What rifle or any gun have you let slip thru your hands and did not buy or trade for and still regret it ? What were the circumstances?
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What rifle or any gun have you let slip thru your hands and did not buy or trade for and still regret it ? What were the circums
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Where do I begin without getting sick all over again?
1) A sweet L.C. Smith 20 gauge with 2 sets two barrels in a hard case, I had the $$, but was far too slow even with 2 weeks to think on it. 2) A mint Sweet Sixteen that I found for dad(I didn't have the scratch, he did) that dad traded for a .45 single action. 3)An awesome Savage 99 in .308 that I should have snatched from dear ole daddy before he sold that 'cause of a $120 repair it needed. I'm ashamed of myself.
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Friend of mine was selling a Browning A-bolt .300 WSM with a Leupold VXIII 3.5x10x50 for $400. I didn't need the gun but I new it was to good of a deal to pass up. I went home to get my checkbook. When I returned he had already sold it to another guy (I guess a man's word sure ain't what it use to be). Sad part of the story is that I had my checkbook in the truck the whole time and didn't realize it. Gun was basically brand new. It probably had never been fired over half a dozen times. The other guy bought it and resold it for somewhere aroud $900 to $1000.
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I always wanted a Ruger .44 Magnum carbine. I found one at a gun show a couple years back that was in pretty nice shape, but I felt the dealer was asking a little too much for it ($650.00) and he wouldn't budge on the price, so I went home without it. The couple I have come across since were either in poor shape, or $100.00 more.
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I passed on a Winchester Model 88 in .280 or .284 (I forget). They wanted about $1,600 for it which I thought was way to much money money for a 40 year old lever action. I liked how it looked but really didn't know what it was so I went home and got on line and realized that it was pretty special. By the time I got back to the store one of the store's salesmen bought it.
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When I lived in the Texas Hill Country, I owned a nice Colt New Service Model 1909 .45LC with a lanyard ring on the butt, but almost no original finish remaining. It was a good shooter.
It came with a story that it had been used in a murder back in the 1920's in Llano County, Texas, and was liberated during a riot at the County jail.
Shortly after I acquired that Model 1909, I resolved not to add any more guns without getting rid of at least one.
So, when I fancied a nice used Colt Python I saw at a gun show, I sold the Model 1909 to help pay for the Python. It was also a good shooter.
When the novelty of owning the Python wore off, I sold it, and bought something else.
Fickle me. I would love to have that old Model 1909 back. I can always buy another Python, but they are just not my cup of tea.
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When my great uncle passed away he left me a nice lever action 10 gauge shotgun. I remember that gun when I was little and was proud that he thought enough of me to leave me this one item. When I went to the house to get it it was nowhere to be found, and my cousin swears he never saw it. (I still can not trust him after that)
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