[quote="Virginian"]Well, I am tired of reading all the doomsayers talking about how Remington is gone for good. I have had to restart a shutdown plant and it is quite complicated even without a gun hating governor and a Covid shutdown. I do not believe the buyers shelled out how ever many millions just for a tax write off.
Of all the guns I have sold, I only really regret selling three. I occasionally miss several others.
The three were: #1 a S&W Model 65 with a 4" barrel. Had Wolff Springs, slightly smoothed action, some Safariland wood look finger groove grips, and was absolutely THE most accurate centerfire revolver I have ever owned.
#2 was a Marlin Model 94 Cowboy with a 24" barrel in .44 Magnum. Sanded off the checkering and refinished the stock set, mounted a tang sight, replaced the original sights, and added swivel mounts. Once I figured out I needed 0.002" oversized hard cast lead bullets, that baby would even ring the 500 yard gong. I developed eye issues (turned out to be a broken blood vessel in the back of my eye and got better) as I was starting to get serious about Cowboy shooting. I could just use my left eye with a pistol, and a shotgun was no problem, but I positively cannot operate a lever action rifle worth a damn left handed.
#3 was a 1974 Wingmaster Magnum, with a 30" Full barrel. Shot that gun better than any other shotgun I have ever owned, bar none, and that even includes my beloved 1100s. Won money off a friend when I shot a 50 straight at skeet. I have replaced it with a 1976 Wingmaster Magnum, and added a 30" Light Contour barrel, and that's as close as I am going to get. I got a double on Mallards the last time I used it even as old and slow as I am now.[/quote]

Sir, while I fear you are not, I hope very much that you are right and that many of us are as wrong as can be in our pessimism.

 

I regret selling every gun I have ever sold.

 

I regret selling a S&W1000, 20 gauge. I was a quail killing machine with that gun. It got to where it wouldn't cycle my reloads. Rather than think through what had changed, I gave up on it and sold it. I had been using Green Dot in all my 20 gauge loads and upon learning that Briley frowned on using Green Dot loads in their tubes, I switched to International. Using the published loads, that S&W would not cycle. I just couldn't believe a published load wouldn't work in any gun. But, the Hodgdon folks assured me that International did not generate enough gas to reliably cycle every autoloader. Apparently, my gun was one that wouldn't. Anyway, it was gone before I learned all that. In fact, a brand-new 1100 that wouldn't cycle is what prompted the investigation.

 

I sold a cased in original case, 1905 Stephen Grant side lever with nitro proofed Damascus barrels. It was a gun I had wanted for many years but never found a good example. When I did, I bought it sight unseen (pre internet) days. I shot it some and hunted pheasants with it in SD before I sold it. Really regret selling that one.

The side lever action especially as used by Stephen Grant are to me some of the most elegant looking guns ever made.

 

Colt Python .357 magnum. 6 inch barrel. Shot very little. I still had the box and accessories. The good news is I got about twice what I paid for it. Bad news is they are now going for about five times what I got for it. Money aside, it was such a sweet shooter, I never should have sold it.

 

The only one I regret selling was my Browning P35
9mm pistol. It was my personal firearm I carried in
Vietnam.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Hi-Power

 

You guys are going to think I am insane, but I sold a Mossberg 500 Waterfowl when I needed funds several years ago. I think I even bought it like new on this site and wish I never sold it.

I thought, I can always buy another one if I want to get back in the Mossberg game. Well guess what, I can't as they don't make them anymore in the camo wrap or that version. I have looked but can't find them.

Not many people regret a $300 gun but I sure do on that one.

 

I regret selling my two 10.5 lb class custom .22 rimfire benchrest rifles. I regret it because I sold two world class rifles that I used to win several State and National Championships to novice shooters. Oh, I got what they were worth but one fellow instead of just shooting it had to bugger it up by "improving it" and the other fellow never competed with his. I should have just sold them to experienced shooters who could have actually won more with them. Such a waste.

 

Ruger No.1 in 250-3000, stainless. Sold it to a member here. Not may others I think about but selling that one was a mistake.

 

I regret selling my 44 Auto mag, great gun, but really expensive to shoot. My 22 Woodsman, that was the most accurate pistol I have ever owned, even more accurate than my S & W 41.

cdb

 

I don't regret selling any. There was a SKB Waterfowler, a 585 I think, that I sold but I've found other guns that I shoot even better than that one. I regretted it at first but I've moved on.

I regretted selling my CZ75 Compact, a 9mm pistol, but I replaced it with another, so I'm good on that one too. I have a couple guns now that I regret BUYING.

 

My Colt .45 New Service Target with a 7.5" barrel and gorgeous checkered factory target grips. I sold it for really good money even though it had a scratch on the frame. Had sellers remorse shortly afterward. About 10 years later I found another one that was better than the one that I sold and I bought it for less than what I sold the first one for. This one I'm keeping!

 

Sold a Stainless Colt National Match 1911because I wanted a new deer rifle (it's long gone now).

 

A Beretta BL3 20ga. I'd love to have it back

 

Kimber model 82, custom classic in 22 hornet.

 

Sold a Stainless Colt National Match 1911because I wanted a new deer rifle (it's long gone now).

I have one of them, they are a really fine gun.

cdb

 

Once upon a long time ago, I owned a Mariochi made Deluxe Sharps.

It had a long, half octagon 30 inch barrel, and some previous owner had fitted a tang sight and post front sight.

I had a Poncho Villa style over the shoulder bandolier I loaded up with about sixty black powder 45-70 loads, and I remember me and my friends banging away at a foam filled metal five gallon bucket in a pond. We'd keep backing up until it was hard to hit.

I took it to a gun show in the late zeros and priced it at $1, 000 and a man bought it so fast I realized I'd underpriced it.

That one and a European Pigeon Grade 101 and a 1968 Gold Cup I sold for what I thought then scandalous amounts of money are the only three guns I often wish I'd not priced.

But I'm buying another long barreled single shot 45-70, this time a Hi Wall.

The exposed hammer on a Sharps was slightly distracting, even through the tang sight.

But what became of my bandolier, I cannot remember.

Maybe it's hiding in my stuff, even yet.

 

S&W Model 19 3 pin recessed. Carried it when I was in LE. Never had to pull it out on duty.

 

An 870 Competition Trap. The gun crushed targets better than any I've shot since. But I was young and just had to have a single barrel breakdown gun so I could fit in with the crowd.

 

Smith and Wesson Model 39-2 and a M1 Carbine.

 

At nearly 65 years of age I've owned many guns. After awhile they are all just another gun. No real regrets on any I've sold.

 

My youngest was a toddler and we drove all the way to NW Mass to get a Savage model 30 20 gauge that was NIB . 26" IC choke that I shot extremely well and looked better than any other Savage I have ever seen. The kicker was the dealer had a 12 gauge NIB as well. The dealer gave me a lot of crap for even considering shooting it. I couldn't afford it at the time.
Fun drive and many years of shooting it. I wish I didn't sell it.

Somebody shoot me if I ever sell the 16 ga. Wingmaster I just bought (stole for $700).

Jim

 

Toss up between a Beretta 303 with 3" chambers and 30" barrel and a 20 gauge Model 12 with after market B carved wood.

 

Brand new unfired FN 49 in 30-06. Sold it for bunch of $ when Clinton was doing his gun import ban.

 

A nice, light 14 ga. muzzleloading SXS (Navy Arms) bored IC and Mod that I have been kicking myself for selling. It was fun to shoot, accurate, reliable, and I miss it.