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Different than the ones that got away. I could have bought a Ruger Standard for $37.50 in my high school days.

Any you should not have passed on?

A dozen Stainless Left Hand Win M70's with .473" bolt face...

MP-5 before they got so expensive.

DF

Model 70 .22 Hornet.

Colt SAA

Remington Model 37

Might be 15 years back I paid around $300 for a new-in-cosmoline No. 4 "Irish" Enflield.

Just recently I gave it to a nephew, he googled it up, now they're going for like $1,500.

I have other nephews, I shoulda bought three.

Ruger 44 mag carbine.

Don't need it, just want it.

A pristine 1899B 30-30 savage 99 for 500 bucks about 10 years ago. Still hate to think about it!

Winchester Model 70 XTR Featherweight 6.5x55 Swede

I should have bought a couple Colt Diamondbacks in .22LR when they were available.

Every single USFA I could have gotten my hands on! The only guns I have ever made that much of a profit on.

An AH Fox 16ga SxS last fall.

More milsurps when they were available cheaply enough.

I wish I'd bought a AR 15, course, I did not know I needed one till I read all about them here.

Ten years ago was an early 50s Ithaca 37 in 16 gauge for $300. It was pristine. Came back the next day to buy it, too late.

Blackpowder Colt SAA 3 digit serial number. Probably a cavalry gun as numbers didn't match.

Matching pristine Luger rig. Broomhandle rig. Etc, etc. Different world back then.

Going back to the 1990’s

All the pre-lock S&W revolvers that I could have gotten grubby mitts on, especially j’s and k’s.

All that great post Cold War surplus that flooded in: k31’s, Swedes, brand new no.4’s, etc.

2000ish..... An 8" stainless steel Colt Anaconda .44 Mag for $400. Guy I worked with had it. He couldn't get rid of it.

His buddy at work finally ponied up months later. We all kick ourselves now.

Dumbass drilled and tapped it for a scope.

A Ruger Single six with an extra Magnum cylinder for $125

A Remington Model 600 in .350 Mag. I was torn between it and a Winchester Model 88 in .308 Win. I ended up with the 88. I loved my 88, but sometimes 14 year old# make poor decisions! memtb

I went into a CAL Ranch one day in Utah, and they had just gotten in 3 dozen Mosin Nagants that were in seemingly unfired condition Their bores were perfect, with not a hint or wear or even fouling anywhere. They were selling them for $89 bucks apiece. This was in 2010. I told the wife we should get a dozen. She laughed and me, and I clarified that I wasn't joking. We didn't have the money at the time for a lot of reasons, and I decided to give her a day, and explain why it would be smart. They were all gone two days later. I could have held them for 5 years and sold them for 5x what I paid without haggling.

Almost any firearm would have been a good money investment.