I'm always buying, selling and trading. I have a core group of guns that I will always keep but I have no real attachment to most of mine and don't regret any sales or trades.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
None. I've never sold one. Or traded any away.

If the boys don't want them, I'll sell my guns when I'm dead.

Can't think of any.

If it's time to go - it's time to go.

As the tattoo so eloquently states 'No Ragrets'

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HK-91 that I sold back in the early 90's. Paid $650 for it in the late 80's, and sold it for $1,800 a few years later.

Seemed to make sense at the time....

A friend wanted my Glock 26 and was willing to trade me 'even up' for a Kimber Desert Warrior. The Glock was one of my carry guns and the Kimber sat in my safe and never saw any use. Eventually I sold the Kimber and bought a pre-owned but like new Glock 26 locally for a terrific price. So all in all I actually made money on the deal eventually, so although I regret the original trade, I'm back to where I was again.

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Originally posted by 46and2:
Not shooting guns but simply collecting them should (almost) be illegal.

There are fewer more egregiously pointless wastes than such things.

What's it to you if people buy a gun to put away or shoot every day?

Back in 1972 I bought a .303 "Enfield" with a short barrel, chained attached magazine and a funky flat faced bolt with crossed sabers stamped into it...IIRC I paid $25 from a co-worker...to me at the time it was just a cheap beater rifle to hunt deer with...

I sold it a few years later to buy something else...it kicked like a mule and had a dark bore so I let it go...that's how it was back then, especially with old military rifles...

But I regretted selling it...it didn't look like the other "Enfields"...it had a different cool look to it...

Later on I found out it was a Lee-Metford/Enfield Calvery carbine...not an Enfield in the sense of WWI rifles that were pretty common...it was dated 1888 and the brass stock disk had several dates (can't remember what they were)...

Of all the rifles that have passed through my hands...I regret not keeping ths little rifle ...

It was in better overall condition than this example...

http://highwoodclassicarms.co....%20Sale/longlee2.htm

Dang, Bisley... That sucks.

A Dan Wesson 741 in 41 Magnum with two barrel assembly’s (one 10 inch and one 6 inch).

I thought Dan Wesson would be around forever. Glad that I did not sell the Model 715.

As a single father of two daughters, I sold several for money reasons some years ago. For that reason it was worth it. Gone were my collection of Remington 725. A bunch of Model 70. Pistols: Colt Python 4-5 of them. Colt steel Commander. Colt Gold Cup Series 70 NM. Colt Officers Model Match. High Standard Olympic. I think that's about it. But the girls got their degrees. One is still going for a Doctorate. The other is a Mom 3 times. Gotta love em.....
So it's not regret. But I do miss some of the guns gone. The only one I would readily replace is the HS Olympic. Because I got 2 cases 22 target shorts still. And I love Olympic RF

I sold a Beretta Cheetah to a friend and always regretted it. Then I got it back in trade. I'll never part with it again.

An early 1943 Winchester M1 Garand. Juuuuust outside the WIN-13 range. I needed to pay the rent. I regretted it a month later and ever since. My brother got tired of hearing me whine about it and gave me a '44 Springfield as a replacement with the caveat "don't you ever dare sell it." It's in much nicer condition, and I will never willingly part with it.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Dang, Bisley... That sucks.

And just to add insult to injury...I still have the 7.35 Carcano I bought at about the same time for about the same money ...every time I look at it I feel like dropping to my knees and screaming "WHY...WHY...WHY!"

sig 510 AMT - sold it years ago. It was a work of art.

Just one, I bought a nice stainless Colt 1911 Gold Cup. It was such a nice shooter, and very accurate. I particularly like the BoMar style rear sight. Foolishly, I sold it to buy another 1911, which was not as nice as the Colt.

3" S&W 65-3.

Rossi 2 1/2" cheif special in 38 s&w don't even remember what I traded it but have wished many times I still had it. It was a fine little gun.

Hmmm..... A list of regret:
Browning marked FN/FAL.
Galil.
Winchester MI Carbine.
Early production (4 digit serial) 1903
Mauser .22 training rifle.
HK marked Benelli M2
HK P7
HK P7M8
HK P7Mi3
Armoloy Custom BHP
3 inch (IIRC) Python
4 inch Python
Ruger Service Six
Diamondback .22 6 inch.
Diamondback 4 inch .38.
Multiple S&W Model 19s in various barrel lengths.
S&W 38/44 Outdoorsman.
S&W Model 66 2.5 inch.
S&W Model 58
S&W Model 57 6 inch
S$W Model 29 P&R 4 inch.
S&W Model 10 HB
S&W Kit Gun 4 inch
Several S&W Model 39s
S&W Model 639
Colt Delta Elite 10mm
Colt Gold Cup
Sig P220 .38 Super.
Beretta 87BB .22
Now depression has set in... unable to carry on.

A stainless Colt Double Eagle Commander in .40S&W. Paid $525 in 2004 or so, and sold it when moving from California. Figured it was a nice gesture to leave it in the state, and I think I sold it on Calguns. Met the buyer in Oakhurst and did the transfer at Sportsmen's Den.

It would have been a mid-'90s gun, short-lived, made for Colt's attempt at the SOCOM contract. It was a heavy gun and a pleasure to shoot.

I was in between jobs at the time. Sold a....

Belgium Browning HP. (9mm) doubled my $$.

Colt Detective Special (3rd edition)

CZ 1945. (.25acp)