Kick me. I should have bought it.

[MOcaster]

What all have you seen for sale but didn't buy and then really wish you had? I know I have had plenty. Like the Lyman 45 for $25 or the Lyman 55 for $20. Someone please kick me a few times for each of those.

What are your regrets? Sometimes you just have to let it out. What can we kick you for?

[TXGunNut]

I have a rule; if I pick it up or examine it closely more than twice it's time to reach for the wallet. If I don't, I've always regretted it. If I do, I'm seldom disappointed. Please don't make me list the ones I kick myself over, yardwork already did me in and I won't be able to walk tomorrow.

[starmac]

I have had to kick myself more for buying things I never used. lol I once bought a 1 ton welding truck complete with a miller big 40 and a 6 yard dump truck the same day off of ebay, and never went and picked them up. lol

[km101]

A 6" Colt Python that a friend had for sale. I thought that I "really didn't need it" until someone else bought it. Whenever anyone mentions "things you regret" I always think of that gun!

Same thing with a 1957 Chevy 2dr HT that was running and drove good. This was in 1979 and the guy wanted $1500.00 for it. It was a great candidate to restore or make a hotrod, but I let it get away!

[abqcaster]

I had the opportunity to buy a couple of .38's for $189.00 before things got really stupid. I think now if I like a gun, after the dealer pulls it out of the case and I've dickered with it, It's time to reach for my wallet.

[captaint]

So, I'm at the Allentown gun show back around 1982. There's an absolutely mint and pristine 1909 Argentine 98. It had every accecory that came with the new ones. It was perfect and not restored - it was original. $ 160.00. The old gunsmith friend with me said "Na, Mikey, that's too
much money".......... Wow. Still sick about that one. Mike

[oldarkie]

in 1967 i bought a 98 with the winter trigger guard that looked like new from a home town store,for 18.50 ,he had three crates of them. he also had three crates of winchester mod 92s for 50.00 each,wish i had the money to buy them all. in 1980 ,in a gun shop in blairstown mo. i saw a86 winchester 4082 in real good shape for 400.00 ,i didnt buy ,still kick myself.

[Love Life]

Hot sauce.

2 years ago the huge bottles of Valentina hot sauce (fantastic stuff by the way) were on sale for $0.88 a bottle. I only bought 2 bottles. Looking back on it I should have bough 10 of them.

[41 mag fan]

In '98 friend of mine was moving out of his GF's house, and needed money. Had a 50 cal, dies, 200 pcs of brass and 500 j-words for sale for $1000. 50 cal had only been shot 20 times.
I didn't have the money, as I was recovering from a recent divorce, custody of the kids, no child support.......ect ect
I tell my kids jokingly every so often, I'm the reason you can't sell kids on Ebay!!
I tried to put them up for sale for that gun, but got no buyers!!

[Guesser]

A 2nd gen Colt SAA in 38 Special, 5 1/2" and pristine for a good price a couple years ago, it's back at twice the price!!!!

[ultramag]

I don't wanna play this game!

[jeepyj]

In 1978 my dad said that a guy at his work wanted to get rid of a old car and thought we should go have a look and see if would be suitable for my first car. We got there and it was a 62 corvette with a big block with 20,000 miles. The guy wanted $4,000 but would negotiate. My dad said that was way to much money for a first car. Even though I was working and was paying for it myself there wasn't any convincing him different.
Still remember that ride just sitting there looking so nice.
Ooh well as they say "father know best"
Jeepyj

[km101]

In 1978 my dad said that a guy at his work wanted to get rid of a old car and thought we should go have a look and see if would be suitable for my first car. We got there and it was a 62 corvette with a big block with 20,000 miles. The guy wanted $4,000 but would negotiate. My dad said that was way to much money for a first car. Even though I was working and was paying for it myself there wasn't any convincing him different.
Still remember that ride just sitting there looking so nice.
Ooh well as they say "father know best"
Jeepyj


Your dad probably wasn't thinking of the money! He was probably thinking (as I would have been) "A big block Corvette as a first car? Now way, he would kill himself in a month! Or his mother will kill me!" And he was probably right! And yeah, "father usually does know best." LOL

[smokemjoe]

In the 60s at gun show, 500 nitro for $500.00, I didnt want to go home broke, Joe

[SlippShodd]

A 6" Colt Python that a friend had for sale.


Ooh well as they say "father know best"

I get to blend these two for my most acrimonious gun memory.
I was 16, had the money in my pocket (ranch kid, always working), and before me in the showcase was my dream gun: An immaculate 6" Python whose previous owner had fitted some custom walnut grips to that fit my somewhat small hands like a freaking glove (so much better than the Colt originals)... for $200. New ones sold for about $400 in those mid-'70s days. No amount of pleading, cajoling, reasoning, whining or begging would convince my old man to buy that gun for me. He was always under the impression that handguns were of no practical use, and pragmatism was the doctrine he lived by. Later in life, I showed him the error of his pistol prejudice. :)
Now if we want to talk about the good guns I've had and should have kept? Well, I'd rather have my old mare plant her hoof in my thigh again, than to endure the pain in my posterior that list would produce.

mike

[John Allen]

At the Oaks gun show about a month before all this nonsense started I passed up a Ruger Old Army, blued in good shape for $250.00. I went home and then next day wanted to kick my own a**

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

My Parents house !

In 1990, My parents decided to sell the house I grew up in...with 4 Lakeshore lots. At that same time, my employer transfered me from Glencoe back into the Twin Cities. I sold my house in the Glencoe area and moved back into my folks house. I wanted to buy it badly...I continously was thinking how I was going to afford their house...selling price $60K. I lived there for a year while commuting 50 miles into the twin cities for my job, I wasn't making much $$$, and I just didn't think I could swing the payments, insurance, taxes, gas and time for commuting ...So I let my parents list the property. It sold right away for $55K cash. WHY the low price, that town was always a poor $$$ area, land prices were always lower then the surrounding area. THEN that area (sherburne county) went through a building boom starting about that year and all through the 90s. In about 1995, empty, single lake lots about 4 blocks down the street, sold for $120K. Lots in that developement with no lakeshore went for $80K. Talk about a bad time to sell (1990 that is).

To make things worse (for me), My folk's property was a sloped hill going down to the lakeshore, on the north side of the lake...besides huge Cottonwood trees on the shoreline. WHAT DOES SOUTHERN EXPOSURE MEAN ? Warm sunshine with North wind protection in the winter for lakeside activites. Cool breezes off the lake, out of the south, during the summer heat. Growing up there was a blessing I never really knew til it was gone. Also the lake was a great fishing lake, til the Metro area reached that town (in the early 1990s) and the lake got so busy and then became filled with Milfoil (Eurasian watermilfoil)...which killed sporting fish-ability.

I cry everytime I think of this.
Jon

[texassako]

No missed gun purchases, but was offered a '72 Cutlass Supreme convertible w/ 70k miles for $2500 in the early '90s with a huge binder with all the dealer maintenance since new. I still kick myself over that one.

[Sasquatch-1]

In the late 70's I could have picked up a class 3 M60 for $2700.00. I would be sitting pretty right now.

[rush1886]

Late 1973. 5 acres of pinion/juniper/sage covered ground in the middle of nowhere. Price was $2K. I had the cash. Couldn't see the future, declined the offer. Stein Ericson's Lodge, Deer Valley, UT, now sits less than a 1/4 mile from that chunk of dirt!
Dummy,dummy, dummy..................................!

[PULSARNC]

About 20 years ago I found a flawless 98 mauser in .275 Rigby .Guy had no clue about ammo for it and neither did I . Passed on it even though I could have walked off with it for less than $125.00. IT stuck with me and many years later learned it was an honest to god RIGBY! Oh well live and learn

[Dutch4122]

Early 1990's. A buddy's dad (FFL holder) offered me a new in the box Browning 1886 .45-70 rifle for $450.00. When I declined because I didn't actually have the money he said I could send him payments and take the rifle home that day! And I still turned him down!!!!!!!!!!!![smilie=b:

Then there was the Pristine 8mm Persian Mauser Carbine for $300.00 that a friend was selling. :groner:

I could go on, but there's no use torturing myself any further.

[tward]

80 acres of farmland and woods for 80,000, and by the way they were throwing in a 2500 sq ft house, a barn, a workshop building and a Quonset hut that was rented and produced an income!
Just out of school and had no money! Tim

[Jal5]

At a gun auction house several years ago, looked at a H&R rifle in 45-70. Some amount of rust in the barrel turned me off to it and I went about my business. Later I looked it up ad it sold for a whopping $90 IIRC. I should have jumped on that one rust or not! :cry:

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

I should have started buying CMP Garands with every 200 dollars i could find starting in 1992 when i first learned about the CMP then and more when the price went up to 250 400 , and 500

instead I didn't and finally ordered one this year at 625.00

[375supermag]

I was in The Sportsman Shop in New Holland, Pa about 20 or so years ago and had a S&W Outdoorsman in .38/44 in my hand for $600 cash. I had more than that in my wallet and didn't buy it.

Regret it every time I think about it.

[w0fms]

Only buying 2000 rds of 22LR mail order on Black Friday 2012 instead of 10,000... ;) Of course I didn't know my 11 & 12 year old would like to shoot a 22LR Rifle but are still too timid of the recoil on any of the pistols. Hopefully the supply I have will last though the insanity!

[rockrat]

Back in '90 I could have bought a Puteux 25mm cannon with 200 rounds of ammo for $2,500.00. didn't have any place to shoot it, guy also had a Barrett 50 cal for $1,600. M16 for $800 and an HK 53 for $1,400.

Last year, passed on a Ruger RSI bolt gun in 308, with a nice Burris scope for $495

[SlippShodd]

Then there was the HK93 for $200. I called. He had it. I had the cash.
And then I thought, "Geez, what if I don't like it?"
..."Nah, I already got a .223."

mike
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