Bought it, got tired, and let it go!

[Mad Irish Jack]

Almost every firearm owner has bought their first firearm. Had it. Used it. And, for some reason sold it or gifted it, but you let it go. Years later you think on it for some reason & wish you still had that ONE firearm. You can list, posr 1 or each ONE lost love firearm only or 1 in each catagory. Explain if you want.

 

[Mad Irish Jack]

I can start. My first Revolver, I still have & enjoy it. It's a Ruger Security-Six .38/.357 Mag in 4" bbl w/3 sets of grips. My First High Power Rifle. I still have and reload for it, She gets 3 shot,1 hole groups at 150Yd & 2.5"@400 yds on a good day. She' a 1974 Winchester 70A 30.06 fed Sierra 165 gr HPBT Game King. First S/A pistol was a Beretta 92FS, full size. Enjoyed shooting it but wanted a downsized CCW. Sold. Don't miss it. Old timer told me, "Never trade, always sell." he said, and I see it over time. You will get a little more$$$ for it. First Muzzleloading pistol was a CVA .45 cal percussion kit. It shoot great but I didn't use it much. I sold for cash to get ML part for builds I do. Had a second Kit gift to me that made the first available for trade. MY first .22 cal rifle was a Remington pump, mod 572BDL Sold to get$$$ for a .22 Mag. don't miss it. My first shotgun was 16ga 36" Goose type shotgun by Stevens. Sold for $$$ to bought an Armsport 12 ga SA 24" bbl. My first muzzleloading rifle was an Armsport Hawken 54 cal flintlock kit. My daughter shot it until she discovered Track & Field. Don't miss it. Sold for $$$ for my ML build. MY first from scratch built ML was an Early Hawken ) Maryland style FULL STOCK Sam Hawken .54 cal 38"bbl. Sold for 4 digits to fund 2 more builds for myself. I do WISH I still had it. IT was super accurate to 150 yds. My first smoothbore ML was a Pedersoli Brown Bess Kit in .75 cal. Great deer and small game gun and I won a lot of rifle matches as well as smoothbore matches with her. But truthfully, I don't miss her. I've go fine smooth-rifles in .28 ga that I shoot more proficiently. That's what I had and kept. I have others I and my family members use.

 

[Shots_fired]

Oh yeah, my first .22 rifle was a perfect little starter gun. I sold it to fund something else but I still catch myself wishing I had that thing for casual plinking.

 

[AveragEd]

My first was a four-inch S&W Model 19-3 with target hammer and trigger. I foolishly sold it when I became enamored with Colt Pythons but returned to the S&W fold after a few years and now have about 15 of their pre-2000 revolvers and four of their 1911s, including two from their old Performance Center.

Ed

 

[swampfox]

Bought and traded many firearms through the years. Kind of regret parting with a .38 Spl Colt Diamondback about 30 years ago- it just fit me well and a pleasure to shoot and considering what they sell for now, probably a mistake. So many rifles that left the patch, but the one I regret selling was a Sako .222 Heavy Barrel with a factory stock that had fiddelback grain. A Remington 572 pump in .22LR, hardly used it, but I miss it for some odd reason.

 

[Krane]

I let go a Colt Python in the mid nineties because I needed rent money, thought about it probably twice a month since then. Some decisions age worse than others and that one aged terribly.

 

[flash60601]

They were so many, this page is so short.

I traded a cheap .25ACP Buffalo pistol to a WWII vet who wanted it in exchange for an S-42, G date Mauserwerke Oberndorf P-08 Luger (matching numbers throughout, no loss of blueing or wear, literally "Pristine") with matching, serial-numbered Hanel aluminum-based (no wood)) magazines and its own custom holster. And a year later, I traded that Luger for a bunch of reloading gear and components, and yeah, today's value on that gun would buy me a new BMW. That was the first - I am still kicking myself, but then I was young and uninformed.

1965 - I bought a new Winchester 94, 30-30 and a decade ago I gave it to my grandson.
1966 - I bought a brand new, in the arsenal box, 1903-A3 two-groove Remington barrel, that my neighbor bought from DCM and decided he didn't want it anymore, but it was sold a decade ago for enough to get into AR's.

I gotta quit here - my tears are in danger of shorting out my keyboard.