What gun or guns have you regretted selling?

[Gerd33]

Of the ones I've sold/traded there's only been a few that I mildly regret.

1970s Straight Stocked Marlin 1895 45-70
Arisaka 7.7
Ballester Molina 45.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Sell a gun?

Never been that desperate, (but have come close) and hope to never be that desperate!

 

[aaaaa]

A side by side double barrel 12 gauge. I think it was a Sears made by Savage IIRC. bought in the late 1970s and sold in the 1980s.

A mouse gun, Astra .22 short pistol that had the original box and two magazines and pearl grips.

And a small H&R revolver that had a loading opening that someone has plugged with some goop. I don't recall it having any kind of gate. Not sure if it was a .22 or a .32 maybe.

 

[Beck]

- 1970s era Ruger Blackhawk
- M1 Carbine
- M1903 Springfield

I sold all of these in high school when my attention turned to fast cars and even faster girls. In my defense I was only 17, but I still kick myself. If it's any consolation, I had the fasted car in the county... a 1972 Mustang Mach-!. Would I have done anything differently knowing what I know now. Hmmm... I dunno.

 

[DeepSouth]

I had a Colt 1991 that I sold a good friend that had wanted it for a while, I had gotten it from my dad and I did really like it. I used the cash to buy an engagement ring for my now wife of 20 years.

my buddy gave it to his dad as a birthday gift or something, maybe Father’s Day… memory is getting fuzzy. His dad has since passed. I guess it all worked out the way it supposed to but I do wish I had that gun back….
Maybe one day I will, that friend isn’t going anywhere.


I also had an 1874 Sharps chambered in 50-90 that was an absolute beauty. I loved it but hard times happened and I had to sell of some stuff and I as much I loved it I didn’t shoot it hardly at all… mainly due to ammo and cost. It was the grownup decision but I do wish I could get that back, but it is very long gone.

Regret probably isn’t the right word for either,
because the decision was the right thing to do at the time, but those two I sure wish I had back.

 

[Archie]

Once upon a long ago, I bought an allow Government Model type frame from "A & R Sales" (I think and if they do exist anymore, I haven't seen frames). As it happened, I had a full .22 long rifle conversion kit and all the spare parts to build a full pistol. So I did. A full sized, lightweight, Government Model in .22 lr. It worked well. And I built it.
Several years later, I had to sell it due to poverty occasioned by an attack of marriage.
I cannot replace it. The basic elements - the frame and the conversion kit - are no longer available at any reasonable (I can afford) price.
There are others, but this one rises above the rest.

 

[Speedo66]

A few regrets, but the worst decision was selling an original like new High Standard Victor with the box and all factory papers.

But I sold it to an officer I worked with, good guy, so at least there's that.

 

[The Night Rider]

The only gun I ever regretted selling was a Smith & Wesson model 915.


(Stock Photo)

It was the first handgun I ever bought. The only reason I regret selling it is because it was the first one I ever owned. Had I kept it I probably would have got rid of it eventually anyway.

 

[tarosean]

None.

Every single one was for a reason. A vast majority of the time it was something I didn't like about the the gun. Just because they go bang doesnt mean they deserve safe space.

 

[Smaug]

This is a funny one. I regret selling a Romanian SKS. I bought it for $150, sold it a couple years later for $100, and now they're going for something like $700.

They're not particularly accurate guns. I think I could shoot a scoped revolver as well at 50 yards as I could my old SKS. But just that they went up in value by 700% galls a bit, ya know?

I also wish I had kept my old Ruger P90, which was their full size, hammer-type 45 ACP combat pistol. It was clunky, but pretty accurate and 100% reliable. I think I only got $200 for it, but to replace it with something similar today costs $500+.

 

[wgp]

8 3/8" S&W Model 29.
3" S&W Lew Horton .41 mag with the N frame but an L frame grip
Ruger Ultra Light .257 Roberts (but was able to buy it back)
And I had forgotten about my Fanner 50. Sigh.

 

[tarosean]

This is a funny one. I regret selling a Romanian SKS. I bought it for $150, sold it a couple years later for $100, and now they're going for something like $700.

They're not particularly accurate guns. I think I could shoot a scoped revolver as well at 50 yards as I could my old SKS. But just that they went up in value by 700% galls a bit, ya know?

I also wish I had kept my old Ruger P90, which was their full size, hammer-type 45 ACP combat pistol. It was clunky, but pretty accurate and 100% reliable. I think I only got $200 for it, but to replace it with something similar today costs $500+

You're seeing inflation for the most part. Plug the numbers into an inflation calculator and subtract its not as glamorous as you would think. (The SKS does get a slight bump due to banned status, even though mediocre at best)

 

[bannockburn]

Just one really! I regretted it so much that I was determined to get it back no matter what it cost! So after doing a little bit of horse trading (it took a new Colt Officer's Model ACP and a police trade-in Walther P1 imported by Interarms), I was able to be reunited with my favorite gun of all time: a limited edition Colt Combat Commander from Colt's Custom Shop!

 

[.308 Norma]

Sell a gun?

Never been that desperate, (but have come close) and hope to never be that desperate!

Sometimes desperation like you're talking about has nothing to do with it. As I've said many times here on THR, my wife likes guns, shooting and hunting as much as I do, and she has as many guns (maybe more) as I do. When one of us wants a new/different gun, we have to consider where we're going to store it when we're not carrying/using it. Our gun safes are full, we don't have room in this house for anymore gun safes, and we're both in our 70s and not about to go shopping for a bigger house. THAT would be "desperate."

 

[Smaug]

You're seeing inflation for the most part. Plug the numbers into an inflation calculator and subtract its not as glamorous as you would think. (The SKS does get a slight bump due to banned status, even though mediocre at best)

Well, it would've been about 2005 when I bought it. I don't think inflation accounts for more than 100% cost increase in that time frame. ;-)

 

[DeepSouth]

You're seeing inflation for the most part. Plug the numbers into an inflation calculator and subtract its not as glamorous as you would think. (The SKS does get a slight bump due to banned status, even though mediocre at best)

Well, it would've been about 2005 when I bought it. I don't think inflation accounts for more than 100% cost increase in that time frame. ;-)

Yep, I bought a SKS in 95 maybe 96 for $150… the inflation calculator says that’s $291 today.
And keep in mind that was for a fresh import not sure if that was new or rebuilt, but it wasn’t “used” in the same manner as todays.

300 + a “slight bump” for a fresh cosmoline soaked import SKS would be VERY glamorous today.

 

[Sniper66]

I've sold a bunch of guns in the last 10 years. I retired, which gave me the time and motivation. I've tried to be thoughtful about who I sell to. OK...3 examples. Sold a Winchester model 67 single shot .22 to a young man who really wanted it bad....OK, fine. But, realized too late that it was the only rifle I had that shoots shorts. #2. Sold a SxS 410 at a low price to my hairdresser for her son, just to help them out. A few years later she tells me he pawned the gun at a local pawn shop to get drug money #3. Sold a really nice Remington 870 Wingmaster 12ga to buy a Beretta semi-auto. Sold iy to a really great guy and I'm glad he has it. But, discovered I like the 870 much better than the Beretta....oh well...

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Several have went down the gun trade trail, but a few stick out that I regret.

I'd love to have the following back:

4" GP100
Revelation .30-30
NEF Handi Rifle .280 Rem

 

[22250Rem]

Sold my #1 Mk III Lee-Enfield at a local auction house about 3 years ago. Began regretting it a couple months later. Alway felt a connection to that rifle, as my paternal grandfather spent over 17 months in France, (mostly in a trench), with the 2nd Battalion of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps in WW1. He passed in the 1960's and never spoke to me about the "Great War", but I'm sure he was very familiar with this particular model of Lee-Enfield and not the earlier Canadian Ross rifles that were withdrawn earlier in the conflict before he got there in early summer 1917. I was downsizing in retirement, and I think that in this case I over-did it. Wish I had kept it. It's a 1917 B.S.A. receiver that's been rebuilt a few times in all that time. Last time was in Australia in the 1950's. I picked it up in the early 1990's when Australia was selling off all their old Lee's. Even picked up a bayonet a year later at a gun show. I miss that rifle.... ..

 

[aaaaa]

#2. Sold a SxS 410 at a low price to my hairdresser for her son, just to help them out. A few years later she tells me he pawned the gun at a local pawn shop to get drug money

A shame. You probably would have given him as much as the pawn shop did, maybe more, to get it back.

 

[Targa]

I wouldn’t mind having my CM9 back.

 

[Sniper66]

A shame. You probably would have given him as much as the pawn shop did, maybe more, to get it back.

I would have bought it back or slapped him upside his head and took it.!!

 

[aaaaa]

I would have bought it back or slapped him upside his head and took it.!!

I suppose you can still slap him upside the head!

 

[Hugger-4641]

A High Standard 9 shot revolver in 22mag.

Nylon 66AB

Stevens Bolt action .410

Rossi .38sp

12ga Rem Autoloader.(A5 clone)

Any gun I"ve ever sold was done for the right reasons at the time, but these are some I wish I could have kept.

 

[MedWheeler]

Interarms PPK/S back in the early nineties.