Author Topic: Guns You Regret Selling/Trading (Read 1759 times)

kjeff50cal · « **on:** February 03, 2005, 05:54:55 PM »

What are some of the pistols/revolvers that you wished you had not traded/sold? I'm not talking about sold because of dire monitary straits, but in a fit of tradeitous you now regret.
My list:
Colt:
1903 .32 Auto
1911 Combat Commander, 9MM (custom built from parts)
Colt 1917, 45 ACP (some 'smith bobbed the barrel to 2 1/2" tobe a awesome snubnose)
Colt Official Police
Ruger:
.22 Auto Mark I, 6 1/2" Target (efficient squirrel gun)
Blackhawks in .357, 45LC
Super Blackhawk .44 Mag. (5 1/2" barrel)
Single Six; .32 Mag., 4 3/4" barrel (another very good small game gun)
S&W:
629 (4" barrel)

knight0334 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2005, 06:25:04 PM »

I regret having my (2) 45LC/410 side-by-side derringers stolen. ...still have all the other handguns I've bought.

...regret getting rid of a number of my long guns.

Redhawk1 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2005, 01:08:22 AM »

I don't regret trading or selling any of them. I always replace them with something else.

kjeff50cal · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2005, 11:30:47 AM »

The above list is only a partial I also had a matched set of American Derringers, one chambered in 45 Acp. & the other in .45 LC/.410. I know the side by sides you talk of and I may get an example in the near future. Right now I'm building up my collection and selling only the ones that don't make the accuracy cut.

kjeff50cal
BTW both ADs were a handfull shooting :-D :-D :-D .

Bigdog57 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 06, 2005, 10:42:18 AM »

I wish I'd kept the Ruger Blackhawk Convertible in .45ACP/.45 Colt calibers. Stupid thing to sell it. My first quality handgun!

Flash · « **Reply #5 on:** February 06, 2005, 10:51:11 AM »

A Belgian Browning Superposed. Thought the one barrel wouldn't shoot but just wasn't moving the selector correctly. I could have cried when I realized the mistake.

patm41 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 06, 2005, 12:15:42 PM »

Selling my Browning Hi Power several years ago

rockbilly · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2005, 02:47:23 PM »

Several years ago I cut the following from an article Jeff Cooper had written. I keep it posted in my gun safe as a reminder....

"I have never taken with the idea of selling a gun. When you possess a firearm, you possess something of importance. If you trade for cash, you have lost it - and the cash in your hand will soon be gone. Sell something else." Jeff Cooper, Jun 11, 1993.

This has been my way of thinking from day one. Now I can't say I haven't traded, but to sell a firearm outright has to be a sin.

Well maybe if the wife needed some more store bought teeth, and I couldn't find anything else to sell, but I'd have to think about it.....

targetguy · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2005, 02:53:49 PM »

Smith and Wesson Model 29 6" barrel with a the best trigger I have ever felt on any handgun

ButlerFord45 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 07, 2005, 06:23:52 PM »

Only one I regret, FN Hi-Power, 95+%, Luftwaffa(sp) markings. It wasn't even a the-baby-needs-formula kind of thing, just saw something else I THOUGHT I wanted which turned out to be so insignificant I can't remember what it was.

Flash · « **Reply #10 on:** February 08, 2005, 01:06:39 AM »

I tried to do a search on an old FN High Power with Nazi rpoof marks and the last item of info I got was that the records were destroyed during the war. I did trade her but I don't regret it as much as the Superposed.

dakotashooter2 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 08, 2005, 04:06:58 AM »

All of them!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

BIGE913 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2005, 05:00:54 PM »

MY DAN WESSION 744VH8 :cry: :cry: :cry:

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2005, 09:48:50 PM »

pre 64 .257 roberts Kimber super target rem 280 mountain rifle. #1 ruger in 280 and .458 .348 winch. and i can keep going.

Tom W. · « **Reply #14 on:** February 12, 2005, 04:41:55 PM »

A Colt Huntsman that I bought used for $75, and a H&R Model 999 that I traded for who knows what.....

drdougrx · « **Reply #15 on:** February 13, 2005, 03:18:07 AM »

A SW NY City Stakeout Chief Special in 38spec. It was a special run for Giovino. It was ahead of its time. It had a 3" heavy barrel, was stainless, a 357 length ejector rod, bobbed hammer, polished trigger shoe, hoag rubber monogrip and a special non-reflective finish. I sold it and had another chief built by Weigand, the Executive Package. The gun plus the smithing was about $800+. What a waste. Sold it too. I shoulda kept the NY Stakeout.

Doug

Mauser · « **Reply #16 on:** February 14, 2005, 06:06:38 AM »

Of the handguns I've traded I regret BIG TIME trading my: Colt Ace 22 in electroless nickel finish and my John M. Browning Commemorative 1911 45.

In both cases I traded for guns I thought I would use (more) and can't now remember the guns I got.

Malamute · « **Reply #17 on:** February 16, 2005, 03:05:52 PM »

The Colt 1911 made in 1917

Colt SAA 4 3/4" 44 spl nickel (3rd gen)

Colt SAA 45 Buntline Special (3rd gen)

Colt 1903 32 auto

Smith & Wesson model 24 4"

Ruger Vaquero 45 4 5/8" that I slicked up. Would shoot all shots touching at 25 yards.

RemingtonDave · « **Reply #18 on:** February 17, 2005, 03:08:24 AM »

1) Colt "Bullseye" Match Target made in 1939 and in very good shape.

2) Colt 2nd Gen SAA .44 Special w/ 5 1/2" barrel.

3) Smith Model 657 3".

4) Colt King Cobra 6" polished stainless.

I could go on but I'm starting to cry.

RDave

Swamp Yankee · « **Reply #19 on:** February 22, 2005, 09:03:28 AM »

I traded my model 14 [k-38] S&W towards a Fox Model B. It was MFG. in 1974 when a Smith was a Smith.

sageman · « **Reply #20 on:** February 22, 2005, 02:17:30 PM »

sold a cold new service revolver in .45 for 50$ in the 70's i was pretty sick and needid the money

sageman · « **Reply #21 on:** February 22, 2005, 02:19:17 PM »

i ment colt

Tacoma · « **Reply #22 on:** February 23, 2005, 02:49:11 PM »

Ruger MK I. My day bought it for me as my first handgun for my 17th birthday. After 6 months , It went full auto when it warmed up. I was broke and wanted a reliable and safe target gun so I traded it on a new H&R 939.

hylander · « **Reply #23 on:** February 24, 2005, 03:44:05 AM »

All of them:
With one Exeption.
My first Handgun I bought @ the Tulsa Gun Show in 1980.
Had no Idea what I was doing or what I getting.
A Colt .38 Special that had been reemed out to .38 Long Colt.
I fired 6 rd. though it, flash was everywere, lead spit out the side's :shock: .
Traded it for a 1969 Dodge Charger :grin:
Only to have it hauled off to be made into beer can's :cry:

dougk · « **Reply #24 on:** February 26, 2005, 05:24:49 AM »

9mm Colt Commander that I traded for a Baikal combo gun. Now I have to get another compact 9mm, I cant find a good Colt so I am looking at the Steyr s-9.

papajohn428 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 26, 2005, 05:48:48 AM »

Like Remington Dave, I had a Smith 657 three-inch that I miss every day. I had traded a scoped Redhawk in 41 Mag for it, then tore into it and perfected my trigger smoothing skills on it. It had the sweetest trigger I've ever stroked, and that takes in a lot of triggers over 40 years. It was too big for an off-duty gun so I sold it to raise funds for the then-new 40 caliber, which I amazingly still have and shoot often.

The other one was a rifle, a Rem 788 in 22-250 that I found used with an old Weaver 3X9 scope on it. The rifle hated factory loads, but good handloads would shoot under a half-inch on breezy days, a quarter-inch on still days. A sergeant I liked talked me out of it, and I gave him a sweet deal on it. I bet he hasn't used up the ammo that came with it, he just liked the way I had shaped the stock and refinished it. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go slam my head into a wall for being such an idiot.

PJ

ga41 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 27, 2005, 09:46:49 AM »

hmm, the Nickel Colt 45 Series 70 I bought in 1980 for 225.00 NIB and maybe the DW 41VH8 that I sold and bought a SW 657 Performance Center Should have kept it and bought the Smith

Csbishop · « **Reply #27 on:** February 27, 2005, 02:46:05 PM »

My bushmaster ar 15 I'm in ca and will never be able to buy one agin.

My first rifle a Glenfield bolt .22lr got passed down to one of my Dad's step kids offered to buy him a new rifle but no go

BlkHawk73 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 02, 2005, 12:22:18 AM »

Have never sold any of my handguns. Traded off a Buckmakrk for a Single Six once but don't regret it one bit.
Did have a first yr production 10/22 Internationsl (original - not these newer ones) that I sold off I wish I still had.

CornCod · « **Reply #29 on:** March 04, 2005, 05:22:56 PM »

1) Colt Trooper III .357 with rubber grips and elecrtoless nickel finish. A good friend loved it and talked me out of it.

2) Marlin lever-action .44 magnum rifle

3) Ruger Mk II .22 semi-auto pistol