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FIL has a featherweight 270 I drooled over when I was a teen dating my wife now I have 5 model 70s it’s an illness
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Cheap Remington 700, SPS in 300WSM that I pillar bedded and epoxy beaded the action. Epoxy beaded the first 4” of the bbl. Had a muzzle brake installed and that damn 700 shot sub 1” groups with 180 Accubonds consistently. It sat in the safe for a few years and decided I needed to make room for another rifle. MISTAKE! Oh well. MTG
Vena dura, ocyus occide, excusas non offer!
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Back in the early 70's I bought a Colt Python. Traded it for a TC in 30 Herrett...big mistake!!!! That's really a big mistake.
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A Marlin 1895 Guide Gun in .45/70 with JM stamped on the barrel. Tried to buy it back from the coworker that I sold it to.....then he changed his mind and decided to keep it. Can't blame him! Oops... I'm keeping mine forever.
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Some mornings, it just does not feel worth it to chew through the straps!~
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"Maybe we're all happy."
"Go to the sporting goods store. From the files, obtain form 4473. These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership."
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I actually need to sell at least 100. I just don't have the time and energy to load for all of them anymore. Life was much simpler when I only owned a few dozen.
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Vintage 1911 in 38 Super. Colt of course. I am not a Colt nut - I don't know when they were shipping them in little cardboard boxes (like a cigar box with a very 50/60's era picture on the outside) but that's the era of this one. Exactly... Mine was a colt commander in 38 super. Same era. Mint condition with two spare mags. My biggest gun selling regret but divorce does those things......
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Smith & Wesson Highway Patrolman. I got it when I graduated High School and needed money to finish college. Got my model 28 Highway Patrolman in around 1977, best guess. Sweet gun and still in great shape. Better yet, I never sold it, but GAVE it away a couple years ago! But then again, it was to my Daughter and she would have gotten it when I passed anyway. She carries a Ruger LCR .357 Mag in her car. (only gun she owned) Got tired of dragging it from car to house every day. You can guess the rest...... Dad...would you have another gun I could just keep in my house? Wanted to keep ammo the same for both her guns. So goodbye S&W Model 28. LOL
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There are about a dozen that come close to equaling my regret for selling this particular gun, but I probably most regret selling my H&K 91 (G3). In the late 1970s I bought one on layaway at a local military style gun store (T&T Gunnary, on Long Island). I paid at total of $600.00 when I made that last payment and was finally able to take it home.
I cannot imagine why I then sold it for what I paid shortly after Reagan left office. The really sad part was that George Bush very quickly outlawed their import (due to their being dangerous weapons of war), and their prices instantly skyrocketed. After that, I don't think you could buy a used one for less than $3,000.00.
Similar story for my Polytech Legends AK-47. I think I paid about $400.00 for it. I sold it a few years later for just a little more than that, and then their import into the country was banned, and today they go for several thousand dollars, just like the H&K 91. They are reputed to have been the highest quality AK variant ever to be imported into the country. . I still have my HK 91 I bought in 82. Mine was $575 new in the box.
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A Browning Nomad 22 semi-auto that I traded to a friend in 1969! The little Browning was a very accurate pistol and a lot of fun to shot and is presently worth about 8 X what I paid for it. While the little handgun I traded for is very quality……I can’t hit a Bull Elephant is the a$$ with it outside of 25 yards! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
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Marlin 1894 Classic .25-20
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Ruger Security Six 357 and a Winchester model 64 in 25-35.
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450 Marlin guide gun. First edition Yeah I let one of those escape too. I kept the 45-70
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The only gun I ever regretted selling was a 1987 Browning Buckmark 22 slab side pistol. I bought it new and was the sweetest shooting pistol I ever owned. I have another one now but it wasn’t purchased new and wasn’t my first baby!
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Colt King Cobra Stainless 6" .357 It was a mistake. Bought it day I got out of boot camp. It would stack full power loads center target. Don't think I even touched the sights. Why o why.
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