Family member calls me and asks me if I want a Winchester 70 in.243 he found in a pawn shop…… not really my jam and he goes home looks up the serial number and finds it’s a pre 64.
I tell him to go back and get it …. Sold… also it was $400…. A few years ago when the market was softer.
Memento mori ( remember you must die) enjoy every day for tomorrow you may not wake
You can always borrow and pay the money back but you can never get the time back
Everyone hunter should own a fine rifle, life is short.
Kinda regret sending down the road the AC code Walther G43 may 44 manufacture I had. Oh well... Just steel and wood.... Practical use attachments to a firearm has been my mindset all along. Emotions don't come into play for me with a inanimate object.
I would have about 85 95 long guns and about 30 35 pistols and one revolver if I never horse traded or sold anything since age 16. I couldn't fathom having that many guns or storing them or moving them all over the U.S. while in the Army on a PCS move. Or the ammo issues worrying me about that many firearms.
Or simply picking which gun to go hunt whatever with at times. Each long gun I have right now has a specific use for x season and what is gonna be hunted. Having 2 center bolt rifles kinda bugs me for rifle season deer hunting. Been contemplating selling off the custom 98k 8mm mauser. But it is also good pairing with my mod 70 ot6 in historical ways in my mind.
Others MMV of course on keeping guns and their is nothing wrong with that at all.
Been on a search for a model 70 308 for 2 years featherweight in mind.Well I stumbled across a model 70 stealth yesterday 308 heavy barrel 26in tube vortex outfit scope $850.My sole purpose was to find 12 yr old daughter a decent 243 not plastic scchit so I left it.The damn thing has haunted me all day I’ve already got a model 7 308 and I’m at piece with it need to find daughter the 243 she wants.She said she’d borrow her brothers model 70 243 but that ain’t right she’ll have her own in some form.
Yeah, about 25 years ago I was looking through the used gun rack at a small gun shop on Long Island and saw a very nice Savage 99 in .300 Savage. It was one of the older ones with the rotary magazine and counter. Everything checked out on it. No scratches or dings. Just a little honest wear on the finish. Price was fantastic, less than $500.00. I almost bought it. A few days later I went back to get it, and it was gone.
15 years ago M-15 scratches, bumps mechanically perfect $125.
Colt Huntsman 308 $350, 90s.
M-12 20ga. 5-6 years ago. Looked like a shed gun. Light surface rust, Wood bare and bleached, salvageable. Perfect inside $195.
2 weeks ago, Kimber 1911, 35 miles away. Finish bad $350. Didn't go look. Should have.
Love to get a screaming deal on a wore or aesthetically abused quality gun. You get to enjoy the quality function at a bargin, with no worry about hurting it. My nice guns are a PITA to use.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
A Winchester model 21 in near unfired condition. A widow was selling off her husbands gun collection because she didn't want guns in her house. A Sheriff's deputy friend of mine was selling them for her. She wanted $250.00 for the model 21. This was 1969 and I was just married and broke. I had to pass.
Same here in '69. If they were selling riverboats for a nickel back then, all I could do is run up and down the bank hollering "Ain't that cheap!"
Yeah, couple come to mind I still think about. One was a Weatherby Vanguard in 7mm 08 I lost in a divorce around 2001. Really nice factory creakote bronze, redfield scope that shot lights out. I ran a cross it a few years later on the used rack at a gun shop. My guess ex needed money. It was still in great shape but shop wanted a ton for it. I thought to myself at the time, doesn’t make sense to buy the same gun twice. If I had it to do over I’d have paid the 700 bills or more can’t recall and got my gun back.
The second was a Browning A Bolt in 284 Winchester on the used rack at Carter Country in Houston, the one of 59/Southwest freeway.
I’m sure there were more, but those two come to mind first.
About 40 yrs ago a fellow had a Remington 600 with a mannlicher stock in 350 rem mag at the Palmer gun show. Why I walked away from that has haunted me ever since!!
One that really wasn’t speacisl as far as purpose , but was first short barreled over under I had ever seen . Used to be a gun shop in Harrisonburg called sportsman specialties . First shop that I’m aware of that specialized in tactical weapons in the area . He had a Beretta over under with 18” barrels that came from NYC swat team . It was marked as such and thought about it and thought about it till it was too late . The one I have now is a Condor , 18”. barrel’s with an upside of screw in chokes , but safety has to be operated after first firing to fire second barrel . Kind of a pisser , but is what it is . Kenneth
I’d never seen a Dakota model 10 until I walked into a high end gun shop and they had two of them. A .250 Savage and a .270. A Ruger model 1 didn’t compare well to either of those lively Dakota 10’s. Shoulda, coulda, woulda, but didn’t.
My other auto is a .45
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory
Back in 1970 or 71 had some college classes with a guy that needed some spending cash. Wanted $40 IIRC for his Winchester pump .410 Said like new. Couldn’t afford it.
Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version) "And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
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