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

[rwj]

One of the criteria I use when buying is planning to keep it for life. Unfortunately, life has a way of changing our plans, but so far with me not with regards to firearms! I’m also blessed with family members that want them at my end of days…

 

[Darryll]

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.

I had a Stoner SR-25 that I bought lightly used and never shot. It was expensive when I bought it and they were really hard to come by then but I sold it because I was almost afraid to shoot it thinking that it would be devalued by it. Oh well.
Darryll

 

[tmwinds]

A real genuine mint condition Springfield 03-A4 with correct scope and mounts. I bought it in1974 for around $50 at a outdoor camping store. I had no idea what I had and sold it later to a collector for $100 . Many years later I found out what I had. I haven’t sold a gun since. I still get nauseated when I think about it.

 

[bubz524]

Sold a colt buntline (22) when I first got married. Money was short.

 

[fatelvis]

HK 911. Sold it after firing about 40 rounds through it years ago for $800

 

[Handi204]

98 Mauser, 243 Douglas barrel , Bishop stock.

 

[CT10ring]

.218 Bee. Kimber of Oregon single shot. Maybe one of the most beautiful rifles I've ever seen or shot. Highly polished bluing. Very accurate.

 

[butchlambert]

Well I have had several that have passed through my hands and they weren't high dollar
1922 M2 Springfield
3-M37 Remington 22RF
Hervey Lovell built 22 Varminter was a Mauser
High Wall in .225
Remington Hepburn in 219 Wasp
Martini RF Custom by Karl Kenyon
Winchester 94 made in 1920
Winchester 95 in 30-03
Mauser custom by Kurt O Haase in 7x66 Von Hoff
2 Shilen DGA hunting rifles
Shiloh Sharps Long Range Express in 45-70 that I got from Harold Broughton
Mexican Mauser custom in 17-220 Swift Improved.
Remington 700 in 22-284 by Sam Lair
I better quit as a few tears are coming.
I swear I lost money on them.

 

[ckrifles]

Like some have have mentioned, every gun I have ever sold or traded.

 

[billshehane]

Sold my 5" S&W Mod. 27 to my preacher and bought the 6" version--- BIG MISTAKE SALLY ! Never shot as good or felt as good in my hands as the 5" . Preach says he'll sell it back to me if he ever decides to get rid of it. Fat chance of that, it's only been 30 years ago.