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Gun(s) you wish you'd never sold?

BlueWater

Ever sold or given away a gun that, to this day, you wish you'd never gotten rid of?


Only one, in my case ...

A Remington 700 .243 that was nearly quarter-MOA accuracy at 300yds. Started out as an off-the-shelf SPS Varmint with heavy barrel and the flimsy plastic stock. Added a Jewell HVR trigger, a custom fiberglass stock (perfectly bedded), and a marginally tolerable scope. And I wasn't hardly a decent marksman. With a great barrel and reloading, along with a high-quality scope ... well, I'll never know.
 
One for sure, Remington 700 ADL my Dad bought for me (I traded it away). It was in 6mm Rem.
Second would be an FN 49 Columbian contract in 30-06 in very good, almost excellent condition.

Tim
 
Sako 22-250 Blonde stock. Gorgeous. Sold in the 70's as I felt it was so inaccurate.
Later to discover it was the scope at fault.
Still get pissy when I think of it.
 
BlueWater said:
Ever sold or given away a gun that, to this day, you wish you'd never gotten rid of?


Only one, in my case ...

A Remington 700 .243 that was nearly quarter-MOA accuracy at 300yds. Started out as an off-the-shelf SPS Varmint with heavy barrel and the flimsy plastic stock. Added a Jewell HVR trigger, a custom fiberglass stock (perfectly bedded), and a marginally tolerable scope. And I wasn't hardly a decent marksman. With a great barrel and reloading, along with a high-quality scope ... well, I'll never know.
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Probably a zero agg rifle!
 
A late 70s 8 inch blued colt Python, an early 1990s Sako AIII 25- 06, A 1957 Winchester model 70 featherweight in 308, and an early 80s model 9422 22 Magnum, after reading a few posts after mine I had a Ruger 77 ultralight in 250 savage also I wish I would’ve never sold. One gun I’m glad I did sell, an Ithaca mag 10, what a club! Upgraded to a Remington SP 10 which is much nicer.
 
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Have not traded many guns in m life, but when I had a young family in traded a Browning Light 12 A5. Years later was looking at shotguns at the same place. Was probably looking at A5's, when a fellow asks me if I was interested in buying one. Asked what he had. The fellow tells me that he a a Belgian made Light 20 in improved cylinder, with 2 sets of stocks. We agreed on the price and I bought it. Over the years, now in my mid 60's I have acquired about everything I need and want. Some times mistakes have a happy ending.
 
For me it was a Ruger Hawkeye 256 win mag single shot revolver.... NEVER should have sold that one
 
Geez, it's a list...
Manhurin Walther PP 32 ACP
Colt Python Target 38 special
3 screw Ruger Blackhawk 41 mag
Lew Horton S&W 624 44 special
Ruger 77 Ultralight 250 Savage
Remington 870 .410
 
A few that I wish still lived here. A Sako 222 Riihmaki, a 250-3000 700 Classic, a 257 Roberts 700 Classic, a NIB S&W 52 no dash, an as new in box 6" S&W 17 no dash (I had to shoot that one), a Win. model 54 Supergrade in 220 Swift, another 54 in 30-06, a DCM Garand. I'm sure there are a few more but these are what came to mind today.
 
BlueWater said:
Ever sold or given away a gun that, to this day, you wish you'd never gotten rid of?


Only one, in my case ...

A Remington 700 .243 that was nearly quarter-MOA accuracy at 300yds. Started out as an off-the-shelf SPS Varmint with heavy barrel and the flimsy plastic stock. Added a Jewell HVR trigger, a custom fiberglass stock (perfectly bedded), and a marginally tolerable scope. And I wasn't hardly a decent marksman. With a great barrel and reloading, along with a high-quality scope ... well, I'll never know.
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In about 1977 I bought a Remington 700 Varmint in 243 Win. This was my first centerfire rifle purchase. I also bought one of the "good" quality Tasco 3-9 scopes for it. That rifle shot really well. I can't tell you anymore what the group size was, but back then anything around an 1" at 100 yds. was what we considered a "shooter" and it did that an better. Ultimately, I sold that rifle to buy a Rem 870 SP, at the time I wasn't making much money and didn't really have a need for it, but I did need a 3" mag shotgun.

I sold that 870 SP and wasn't really sorry to see it go, because I had purchased an A390 Silver Mallard Berretta. The two couldn't even be compared, the Berretta was lightyears ahead of the 870. I traded a T/C Contender with 3 barrels for a 1937 Win MN52 with a 20X Unertl - great move on my part - good reddens to the Contender.

There was a time when I did a lot of duck hunting up on Lake of the Woods in Ontario. After a couple of years hunting with the Berretta A390, I decided I had to have a Benelli Super Black Eagle, for the 3.5" capability. What an amazing shotgun, but very punishing to shoot. I ultimately sold it also. I changed jobs and no longer took customers on that Lake of that Woods trip and the SBE was not a gun you would carry grouse hunting LOL. So am I sorry I sold it - in some respects yes, but it was a tool that I had no more need for anymore, so I suppose - not really.

But with the exception of the T/C Contender I miss them all.
 
butchlambert said:
Probably a zero agg rifle!
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At 100yds, very possibly. Was frequently ending up with 3-shot groups through the same raggedy hole, and occasionally 5-shot groups with a slightly larger raggedy hole. Never did measure those, at 100yds or 200yds. Was focusing on the 300yd distance, since it forced wind to be a factor, had some mirage, required greater stability. (Never did do bags; this was with a bipod and shouldering the rifle.) Occasionally brushing up against half-inch 300yd groups was about as good as I could do.

Some poor sod's got a peach of a rifle, nowadays. I wonder where it is ...

Ah, well. Live and learn.
 
A Weatherby semi-auto 12 guage 3" shotgun from the 80's (made in Japan I believe). I used to lay them deer down with that gun. Thin pointers, scrubs, button bucks, spike bucks, does, yearlings, damn near evrything except a big ol' buck. So I sold it and got Rem. 1100 and shot a nice buck the first season I had it. If a gun is jinxed get rid of it. Just don't let a friend borrow it, because you know what happens then.... lol
 
I had a few guns that I NEVER should have sold or traded.. 1.) Weatherby .300>>>>the Saur version from Germany; 2.) Voere Shikar>>>forerunner to the old "Golden Eagle". Same Sako action, with a stock and bluing that rivaled a Winslow; 3.) Browning Side-by-side, 20Ga. 3" Magnum and last but certainly not least a 4.) Remington 1100 12ga. 3" Mag with a 30" Full choke vent-rib barrel! There are, of course others, but these sit at the top of my "too stupid to realize" what I had list... There are 2 pistols I had that I never should have got rid of>>>even though I am not a BIG fan of pistols: 1.) Colt Python, SS with a 6" barrel and 2.) Colt Diamondback 38spl with a 6" barrel all blued steel.. Gorgeous beyond description!
 
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Well no kidding I have never sold a gun. I did trade a colt challenger to a buddy for a single six. He is a real good buddy and he loved the colt. Now there is plenty of guns I wished I have brought. A colt python there was this hi standard at a gun show I let get away. Then there was the model 12 winchester's still in the box. The remington 121 mint. There 2 model 23 winchester's one 20 one 12 me and my buddy both wanted the 20 so we left them still had the hang tags. Oh so many more
 
jamesdmock said:
My Python was a 6 " blue from the 1960's and why I sold it, I will never know. Another is is a SAKO .223 Vixen with custom XXX English walnut stock that shot a s good as it looked.
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Not too many decades ago, those guns you mentioned I would have lusted after when I was a kid or even in my 20's! They were great guns!
 
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