What’s the shortest time you have owned a gun?
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I traded a old bench vise for a Bryco 380 once mainly to see if I could make it reliable. About 2 weeks later someone offered me $100 for it and they had a pot metal jam-o-matic.
Ill never forget it because he said he was going to give it to his wife and I responded with “you must not like her ver much” the look on his face told me he missed the point, he had shot a couple mags with it and knew it was very unreliable.
Ill never forget it because he said he was going to give it to his wife and I responded with “you must not like her ver much” the look on his face told me he missed the point, he had shot a couple mags with it and knew it was very unreliable.
NIGHTLORD40K
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2 hours.
I bought an immaculate Beretta M92C Type M on my lunch break for $1000 some years ago. Brought it back to work to show it off to my boss, who proceeded to whip 15 crisp Benjamins out of his wallet and wave them under my nose. Bye-bye Beretta.
I kinda wish Id turned him down now, of course. Man, that was a beautiful gun.........
I bought an immaculate Beretta M92C Type M on my lunch break for $1000 some years ago. Brought it back to work to show it off to my boss, who proceeded to whip 15 crisp Benjamins out of his wallet and wave them under my nose. Bye-bye Beretta.
I kinda wish Id turned him down now, of course. Man, that was a beautiful gun.........
gyp_c2
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Umm 6 shots from a bumper chrome plated surplus 1911?
7 seconds?
7 seconds?
Maybe 6 weeks? A G30S, just long enough to get to the range and decide I didn't like it enough to keep it.
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Four hours for me . New Ruger 10/22 varmint/Target. Was on a buying trip . I bought the rifle and was admiring it back at the motel . Noticed a ding in the crown . Drove back to the shop about an hour away , they told me they could send it in for repair...I said no . So I "Traded" it back to them for another 10/22 . Ended up with the Mannlicher model so I have nothing to complain about. I have owned many others(50+) that I have had for less than two days . When I get them home I go right after them , yay or nay comes fast .I figure if I hang onto something that has no soul I could be missing out on another fine firearm . I enjoy trading , and will not deny my approach is not for profit .
Batty67
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I searched for a Marlin Camp 45 for a few years. Found a minty one at a large gun show. Replaced crumbling buffer, shot it. Pretty nice. Filthiest gun I ever shot. Even the top-half of the magazines were caked in powder residue. And, you just don't get enough of a velo increase with a longer barrel to make it worthwhile. But mostly, since I'm pretty rigid about cleaning my firearms, I got to dreading the shooting because it would take 2-3 hours to clean. Sold it a few months later and got back 95% of my money. No regrets (or regerts either).
Armored farmer
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A friend from church had a serious cancer situation. Off work, insurance concerns.......
A benefit dinner and raffle was planned. Mrs and I bought a nib GLOCK 42 and donated it to the raffle items. I ordered it, went in to the gunshop and fondled it, and checked it out.....and payed for it. I never fired it, or even technically owned it....just payed for it.
The only GLOCK I ever bought.
A benefit dinner and raffle was planned. Mrs and I bought a nib GLOCK 42 and donated it to the raffle items. I ordered it, went in to the gunshop and fondled it, and checked it out.....and payed for it. I never fired it, or even technically owned it....just payed for it.
The only GLOCK I ever bought.
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I tend to hold on to my guns. I did, though, buy a Nagant pistol some years ago with the intention of selling it to a fellow in my club who wanted one. I bought it, had it for a few days, did not fire it and then transferred it to him. Less than a week..
Archie
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Around 40 years ago I probably traded for a S&W M59 (the double stack version of the M39). I shot it once or twice - didn't like it much - and sold it to another agent who was quite taken by it.
Owned it perhaps two weeks.
Now I think about it, I took a Ruger Security Six (2.5 inch barrel?) in trade at a gun show, then sold it at the same gun show. In PDSR California, prior to the mandated FFL transfer gag. Couple of hours.
Owned it perhaps two weeks.
Now I think about it, I took a Ruger Security Six (2.5 inch barrel?) in trade at a gun show, then sold it at the same gun show. In PDSR California, prior to the mandated FFL transfer gag. Couple of hours.
memtb
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About 2 or 3 weeks! Got a deal on a Kimber Royal, that I really didn’t want, and had a friend that wanted one.....passed it on to him! memtb
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So . . . what's the story on that?
Three hours. Bought a new gun at Dick's. Along with some other items. Got home and checked the receipt again. I did not get the discount on the gun I thought they said I would. It was supposed to be a "floor" gun with some percent off. Drove back and returned it. (that was back when you still could).
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About twelve hours for the last AR-7 I owned. Bought it from a fellow club member solely on price, remembered all the others I'd owned, and sold it to another member who was real interested in it.
FL-NC
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A couple of hours. Bought a AUG I didn't want as a favor to a friend who needed $. Sold it a few hours later at a profit. Turned around and gave half the profit to my friend after the fact.
About a minute or so for me. I ordered a K31 from Simpson's and when I took delivery of it and was just waiting on the background check to be ran when another regular customer offered me double what I had in it so once the check came back I walked it out to his car and he handed me the cash and I ordered another one from Simpson's as soon as i got in my car.
My buddy at the LGS thought they had screwed up when he saw the second one come in with my name on it a few days later.
ETA: Thinking back on it that is actually the only gun that I have ever bought or sold that I don't have the serial number for in my spreadsheet.
My buddy at the LGS thought they had screwed up when he saw the second one come in with my name on it a few days later.
ETA: Thinking back on it that is actually the only gun that I have ever bought or sold that I don't have the serial number for in my spreadsheet.
commygun
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Mint Star BKM. Bought it a gun show Saturday AM. It wouldn’t even feed FMJ. At all. Not with any of the three minty magazines it came with. Traded it for a Taurus 92C the next morning.
Conelrad
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Back in the early 80's at the Pomona show (8 miles of tables!), I was walking in and saw a guy pulling lots of brand new boxed Uzi model "A" guns out of a van. I stopped and asked if he would sell me a couple. We made a cash deal, and before I even got to my table, sold both for a good profit. Took less than 10 minutes, those were the days.
That show was good to me, I came home with more guns than I took, and a $3K profit overall.
Conelrad
That show was good to me, I came home with more guns than I took, and a $3K profit overall.
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entropy
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About an hour. Bought a gun at a gun show, someone offered me roughly double what I'd paid, so yeah I did that. Bought the same model, just not as nice in condition, plus lots of reloading supplies, headed home a happy camper!
MacAR
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I have traded 3 or 4 times at the same gun show on the same day. Mainly just to see if I could. One day, friend of mine and I jumped in the pickup with an old beater British 303 and headed for the gunshop circuit. I traded 6 times that day, and came home with a beater 742 Woodmaster 308. No money ever changed hands, but at one time I carried 3 guns out of a shop. That was a fun day, and again, I mainly did it to see if I could. Trading around is a lot of fun to me, and I've owned guns for about 5 minutes before trading them off for other guns that would be swapped off at the shop down the road.
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CapnMac
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Taurus PT-945
Only NIB firearm I've returned to factory. Twice.
Wanted to like it.
Three times was not a charm. Turned it into a Colt 1903 the LGS had just brought back from a show.
On the 3rd try, apparently Taurus actually put the frame on a QC jig and discovered the through-bores were misaligned by like 0.015mm. Just enough to turn the thing into a non-self-loading DA single shot.
Only NIB firearm I've returned to factory. Twice.
Wanted to like it.
Three times was not a charm. Turned it into a Colt 1903 the LGS had just brought back from a show.
On the 3rd try, apparently Taurus actually put the frame on a QC jig and discovered the through-bores were misaligned by like 0.015mm. Just enough to turn the thing into a non-self-loading DA single shot.
theotherwaldo
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Two days.
I bought an Arisaka Type 38 from a LGS.
The owner said it was all good.
I took it home and detail cleaned it.
It looked good externally, but Bubba and his Dremel tool had been all over the internals.
The slightest bump would have made it fire.
I took it back and traded for something else - I forget what.
I bought an Arisaka Type 38 from a LGS.
The owner said it was all good.
I took it home and detail cleaned it.
It looked good externally, but Bubba and his Dremel tool had been all over the internals.
The slightest bump would have made it fire.
I took it back and traded for something else - I forget what.
FROGO207
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So I purchased a Hipoint C9 for a truck gun. Took it to the range and ran one MAG through it. Another member wanted to try it so he ran a mag through it. Offered me $50 cash more than I paid for it with a half box of lead reloads. I had only owned it 1/2 hour at that point. Went back to the LGS and bought another one and was back at the range before the other guy that purchased my first one left for the day.
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