Gun You HAD To Get, Got, Then Lost Interest

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This is one I don't expect to see on here: Browning Buckmark .22lr I'm a revolver guy and as much as I try to love semiautos other than a 1911, they just don't do it for me. So I traded it towards a 1911!

DPMS 24" Panther Bull Special. It was extremelly acurate. 100 yard shots weren't even fun. Bottom line was that it was large and heavy, but what I realized later is that I want a CQB platform. That's the type of shooting I like to do with a semiauto 5.56. Sold it off. It was the first gun I ever bought, and the first I ever sold.

I'm thinking about selling off a Bond arms Snake Slayer. It's a wonderful novelty, and no fun to shoot at all. It does have it's uses though.
 
A Savage 10 with the AccuTrigger. I bought it to learn to shoot at further distances (Had only shot up to about 100 yards at this time). It was the first scope I'd ever had to "sight in" and I knew nothing about ballistics. After a few range sessions, I still couldn't figure out what I was doing. So, I sold it to buy other things. That was only a few years ago and I've since done 300-yard shooting with an M1 Garand and a PTR91 with no scope at all. I really wish I had that rifle back now! :cuss: Now I'm scouring the market for another of its kind but my budget is much to low right now.
 
G22. Resisted buying a Glock for years and years. Finally caved to the pressure:). Turns out it didn't do anything better than my .40 xD or 1911 in .40. Felt kind of boring to shoot and I couldn't shoot it well. Glocks are great guns, just not great for me. Best part was I made a $100 profit selling it!
 
GSG-5

Fun at first, but then it's air soft lineage starts to show. I haven't shot it in a year or two. It has been totally replaced by a suppressed 10/22.
 
Beretta Cx4 Storm. I lusted after the space-age carbine, finally got one, took it out a couple times, then hung it up until I sold it 3 years later.
 
got a mossberg 12 GA pump. loved it,never fired it,needed money,lost it to the dang pawn shop.sure do miss it though,nice gun
 
This is one I don't expect to see on here: Browning Buckmark .22lr I'm a revolver guy and as much as I try to love semiautos other than a 1911, they just don't do it for me. So I traded it towards a 1911!
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Surprise!

...but not for the reason(s) you might think.



I have a bone stock Buckmark Hunter that was kind of an "impulse buy". It was a situation where I was going to leave the gun show with a .22 auto (preferably Buckmark) come hell or high water.

Note to self and others: DO NOT go to a gun show or shop in this mode/with this attitude. This is how you end up with "regret purchases".

Now, to be clear, there is nothing at all wrong with the gun. I still like the way it looks, too - though of course it's not as beautiful as the day I saw it on the gun show table... :D

It's just that I have a half-dozen .22 handguns now, and as far as range time this one is dead last. Mostly because the 7.25" barrel is a little gangly for general use. Plus I don't want to scuff up the nice wood grip panels. If I ever get into .22 handgun with a scope, this will be the gun and I'm all set already.


This is the only gun I have that is anywhere near this category. Most of my purchases are very well researched and thought out. Even with this Hunter situation regret is really not the right word, but if I could do it over again... I probably wouldn't.
 
Springfield trp operator full rail. Still have it. Its a little scratched up. Wanted to have it chopped down to 4inches and no gunsmith would do it so i want to get rid of it for an sti tactical 4.0
 
Built a Mosin Nagant for the range, turned out to be everything I expected but is difficult to load and not so good for timed events. Luckily I have less than $500 in it and where I live (short sight lines in the mountains) it won't get much use unless I get deer tags this year, and even at that it will get little use but it fills my 30 cal spot. My favorite is my cheapest 10 22, a 5 pound carbine.

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Winchester 1895 (1995 made model). I love TR, and the connection to the 1895. The "new" one was OK, but it never felt right. I did kill a deer with it. It was sold. I'd like to have an original, one day.

Marlin and Winchester rifles in 357. I WANT to like them. Never kept one.

S&W 63. Great little guns. Very accurate. Too small for me.

I'm sure there are more...
 
Heard great things about ishpor smle in 308. But when I got it, it weighed a ton, was muzzle heavy, coated with yucky black paint, and felt as ergonomic as a bunch of dead fished duck taped together. Tried to foist that one off.
 
I've posed this question, too...

My post is titled: Most displeased with gun...

The Kel-Tec sub 2000 in 9mm with Beretta magazine...

The good: It just looked so darn cool, it folded in half, and was cheap!!!
The bad: It was stinkin' 9mm ARRRGGGHHHH!!!! I hates me some 9mm
The ugly: The sights were crap, it jammed up until I took a Dremel to the chamber mouth, the chamber and guts were exposed when it was folded, it was still 9mm:barf:
 
An Enfield. Bugged a guy for a couple of years and he finally decided he wanted to sell it. I got it, it was neat, I was over it quick. Ammo is a hassle. Only thing cheap is corrosive and that's hard to find. If you get the MK8 ammo you burn up your barrel and new .303 is hard to find and expensive when you do. I went to Gander and they must have had 10 boxes of 250-3000 :eek:...but not one box of .303. Probably just popular enough that it sells but not so popular to stock a lot.

Over it. Sold it for a good price and used it to help fund a .223/5.56. Plus the guy who bought it is a real for sure enthusiast and he's real pleased.
 
Ruger #1 Tropical in 458 Win Mag. Just had to have one, found a decent deal and snagged it up. I was h€llbent on reloading for it, but never got that far. Turns out it was just a pain to shoot... Heh. It comes out about once a year to get the dust knocked off of it.
 
Not so much the type of gun, but the mftr. a Lancaster AK-47 it looks really nice and shoots well but for the price too much$$$ I bought it several years ago when Ak's were still kind of hard to get (not siting in every gun store around the corner) and at the time there was not that much negativity towards Lancaster, now I tell people if you find an AK you like go for it don't pay the Lancaster prices. So far other than that I have not really run into regrets when buying, I tend to not be impulsive and really think about the positives and negatives before buying. Money is too hard to come by nowadays.
 
A lot of things catch my eye, but go by the wayside before I get them. I've only bought 6 guns so far, the only one that I really lost interest with was my revolver.
 
Barrett M95.

It's heavy, it's a pain to load up and take to the range, it's crazy EXPENSIVE to shoot.

Collects a lot of dust now. Doesn't even have a scope at the moment, swiped the scope for my 300 Win Mag and haven't bothered to mount another. BTW, 300 Win Mag feels like so much of a pop gun, after shooting the bolt action 50 for awhile.

I'm not all that enamored with 50BMG as I once was. I like shooting... not getting the snot beat out of me.
 
Springfield Custom 1911. It was "nice" but not near as accurate as my RIA. Bushmaster AR15 HBAR accurate but too big too heavy ditched it for a Colt M4 LE. SS PARA Warthawg, great carry gun lousy range gun.
 
Ruger Blackhawk .357 6.5" stainless, loved it...or the idea of it at least...too heavy, slow reloads, hate cleaning revolvers...just fell out of love, still miss it sometimes, like ex-girlfriends, then I come to my senses :p

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SlowFuse said:
Ruger #1 Tropical in 458 Win Mag. Just had to have one, found a decent deal and snagged it up. I was h€llbent on reloading for it, but never got that far. Turns out it was just a pain to shoot... Heh. It comes out about once a year to get the dust knocked off of it.
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Thanks funny, I picked up a used Ruger #1 in 458 Lott just because it was cheap and came with brass and dies. Now it's my favorite rifle to take to the range.
 
Every derringer I've ever owned. Looks neat, sounds neat, but the interest faded real fast.
 
Lesson I learned from 2 real crappy pistols, is to dry fire them once before plunking cash down.

Kel Tec p11 I bought it cause at the time it was marketed as the slimmest double stack 9mm. Worlds worst trigger.

And also a Cobra 9mm derringer, awful trigger and snapped in my hand to hard .
 
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