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My only good deal ever I screwed up during a bad period in American history.

A sportswriter at the paper I used to work at before changing careers was not an outdoorsman. He sold me his late father's pristine Model 12 16-gauge for $180 in '91.

I never took it hunting, just busted a few handthrown clays. Never checked its value either.

Two weeks after Clinton's "It's a Crime, Bill" passed illegally, I went to a gunshow swapped it for a Colt HBAR upper priced at $430.

Many times since have I kicked my own azz for that.