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Conduct is the best proof of character.
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The biggest "miss" I've done was not buying a Rem Ti when they were being discontinued/sold off. I wasn't sure if I wanted one--and the LGS offered me one in 260 for something like $500.
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Missed a NIB Remington 760 carbine in 280 REM by about an hour several years ago.
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1964 i didn't have 35.00 for a 99 in 22hi power
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In the 70s, I was buying nice S&W, Colt, Winchester, and Brownings and flipping them to educate the daughters. Another guy at the office was buying Dell stock, a little each month. My three daughters graduated debt free. The other guy is a millionaire. My crystal ball was broken.
Best,
Jack
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"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people...who have...rejoiced in their loss of freedom....Blame the people who hail him when he speaks of the 'new, wonderful, good, society'...to mean ,..living fatly at the expense of the industrious." Cicero
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In the 70s, I was buying nice S&W, Colt, Winchester, and Brownings and flipping them to educate the daughters. Another guy at the office was buying Dell stock, a little each month. My three daughters graduated debt free. The other guy is a millionaire. My crystal ball was broken.
Best,
Jack Yeah guns aren't the greatest investment. Few of them outpace inflation so often the gun you bought for $150 and years later sold for $500 ends up just getting you your money back. As far as flipping guns, you've got to flip a lot of them to make any kind of money.
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Yes but most of the time it just wasn't in the budget at the time regardless of how good a price it was. It's easy in hindsight to say I should have bought it but if you don't have the money available it doesn't much matter.
A few that I wish I could go back to with my time machine and with my current budget and find again:
Browning BSS $450
Winchester M70 6.5x55 $400
I have been the recipient of some great deals over the years as well by being in the right place at the right time so I can't complain.
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Not quite firearm related, but I was drooling over a early 2000 Ford GT at a dealership for a 100,000+ grand. At that time, they weren't moving very well. I was giving some serious thought to liquidating a bunch of stuff and doing a 2nd mortgage. Those cars now are pushing a 1/2 million with low mileage 
Life is just one damned thing after another
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Most of the great deals I missed is because of lack of coins at that moment in time
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Someone sold a mod 70 223 lightweight the other day for 450 saw it like 2 minutes late. I'm still bummed.
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Could have bought a Keith Stegall rifle for 1200.00. I been kicking myself.
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M70 featherweight, 6.5x55. Sat at the local shop for a couple years at $469. Was in two hours after hearing that New Haven was closing, and it was gone.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
Robert E. Howard
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Walmart gun counter guy called me because an outside manager told them they had too many guns. They had 700 ADLS for 240.
When I got there minutes later a shop owner from GA was buying all, 30 or so. He saw I was bummed and let me have all of them in open boxes... a 243, 270, and 30-06...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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I passed on a NIB Browning 22 auto with the handwheel sight for $250 as I have newer ones. Simply dumb I was.
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Colt Delta Elite Stainless - Mint condition - $500. Dwelled on it overnight and went back to get it and it was gone.
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John Steinbeck
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Never passed on anything I really wanted. I seem to have often seen terrific deals friends have gotten on guns I would like to have had, but I never seemed to be in the right place at the right time. On at least a couple of occasions I've heard about auctions with lots of cool guns and nobody there with much interest and the guns going out the door for almost nothing.
Mathew 22: 37-39
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Back about 1980 I came across a beautiful Winchester Mod. 70 .30-06 at a garage sale, of all places. Had belonged to the woman's late husband. She was selling the house and moving to Florida and just wanted to get rid of a lot of stuff that was in the house. I wasn't all that knowledgeable about rifles back then but this thing looked mint and didn't have a scratch on it and had a nice looking scope that I don't recall the make of. She said it was about 25 or 30 years old, (this was about 1980). I had heard something about older Winchesters being worth more but I figured this one probably isn't old enough to be one of those. IIRC she wanted 300 bucks firm. This was on a Saturday and back before ATM's and I couldn't come up with that much until I could get to the bank on Monday. Figured it was too much hassle to ask if she'd take a down payment today and the rest Monday if I could get to the bank, (also had to work Monday). A few days later I found out that I had walked away from a mint pre-64 Mod. 70 that I should have grabbed on the spot. Been kicking myself ever since. But in 1980; would that have been a steal? Or were some buddies of mine kidding when they called me an idiot?
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$873 in todays money.. Not sure what a mint Win 70 brings.
The US in the last 40 years:
Socialism for big corporations and military industrial complex
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Rugged individualism for the individual.
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