Buckshot Bear Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 What's the one gun you sold that you wished you'd never? Mines a Thompson Center .30 Herrett that I used for shooting the 25m Black Powder Modern Single Shot International Match (I had a BP insert made up for it). Sold it over 20 years ago and still regret it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Rich Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Sold a 9mm Star it was a pre Super B. The most accurate pistol I ever owned. Won it in a poker game in 1968. kR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 A Colt SAA 5 1/2" .45 that my parents gave me when I graduated from high school in 1960. The gun was made in 1959 and had never been sold, so it was actually brand new. It travelled the world with me until 1995 when I traded it for a new one. By then the old gun had been re-blued twice, ridden in a dozen holsters, had worn three different sets of grips. It had been with me to Okinawa, Vietnam twice, Japan, and Canada. Almost from the second I watched the new owner walk away I have kicked myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 The one gun I sold that I wish I hadn't was a Russian SKS. It appeared to be unfired when I bought it - the first rifle out of the crate still had a headspace gauge in the chamber. Actually, it was the ONLY gun I ever sold. I've gifted some; never sold any others. But, I needed Christmas money. Oh well. The Kid got a new bicycle that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 S&W K-22 pre model 17. I had nothing in it, but I let it go way too cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeaconKC Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 A limited run OMV in .45 Colt CC with gold inlay engraving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Colt Officer's Model Match in .38spl. Sweet, accurate and a great trigger let off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Colt Python I had to pawn to pay bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 My first shotgun, a Remington 1100 in .410. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tell Sackett SASS 18436 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 An American 180 .22 cal. submachine gun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Not including the "confiscation with compensation" (read 'buy back'), I have sold exactly one(1) firearm in my life ........ ...... it was surplus to my wants and needs .... and he wanted/needed it more than I. Sorry, no regrets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 ps ..... it was a single shot bolt action .22 rifle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Mosby Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 My Cody-ized '73 in 45 Long Colt, 24" barrel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawdog Dago Dom Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Smith and Wesson 586 nickel 6" barrel. Had an FFL then, was single with few financial obligations. Bought through RSR Wholesale guns in 1983 for $225.00 It was a handsome weapon. It just looked cool. I don't remember ever shooting it. Just showing it to friends and looking at it myself. Finally one friend who owned a waterbed store (yes, there were stores that actually sold just waterbeds) stopped by and told me he was moving to a house out in the country, and did I have a gun he could buy. Sold him the 586 for $245. Offered to buy it back twice, but he and his wife loved the looks of it. Should have just let him borrow it and directed toward a nice .22 semi-auto. As I wrote this I just checked GunBroker for that same gun. The ones that got away always seem to get stuck in your head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Colt Combat Gov’t series 70 1911 .45 ACP. I bought it in 1983 for $317 at B&B Sales in North Hollywood, CA. Sold it in 1988 for $285 in Albuquerque, NM so I could put food on the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 A pair of nickeled Colt SAAs in .45 Colt. I switched to .44-40 and sold them to finance a pair in .44/40. I never had a better pair of shooters than those .45’s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 A FN FAL with a thousand rounds of ammo and a dozen mags. A Ruger GP100 stainless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigger Mike Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Ruger Blackhawk in 30 carbine. I could use one now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 There are a few, but I decided food and shelter took priority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Colt Python in nickel finish. The gun had no sentimental value to me and I didn't like the gun at all but I had only paid $250 for it and traded it for a .357 Desert Eagle which I really disliked. Traded that one also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 An early production High Standard VICTOR .22 ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anvil Al #59168 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Para 1911 LDA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Remington Nylon 66, my first rifle. Paid about $50 brand new. Traded it for a 10 speed bicycle when I was fourteen. Later, I bought a Nylon 77 to replace it which I still have. I have since collected Remington Nylons and had most versions except for a basic Nylon 66. I bought one early last year and it cost a bit more than $50! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Steak Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Savage 110E chambered in .270 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Seamus Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Actually two different Marlin 39's at different times. Had one of them for 3 days and traded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choctaw Jack Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Colt Lightweight Combat Commander, brushed satin nickel finish ,.38 Super chambering. Sold it to make a house payment. You do what you gotta do to get by. Choctaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN Mongo, SASS #61450 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 I traded a S&W model 66 with a 2 1/2" barrel for a model 49, because it was easier to carry. In those days, I had to sell guns or trade to afford anything new that I wanted. I always regretted that trade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 A mossberg 640K Chuckster and quite possibly one of the first of that caliber anywhere in Hockley Co., Texas. Our FFA chapter, in order to raise funds, promoted selling subscriptions of Progressive Farmer with the prospects of winning a Mossberg rifle or shotgun if you sold enough. Needless to say I and a friend pounded the boonies akin to a vacuum cleaner salesman of the time. Not only did I win one but drew another out of the pool because the chapter sold so many subscriptions. I don't know what happened to the one I gave my brother but in a moment of "I need a bigger varmint rifle" sold it to my brother inlaw who gave it to his Dad. Now, 60 years later I can't look at it without dang near bawling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 a winchester 1890 that dated to 1913 , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Colt Diamondback with 2 1/2" barrel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 A pre '67 Winchester 30-30 with saddle ring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 20 years ago I sold a beautiful pre-war blued Colt M1911A1 for $4000, a fair price at the time. Today it's worth four times that. I've got more, but that's the one that hurt the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nostrum Damus SASS #110702 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 A stunningly nearly new condition m/96-38 Swedish Mauser originally made in the first month of Swedish production in 1898 at Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori after production equipment was transferred from Waffenfabrik Mauser AG, and converted at Carl Gustafs in 1939 to the m/38 configuration. My aged father (since passed away) who was suffering from Parkinsonian dementia said to me, when I was driving him somewhere, "do you want my Mauser rifle?" I didn't know he owned a Mauser rifle. He could not remember which Mauser rifle he owned, how long he had owned it, how he came to own it, or anything else about it. My jaw nearly hit the floor when he pulled it out of the back of a closet and said, "here, take it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex M Rugers #6621 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 I don't have a good or sad story to tell. Done it way too many times to pick just one. I was like Mongo , had to sell or trade what I had for something else that I wanted more at the time. Been at it about 60 years and haven't seem to gotten any smarter. Rex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Never sold or traded a gun. I still have my first and every one since. I promised myself that I would not buy guns on impulse, or settle for something less than what I really wanted. I probably bought fewer guns as a result, but I love each and every one. I've been lucky. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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