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I walked into a local gun shop today without a single thought of buying a rifle. Sitting the rack was a familiar shape. It was a Mauser sporter. Slim, engraved, color case hardened small ring 98, solid rib, double set triggers, and as plain a piece of walnut as has ever been put on a rifle. I had to look at it. When I did I realized that it was a rifle I had sold probably 30 years ago in a fit of youthful stupidity. For years I have wished I would run across it again. That rifle was light as a feather and pointed well enough you could almost shoot quail with it! It hasn't changed a bit. Dang if it didn't follow me home. I know exactly where it is going to be on opening day of deer season and I have nine months to re develop those loads. I wish everybody, that has sold one and wished they hadn't, could have a day like this one.
Harry
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That's way cool. I've sold a few I'd like to have back.
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Getting your old rifle back is terrific!
I sold a mess of rifles & handguns a few years back when we had some tough times financially. Truly do wish I had a couple of 'em back, but they're long gone.
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A tang safety ruger 458 win.
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A couple... Rem 700 in 6 mm and a Browning BAR in 30-06 come to mind.
If you're fixin' to put a hole in something, make it a hole to remember.
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good for you for finding that one. Ato one point or another I have kicked myself for every rifle I have sold.
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Too many times to count....
Divorce is not the friend of a good rifle collection.
But with my new bide of 8 years, my safe is not as hungry as it once was. I just added a nice Sako 85 SS 338 fed.
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i traded in a browning a-bolt II in for a win model 70 coyote in 308 win. i have no clue what possessed me to do it. that browning was chambered in 270 win. and grouped 1/2 inch all day every day. i kept the win model 70 for about a month before getting a marlin guide gun in 45/70. why do i have to get bored with firearms so quick???? -keith
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Not as cool a story, but I sold my first rifle, a Marlin M60, to a family friend 25yrs ago when I was still a kid to help fund a 12g pump. Bought it back last year - just slightly worse for wear. My 7 old now shoots it when we go to the range.
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I let a 99-300 Savage pre war model get away. Could not miss with that rifle.
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about a 1000 or more times. Like the brand new still in the wood crate in brown paper packed in selsor 45-90 Win 86..it was given to me as a kid at the El Paso Stock Yards by Bowie Cline..I cut a fat hog some years later and sold it for $150, and that was the beginning of many years of gun trading. today that gun would be worth half a million at least, then the H&H Deluxe .470 double for $2000, it was a wall hanger back then, no ammo or brass available, sold it for what I paid for it..
Sounds terrible but $150 was a bundle back then and $2000 would buy you a new new car or pickup.
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YEAH! An Ed Brown Savanna in 30-06!!! I didn't lose any money selling it 'cause I got a great price on it in the first place. However, I would pay $400 more than what I sold it for in order to have it back!!
WAR EAGLE!
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Which of any of us true rifle loonelys hasn't? I am: "Guilty as charged"! How often I think of a certain Remington Mod: 660 in 6.5 Rem Mag, I sold so I could finance a M-700 in cal same. Still have the M700, 30 years later, But in truth, I liked the M-660 better. I now have a M673 to replace the M-660, but if I ever come across a certain M-660 (serial #1019xx) The serial # is engraved on my brain... You can bet it will return from whence it came... Edw...
"As you walk thru life, don't be surprised that there are fewer people that you encounter seeking truth than those seeking confirmation of what they already believe!"
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A Ruger 77RS carbine in 358 Win, that I bought NIB in Ft Hood, TX and sold it two years later when I was "bored" with it. Ah, to be young again.
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Who hasn't???
If a fit of boredom........or the want to buy something else.........I think this is one thing all members here have in common!
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I've regretted selling so many firearms that I can't even count them anymore. But just a couple of weeks ago I bought back a .410 side-by-side that I sold to a guy several years ago. I hope I never get dumb enough to sell it again!
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Grats Mathsr.
Yeah, the one I wish I had back wasn't anything too special (Mohawk 600 in .308) except it was my first CF and handled about as well as anything I've ever used - shot 1" groups to boot.
<kicks self again>
'Four legs good, two legs baaaad." ---------------------------------------------- "Jimmy, some of it's magic, Some of it's tragic, But I had a good life all the way." (Jimmy Buffett)
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There is a PF Featherweight 270 with a highly figured stock that shoots bugholes with about anything. I miss her!
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"I walked into a local gun shop today without a single thought of buying a rifle".
Sure you did! That's my story too!
Mathsr what caliber? Any close up photos - that's a very nice looking rifle.
Cheers, Chris
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Did the same thing 3 weeks ago. I had sold my 243 and it had bothered me, since I sold it, so walked in and bought a new one on the spur of the moment.
Keep on doing what you are doing and you will keep on getting what you are getting.
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