What rifles have you sold and whish you didn't? Top 5 only!

Mint Luger all matching numbers.

A beautiful G43 with original scope and mounts.

A McGowan .22 varminter ( 22-250)

A converted 6.5 Arasaka to 6.5X.284

A Mod 95 30-06.
[/LIST]that is my top 5 roger

Original HK91
Colt AR15 with collapsible stock preban
Original S&W Performance Center Model 629 Hunter
Glock 17L - I took third in my class at IPSC Nationals with that one.
Spanish FR-8 Mauser. I just love those little rifles. My first one is now a 6.5-284 custom.

1) Original Colt AR-15 SP-1 from early 1980s;
2) One of the first Thompson/Auto-ordnance .45ACP semi-auto carbines from 1983;
3) Nice Ruger 10/22 from 1985;
4) SGW AR-15 carbine from early 1980s.

After selling these, I learned to never sell a gun unless I replaced it with another. You never know when some asshole liberal president is going to come along and ban them because one of his wacko leftist advocacy groups doesn't like the look of a particular gun.

Ruger M77 heavy barrel in .22-250 that I bought new for $145 (how long ago was that?). It was the first rifle I reloaded for and dumb luck struck immediately, as the first load I tried shot under .5" and I never found a better one.

Almost every gun I've ever owned. I never bought a gun I didn't want and I've never sold or traded a gun I didn't want back.

Here are the ones I regret the most

Springfield M2 rifle
Colt Ar-15 in 9mm
H&K Shotgun with factory folding stock
Unfired Stainless Colt Delta Elite

Oh well live and learn

None!

I either sell and get something better, or I sell and use the money to go hunting.

No regrets at all.

Brno 602 .375 AI
Sako TRGS .338 Lapua
Pre-64 .270
Ruger .220 swift varmit
M98 Large ring 7X57 AI

It was in my case stupidity at its finest!!

I have never sold a rifle, but sold a Benelli shotgun that i regretted as he pulled out of the driveway. I determined right then that unless i bot a lemon in the first place, i would never sell another gun. For me, guns are for buying, not selling!!!! Jim R

Old sako fiberclass 7mm rem mag (the ones with McMillan stocks) and a marlin 1894p .44 rem mag maybe my vssf 22/250 ??

1939 Model 70 in 3006 (gross stupidity)
M1 Garand
A surprisingly accurate and reliable Ruger .44 Mag carbine. The original version that is. Didn't sell it ... the government took it.

Every single one I ever sold I wish I had back. Kinda like lost loves, some were a real bitch to dial in but they were still fun.

Never much bothers me to sell a gun. They aren't friends, they're tools.

That said, I had a model 88 Winchester I wish I had back. Nothing special about it except it was my 1st hunting rifle. I've thought about replacing it with another many times, but then I think about how much it would cost. I guess it wasn't that damn special after all

Terry

Actually too many!
7-08 Shilen DGA repeater w/ beautifull wood
45-70 Shiloh Sharps long range express
300 Weatherby Mark 5
284 DWM 1909 Mauser
22lr Winchester 52B
22lr Harrington Richards Leatherneck
LC Smith shotgun
300 WinMag Remington-McMillan Barrel by Harold Broughton
I better quit as this is making me sick. Butch

Well I have three. Two rifles and a pistol.

First rifle I ever built a M98 280 Rem. Sold to buy parts for rifle #3.

A Sharps 45-90

And a WWII Baby Nambu pistol in mint condition. This I sold in 77 for my dad for the price of a Sears Radial Arm saw. Starting the day afterwards I reqretted not just buying it myself.

Anschutz 54MS, sweetest trigger anyone could hope for. Jay

Colt AR-15 with a a short hvy barreled upper & collapsable stock.

quote:

Originally posted by 500grains:
None!

I either sell and get something better, or I sell and use the money to go hunting.

No regrets at all.

good post!...no crybaby there...

Rifles: An AR-15 HBAR, several fine FN sporting rifles.
Handguns: Several Colt SAAs, a mint New Service, a like-new 4-screw 5" S&W M27.
Shotguns: 2 mint Browning A5 solid ribs.
What I regret the most are some beauties I had the opportunity to buy but passed on.

I dislike discussing this subject , but here are my top-five:

1) Beligian Browning Safari, 284 Win. (Sako action), NIB

2) Beligian Browning Safari, 458 Win. Mag., mint, with incredible wood.

3) Pre-64 Model 70 Featherweight, 270 Win., circa 1956, with 4X Redfield 'Bear Cub' scope in Buehler 2-piece scopemounts. I shot a ton of game with this rifle for many years, including my all-time best trophy mule deer, etc.

4) Pre-64 Model 70 Super Grade, 375 H&H, circa 1951, NIB.

5) Tom Burgess/Earl Milliron custom pre-64 Model 70, 7mm Rem. Mag. with incredible wood, and a custom-built five-shot magazine. This rifle drove tacks, and I'd love to have it back to take to Africa for plainsgame use..........

AD

I am with 500 grs on this. I can't think of a single rifle I sold that I regreted. Anytime I sold something I added more dollars and bought something better.

I have sold a action or two over the years that I wouldn't mind still having, but they were parts and projects, which were major projects that I didn't intend to fund anytime in the near future.

Edit: Allen that is a painful list.

a 39-A Marlin .22
a Gopher Special .270 M-70.....p-64 of course

Savage 24V 22 lr/20 ga.-My first gun

Ruger 77 .270 win. tang safety-My first centerfire

I would love to have that 24 back, didn't really sell it, it was collateral on a $100 loan my old man gave me and never gave me time to repay-all on me though. I do regret some of the gun deals that I got bent over on when I was a youth, but thats how you learn.

-Ron

THree pre-Garcia Sako's. Very fine guns, sold when the 3rd child in 4 years showed up.

vapodog reminded me about a Marlin 39 that also somehow got away from me. A couple others were a 30-40 Krag sporter and a Winchester 401 self loader.

The latter was dumped rather hastily, as well as unfairly, because it failed to bring down a big whitetail buck one year. When a person is young it is often easy to blame everything but yourself for such an instance. Forty years have tought me that sometimes I am not nearly as good as I might think I am and it has also made me a better overall hunter. I often wish I had that rifle back again to give it another chance that it no doubt deserved.

I haven' sold that many rifles. I regret selling a S&W (Howa) 1500 Deluxe that shot 150 gr Corelokt factory ammo into sub-inch groups all day long.

Also, a very clean DCM M-1 Garand when I needed money after a divorce.

Handguns, now - that is a different story!

1. S&W Model 58 .41 mag
2. Colt Series 70 .45
3. S&W Model 29
4. Old Model Official Police
5. Commercial 1909 New Service in .45 Colt, 7 1/2 inch barrel

I have a lot that I regret selling off. Some much more so than others.

#1 - Remington 700 Varmint .308
#2 - Browning Belgium Sweet 16 A-5
#3 - Thompson Center Contender Stainless 223
#4 - S&W 629 44 mag
#5 - S&W 5906 9mm

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Originally posted by allen day:
4) Pre-64 Model 70 Super Grade, 375 H&H, circa 1951, NIB.

OUCH!

That hurts to even think about.

Two Mannlicher-Schoenauer carbines in .270 WCF
An M71 Win. .348
An M71 Win. in .450 Alaskan
An M1886 Win. in .45/70
A pre-64 M70 Win. Super Grade .375 H&H Mag. ca. 1949
A pre-64 M70 Win. Featherweight .308
A Browning Auto .22LR
A Chas. Daly 20-ga. O/U with two sets of barrels
A Win. M94 Alaska Purchase Centennial
An M1903A3 in .308 Norma Magnum built by Paul Jaeger
A Ruger No. 1V in .25/06
A Colt Trooper in .22 LR
A Colt ".357 Magnum"
An S&W M29
A Colt pre-series 70 Gold Cup
A Browning Medalist .22 LR Match pistol (cased set)

Guess that's enough to cry about!!

- An early Ruger #1S in 300Win, after bedding it was a great shooter and had a beautiful stock.
- A Kimber M84 custom classic in 223 Rem.
- A 1969 M70 with a Shilen tube in 300Wby. Don't laugh, it had the most spectacular sunburst on the stock I have ever seen.
- A Ruger #1B 25-06. With the tension screw installed in the foreend it was ridiculously accurate. Shot my best whitetail with that one.
- A Steyr Mannlicher Model L in 6mm Rem. Firing "one-shot" groups, this little beaut would make a washer out of a dime every time at 100 yards.
- A 1957 M70 std rifle in 270 Win. Not fancy, just the most honest, accurate rifle I have ever owned. I miss that one the most...

i wish i could sell some. i can never find the gumption to sell a firearm, main reason is because i liked them in the first place or i never would have purchased them. i never met a firearm i didn't like.

I've been crying about this all day. Add these to the previous list.
25-06 Remington Classic
6.5x55 Remington Classic
25-06 Sako
7-08 AI Remington mod.7 with Shilen fluted barrel and other acessories
Browning A5 12 Gauge that was as new
Alpha action made into 6x284 custom- actually a junker
Browning BBR in 30-06 with nice wood
Ruger#1 in 7STW with #5 Shilen barrel
1911 Colt 45AC
MarkX Mini Mauser in 270x39 w/ Shilen Barrel
I wish that this thread hadn't come up. It really shows what an idiot I am. Butch

Winchester '76 with a 28" barrel.

Standard was 26. Only 70 built with longer than standard barrel.

Mauser 375 Whelen. The first rifle I built entirely by myself. Including metalwork, stockwork and engraving.

Small ring commercial Mauser chambered in 6.5 x 57.

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Mannlicher-Schoenauer

I think the list is short, because long ago I got to the point where I quit selling and just bought. Therefore the list of what didn't I buy is longer and sadder

As to those I sold:
1920 DWM Commercial Luger
1908 Mannlicher-Schoenauer (rifle not carbine with swinging Lyman peep)
Parker double
Colt Bisley 38 WCF
Winchester 07 (Mint)

Top 5 I didn't buy:
Winchester 21
C Sharps 40-65
Bren 10 with working mags
Savage 99A 358
LH Weatherby 300 (built on the Matheiu action)
Guild Drilling

Top 5 they wouldn't sell me: I've know a few dealers who were that way, not for sale then suddenly they would sell. Timing!
Win 71 3 digit serial #
Marlin 90 o/u 410
S&W 44 Special origional (fixed sight model 21 or 22)
Winchester 1885 38-55 bench (slug) gun
303 Double Rifle

Only two:

Colt AR-15 SP1 with original electroless nickle plating. It was a special run for the USCG. I sold it to get a AR-15 HBAR.

Ruger #3 in .223 I never really shot the gun but it was just a neat little rifle.

I might have regreted selling a M70 in .22/3000 that was original with the papers to prove it but since I used the proceeds to get a very nice collection of other Pre-64 M70's I can't regret it that much.

Too many! Actually I can't remember them all.

You just had to bring this up, didn't you!

Brand new: HK 300, HK 630 and HK SL6.
Really nice: BRNO ZKK 601 in .270 Win., a nice custom .17 Javelina on a small Sako action...


And that is just the tip of the iceberg!


Jordan

quote:

Originally posted by allen day:
I dislike discussing this subject , but here are my top-five:

1) Beligian Browning Safari, 284 Win. (Sako action), NIB

2) Beligian Browning Safari, 458 Win. Mag., mint, with incredible wood.

3) Pre-64 Model 70 Featherweight, 270 Win., circa 1956, with 4X Redfield 'Bear Cub' scope in Buehler 2-piece scopemounts. I shot a ton of game with this rifle for many years, including my all-time best trophy mule deer, etc.

4) Pre-64 Model 70 Super Grade, 375 H&H, circa 1951, NIB.

5) Tom Burgess/Earl Milliron custom pre-64 Model 70, 7mm Rem. Mag. with incredible wood, and a custom-built five-shot magazine. This rifle drove tacks, and I'd love to have it back to take to Africa for plainsgame use..........

AD

Man, what were you thinking?

Now get down and give us 20.

remington 788 22-250 got it used for $65.00, traded for lots of money,(made mistake of letting someone with money shoot this rifle) bought new 788 in 222, had plenty of money left but never found another that shot like the 22-250 (thirty years and still looking) I have several very accurate rifles but none close to that one. wish I had it back a thousand times!!!!!!!!

1)Griffin&Howe SSB mag mauser 350 g&h mag in speeds book 2) its mate a 257 Rem Roberts SSB standard mauser by g&h 3)fisher G33-40 7mm mauser cover gun Leupold catalog late60s earlt 70s 4) G&H Farquharson 222REM Shelhamer stock.G&H rework of gun in Landis 22cal varmint rifles 5) Shelhamer stocked,alvin white engraved hauck 25 short krag feature article Guns&Game 1965