Past rifle selling regrets, "I never should have sold my...."

[TheOtherZilla]

I can honestly say I have never sold a rifle or pistol I liked. I have sold more than a few I didn't like. No regrets.

 

[Just Say Moe]

Two cherry Remington 541 t's. My Best friend's Dad sweet talked me into selling both of them, and now they are safe queens never to see the range again. I'm always looking for a clean 541, but it's hard to find one equal to the ones I let go.

I did recenlty liberate an Anschutz 54 target model from him, but he won't let the 541's go. UGH! Sellers regret is an aweful thing.

Good shooting.

Andy

I traded my sporter barreled 541-T for a heavy barrel. Should have kept the sporter and bought the HB outright. Seems to me it was about $300.

 

[littlebuddybr]

My #1- in 22ppc. With some nice factory wood. It shot really well too.
My shooting buddy talked me into selling it to him for his daughter to use.
D-bag sold it the next day for a lot more $$.

I miss that one.

 

[snert]

Smith 686. First duty gun. Dumped it when no one wanted revolvers, for $200. I'm an idiot

 

[Medic505]

Ruger RSI 7mm 08 International. They didn't make very many of them. I never shot it. I remember I doubled my money on it, thought I was doing all the good. Only thing I ever sold I wish I had back.

 

[ronsatspokane]

On the day this thread was started I turned 61 I am now 68. You think a new thread could have / should have been started.

I was 55 when this thread was created. Glad it got resurrected though. I love the way a good gun thread can turn into an epic motorcycle thread. Would have not seen that and I got a giggle out of reading it. I was in high school when those Kawi 2 stroke triples came out. It became the stuff of legends. Too poor to buy one myself but my parents neighbor had one. I fell in love with that bike. Never did get one but I've had a lot of very good and fast motorcycles over the years. Oh, and guns too. Only ever regretted selling a few. Most notably was a Smith model 41 I bought and sold the same year. Think I was 19 years old. Eventually picked up another one a couple years back.

 

[Downhill]

Wasn't a rifle. But a pristine all correct Winchester 1897 Trench Gun. Early serial number. Remember it each time I see another.

 

[Rednexx]

Ah heck almost too many to mention, but here's a couple and a couple not rifles Original Newton Rifle in 256 Newton, P O Ackley built rifle in 30-06 Browning Safari Grade in 270 Win, Smith and Wesson Model 610 with a 5 inch barrel, and a "64 Chevy Impala SS with a 409, I think I'll just go sulk now.

 

[mike mccormick]

Sure wish I had never sold my 40X rimfire. It was in a Al Freeland thumbhole stock, with palm rest, both buttplates, and redfield international match sights. Had a Carl Kenyon trigger in it too. Shot a ton of matches with it....oh well

 

[Bamban]

AI AWM, miss that rig.

 

[NZ_Fclass]

My AR 15' which I was forced to "sell" to the New Zealand government. Beware of socialists bearing gifts.

 

[PopCharlie]

No regrets selling any rifles. Ive always sold one to make room in the safe, especially if i wasnt shooting it.
I just sold a Cooper Varminter in 6br to kick off a new 6br build. The Cooper was a great rifle, quite accurate, but no regrets, as I'm upgrading.

I do regret selling a pistol. It was a S&W 586. I bought it new the first year they came out. What a great revolver, smooth, accurate and beautiful. I sold it along with a TC Contender Armor Alloy in .44 mag to get a Cooper 57 in .22 lr.(super accurate).

I also sold a Colt King Cobra ( a gift from many years ago, never fired, new in the box) to a collector, for big $$. That sale payed for a new S&W 586 and most of a custom 6.5x47 Lapua.

 

[Siko12]

I sold My FN Scar 16 and i regret it now. It would have been the perfect small size AR style rifle to play with now, I just didn't value it when i had it and now i will i had something i could get out to the range to shoot and go through all the scratches and modification testing with me.

 

[paul castelli]

Ah nostalgia.
When I first arrived here in the city of roses 40 some odd years ago I was fresh out of college. Utterly alone and broke, living on the kindness of relatives. I arrived with 2 rifles and 2 handguns. All went away to make expenses, to my lasting regret. A TCR-83 in 30-06 with really nice wood, double set triggers, and a Burris 2-7X on it. Handled like a wand. An AMT "small game hunter", an all stainless 10-22 clone with a grown up sized fiberglass stock that I had a trigger job done on. I forget the glass on it now. Killed squirrels all day long out to 100 yds. My cowboy gun (since I lived in New Mexico and Montana prior) a 7.5" Super Blackhawk with a 1/6" gold bead front sight and a trigger job. And High Standard
.22 Supermatic Trophy. Every now and then I think about replacing the High Standard.

 

[J.Ed]

Marlin 989 M2 - 22lr
Winchester 94 - 30-30
Remington 788 - 22-250

 

[caihlen]

RPA quadlock. Krieger. Set up for Palma. Warner rear, RPA front. Makes me sick to my stomach when I think about it.

 

[Twicepop]

Not a rifle, but a handgun. A first model Coonan 357 Magnum. It went down the road along with several other quality handguns. I had two very inquisitive children (they're now 36 y.o.) in the house at that time, and no real good place to keep them away from them.

 

[msinc]

In 1991 I put together a 700 with an HS Precision police stock, Timney trigger, Tubb Speedlock kit and a "Harris-McMillan" polygonal rifled barrel. Chamber was cut with a JGS match reamer.
Topped off with a Leupold Mark 4 with the then new Premier Reticle Mil-Dot's {back then Leupold didn't install mil dots, you had to buy the scope and send it to Premier to have them installed} Now, I didn't know what in the hell they were for back then and still have to this day never used them once, but like everyone else that has mil-dots, I had to have it!!!
It was the sweetest shooting 308Win I ever fired. I sold it believing I "could always just build another one"...many a woodchuck "lost his mind" to that rifle!!! But, I guess what goes around comes around sometimes. I had a guy the other day trade me an unfired West German Weatherby in 300 Weatherby Magnum for an AR-15 bare upper and lower!!! I don't have a clue what I will do with this thing, but I couldn't pass it up.

 

[cognac jack]

I sold quite a few I wish I had Kept but one really stands out. It was an 1873 that I used for SASS competition. It was in 38-40 with a lot of action work and engraving done. Here are some pics of it.

 

[joshb]

I sold my Grandfathers Savage 99 in 300 Savage to raise cash to buy an AR. It kills me, today! How could I be so stupid!