Gun I don't shoot... Haunting me

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Here goes a rant....

Does anyone else get absolutely crazy with buyers remorse with guns? Hah... I bought a bubba's spanish m44 mauser for like 300 dollars without thinking one day. Now it just sits there....... driving me crazy for not buying a rifle that shoots something cheaper than 8mm.

I just feel like it doesn't serve a purpose for me and it was a bad mistake- it is useless to me. I only wanted them for HD or going to the range- I don't really hunt/
It shoots 8mm, which is getting on my nerves more and more. Its too expensive, but I'd be happy with having a .308/7.62 bolt gun at the same price... just because NATO uses it... (would be just as useless, pretty much) is that a stupid way to think?

AND its a bolt action, which is the worst thing in hindsight I could have gotten to defend my home. Why would I not have gotten something in semi?

AND I live in a densely populated city. When am I going to ever need to take a 300-400 yd shot? My 12g pump is all I ever need... I'm not allowed to have handguns. Period.

I wish I would have gotten a semi-auto rifle in a pistol caliber instead. But then I remember I can't have more than 5 ROUNDS !!! with a semi-auto in this hell of a city. Even a lever gun in .22/.357 would be more useful in my eyes (just in case this place will ever license me a handgun).

Now I have this Mauser. Which I will never get nearly the $300 in value I spent on it. Nor will I ever really shoot it. Nothing irks me more than having something that isn't Necessary or Serve a specific purpose to me in my collection. The one Pro it has is that.. It is legal for me in this Nazi city I live in. But then so would a bolt gun in .308 which would not be bothering me nearly as much... I don't know why. I can't just ignore it. I must get rid of it, and I cant! and I can't buy a different, more useful gun because then I'd spend more money I don't have on guns that I don't really need, and still I'm stuck with it and it would still be driving me crazy. Am I the only one in this boat?
 
Ok. So you spent $300, and probably can't get more than $150 for it. You've got several options.

1) Sell it. Take the loss. It's "only" $150 (or whatever) but that's $150 you don't have right now. You'll lose $150...your talk about licensing and a prohibition on handguns makes me think you're in NYC -- if so, what's $150? Dinner out for two at a mid-range restaurant? It sucks, but life will go on. Get it out of your hair and free up that little bit of cash for seed money on something else. When you decide what that "something else" is, think harder about it before you buy and make sure it's something you can really use.

If you've already got a shotgun and can't buy handguns, maybe you don't really need anything else and just want to simplify a bit. That's understandable.

2) Keep it. If it works then it is of greater value to you than the money you'll get out of it. No gun will ever be as cheap as a gun you already own. And life changes, wildly sometimes. Five years from now you very well may find yourself with a hunting opportunity, or having become pals with someone who wants to invite you out to target shoot on his farm regularly ... or you may have moved out of Gotham. A quality, hard-hitting rifle that's already paid for might look pretty good to you then.

Honestly, most of us have something between "a few" and "piles" of guns that we don't shoot almost ever. It just comes with the territory. :) Honestly, I've no idea what I might use a Marlin .444 for around here, but there it sits in the safe. Next year, or 10 years from now, it might be perfect for something I want to do. It's not like they go bad from sitting in a closet somewhere. :)
 
I do it all the time. I've got several guns I almost never shoot. For me, so what? If I ever need the money I can sell them off. As a matter of fact I've sold several recently just to (1) reduce the inventory, and (2) raise cash to buy something else if it comes along.

I can't say I've ever "regreted" any of them, but I have wondered "Why'd you buy ANOTHER .357?"

If you want to keep it to rifles, I've got two Mosin-Nagants I've never even purchased a round of ammo for. :D
 
Put it on consignment with a decent gun shop. They will charge you about 15% of the sale price. You might actually get your bucks back or at least most of them. I have sold about 40 firearm I either did not like or for some other reason/s quit shooting them through a gun shop. Actually got way more in price than I would have recieved in a private sale.
 
It happens. I've done it several times. If you have buyer's remorse now, think hard about whether you'll have seller's remorse if you sell the rifle you now have. If you think you may miss your rifle if you sell it, make sure that you articulate the reason why, if only to yourself. Mentally, this exercise may help you appreciate in a concrete way why you bought the rifle in the first place and why you ought to keep it. On the other hand, if you know that you won't miss it and cannot figure why you acquired it in the first place, sell the darn thing. List it on Gunbroker or a similar website. You don't necessarily have to take a huge loss. If you're in no big hurry, list it for a while with a decent starting bid and see who comes along. In the end, I've found that there's no good reason to hang onto a gun (or most anything else) that you neither enjoy nor need.
 
Sell it and move on, gun safes are small and I'm sure you can use the space for something else...
 
Folks, if "just move" was a possibility, he'd probably have started the "where should I move to enjoy my guns" thread instead of this one. Let's try to be a little more helpful.
 
I haven't had buyers remorse. but maybe sellers remorse. as i wish i didn't sell my GSG5 and my .45acp carbine.....those wer the two i shot the most....but i needed the $ more.

I did pickup a Iver Jhonson .32 S&W short. Just need to pick it up....lol The only thing i wish is that .32 short wasnt so expensive. But since its in meh shape and paid $25.00 for it and $32. for ammo (yes i know $32 for .32 ammo is funny.) I figure after im done toying with it and maybe bubba it out it would be more of a display pice.
 
Done it many times. Eaten the loss or miraculously gotten out of it thanks to people with more money than sense. One time I got a Luger drum for $450. Except it turned out to be a repro, which are only worth $300. Ate the loss, got what money I could, turned around and spent the money on something else, made a goodly profit, and used the money to buy a Winchester M1.

Presently I've got this:

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Yeah it's nice, but it's a millstone because I paid market-ish at $340, another $50 in the scope, and nobody's willing to buy it at $450 shipped because they "can buy sporterized milsurps almost anywhere for $350 all day long" as one dealer said when offering me $250 by email.

My advice is advertise as cash-or-trade and pray somebody has something they don't like but you would.
 
Just sit on it. The value will change over time either because the gun is getting scarcer, or because it's already inside the jurisdiction and may be saleable "inside" like guns that are already inside California bringing a premium?

The ammo ain't that expensive - http://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/category/categoryId/251? Looks like plenty in the $1 a round range. OK, it ain't cheap Russian surplus, but it's not really expensive compared to .375 H&H or something :)

Or sit down with your shootin buddies and design a cool hot-rod job on that chassis and have at it. What calibers do you like that will translate to a Spanish Mauser action?

Post a picture in this thread. Maybe someone will make a reasonable offer? What kind of condition is it in?
 
Unless 150 is alot of money to you just keep it. Is it in good condition? I think some vendors still have Yugo 8mm surplus for not too awful a price. It's a popular round available everywhere, and plus I'm pretty sure the gun is worth more than 150. Hell, impulse buy, at least it was not a car, yes?
 
I think virtually all of us have made at least one impulse buy at one time or another. If you are not going to shoot it, sell it even if you take a small loss and use the money for a firearm that you will use.
 
When you say bubba'd, how bubba'd is it? I have a bubba'd spanish M44 that my dad gave me that I've since put a scope on. It's a good shooter, albeit kinda ugly. :) Any pictures of it? I've been looking for another one, just because I find them interesting.

Matt
 
This is how bubba'd:

Apparently the serial number on the receiver is the lowest anyone's ever seen @ EA00545 if that mean's anything..... Too bad the rest of the numbers don't match it! :banghead:

A trade would be awesome too... I think I'd want a .22 rifle, or .308. I don't know why, but I like the idea of having something in that round, even though the bullets are just as expensive as 8.mm... I think a lever action .22 would be awesome to have, it should be NYC legal...

but guess what? LOL NYC says I can't buy a new gun for another... 70 days or something. I bought something 20 days ago. Sick, eh? I do need to move...
 
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Keep it or trade it. Looks like most of it is there, so could be "restored" if anyone wanted? Looks like a shooter to me. Curious how it will group? Need a range report :)

Would work well in the canyons and flats out in Utah :)
 
Beware of returning guns.

One day I strolled into the local pawn shop and saw a nickle SAA in .38 special. It was a second model made in 1902. Cost was $835. Looked new. I bought it.

I couldn't figure the caliber. Did they make a .38 Special in 1902? I looked in my Colt books and couldn't fine one that early in that caliber. It locked up like new. Perfect bore. I RETURNED IT thinking it was bogus. It had poorly fitting grips.

After some study I learned it was legit, may have been the very first Colt .38 Special and was a "big money gun". Probably worth $35K. I had it in my hand and because of buyer's remorse (I'm not a rich dude.) I returned it. Now my good friends, that was DUMB. It was one of those "finds" that we all hear about, and I returned it. Every day I get up and hit my head against a cement wall. It's got a big dent in it where my head hits.
 
I pulled one of those this last summer, got a paycheck and decided I needed an AK variant so I went down to my local pawn shop, and dropped 370 on an old Romanian WASR-10. I had fun for about three days. I realized that it's not a gun that fits me, I shoot ans own military rifles but they're all bolt action. I shoot lever actions and pump actions, everything but semi auto. I ended up trading it for a stainless Dan Wesson 357, I lucked out and recovered and gained a great pistol, which is now my go to pistol.
 
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