ever buy the same gun more then once?

[Lloyd Smale]

Just came home with 2 new rifles yesterday. a 25-06 custom and a 308 model 700 tactical. I was at the gunshop and the wife of my buddy who just died of cancer had all his guns there. Earlier she game me a 7mag wby vanguard that he wanted left to me. I wanted to help her out so I picked up a couple guns. The 2506 was an interarms action douglass barrel with a AA French walnut stock that I had built back in the early 80s. In the late 80s I went though a divorce and had to sell some guns and that one went. I told the guy I sold it to that if he ever lost interest I wanted first crack. About 5 years later he called and I bought it back. Had it about 5 more years and Art (the guy who passed) saw it and just had to have it and twisted my arm with trade offers for about a year and finally I gave in. He had until yesterday. I about forgot about that gun and was looking through the well over 50 rifles he his wife brought in and there its was. As soon as I saw it I knew it belonged in my safe again this time for good. so I actually bought that same gun 3 times. theres still a Kimber montana 308 there that's calling me but I blew my gun budget for a good long time.

[M-Tecs]

Had a buddy that didn't manage his money very well. When he would get short I would purchase some of his guns with the understanding he could buy them back for the same price I paid him. I had a couple of his three times.

[bobthenailer]

NO i have never bought one back ! but there are a few i wish i could if i knew who had them ? sure would like my tricked out 70 series 45 acp satin nickel combat commander back!

I did get back my BIL's 1960's Ruger 22 auto after he sold it to one of my friend's 20+ years previously and after 10 years or so regreted it, so my sister and I bought it back for his birthday , I packadged it up in a big box that went progressivley down to smaller size boxes, " Boy was he surprised !"talk about a ear to ear smile. PRICELESS
As a + the gun came back in the same condition as it was sold including the box & papers , we had to give him as much $ as a new one would cost for him to sell it, but well worth it to us !

[georgerkahn]

A "friend" so "drooled" over one of mine, I finally agreed to "lease it" to him for $100.00 -- the deal be it's in his possession for as long as he still wanted it, but for any reason disposal came up, he'd get his $100 back, exclusively (so we agreed) from me. Several weeks later, I started getting chided, as Steve apparently took it to a gun show, selling it there for more than triple what he had given me. Over a decade later, at a show I went to, was the SAME firearm! I really thought about putting it back in my collection, but felt the bad memories re what Steve had done; present higher price than I could really justify spending; and, that it showed the years... I passed. But, that's the closest I got to re-buying the same firearm.

[GhostHawk]

Yes actually, Way back in the 90's my lgs guy said "Hey we have a few Ruger 10/22's for sale, last of the walnut stocks" Good price, brand new, and as he said, in months they no longer sold them with walnut stocks.

I shot it very little myself. Ended up half selling it, half giving it to my Nephew. I got out of it exactly what I put into it, which was about 1/3rd what it was worth, not to mention the scope base, rings and scope.

Knowing that it is going to the only male heir of my family in my time, yeah, you got it, priceless.
3 girls but he finally got a baby boy last year.

He's down in Huntsville Al area I believe.

[Isaac]

I once traded a very nice Winchester 1200 12 ga. and cash for a new Savage rifle. I am very happy with the rifle. I picked the 1200 up used a few years before. It was a very nice example: dark walnut wood with an excellent finish. A very nicely blued vented rib barrel. Overall, an excellent looking firearm. Well cared for. I went back to the gun shop a few times afterward. My attention was always drawn to how nice the 1200 looked. One day I figured I may never see one as nice at that one again so I went back and bought it.

[nekshot]

I know of a few I would gladly buy back if given opportunity! Good deal on your purchase, may those guns rest real good now in safe hands!

[Artful]

Ah, I thought you meant duplicates of the same gun...
I have done that - two Ruger 10/22's, Mini-14's, Marlin 44's, Sig 9mm's etc.

[mtnman31]

I've never had a gun more than once because I have only ever gotten rid of one gun. I traded it with a little cash for a different one. I Get and hold on to them. I have a couple that I would consider selling or trading to get something else but I am just not motivated to do so anytime soon. I guess it is a good thing I don't have an FFL - I'd just buy more and more guns and end up with something unmanageable.

[Forgetful]

I bought a 2nd 870 12ga. The first one took box mags and had a folding stock with pistol grip. Second one has a full traditional stock, tube fed, 12.5" barrel. Same length as mag tube. Nice little shotgun. Am considering buying a 3rd 870.. with 8" barrel and super short pump handle, except it's a 2+1 or something ridiculous like that.

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[square butte]

Yep - S & W model 48. Wished I had not sold it the day after I sold it. Went to a friend - Then I bought it back almost 20 years later, None the worse for wear. Happy to have it back

[Lloyd Smale]

id want that one back myself!

Yep - S & W model 48. Wished I had not sold it the day after I sold it. Went to a friend - Then I bought it back almost 20 years later, None the worse for wear. Happy to have it back

[fatelk]

A "friend" so "drooled" over one of mine, I finally agreed to "lease it" to him for $100.00 -- the deal be it's in his possession for as long as he still wanted it, but for any reason disposal came up, he'd get his $100 back, exclusively (so we agreed) from me. Several weeks later, I started getting chided, as Steve apparently took it to a gun show, selling it there for more than triple what he had given me.

Wow, that's a real low-life thing to do! I guess friendship means nothing to some people.

I heard a similar story from an acquaintance a few years ago, during one of the big semi-auto buying frenzies when $300 AK rifles were going for $1,000. He had a "buddy" who knew he had an extra AK and kept pestering him to sell it to him. He "really, really needed one", didn't have a lot of money, and wanted a "buddy deal". Being a nice guy, this guy sold it to him for something like the pre-frenzy price that he had paid. He found out a couple days later that his "buddy" had turned right around and sold it for a $500 profit. Needless to say, they weren't buddies anymore.

[Lloyd Smale]

I once loaned a 12 foot fishing boat to an old timer in town. I didn't use it so didn't miss it. About 2 years later I went to get it back and he had sold it. I asked him for the money he made off of it and he said he was broke and probably was. I walked out of there shaking my head!!

[marvelshooter]

Years ago I had a Ruger Single Six stolen in a housebreak. It was not recovered until after the insurance had paid the claim so I had to buy it back from them. I traded it to a coworker for a S&W model 10 and later bought it back. I recently traded it away again and who knows what the future holds.

[jmorris]

I have on guns that I sold to friends with the stipulation that if they ever sell them I get right of first refusal.

I did buy a CETME from a fellow a number of years ago and fixed the build problems it had from the factory and a few years later sold it back to the guy I bought it from. Must have done a good job, he didn't know it was the same rifle until we were talking about them in general and I was explaining how to fix various issues.

[pmeisel]

Lloyd, congratulations, second chances are rare enough and third chances unheard of!

[Hooker53]

I never have bought the same type rifle twice but the CZ-527 might be the first.

[aap2]

Last year I bought a Rem 700 Tactical 5R in .308 strictly for boolits; shot is a few times and went back to buy the exact same rifle in .223. Side by side in the rack with identical scopes they are identical (almost twins). That's as close as I have come to buying the same gun twice..

[Shooter973]

I have bought the same type of gun several times. I have 3 stainless Security 6's. 2 are 4 inch and the other is 6 inch. Plus a blue 2 1/2 inch. I also own 4 Redhawks, 3 in 44 mag, 7 1/2 inch for 2 of them and 2 in 5 1/2 inch. One in 44 the other in 357 mag. I have 3 M77's in 30-06, 2 in Mark ones, and a stainless laminated stoked on that's a Mark 2. 4 or 5 10/22's 3 blue and 2 stainless. 3 M77/22's one blue with sights, one boat paddle stainless, and target grey laminated heavy barrel. Those are just the Rugers, the same thing happens with S&W's. And Browning and Colts,and a few others.I own sereral 9 mm's that are the same, 14 1911's al in 45 acp. 2 Rem 870 police shotguns with rifle sights. The list goes on and on. When I found something I liked at my local gun shop I'd put it on layaway and $10 them to death. What's wrong with me. I can't pass up a good deal on a good gun.