What's the one you wish you didn't part with?

[Mike of the Mountain]

In following with the two threads regarding what gun you would buy and what gun will you not buy, here's another twist. What firearm do you wish you never parted with? Most of us have moved too many guns to keep track of but what is that one you keep wishing you had back?

For me it would be a S&W Model 41. I picked that up from a homeowner we were doing a job for. He said he was looking to sell it. I told him I shoot competitively and was interested. He said he'd clean it up and told me he wanted $250. Original box and original receipt of purchase along with an extra set of grips!! Next day he said he had bad news, my heart sank. He said when he took the grips off there was some traces of rust under them and there was some light pitting when he removed the rust. Price was $200!! #WINNING!!

Shot that pistol for years in Sportsman Team Challenge events and local rimfire matches. Traded it for a MSR which fueled that addiction which is another story altogether! I do know who has the pistol and have mentioned to him multiple times if he wants to part with it to let me know.

BTW, that original price around 1970 for the Model 41 was approximately $67.

[Spin Drift]

1979 870 Wingmaster, 30" full choke. I still have all my Parkers so no regrets there.

Spin

[Bob Jurewicz]

Parker DHE 20 GA 32" 3" Chambers Straight Stock/Splinter that "Lettered". It was restored by DelGrego and remalined 100%. At the time I just couldn't handle the cyanide case colors. I have since gotten over that ailment.
Bob Jurewicz

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Bob Jurewicz

Parker DHE 20 GA 32" 3" Chambers Straight Stock/Splinter that "Lettered". It was restored by DelGrego and remalined 100%. At the time I just couldn't handle the cyanide case colors. I have since gotten over that ailment.
Bob Jurewicz

OUCH!! That one hurts.

[Craig Larter]

One I let get away was the Ed Keller DH 119817, 30", great dimensions, tight chokes and no safety. I did a PP story about the gun and Mr. Keller a representative for Peters and a competitive shooter. He also was an accomplished duck hunter. Ed and his duck hunting buddies owned a 47ft schooner that served as their hunting accommodations which was kept on the Detroit River.

[Gary Cripps]

SAA Colt ser. # range 4900 Custer /Little Big Horn. Sold because I couldn’t verify. Bought several Parker’s with the proceeds. Good information in the last two years pins it to the battle and the trooper and the warrior that picked it up. Was in great original condition. Fired very little if at all.

[Hammer Gun]

A set of Colt Boa,s in the presentation case 4 and six inch along with the shipping box, Gary

[Researcher]

I'd kind of like to have the gun I started my Pheasant hunting career with. My Mother's old RANGER (a J. Stevens Arms Co. Springfield No. 315 made for Sears, Roebuck & Co.) 12-gauge that was custom stocked for her by my Great Uncle Art Gustafson back in the late 1930s. He did a straight grip stock with a quality trigger guard and a Jostam No-Kick-Coming pad. By 1960 I'd bought a Winchester Model 50 and my Mother was too crippled with rheumatoid arthritis to use it, so my Father sold it.

[David Noble]

A Parker Try-Gun with the tools and pouch. I never shot it and that is why I sold it, but now I miss having it to hold and admire.

[Dean Romig]

Sometimes life’s circumstances force us into situations where there is but one way out…

In my case, at 66 with a head of white hair, I found myself suddenly “downsized” with no “parachute” and with a couple of mortgages looming over my head. I had little chance of finding the kind of employment I had been doing all my life and I reluctantly made the decision to liquidate a few things so I could pay off my biggest mortgage and that was my home mortgage. Not knowing where my next paycheck would be coming from and needing to keep my home I sold my best (at the time) Parkers - an unfired 16 gauge Grade-1 T/A hammer gun in 99% original condition and a Bernard barreled CH that was stunning in every way. With the proceeds from those and a couple of other Parkers I paid off my home mortgage.

There are other Parkers that I have sold and for which I have, to this day, seller’s remorse, one being my little 16 gauge Lifter woodcock gun and another being a sweet little 28 gauge VHE that was always a delight to take to the grouse woods.

There will certainly be others as the years go by.





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