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I have had more guns than many sporting goods stores could ever hold. No way to have kept them all. This one is one I would like to get back. 10 Gauge Westley Richards with Stanton sidelocks and Kilby damscus barrels. It weighed in at 12 1/2 pounds...

Ruger 44 Magnum International Carbine
Ruger 44 Magnum Flat Top (4 digit SN)
1903 A1 Springfield with brass plate presented to CO of Quantico Marine Base on retirement(* marked barrel!)

Others too numerous to mention. I should have kept them all.

Ruger M77RS carbine in 358 WIN that I bought NIB in 1991 or 92
in FT Hood, TX for $450. Used in PA for a couple of years and
sold it to buy something else I thought I needed.

"...something else I thought I needed."

Sad that we've all done the same thing. Big regrets later.

Winchester 1895 35 WCF that had been in the family since it was purchased new. However it is not that bad, sold it to a cousin so I can still shoot it from time to time.

25+ years back I sold a 725 Remington in 280 Rem to a friend that had pestered me for several years.Been looking for another one at a decent price since.The search and depression over...Found one just like it at local gunshop yesterday, picking it up tomorrow.
Joe

That reminds me of a Model 42 I bought from a fellow grad student at NCSU in 1972. He only wanted $25 for his...

Too many to list.



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Browning 92 .44 mag

Ruger 77 7x57

30 carbine

Sako L46. Early 50's gun. Mint. Never, ever should have let 'er go.

Oh yeah, the Browning 92 357. Never never never!!!

Smith 586, 6" along with custom holster.. I had smithed the action to one finely tuned machine......

Didn't sell it, it was appropriated by someone while I slept one winter night.

Anything I have sold, there were reasons.

I get sick at heart just thinking about all the ones I let go for on reason or another, but a few come to mind; a 629-4 square butt 4"
An early Model 17 K22
a like new pre-64 Model 94
a Special Field 20 gauge Model 870 pump

That's enough! I can't stand this........

I have sold some that I would like to have back, but most were sold for one good reason or another. I just wish "a profit" was one of the reasons. Sometimes I think I could take a new Rolls-Royce and turn it into a 69 Volkswagen in less than 4 trades. I have been lucky enough to be able to buy a couple back that I had sold when I needed to.

I really wish I hadn't sold a Winchester 64 in 30/30, a Ruger Redhawk in 44mag with a 5.5" barrel, and a Webley & Scott 20 ga.

I tend to ask the question in a different way. It's more like, "if I could have back any gun that I ever sold...". If it's asked in the "guns I should never have sold" format, it's difficult to say. Most of the guns I've ever gotten rid of I did so because I needed the money, usually for another gun. Some of those guns worked out and some didn't. Those went down the road then. So the guns I've got now are an accumulation of ones that I didn't sell. If I hadn't gotten rid of the others, I might not have these. I'm pretty pleased with most of them I've got now.

I've had a half-dozen 10-22's and they all were good guns. The one I got to train my kids with and keep...sucks. I wish I had one of the others back that shot well. In particular, the first stainless one I ever bought had great wood on it. I wish I had that one and the gun dealer I bought my current one from had it back.

I've got a Colt M-4 that I bought just before or after Obama was elected the first time. There's nothing really wrong with it and I've got other AR's. I would readily trade it though, for an SP-1. I bought one in '83 and it would be cool to have it back since it was my first, but I'd carried it in the truck or trunk quite a bit and it was getting a bit dogged out. I can think of another one I owned probably back in the mid-nineties, that I'd rather have. I'd gladly give the M-4 for that SP-1.

A Mannlicher stocked Mauser. Beautiful rifle, very well done. Set and hair triggers, butterknife bolt handle. Just a drop dead sexy gun.

A like new Winchester 101.

One of my 99's I wish I'd hung on to- a nice little .250-3000 with a period correct K6W Weaver on it.

One I was glad to see go was a .243 Winchester Model 88. 'Had the worst trigger I've ever had on any gun. Once you've been infected with the 99 bug, all other lever guns are just stuff.

This thread is so depressing!

I am old now, but this thread reminds me of how dumb we were when we were young and sold those good old guns.

With the "wisdom" we have with old age, we do not want to repeat these mistakes. So I never sell any guns off now.

Similar to the bad gut feeling of selling guns is seeing a gun in a shop and not buying it then. Go back to the gun shop to buy the gun and find out the gun has been sold. I don't do that anymore. I see it -- I buy it.

I make it a point to tell my sons about the guns I had and sold. Hopefully it will help them not make the same mistakes I did.

I need a drink!!!

Benelli M1 but they are common and I bought another one.

Two come to mind. A Dickson 20 bore round body SxS and an early Kimber M82S in 22 Hornet. Nuts wood, quarter rib, checkered grip cap and butt both with skeleton metal.

A Winchester 490 .22 in absolutely factory condition. Made a very nice profit from it, but I still wish I had it. (And the profit, too, of course!)