What guns have you sold/got rid of, and why?

[herrwalther]

I think about this quite a bit. During my stint of joblessness, I sold plenty of firearms to help pay the bills. Wife was working a non standard job with irregular pay. So there were plenty of times where I would wander into my gun room, box up something, and come back with a few hundred dollars. That covers probably 90% of the firearms I have sold. There were a few I sold when I didn't have a pressing issue for money.

S&W Bodyguard 380: trigger was too heavy for carry. Well over 15 pound pull. Had a trip back to Smith and they sent it back dirty with no change, and said it was fine. It was the wife's carry and she wanted it gone.

Kel-tec P3AT: This gun was issue since day one of being in the house. Had malfunctions I had never seen or heard of in firearms before. At least once per magazine, it would fire and then push the spent brass down the barrel instead of ejecting. Because of the obstruction, it wouldn't load the next round. Required field stripping to get the brass out. Got rid of it very quickly to a gun store I don't like.

 

[Ignition Override]

Interests keep changing when one doesn't get bitten by the 'gun bug' until age '52. That was in '07. Part of the motivation to have multiple, mostly duplicate rifles was the slender hope that my grown son might become really interested in shooting for fun. It became clear that this would not happen, even before his baby was born.

You won't understand this, but bench rest shooting into conventional targets, quite frankly, bores me. Hitting the dirt clods on the berm or a small orange plastic cube from Academy is much more fun.
Two nice CMP Garands and the Yugo Mauser are not needed for that, or a gong on private land from 200-300 yards. Today I sold 2,500 rds. of (CMP) M2 Ball ammo at a Tupelo MS truck stop for .40/rd.
Bravo for the retired USAF Lt. Col. who recognizes an excellent value.

Sold most of the guns which are no longer used, to have cash for other guns. Did not like shooting the Walther PPK/S. Makarovs are much more enjoyable, and seldom have any reliability issue (recoil springs using modern ammo etc).
Do all of you guys have a will, including how to hand down what you own?

 

[Deanimator]

I traded off a bunch of guns to get other guns when I was in the Army. One of them was a nice Colt Official Police. I didn't think it was a big deal. After all, it wasn't like Colt was going to stop making revolvers...

One of the other guns I traded off was a S&W M1917, with what looked like a bullet strike in the side of the barrel. It was still highly accurate. I eventually replaced it with a S&W 25-2. Admittedly, the sights are MUCH better.

I sold a friend my 4" S&W 29-2 to pay for something else. Later when I was making decent money, I started trying to buy it back. It took ten years, but I finally got it back. It always had a "spitting" problem even though it was in perfect time. Turned out to be a manufacturing defect in the forcing cone. I sent it back to S&W... who proceeded to cosmetically ruin the barrel. Two replacement barrels and a reblue later, I've got a worthless but very pretty Model 29-2.

 

[jmr40]

Sold or traded a bunch. Absolutely no regrets. Many were very good guns, but over time needs change. In many cases I sold off 2-3 decent quality guns in order to finance 1 much better gun.

 

[zb338]

The last gun I sold just recently was a Smith & Wesson M&P in .45 auto.
I shot a half a box of ammo out of it and took it back to Cabela's and traded
it in for a Ruger GP-100. I love S&W guns but that one felt like a piece of junk.
The trigger was the worse I have ever squeezed, and believe me it took a lot
of hard squeezing to get it to go off.
Zeke

 

[CountGlockula]

I'm actually "that guy" who hasn't sold any of my guns.

The nice thing is that my wife doesn't want me to sell them either. She knows that I'll be devestated.

 

[cfullgraf]

Fortunately, I've not had to sell any guns to keep food on the table.

I see no need sell any guns, I may want to shoot them again and I'll lose money buying them back.

 

[guyfromohio]

I've sold several. If I don't like something about one and I know it will just sit, I have no hesitation about taking a bit of a loss and moving on. Two prime examples within the past year were an HK P30SK. I liked it, but didn't live it and couldn't justify carrying it over my PPS. Another was the CZ Rami BD. I was hoping to get a good three finger hold on it, but it was a true pinky-dangler. Just couldn't justify keeping the unused subcompacts.

 

[TIMC]

Bought and sold more than I can remember over the years; why? Some because they were junk, some because taste changed, some because they just weren't me, some did not server the purpose the way I wanted them for, some were even a gap filler to get me by until I found the one I was really looking for.

I can say today after almost 40 years of buying and selling I have pretty much everything I want the way i want it.

 

[stoky]

You won't understand this, but bench rest shooting, quite frankly, bores me.

I understand
me 2
I'm much more interested in what I can do with it in my hands, or off an improvised rest than trying to milk that last 0.?? MOA out of something.
The bench is for sighting in or troubleshooting and even then I feel like I'm better off prone............not much fun in the mud or snow though.

 

[tbk5]

I haven't sold any. I just buy more safes. Well, one if you count a trade. I traded a Ruger Mini14 Target for a Sig229. The Ruger, with its thumb hole stock and barrel harmonics compensator doohickey was an impulse buy.

 

[mdauben]

I've sold one gun in my whole life, a percussion Hawken kit gun I assembled myself. I needed some money for college one semester and I got a good price for it.

I've regretted that sale ever since so I never sold another gun!

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[MedWheeler]

Winchester 190 .22LR rifle. Sold to me by my stepdad, then went to his son when my stepdad died.

S&W 659 and Walther PPK/S. Both sold during some tough times after getting out of law enforcement. The Smith I don't miss, but it would be nice to have that Walther today, considering what they're going for now..

 

[MedWheeler]

CountGlockula writes:

The nice thing is that my wife doesn't want me to sell them either. She knows that I'll be devestated.

My wife, for that reason, tolerated me keeping a pickup truck for longer than I should have. I had owned it since even before my marriage to the wife before her. When the time did come to send it to pasture (after 27 years of ownership), she even made it a point to be out of the country..

 

[IlikeSA]

I've sold two: a GP100 and an SKS.

GP100 was a trade for a hunting rifle in 30-06. SKS was sold for a VERY good price to fund a Redhawk.

 

[stevek]

Too many to list, but generally I have not missed them enough to replace them
One I couldn't get rid of fast enough was a Kel-Tec P3AT. I don't have any problems with recoil, but for me, it was absolutely the least comfortable pistol I have ever shot.
And one I truly regretted selling was my Ed Brown Kobra Carry. There was a good reason for the sale, as the proceeds went to a needy family. I have since replaced it, last week as a matter of fact, with a brand spanking new one from Ed Brown. I will NOT be getting rid of this one...

 

[huntsman]

I've sold some because I needed money. I traded some for better stuff but I never had any regrets and since I avoid the low end brands I've never been stuck with trouble.

 

[Twiki357]

I’ve never sold a gun. I have every gun I’ve ever bought except four. Two S&W model 36s that were stolen in a burglary. A 410 shot gun I gave to my son. And a Colt trooper that I traded straight across for a S&W worth twice as much (I was a happy camper that day.)

 

[Walkalong]

The ones I did not enjoy shooting or did not shoot well. Of course, there have been some bad decisions and guns I regret selling/trading. A couple in particular that haunt me.

 

[mgmorden]

Springfield 1903/A3 Sporter - Barrel was worn out and bullets started tumbling right after they left the muzzle.

CZ-712 Shotgun - Bolt wouldn't consistently go into battery after cycling (about 1 every 10 rounds). Wasn't reliable so I got rid of it.

Glock 17 Gen 2 - Bought a Gen 4 to replace it and then sold the old one to fund that purchase.

CZ-75 - Sights were way off vertically - several inches. Tried to get some adjustable sights but couldn't find a set that fit this gun so I got rid of it.

Turkish M38 Mauser - Never shot it and needed the money for something else so I sold it. I had actually never fired the gun in the 7-8 years I'd had it (had to clean cosmoline out of the barrel before I sold it).

Yugo SKS - Same as the Mauser - had it for years, had shot maybe 30-40 rounds total, so I got rid of it.

The 1903-A3 I kind of regret not keeping and rebarreling, and sometimes I want the SKS back (though I could get another for about what I sold it for), but overall none of them were guns that I was overly fond off in the first place.

 

[sota]

H&K P2000 9mm LEM.
Bought it during my H&K ALL THE THINGS! frenzy a couple years back, and because I wanted to try the LEM trigger. Well, I'm not a LEM guy I learned, and the P2000 is just the wrong size for me. Reloads would cause me to frequently pinch my hand, in some cases drawing blood. So, out the door it went.

In the future i'm putting a P30L and P2000SK up for sale. I have 2 other P30's that are not Long versions and prefer that length, and I decided I don't need the second P2000SK since I can't conceal carry in PA right now.

 

[FiveStrings]

Ruger Mini 14. A Christmas gift from my Dad, and actually very accurate. I had it for 13 years. Back in the 90's a friend borrowed it for a while to control the gopher problem he was having. He loved that rifle and when I was seriously strapped for cash one winter and desperately needed a new set of tires, I sold it to him - which I regretted immediately. I've tried several times for years to buy it back but he won't sell it.

 

[LeonCarr]

Many

Every Mini-14

Every Taurus

Every 1911 except the one I currently have which belonged to a dear friend of mine who recently passed.

All of the above went down the road due to reliability issues or in the case of the Mini-14 inaccuracy.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[Zaydok Allen]

1 DPMS Panther Bull Special with a 24" bull barrel...............Didn't shoot it ever
2 Bond Arms Snake Slayer IV......It hurt to shoot and wasn't worth the money I spent
3 S&W 642....... Not fun to shoot and served no purpose when my XDS was purchased
4 Stoeger Cougar in 40 S&W........ don't care for 40 cal
5 Ruger SP101 in 22 lr......... Fit and finish were so so, and rimfire doesn't excite me
6 FNP45....... Never could get the thing to feed consistently
7 Sig P556 pistol....... Too expensive give the fun factor, impractical really

Every one of them was traded towards a different gun, with the exception of the SP101. That one was traded towards a Dillon reloading press.

 

[sarge83]

When I first got married I had a Springfield GI model 1911 that my Dad wanted and my wife wrecked our car---again, and being a young couple just starting out I needed deductible money so Dad got the Springfield and still has it.

Later on lark I bought a Mossberg .22 Junkster at Walley World and could not get the thing to shoot straight even from a rest, traded it at the local pawn shop for a Ruger 10/22, I lost $15 on it but was glad to get rid of it.

Lastly at the same pawn shop I traded a blued S&W model 19-4, four inch barrel and a run of the mill Yugo SKS for a pristine S&W nickel 19-4 with a 6 inch barrel that looks to have not been fired. Over twenty-five year of being into guns and that is what I have sold or traded. I just have a hard time giving up any weapon I have purchased.