I saw a Colt .22 3rd Series Match Target on GB recently. I could actually use that. Used to have one 20 years ago. Sold it and thought I did well to get almost 400. This one now went for 1200. Can you imagine that??

Dang!! The guns I wish I hadn't sold..

I had one of those....same story, bought it for $350 BNIB, sold it for $400 and thought I was Donald Trump.

Add to that, a couple of Browning Medalists and a Hi-Power with Waffenampts from end to end.

The real tear jerker is an original folding M1A1 complete with leg pouch; a bring-back from the Rhine Crossing. I'm too ashamed to admit what I traded it for.

To make you guys sick I brought one for 45 dollars sold it for 90 thought I did good.

Guess I've been lucky in my gun dealings. Only have 1 real regret:

Sold my Rem Nylon 66 (Mohawk Brown) some years ago for $35

No regrets .I always sold so I could buy my latest I can`t live with out.

There is not enough space.....

#1 was a Dan Wesson SS pistol pak in 41 Mag, #2 was a 6" brushed SS python, #3 was Browning B78 25-06 and #4 was a Bowen Nimrod 5 shot SS 45 Colt. Enough to shed a bucket full of tears if I think about them too much.

I also miss my first H&R Model 999 Sportsman. It was my first handgun. That was a cool little top break 9 shot. Very handy. But not a high dollar gun. I pretty much wore it out.

I replaced it with another much later, but it wasn't the same. The replacement was an earlier gun and was prone to break lifters and the sights were way off.

I don't know why some company doesn't pick up that design, improve it some mechanically and reintroduce it.

I guess I also miss my '70s nickel S&W Model 27. But really only because of the money they go for now.

Smith and Wesson 657 Classic Hunter: fluted cylinder (was supposed to be unfluted...), roll-marked, and NIB. One of 500. Stupid, stupid, stupid...

Now if this thread was titled Guns I should have bought .I would have quite a long list!!!!

This thread is why I don't sell any guns! Just buy more...

Dan Wesson Model 15 and a Colt 1911. Young and dumb

Semi auto uzi,and a full auto sten Mark II that I sold in the 80's. Also a M1 Garand that I got from th Department of Civilian Marksmanship

I think they would have all been a good investment.

Jim

M1A1 Auto-Ordnance Thompson SMG......

When I was 19 (different times) I got my first Blackhawks, was a 357 Mag convertible with an extra cylinder in 9x19mm. Sold it later, can't remember why, now have several other single actions and wish I still had that one.

Only have sold one gun in my life, and while it was a POS colt .22 that I could not get to function right, and it couldn't hold a 3" group at 10 yards, I still regret getting rid of it, probably because it was the only one I got rid of...

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Originally posted by billinthewild:
There is not enough space.....

I'm with you, Bill. I guess at the top of the list, though, would be my Ruger flatgate single six, and my 1911 ... no, not a 1911 A1, a 1911!

A Smith 586 that I had Aaron Hogue order for me in 1983 when I was a poor boy in college. He passed it on to me at cost. Untouched, it had the finest action I have ever felt on a DA revolver. I sold it 10 years later for $250.

TWO:
Whitney Kennedy 45-60 MINT
Winchester 73 factory set trigger 38-40...paid 85.00; shot a nice mule deer buck, sold it for 85.00. School days - no money.

Just one. An 1890 vintage Colt Single Action.

Had a few:

1. Colt .22lr/Mag Buntline 7.5" barrel beautiful case coloring on it and the most accurate .22lr to date.

2. Browning Citori Superlite O/U 12g. for some unknown reason?????

3. Winchester Pre-64 30-06 inherited from father.

4. Ruger Super Blackhawk 44Mag

5. Colt Commander Lightweight 45ACP

Handguns only, there have been several rifles.
#1 A Super Blackhawk 7 1/2 inch. I smoothed the action and put a spring kit in it. Boy did it shoot.
#2 A ruger Security Six 357 with a 2 1/2 inch barrel that just fit me like a glove. I regret selling them both for shooting and financial reasons. It would cost too much to replace them and I likely wouldn't get examples that shot near as well.

For handguns, there's only been one. I had a Dan Wesson .357 magnum with a 2 and 10 inch barrel. I bought it for protection, actually had to draw it once and sold it to buy my girlfriend a .243 bolt action.

I should have kept the pistol because I didn't keep the girlfriend!

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Winchester Pre-64 30-06 inherited from father.

Ouch. That must have hurt.

I always wanted one in Super Grade myself.

Some have named the SBH . I have one. Genuine stag grips and slicked up trigger. 7.5" and white lined front sight.

I'm not going to make the mistake of selling it.

I had a collection of push pin reg reciever HK guns I purchased back in the 1980's. I Had a MP5.HK53,HK51,HK21....I purchased a house with the funds and later sold the house.

I look back and sometimes wish I had kept them,because sear guns go for 25K+ and I really didn't have near that much in my entire collection.

Ohio Ordnance 1918 BAR
Gold Cup 1911
Colt Diamondback 4"
Colt Trooper 6 "

This thread just makes me feel worse.....

A stainless steel Series 70 Colt Commander in 45 ACP. Dumbest thing I ever did; it was probably the only one in France. Never seen one for sale here since.

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Originally posted by Shack:
I also wish I hadn't sold my first .44 Auto Mag years ago. It was in unfired condition and would bring several times today what I got for it.

OUCH That one would hurt.

Grad student living in a single car garage in Corvallis, Or. sells Colt Huntsman for $35.
r in w.

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Grad student living in a single car garage in Corvallis, Or. sells Colt Huntsman for $35.

Or, sign on barrel in front of hardware store full of genuine Colt Peacemaker SAAs - For Sale, $35 Each.

Only thing, it was 1945. And my uncle saw it on a brief stop in Texas on way home from the Pacific.

Original Ruger 44 Mag 6 1/2" barrel. Sold with my "custom hand made walnut grips.

If you own her (13076) take care of her and go ridin and shootin, she got used to that when we spent a lot of great times together.

Still Have the 219 D. Wasp Remington RB she was traded for.
Just not much use for it in middle Tennessee except plinking with cast!

Oh and she kilt a bear back about 1966 or so.
Sorta a Keith load 2400 and 429421. A friends dad owned the gun and the guy that loaded the ammo for him loaded 12.5 2400, 429421. Bear did not know the difference so it died with one shot.