The gun you regret selling

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I don't sell guns, I just regret not buying more and when some were more available, case in point Romanian PSL, Colt Python, Colt Anaconda, Saiga AK.
 
I don't sell guns, I just regret not buying more and when some were more available, case in point Romanian PSL, Colt Python, Colt Anaconda, Saiga AK.
Then buy them. They’re typically available.

See, it’s kinda like Coors beer. When I was in college in 1970, there was a guy we knew that drove a moving semi truck. Coors wasn’t available east of the Mississippi, so when he went west he would pick up 400 cases of Coors and bring it back to Indiana. Guys would pay stupid prices because by god it was the greatest beer ever. Forbidden fruit.

Now that Coors is available anywhere, it’s just another beer

So, in another ten years the gun that sells for $1,500 today will be $2,500. And guys will whine like school girls “damn, wish I would have bought that gun when it was only $1,500

I lived on a lake here in Indiana. I got tired of the a-holes whining about “In 1958 i could have bought a house on the lake for $7,500. Now they’re $150,000”.

Well, got news for you pal. You didn’t have the $7,500 then just like you don’t have the $150,000 now. Somehow those idiots think they’re going to pay 1958 prices with 2019 dollars

And, don’t tell me you don’t have the money. You can buy cigarettes, get thousand dollar tattoos. You eat out a dozen times a week. You eat at the food truck at work and spend $8 on breakfast and $12 for lunch that you could make at home for $2. You have $50,000 pickup that carries a bed full of air 99.9% of the time

Priorities
 
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Yes I have like a Winchester model 62-.22 cal., a few weeks ago a Walther PPSM2 LE for a SA xds ( hated the xds and bought a new PPSM2 after selling the xds).
 
It has never occurred to me to sell a gun. I've traded two, a shotgun that didn't fit me well for one that did and a handgun with a horrible trigger for another handgun.
 
Forgot to mention a nice HK93 that I sold when my son was born. Needed the money to pay the rent. Don't regret it since it was used to take care of the family. But it sure would be nice to have today.
 
Do you have other shooters in your family? Sons, daughters, neices, nephews, cousins? If you need the money, sell it. If you don’t really need the money, pass it on to those you love, hopefully before you make the big leap. Give your loved ones a wonderful memento. Go to a range together and make the presentation after you shoot together. My most treasured firearms are those owned by my uncle and grandpa.

I need to take my own advice. Thanks for the incentive.
 
Every gun I sold because I thought I needed the money. The idea that you can always get the money back out of your guns is typically true...if you got the time. Before we bought our first house I sold a Remington 760 in 30-06, Kahr CW9 and a Taurus TCP. Regretted each one, took a bath on each one. Now, I've sold guns that I just didn't like, Ruger LCP, 16gauge Ithaca, Llama 45...probably lost money on those too...just didn't sting as much. The 760 and the TCP has been replaced, I'd like another CW9, but probably will be looking for something more suitable to the range, as I just cant seem to carry even small 9's comfortably
 
What is this selling a gun concept? All I do is collect, but not as much, now that I am getting older, and the kids are gone. Probably will sell a few, but... no not yet.
 
Two Colt Woodsmans, an early Kimber Gold Combat, a Makarov in .380 and a Ruger SR-22 pistol are my sales regrets. Really the only gun I don’t regret selling is a Ruger LCP. From now on, I have resolved to avoid selling guns unless my life depends on it.
 
I've sold or traded quite a few guns but really only regret two, one was a five screw K-22 and the other was a a 686 no dash.

I don't accumulate a lot of guns, but each of those I have get shot regularly. I've come to regard a gun purchase to be like dating. Not all the girls you date are ones you want to keep around, the same with guns IMO. I buy them, shoot them a bit and if we aren't compatible it goes down the road and I try another one.
 
I agree with Thomas Mayberry... women have kinda been like guns to me and some of the guns I have owned I actually do associate in my memory with certain girls
Now from the topic of girls.. I have traded and sold a few guns in the past. I went from one project to the next, so honestly I don't question my trading/selling of them. But there are two I do sometimes think back to and almost wish I still had. My Belgian copy Smith & Wesson 44 revolver. It had no cylinder star and no grips , and the firing in was blunted but it still was a nice little piece. Sometimes I look at how iconic the S&W type revolvers are and it makes me wish I had another one of those.
The other one that I do sometimes question as a 40 cal. pinfire I had. I traded it with a British Bulldog at one point. It's not that I regret trading that particular one, it's more that I sometimes wonder if I want to get another pinfire revolver or not. They really are a unique thing.
But in the end I realize I eventually ended up with the guns I wanted most and statisfy me more than anything I lost in the past so All is well !
 
Then buy them. They’re typically available.

See, it’s kinda like Coors beer. When I was in college in 1970, there was a guy we knew that drove a moving semi truck. Coors wasn’t available east of the Mississippi, so when he went west he would pick up 400 cases of Coors and bring it back to Indiana. Guys would pay stupid prices because by god it was the greatest beer ever. Forbidden fruit.

Now that Coors is available anywhere, it’s just another beer

So, in another ten years the gun that sells for $1,500 today will be $2,500. And guys will whine like school girls “damn, wish I would have bought that gun when it was only $1,500

I lived on a lake here in Indiana. I got tired of the a-holes whining about “In 1958 i could have bought a house on the lake for $7,500. Now they’re $150,000”.

Well, got news for you pal. You didn’t have the $7,500 then just like you don’t have the $150,000 now. Somehow those idiots think they’re going to pay 1958 prices with 2019 dollars

And, don’t tell me you don’t have the money. You can buy cigarettes, get thousand dollar tattoos. You eat out a dozen times a week. You eat at the food truck at work and spend $8 on breakfast and $12 for lunch that you could make at home for $2. You have $50,000 pickup that carries a bed full of air 99.9% of the time

Priorities
This is one of the finest "dad-rants" I've heard in a longtime. I'm not in any way talking down about it either.
Everything you said in this post makes so much sense and I try to live by the same rules but I fail miserably.

This guy has something to say and you young buck oughta listen.

That being said, I wish I had my Garand back but I can't get one for what I gave it away for. If anyone offers you $600 for your Garand, walk away.
 
I had a Remington 700 in 6 MM rem. It was a rifle that made you cry when any kind of mark came on the stock.
It had a bad habit of firing when you pushed off the safety.
I wish I had repaired it but I got mad & sold it--big mistake.
 
I watch those guys on American Pickers that are 80 years old and hang on to something they’ve had since 1953 but they won’t sell it because “some day I’m gonna get around to fixing it up”. Yeah, and some day I’m gonna be an astronaut

one day we are all dead.. enjoy this go round the most you can!


And, don’t tell me you don’t have the money. You can buy cigarettes, get thousand dollar tattoos. You eat out a dozen times a week. You eat at the food truck at work and spend $8 on breakfast and $12 for lunch that you could make at home for $2. You have $50,000 pickup that carries a bed full of air 99.9% of the time


winner winner chicken dinner...
 
I don't regret selling any of them as there was a good reason to do so.

I do regret HAVING to get rid of my FNP45, but the thing wouldn't run right. It was a sweet shooter though when functioning.
 
Then buy them. They’re typically available.

See, it’s kinda like Coors beer. When I was in college in 1970, there was a guy we knew that drove a moving semi truck. Coors wasn’t available east of the Mississippi, so when he went west he would pick up 400 cases of Coors and bring it back to Indiana. Guys would pay stupid prices because by god it was the greatest beer ever. Forbidden fruit.

Now that Coors is available anywhere, it’s just another beer

So, in another ten years the gun that sells for $1,500 today will be $2,500. And guys will whine like school girls “damn, wish I would have bought that gun when it was only $1,500

I lived on a lake here in Indiana. I got tired of the a-holes whining about “In 1958 i could have bought a house on the lake for $7,500. Now they’re $150,000”.

Well, got news for you pal. You didn’t have the $7,500 then just like you don’t have the $150,000 now. Somehow those idiots think they’re going to pay 1958 prices with 2019 dollars

And, don’t tell me you don’t have the money. You can buy cigarettes, get thousand dollar tattoos. You eat out a dozen times a week. You eat at the food truck at work and spend $8 on breakfast and $12 for lunch that you could make at home for $2. You have $50,000 pickup that carries a bed full of air 99.9% of the time

Priorities
Sure I could still get those on my list. But it becomes like you said priorities, do I want to spend $3000.00 on a Colt Python, or $700.00 on a Ruger GP100. I'd rather have the Python but the price is steep with other things to consider, but going back to "they are still available" well yes they are but they are discontinued so the price has been pumped up to prices I just don't want to pay. If I had bought one twenty years ago I'd still have it today. I'm not going to buy a PSL now because they are no longer imported so again price is jacked up , when the rifle now is the same price as a new M1A or DSA FAL, and those are better than a PSL. However a PSL at $800.00, yes I would buy, but they are now $1700.00.

So it goes back to I wish I had got a Python before it became a collector piece and wish I had got a PSL before they were no longer allowed to be imported. No longer made, no longer imported, means owners looking to sell raise the price.

There is a solution, Colt makes the Python again, and government allow the PSL to be imported again but then watch the whining by current owners how there collector piece dropped in price because a new supply is available again. I keep hearing people say Colt can't make it again because the old timers who crafted it retired like making a gun is rocket science or something. It might cost to remake it but the balance of labor costs and demand would work it out, I'd buy a new one and I'm sure Colt could make and sell one for under $3000.00 and still profit from it.

But actually I don't have a 50k pickup I have a 2003 Honda that is worth $4000.00 now. Odd thing is my Honda Element is still in demand by a certain crowd yet it is discontinued and hasn't risen in price like a discontinued Python has.
 
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An IMI Baby Desert Eagle in 9mm. Not a Jericho or 941. Sold it way under market value. Really stupid.
 
I sold a Colt Combat Government in 1988 that I bought in 1983 for $317.00. I didn’t want to sell it but it went to a good cause. It put food on my family’s table. It’s hard to look at your little girls face when you tell her we are having macaroni and butter again for dinner. I wish I wouldn’t have had to but...

Another gun I sold that I wish I would have kept was an AR-15 that I built on the cheap. Best AR I have ever shot. What was I thinking?...
 
Yeah, I can commiserate. Sold my Python snub to get the water turned on again. When the baby's in diapers, you need running water!
I sold an AR I built cheap, an XM177E2 clone, just before the Klinton Ban went into effect. Built it for @$375, sold it (with some accessories) for $1600. Don't regret that one quite as much.
 
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