Somewhere between mild regret and WTF was I thinking?

[SteveB]

Enjoying the "Favorite Revolvers" thread, but it made me think about the guns I wish I hadn't let get away. Let's hear about the ones you wish you still had.

Kicking it off:

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[JHC]

One or both S&W Model 58's I used to own. Picked them up separately for a song in the early '80's. Very sad.

[baddean]

A brushed stainless Colt King Cobra. I sure miss that gun. It did, however, fund my entire brace of "cowboy" action shooting guns that got me started in CAS though.
I swore I'd never sell another handgun after that for fear I'd miss it later. So I just buy a bigger safe.

[Nephrology]

I have never sold a revolver. :)

Generally speaking I am slow to acquire new guns and hesitant to get rid of them, but if I buy a revolver it's because I absolutely need it in my life (for one reason or another...)

[Jeep]

Selling revolvers? Isn't that illegal or something? (Well I did trade away a Hi Standard .22 Magnum once, but those were not good guns).

[ReverendMeat]

Taurus Gaucho

[HCM]

I've had and let go both a 3" Lew Horton M24 and a 6 1/2" M24.

Colt Delta Elite - A great shooting gun I should have never gotten rid of. Sold due to ammo cost and availability.

4" S&W 686 CS-1. The gun had end shake and at the time I didn't know how easy it was to fix that issue.

Colt Anaconda 6" 44mag. I understand some of these were problematic but I had one that shot and functioned well. Sold to fund a Kahr arms MK 9 off duty piece which I do not miss at all.

[BobM]

I wish I'd bought my issued Security Six back in 1990 when we traded them in on 9mm. I owned (and still have) a 4" GP100 and then didn't see the point in owning two 4" .357s.

[JonInWA]

I had a Ruger short-shroud stainless steel GP100 in .357 magnum that I'd had a Wolff spring kit in, and then the entire revolver bead-blasted to a matte silver-gray finish. I actually traded it in once, re-bought-it (the shop was great about it, and let me buy it back for what they'd paid me, and than traded it in again as a partial trade on a Walther P88, as I recall (or maybe it was a SIG P210-6).

The P88 was interesting, but didn't do anything appreciably better than my SIG P228, or others-so eventually I traded it in also, with no lingering regrets; the SIG P210 was likewise also eventually sold to finance my Nighthawk Custom Talon II custom build.-but I do wish I hadn't traded off that GP100...

I also had a stainless steel 5.5" barrel "old" model Ruger Vaquero, with an El Paso Saddlery John Wesley Hardin shoulder rig, that I sold to a friend. I never shot it particularly well, but that was probably more a reflection on me than on the Vaquero's capabilities. While I'm much happier with my current New Model Blackhawk Convertible, which is a much more shootable and practical single-action for me, I still kind of wish I had that Vaquero.

Best, Jon

[Dagga Boy]

My "Book of Tears" would crash the forum on bandwidth.

[Joe in PNG]

A really nice S&W Model 15

[JHC]

And a 6.5" Registered Magnum.

And a limited run round butt 3" Model 29.

A 6" Model 57. The 8 3/8" one was a tack driver too but I don't miss it. Too damn big.

Too many great running Colt 1911s.

A HK P7 I bought from a guy at a Dallas gun show for $500, came with 5 mags and about 5 replacement mag springs.

Two Mk III BHPs that ran as well with the same casual care as any Glock every born.

[Dagga Boy]

I ll see all of these and raise.....a NIB unfired, 3" Combat Python, not one! but 2 ASP's (they suck, but are really valuable now). Freedom Arms Sheriff's .454 Casull....which defined pain, but was awfully cool.

[Nephrology]

I ll see all of these and raise.....a NIB unfired, 3" Combat Python, not one! but 2 ASP's (they suck, but are really valuable now). Freedom Arms Sheriff's .454 Casull....which defined pain, but was awfully cool.

the 3" Combat Python pretty bad.

This is why I generally do not sell guns...

[TheNewbie]

Model 66 no dash I got as a gift. I AM an IDIOT. the prices have really went up on even the used versions it seems.

[Joe in PNG]

There was also a Sig 229 9mm I sold, and used the proceeds to buy a Glock 27. Because teh fotay is caliber awesome! [facepalm]

[Trooper224]

My Colt Python I paid $350 for back in 1992. The mint Colt New Service in .45 Colt that I had for about a day before trading it off.............

[LtDave]

Sig P210 I bought from a gunshop in Geneva, Switzerland for $150 in 1972. My first centerfire handgun, a Ruger flattop .357.

Also kick myself for not buying a complete HK P7K3 set that was NIB from a guy at the Great Western Show. That gunshow used to be at the LA County Fairgrounds twice a year. It was huge. I really miss that show.

[Dagga Boy]

Sig P210 I bought from a gunshop in Geneva, Switzerland for $150 in 1972. My first centerfire handgun, a Ruger flattop .357.

Also kick myself for not buying a complete HK P7K3 set that was NIB from a guy at the Great Western Show. That gunshow used to be at the LA County Fairgrounds twice a year. It was huge. I really miss that show.

Oh my.....:(

I sure miss the Old Great Western Gun Show.....just running down aisle after aisle, building after building and throwing money at people. They were glorious back until the mid 90's when it started going downhill. Thankfully, the Phoenix version is fairly epic.

[SecondsCount]

Taurus 94 22LR - Not a single tear shed when I got rid of it

S&W 586- Not sure why but I sold it when I picked up a 686. Maybe I thought I shouldn't have more than one 6" 357 :confused:

[FNFAN]

not one! but 2 ASP's (they suck, but are really valuable now).

The ASP is the ultimate expression of coolness! Unfortunately, the coolness dissipates when you go to shoot one.

[Nephrology]

There are far more guns I passed up on buying that I regret... like a 4" CS-1 686 for $500. To be fair, at the time I was really broke, and would have had to sold me IDPA/USPSA Production match gun - one of the original 3rd gen RTF Glock 17s. In the end, I would have have been more pissed about selling that gun than I am pissed about not buying the CS-1....

....so I tell myself, as I look at pictures of revolvers online...

[SeriousStudent]

I sold a 6" Ultimate Stainless Python, but honestly don't regret it. It paid for a week in the hospital for my son.

Sometimes a pistol is just a pistol.

[45dotACP]

A 41 mag ruger blackhawk...I still haz a sad about that one.

[serialsolver]

My first gun a 6.5 in Blackhawk in 41 mag. I was young and dumb.

The two Pythons, one with a no expense trigger job and e-nickeled. My kids were hungry.

My Ithaca m37 riot gun in 12 bore. When Sgt wright approved it he said "you know if you hold the trigger back it goes off when you pump it". Yessir it does, I said. My poor man sub gun. It rode under my knees. See above reason.

A 4 " colt police positive special. A surplus gun from the Royal Canadian mounted police. I had to sale my guns when my family was young. Gun less I picked up scrap metal at the construction site I worked at. I gather up enough to buy the pps and a lee loader. I was back into shooting. It could shot. I hammered together a lot of 38's for it. When I got back into law enforcement I traded it for a 686.

My two colt single action army's.

The colt officers model serial #750.

My first colt government model. My hands wore off the blue, shooting, dry firing and drawing it. I really learned how shoot with it. We got ivory grips when I made detective.

The gen 1 glock 17 I had. Just cause it changed our trade so much.

Other regrets,
4" S&W 29
5" s&w 2nd model hand ejector 44sp with stag grips
4" S&W 624
4" S&W 57
2" s&w 64
4" s&w 625, one in 45acp, and a mountain gun in 45 colt


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[LtDave]

Oh my.....:(

I sure miss the Old Great Western Gun Show.....just running down aisle after aisle, building after building and throwing money at people. They were glorious back until the mid 90's when it started going downhill. Thankfully, the Phoenix version is fairly epic.
I think I've been to the Phoenix one twice. Haven't been in quite a while, it just didn't do it for me. Have found a couple goodies at small Flagstaff and Payson gunshows over the past couple of years.

[Jeep]

I sold a 6" Ultimate Stainless Python, but honestly don't regret it. It paid for a week in the hospital for my son.

Sometimes a pistol is just a pistol.

Kid in hospital/hungry kids are two of the very few valid excuses for selling something like that. But they are mighty valid.

[Duelist]

Traded a straight shooting model 10 S&W for a little plastic semiauto.

Lots of derp that day.

[Dagga Boy]

The ASP is the ultimate expression of coolness! Unfortunately, the coolness dissipates when you go to shoot one.

Traded a Sig P-226 for my first one when I worked for SIG's west coast LE distributer in college in the 80's and they were tough to get. The guy who had was actually a cool Fed who did neat things overseas and had all the cool Ken Null secret squirrel leather and accessories. A month later I sold it as it was abysmal in performance compared to my P-226 or P-225. I ended up selling and replacing the original P-226 for a K-Kote one with night sights, so I did fine. Last one....couple thousand dollars and flipped it for a quick profit. Neat collectable...not a very good gun if you ever needed to actually use it. It did carry great though.

[ranger]

I had a Colt 1911 Government Model Series 70 in 9mm and with a 38 Super barrel. Used it for USPA back around 1986 or so. 100% reliable and shot anything I fed it. Long ago - no idea why I let it go. Now I am looking for a 1911 9mm - go figure. Had a Colt 1911 Series 70 Commander in 38 Super - sold it to buy a Glock 17. Duh.

[Tinker Pearce]

Detonics Combat Masters- a Mk.IV and Mk.VII
Detonics Factory-Custom Longslide Scoremaster

[FNFAN]

The guy who had was actually a cool Fed who did neat things overseas and had all the cool Ken Null secret squirrel leather and accessories.

Fun stuff! If the ASP's that were actually working guns could only talk!

I calculate a 87.95% chance you have my "one that got away" and now "bucket list" gun...

Lew Horton fixed sight 3" 629 Carry Comp?

[Dagga Boy]

Fun stuff! If the ASP's that were actually working guns could only talk!

I calculate a 87.95% chance you have my "one that got away" and now "bucket list" gun...

Lew Horton fixed sight 3" 629 Carry Comp?

I think actual honestly used by real Cold War operatives ASP's are very few, which is why I now regret selling the one I had.

I have more Lew Horton .44 snubs than a person should be allowed, but not that one.....and not for a lack of wanting one. I have never even seen one in person or I would have snatched it up.

[Dagga Boy]

Detonics Combat Masters- a Mk.IV and Mk.VII
Detonics Factory-Custom Longslide Scoremaster

I don't really miss my Combat masters that much.....but dear lord my Scoremaster was a machine. The one I had was the phase where I think it was Robar making them.

[Hizzie]

There are two I shoulda bought.

1 Ruger SP101 DAO factory high polish
2 colt Magnum Carry

[Trooper224]

And a 6.5" Registered Magnum.

http://images1.tickld.com/live/632871.jpg

[Hambo]

I have mixed feelings about some:
My Registered .357 was in pristine condition, but I abhor safe queens and it was about to get shot a lot and then I was going to hunt with it. Better off with someone else.
Custom chopped M25...but in .45acp. If it had been .45 Colt...

The ones that truly hurt:
My plain jane 4" M29. What a stupid move.
A 2 1/2" M66 tuned up by Wilson. I should be carrying that one AIWB right now.

One that I didn't buy haunts me to this day: factory 3" M66.

[okie john]

I've bought and sold a bunch of them over the years. I get them, learn from them, then move them down the road as my interests change. The only one that I'd buy back tomorrow is a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in 308. Jim Cloward put it into a Pacific Research stock and did some of his other secret magic to it, so it was supremely accurate off of the bench plus it was ungodly fast on blacktails in the brush. Pretty much everything a rifle should be...

Money got tight for a while and it had to go so I could keep my son moving forward. I replaced it with a South Carolina Model 70 in 30/06, but it's just not the same.

There's also the Mk II Browning Hi Power (Serial number 245PX21946) that my father gave me when I finished the Special Forces Qualification Course. Some asshole stole it a couple of weeks after I got it. I definitely want that one back, but at least I didn't sell it.


Okie John

[mtnbkr]

I don't have any that I truly regret selling. I do kind of regret selling my 696-1, but the reason was good (my folks were in a serious financial bind at the time) and I preferred my 4" 629 for actual shooting pleasure (with the same loads). Presented with the same scenario again, I'd make the same choice. I haven't been tempted to buy another one. I think my mild regret is due to the Internet continuously pumping this as a desirable gun to own.

I do have a few regrets for revolvers I didn't buy: the 2.5" fixed sight 629 for $800 in 2015 and the Lew Horton 24 for $600ish in 2005.

Otherwise, I've been smart in snapping up and holding onto S&W revolvers. I'm less clingy to Ruger models...

Chris

[AlwaysLearning]

P7M8 with the original plastic box and tools, 6 magazines. Bought it from a no-bullshit bounty hunter. Sold it to a collector friend when I had some life threatening medical problems and needed the cash. I bought it as a self protection piece, and in the end it did exactly that.

[Tom Duffy]

A Colt Series 70 Gold Cup National Match with about 200 rounds through it. At the time, I liked shooting revolvers more (and still do).

Guns I wish I'd sold and still own: a Dan Wesson revolver set with 3 interchangeable barrels. What a piece of crap.

ETA: Sorry just noticed I was in the revolver forum. A Gold Cup doesn't qualify.

[mtnbkr]

Guns I wish I'd sold and still own: a Dan Wesson revolver set with 3 interchangeable barrels. What a piece of crap.

Really? Those things are in demand. I could never justify the coin for the multi-barrel sets myself. Now I'm kind of glad I didn't.

Chris

[Tom Duffy]

Really? Those things are in demand. I could never justify the coin for the multi-barrel sets myself. Now I'm kind of glad I didn't.

Chris
It's broken three times with very light usage with wadcutters. The double action, while shorter than a smith, defines terrible. The hand currently engages the cylinder only in the horizontal position. As much as I don't shoot guns straight up in the air, it does make you wonder. I did buy it used, so it's possible someone traded it in without full disclosure.

[1986s4]

A original condition S&W M1917 that I got for under $350. The only pistol I ever pulled for self defense, didn't use it but it's presence convinced this dude he was at the wrong house.

[xray 99]

4" Python I traded for some "state of the art" wondernine circa 1992.

[Irelander]

I sold my beloved S&W 629 5" Classic last year to fund a safe since my daughter is getting older. I really didn't want to sell it but it was the only gun I had that I knew I could sell quickly and get the funds I needed.

I always have my eyes out for another one. :( sniff....sniff.

[SteveK]

5 inch S&W Model 27 and a Novak Special Ops Hi Power by Kurt Wickmann. Thanks for the nostalgic kick in the groin.

[Lex Luthier]

1915 Mk V/VI Webley, all numbers matched, 5" BBl, seemingly original wooden birds-head grips and intact lanyard ring. Unconverted cylinder in .455/450, of course.
Also a reblued S & W M & P .38 special with 4" barrel and original *very worn* gutta percha grips on a round butt, circa 1912. Not worth tons, but the best double action I have ever encountered in 30+ years of messing with the things. Just the epitome of a good S & W trigger.

[jh9]

4" Python I traded for some "state of the art" wondernine circa 1992.

Oh. Ow.

I feel your pain. I traded a cherry early `70s Python with the most awesome finish ever AND a Russian SKS with bits of cosmo still on it back during the AWB.

For a Carbon-15. With 3 mags. One of which worked.

Voluntarily. I did this on purpose.

[shooter220]

Smith & Wesson Model 63 snub - had some sort of metallurgy problem, no matter how much I scrubbed or what product I used, the barrel would not come clean. I got mad and sold it. I should have sent it to Smith.

-shooter

[Chuck Whitlock]

Oh. Ow.

I feel your pain. I traded a cherry early `70s Python with the most awesome finish ever AND a Russian SKS with bits of cosmo still on it back during the AWB.

For a Carbon-15. With 3 mags. One of which worked.

Voluntarily. I did this on purpose.

You're not alone. Brother. Traded a Beretta 96D Centurion strait across for a new Kel-tec P11. I keep telling myself that I needed a BUG and was cashless.

[Nephrology]

You're not alone. Brother. Traded a Beretta 96D Centurion strait across for a new Kel-tec P11. I keep telling myself that I needed a BUG and was cashless.

....they didn't give you any cash for it???? I know it was a .40, but seriously...? For a Kel-Tec?

[Poconnor]

I sold a S&W 27 5" and a S&W 520 to buy a mustang cobra. I wish I still had the cobra. I bought another 27 5" and another 520. I'm keeping them this time. I might have done plenty of dumb things in my life but I learn from my mistakes. I hope

[Eastex]

I dated a girl I didn't really like that much for about a year or so starting in 1984. I could have bought a new Python with what I probably spent on her, does that count?


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[jh9]

You're not alone. Brother. Traded a Beretta 96D Centurion strait across for a new Kel-tec P11. I keep telling myself that I needed a BUG and was cashless.

Ow. Well, I mean. If you're gonna get a KelTec, the P11 would be the one to get...

[Chuck Whitlock]

....they didn't give you any cash for it???? I know it was a .40, but seriously...? For a Kel-Tec?


Ow. Well, I mean. If you're gonna get a KelTec, the P11 would be the one to get...

IIRC, the P11 was in .40....because...2002 and riding the bandwagon, I guess. Main gun was G23.


The more you know.......

[TDA]

I once owned a Colt Elite 10/40. I exchanged this pistol, plus cash money, for a Remington 870 police magnum. Guy at the gun store wouldn't do an even trade because ".40 is ok, but 10mm isn't very popular." I want to kick myself in the groin every time I think about this event. The guy that sold me the Colt (in a store) called me afterwards to tell me he heard this story and ask if it really happened.
Around the same time I had a micro Uzi with the shoulder holster that snapped on to the special grip assembly pin that had, you know, snaps on each end, and it was ridiculous and utterly impractical for any purpose but it shot like what a Red Ryder BB gun would be like if it were accurate. Every time I took it to the range I felt like I was cheating at guns.

[Mickey]

The most beautiful weapon I have ever owned was a S&W model 25 mountain gun. It was a dealer exclusive for one year and I just had to have it. I eventually traded it for a glock 19 :(. The only good to come out of that trade was that I got to fire a Glock 18 for the only time in my life(the person I traded to was a dealer and had a dealer sample Glock 18). Not worth the trade but it was fun.
Here is a pic of A 25 mountain gun, not mine but beautiful just the same.
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[rwa]

All were new when purchased. In no particular order:

1. Power Custom PPC revolvers, 2 built on Smith model 10s, 1 built on Smith model 13, one in .44 Special built on model 28 (Ron reamed the cylinder).
2. Colt Pythons, blued, 6 inch, 4 inch, and a 2 1/2 inch (sold these in the late 70s to fund another project).
3. Colt Diamond Backs, 4", one in .38 spl, one in .22 lr.
4. S&W model 25-2, one 6 1/2" in 45 ACP, one 8 3/8 in 45 ACP, one 6 1/2 in .45 ACP, one 6 1/2 " with factory fitted .45 ACP and 45 LC cylinders. Smith and Wesson 25-3 6 1/2 in. 125th Commerative Edition.
5. Smolt/Smython PPC Revolver (Python barrel on Smith frame) 6 inch by Reeves Jungkind.

[jdw174]

Like a previous poster said, mine would crash the bandwidth. If I'd known then what I know now, I'd still have the half-dozen royal blue Pythons, my two Richard Heinie 1911's, my S&W 28 converted to .45 ACP, my first year production Glock 17, and.................the list is both long AND distinguished!

[Rustin]

Just sold an sp101 2.25" bbl in .357 mag. Its always nice to have a surplus of guns but I've never felt too bad about selling anything....yet.

[CSW]

One of my dumbest sales was that of a Smith model 16.
https://pistol-forum.com/asset.php?fid=4418&uid=9568&d=1448823680

[Stephanie B]

A Smith 17-4 which I loaned to a neighbor's kid who was learning how to shoot and had some execrable and cheap revolver. The gun was stolen from his apartment.

Much later, I sold a well worn 10-5 and a Taurus 94 in order to buy a 17-3, so it's all good.

[deputyG23]

When my work banned revolvers from the approved carry list, I sold my three year old Bodyguard Airweight to my nephew to use as his off duty gun. I have missed it on occasion.
He is now a county Sheriff in SW VA and now carries a SIG P290 as a pocket gun. Wonder if he would sell it back?

[okie john]

I dated a girl I didn't really like that much for about a year or so starting in 1984. I could have bought a new Python with what I probably spent on her, does that count?

If we go down that road, them I'm going to invoke my ex-wife and start talking about side lock Holland & Holland doubles.


Okie John

[Mitch]

If we go down that road, them I'm going to invoke my ex-wife and start talking about side lock Holland & Holland doubles.


Okie John

I think it's best if we all agree not to go down that road.

[Eastex]

Holland & Holland.......ouch


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[okie john]

Holland & Holland.......ouch

Over 15 years, so not as bad as it could have been.


Okie John

[Buckshot]

Sticking to the revolvers I shoulda kept, there was the 3 digit Triple Lock, a gorgeous Webley Greener, the 44 Spl New Frontier, a brace of 342s. three M58s, a delicious pre 27 3.5", one each 3" & 4" CS-1s, a brace of 3" M66s,,, I'm gonna stop now & go puke!

[CSW]

Another stupid sale;
A 629, "Ranger", marked on the barrel, "One of Three"......Ugh....

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[mtnbkr]

Another stupid sale;
A 629, "Ranger", marked on the barrel, "One of Three"......Ugh....


Besides the unfluted cylinder, what makes it different than any other 629?

Chris

[11B10]

My "Book of Tears" would crash the forum on bandwidth.



Yes, but - what I've seen of your current inventory is just downright spellbinding!

[CSW]

Besides the unfluted cylinder, what makes it different than any other 629?

Chris

When I lettered it, it appears that it was made for three execs of a now defunct gun store in Tx.
There were no real "different" features on the gun, short of the laser engravings "ranger", as you can see, and a Texas Ranger Star on the opposite side.
Just another odd Smith custom run.

[mtnbkr]

When I lettered it, it appears that it was made for three execs of a now defunct gun store in Tx.
There were no real "different" features on the gun, short of the laser engravings "ranger", as you can see, and a Texas Ranger Star on the opposite side.
Just another odd Smith custom run.

Gotcha.

Chris