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

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.

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

Spin

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. :eek:

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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Craig, you'll be happy to know that T.H. Keller had more than one waterfowl gun. He had a DH grade 8 gauge 30" gun that I still have and shoot. David Noble will be pleased to know that I still have my A.P.Curtis Parker try gun and I have no hesitation about shooting it and do shoot it and fit shooters with it. The gun I am most disappointed to have sold was my VH 20 gauge 32" #2 frame #153,333. Does anyone know where it is? This is a pretty interesting thread.

I haven't sold too many. I wish I had talked Julia out of selling her 20 gauge Citori that was her first gun. It would have been a good gun for Harry to use for the Forest City Juniors this year. I wish I still had my first 870 Wingmaster, but Dad gave that one away without asking

That would be a great Parker to have in the collection!

:banghead:A "CE" grade Lefever with 30 in. Damascus barrels that I bought just over 30 years ago. Original in every respect and with 90% case colors and barrel finish.

I sold Danny Patton a 12 gauge VH #2 frame 32” full and more full . Gun was straight grip and stocked quite high . I bought it on GB from a dealer in New England . When it arrived I took the trigger guard screw out popped the guard up and checked the number in the wood . I was sure it wouldn’t match , but it did . Don’t think I ever got a letter but I’m pretty confident it was ordered as an economical pigeon gun if memory serves the gun was made in the 1912-1914 area . And yes he still has it but won’t part with it .

One of my dream guns

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Sold a 30 inch 16ga Fox Sterlingworth 40 years ago, still miss that gun.

A PH 12ga with twist barrels that I traded. I could shoot that gun reasonably well. Should have kept it.

Back in 2007 acquired a Merle’s 280-360 SEL 28 ga 410 bore with straight grip and gorgeous wood in an aluminum Merle’s travel case. It was U.N.fired and came to me for a gentleman’s bet payment. Daughter was getting married so it went soon after it came. Wish I’d kept it but such is life

I have no such regrets. You have to sell them to have regrets about it. With one exception, I haven't. And, no regrets about that one.

That definitely hurt!

Traded a Colt single action Army 2nd generation I bought new when I got out of the Army in 1971 for an Ithaca Mag 10 for goose hunting. Don't miss the Mag 10 but do miss the Colt. Paid $165 for the Colt

106312 , O Frame 28 Gauge DH Grade with Original 25" Barrels according to TPS it is the only 25" D Grade, 28 Gauge with 25" Barrels ! Like a Dummy ,I used it as a partial trade on a Parker 410 which I love but ...... ! Live and learn , when I made the deal I thought well it is an O Frame and I already have a OO Frame so that's what I did but I have regretted it since , I shot that gun better than any 28 Gauge I have owned !

There has been a few Guns I have regretted selling. Probably the one I
Miss the Most was the first centerfire rifle I bought with my own money. It
Was A Remington model 722 in 222 Magnum.
I have never found a rifle that I instinctively shot so well.

The gun I regret selling the most was a 0 frame 16ga GH Damascus from 1900 that was in almost new condition.
I made the mistake of taking it out on the opening day of dove season at farm that hosted a big event for the opener attended by by a bunch of hard core double gun collectors.
One of them hounded me for weeks, he finally made an offer I couldn’t refuse but should have.

My late father-in-law always shot a 12ga Remington Model 11, but he liked my doubles and decided he'd like to have one, "a 12ga, and not too expensive". I found him a really nice Fox Model B made in 1960 at a gun show and he loved it. One of his comments: "I like that it's got some weight to it", not something you hear much in double gun circles :)! Sadly his health had put him beyond his hunting years but I got to see him bust a few clays with it at the family spring-trap get togethers. After he passed my mother-in-law gave me the gun, but she's on a fixed income and I felt she could use the money more than I needed the gun so I sold it. I'm not much of a 12ga guy but it's the one gun I wish I still had.

Ditto. Maybe I should sell some but then the potential for sellers remorse is high. Let the kids sort it out at the end I guess.

I had forgotten I sold a circa 1906 Marlin 1893 32-40 with a half round half octagon barrel on GB a few years back . Guy in the UK bought it . That was the only 32-40 I've ever owned sometimes I think I'd like that one back .

Winchester Golden Grouse 20 gauge as new in its case and a Walther PP super.

I let one other Parker go that I wish I hadn't, but it came back to me. I was envolved in a three way trade with two other friends. I had to give up the Milo B Richardson BH 12ga 30" (article in PP) for a straight grip BHE 12ga 30" in higher condition. As luck would have it the owner of my BH purchased a BHE 12ga 3 frame at Rock Mountain and offered me back the Milo B Richardson BH. So the circle is complete.

Other than the Model B the only guns I've even sold were ones I bought to sell, so no regrets. Now, guitars and banjos...that's another story...

What a dope.
 

RKLT 28 gauge Pigeon

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5" Model 27 3 T's in display case traded for a 20 ga Eibar double to teach my daughter upland shooting. The Eibar was a POS but I wasnt educated enough to know that. The dealer did.

A straight stocked 28” BHE 20ga, in its Brady case from A&F. Belonged to the Bissell family. Just covered my daughters masters degree in Applied Meteorology.
She chucked it all to take people sword and tuna fishing. If I had the gun back, I’d just give it to her knowing she’d never sell it.

VH 16 0 frame, never missed a grouse, but gained a new Parker member...

Regret selling my first 2 barrelled gun, first run of the Ruger Red Label 20 ga, choked sk/sk, with better than average wood. Heavy for a 20 ga, but i shot quite a few grouse with
it back in the late 70's/early 80's. Paid $500 for it. It got traded off to buy my DHE 16 O frame, but wish I had it back.

I’ve kept my first year Ruger Red Label choked IC/M, and it too, has very nice wood. I regret selling a 3200 Skeet with comp wood, 20 ga. 3” Wingmaster, Ruger Deerstalker .44Mag, and a Parker Repro SSS.

A 1935 Runge Delgrego 12 ga. 32" vent rib trap gun, upgraded to A-1 Special.
Also, a two BBL set DHE 20 gauge. This was the "Doctor's Gun" I wrote about in the Parker Pages. (It went to a good home)
Finances can be a beezatch sometimes!

That would have been a tough one to part with. You're not a dope because I'm sure you moved it along for a good reason.:cool: I've been on the lookout for just one like it, even a Gr1 would make me happy.

I did trade my Pigeon grade 3 barrel skeet set with 28'' barrels many years ago for a 30" VHE, OO 28ga Parker. Still have the Parker but miss the Pigeon skeet.