If we can stop arguing about which kills better, pointy bullets or round nose, I thought this might be a good just-for-fun topic to toss out.

All of us have at least one rifle we've traded off, sold, thrown in the lake or whatever that we REALLY wish we had today. If you could have ONE of your previously owned rifles back, which one would you want and why?

I doubt anyone will learn anything from this thread but a little nostalga never hurt anyone.

I had a sako synthetic mark V in 375 H-H I wish I had kept.

A Savage 99 (octagon to round) in 303 Savage. I sold it to a buddy way to cheap cause I needed dinero more than the rifle at the time. He still has it and as of last weekend he has no intention of selling it back. What a pal!

It was a Remington .22 semi-auto rifle. I can't remember the model. It was the first gun my dad let me buy. We went to a pawn shop in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I spent about an hour going all around the room looking at and holding all the guns, trying to make a grown-up decision while my dad and the owner patiently watched until I was done.

You could load any mix of shorts, longs, or long rifles and this baby would fire them just as fast as you could pull the trigger.

I severely thinned out the jackrabbit population on the west side of the Rio Grande.

I cut the side out of a white bleach bottle my mother had and shaped a white spacer to put between the stock and the butt plate. I made that rifle look like it was brand new.

A few years later me and my younger brother were close and I thought we would become lifetime hunting partners probably. He had always bragged on that Remington .22 of mine , and wished one day that he could buy it from me.

A few years later I moved away from home, and as a grand jesture gave him my .22. A month or so later I asked him about it. He told me he sold it the week after I gave it to him.

How about a Pre 64 M 70 Super Grade, that I traded for a lawn mower in 1964.

NOT knowing that they would ever change the M 70, but I was broke, married, and needed a lawn mower.

Would not have been so bad, except the lawn mower died within a year.

Man, I'm sorry I started this thread. It is SAD to hear everyone's story. Yeah, I've got my own to tell. I'm just having trouble narrowing it down to ONE rifle that my dumbass has traded off.

So many, so nice, so valuble today, so many times I can't stand to list them and don't have room....

How about a 30" barrel deluxe special order Mod 1886 in the original selser and wood box...sold it for $175. and cut a fat hog...

How about a Holland and Holland Deluxe 500 N.E. sold it for $2500. could get ammo then....it was new and only a wall hanger, took two years to sell it...

Couple of Win. Mod 21, in 16 and 20 ga., and a dozen or so Browning superposed....

Custom and English rifles, A 45 NM with Augustus Pachmayer name on it, A Texas ranger 45 colt that belonged to Capt. Allee, to many to recall....

I still have one of John Westley Hardins Atty at law business cards!! Sweet Thang, and a few nice guns, but who knows if they will hang around long if I get a wild hair to trade...

Best of all, I didn't miss the dance, and It has been a ball......

I too have let too many get away for one reason or another!! The one I still wake up in a cold sweat over though is a fully engraved Stevens M51 in 32-40. The thing would shoot cast bullets at 200 yds way better than I have ever been able to do before or since. Got to thank the ex wife for losing that one!!

When I got divorced from my first wife I sold a bunch of guns to pay bills. The only two I really regret were an old 700 Remington in 270, and a WW2 era 1911. We live and learn. The only ones I kept were my 375, an old Mossberg 500 12ga, and a Marlin 22. I figured I had the world covered at that point.

In the divorced from my first wife I sold all but 2 gun a Winchester shotgun and a marlin 783 22mag the gun I wish I had back was a Winchester Mod 100 autoload in 308 win this gun had acorn checkering on it this was the gun Iliked best of all

I'm thinking of TWO Dutch National Police Mausers, caliber 8x57...UNISSUED and still packed in cosmoline. Cleaning rod, stainless steel Model 98 bolt actions, made at the FN Mauser factory and smooth as glass. Not a scratch on them. Cleaning kits and brass muzzle/front sight protector. Both of them had THREE DIGIT Serial Numbers. I gave one to my brother-in-law who almost instantly trashed it. Kept mine for almost a year. My rifle's serial number was #147. May they knew how to build rifles then. Wood and finely machined steel the way God intended rifles to be! There ought to be a law against using any part on a rifle that isn't wood or steel.

These little beauties had 18" barrels and I used to go out at night and fire them with hot loads of 4895 just to see the big white fireball come out the muzzles and listen to the echo across the desert mountains.

Then I got in heat for something else and traded it. Don't even remember the rifle I traded for. That's how significant it was. Color me STUPID.