There are times we are forced to sell things due to financial problems and there are times we sell things because we are young and stupid. I was in the latter category. I've told this before and it still makes me wonder "What was I thinking?"
Before my grandfather passed away, I bought a few of his guns one of which was his PH 12ga Parker with fluid steel barrels. It was his hunting gun and he was proud of it. Sometime back in the early 1980's I had to have the latest Trap Gun but didn't have all the cash needed to buy one. I was visiting a well known local gunsmith and he offered to buy it. I justified selling it because he agreed that if he ever decided to sell it, he would give me first chance to buy it back. It's amazing how the mind works when you want something bad enough.
Through the following years I kept wondering if he still had the gun but I never had occasion to visit him. It was 5 or so years later, I'm at my local trap club and one of the guys says, "Did you hear that Guy passed away?" My heart just about stopped! I said I have to get hold of his widow and see if he still has the Parker. He replied that all of Guy's guns were at the auctioneer to be sold at auction.
I was able to attend the auction and low and behold, there was the Parker in exactly the same condition as when I sold it. Believe me, I was prepared to take out a second mortgage to buy back the Parker. As I recall, I paid almost exactly the same price to buy it back as I got to sell it.
Talk about lucky, had my friend not mentioned that Guy had died, I doubt I would have known about the auction and the gun would not be in my possession today.
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