Luger I sold for 75.00 which is the one everyone seems to think I should be moaning about. (The Luger had been nickeled and had no collector value and shot like hammered dog droppings)

The High Standard was just so, so, nice.

 

[OEF_VET]

January of this year, I decided not to wait in the long line to pick up my student loan check. I figured I'd come back later that afternoon and pick it up after the line went down.

So, as luck would have it, I was in a friends' gun shop when a middle-aged gentleman walks in, looking to sell a rifle. It seems a friend had given him the rifle years prior, but it wasn't his style. He was more of a wood stocked gun guy. Guy says he knows that it's worth more, but he only wants $1,000 for it, so he can pick up some new HAM radio equipment he wants. Josh, the store manager, didn't have the money, so he had to turn it down. I tried to get the guy to hold the rifle and a $1,200 check until I could meet with him the following day and give him cash. He said he'd rather not wait, he'd just take it to another shop. Well, Josh asks him to wait a few minutes and calls another friend, Jim. Josh tells Jim what the guy is selling and what price he wants. Jim flew there like his tail-feathers were on fire, looked the rifle over, went down the street to his bank, and brought the gentleman $1,000 cash.

The rifle: A NIB, never-been fired, still lightly coated in packing grease, factory mags without even so much as an insertion mark, HK-91.

If I had waited to pick up my check, I could have had it. Instead, I got to watch Jim get it. When Jim left, he was still mulling over whether he should leave it in NIB condition, or hook up his registered sear and take it out for some full-auto fun. Jerk!

I'd have been torn between leaving it in pristine condition, shooting it, or putting it up for sale online, where I'm certain I could have sold it quickly for more than $1,000.

 

[NMshooter]

HK-21E.

$4000.

Oh, well.

 

[pete f]

I walked into a gun shop and the guy in front of me was selling a ruger red label 20 Ga. with the blue reciever. The owner was not there but his son was and he gave the guy 300 cash for it. As soon as the guy walked out i offered the kid 350 and he said ok. I said I will go to the bank and come back and pay with the cash. he said wrote sold on the gun and I said i got 100 bucks for a deposit. He said no worry he could watch me walk accross the street to the bank. in the ten minutes it took to walk across the street and get 300 bucks from the cash machine the owner of the store showed up. When I walked in to the shop the shotgun was gone. I asked about it and was holding the cash in my hand. He said he had no such gun. I was soo pissed off I stormed out of the store. That night, I decided that I would stop by and leave a big piece of my mind in his store when he was full of customers. I walked in the door and he was showing it to a guy, the same shotgun, the one he said he did not have, He saw me and gave me a glare that would cut glass and I said "I see you found my missing shotgun" The owner told me to piss off and get out of his store. As I walking to my car, the guy who was holding the shotgun was walking up and asked me what that was about. I told him the abriged version, and he started to laugh. he told me that the gun was now marked at $1250 and seemed to be unfired. I went back to the door to scream at the guy but the door was locked . A few months later that guy was out of business.

Had a chance to trade a A5 belgian for a mint model 71 delux .348 winchester. I thought that was a bad deal because ammo would be tough to get. No more than a month later, Winchester announced the reintroduction of 348 brass as a standard catalogue item.