Lost love, the one that got away. What's yours?

a pre 64 model 70 featherweight in 30-06 , Owned it and sold it for what I paid for it to a family member on the stipulation that if it was sold it would be back to me. He let it go for a 40 of white rum years later to one of his buddies.
 
Personally, my 1950 Hi Power Husky in 06. Nothing real fancy but it was a big step up from the old milsurp I had for hunting. It was minty too.

Not that I had control over any of it but I am seriously peeved at some family members for selling heirloom guns before asking me. I don't care if I wasn't born yet or not. They should have known I was going to show up eventually.
It has cost alot to replace them all!
 
Here is the one that got away that I posted a while back...but I was lucky enough to get back.

Link: Brno ZKK-601 .223 Rem: "The one that DIDN'T get away..."

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I was 14 years old. I saved my money from after school chores, and filled out an order form to Sidney I Robinson in Winnipeg for a Browning T-bolt .22. and two extra magazines. I was about to mail away the order and $68 when my Dad said I would never be happy with a bolt action, or a "peep" sight, I should shoot a pump like his Remington 760. So I cancelled the order, and bought a "High standard" pump .22. What a piece of crap. It quit completely after about 4 years of jamming, inaccuracy and frustration. I'd still be shooting that beautiful little Browning nearly 40 years later if I hadn't listened to dear old Dad. Sigh.
 
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One that never was: When I first got to Alberta I was touring the different gunshops in the area & came across a John Rigby bolt action in 275 Rigby (7x57mm) with a fine German scope. I was told that I could probably wrestle it away from it's owner for a mere $4500. After just fliping the bill for a move across Canada & carrying mortgages on two houses, as the sale on previous house had not gone through yet, I could not seem to come up with the money at that time & maintain my marriage. So far its been the right choice about the marriage part! Anyhow if that gun & I ever cross paths again, I'm gonna buy her & figure out how to pay for it when I finally come to after a frying pan to the head by the Misses if I got caught with it! Occasionally she tells me to find a misstress as it would be cheaper & easier to compete for my affection...:p
 
Had a Savage Model 24 .22mag over 20g that I took out when I hunted with my
Grandfather 20 years ago. The hammer was off and kept misfiring the rimfire. I took it to the gunsmith and it came back with the same problem. I figured it was un-fixable, so I traded it for a scoped .22mag bolt-action. I regretted giving that gun up for many, many years. Recently, I re-acquired a Savage in the same configuration and it feels great to have that gun back.
 
Longwalker said:
I was 14 years old. I saved my money from after school chores, and filled out an order form to Sidney I Robinson in Winnipeg for a Browning T-bolt .22. and two extra magazines. I was about to mail away the order and $68 when my Dad said I would never be happy with a bolt action, or a "peep" sight, I should shoot a pump like his Remington 760. So I cancelled the order, and bought a "High standard" pump .22. What a piece of crap. It quit completely after about 4 years of jamming, inaccuracy and frustration. I'd still be shooting that beautiful little Browning nearly 40 years later if I hadn't listened to dear old Dad. Sigh.
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That serves you right for being the only teenage son in creation that listened to ANY adult.
 
the only one that got away that I regret was my first centerfire a win 94 in 30-30. I gave it to a friend that had sold the exact same rifle because of being a broke teenager. It had been given to him by his father and he didn't want his father to know he had sold it. so mine did a stand in act in his father gun cabinet for years. years later when he got back on his feet he gave me the money for the rifle but the rifle never came back.
 
A custom pre '64 .270 built by the Riverhurst Rifle Ranch. It had it's quirks like being miserable to clean but I couldn't miss with it. I traded it off in Saskatoon, and would kill to have it back.
The one that haunts me though isn't a gun, it's a 1968 Corvette with an L88 that I could have had for $10,800 years ago. If I would have found it a year sooner or a year later it would have been mine. Could you imagine how many guns that thing would buy now?
 
I've got 3 that I regret. 2 were winchester 70's featherweights, one in 30-06 and the other in 270. Both immaculate, sold one and traded the other for a T3 hunter in 308 (why I did this still amazes me).
The third was a win m70 custom, 7 mag, synthetic stock, jewelled shillen barrel, stainless, burris scope, sold it for 600, why? I have no friggin idea why.
 
Browning B78 Low Wall in 22-250. Wood was like marble and shot into one jagged hole (damn kids).
 
When I married my first wife ,her father wanted a small pistol(i had just bought a S&W police chief 5 shot )her father traded me a German Burp gun with mag for the pistol! This was early 68 before the ban,and I traded it for an M-14 with selector switch,then traded the M-14 for a new 20 guage Sweet-Sixteen.

I needed furniature and traded it for a house full of Ratain !

In 1968 there was a grace period that I could have filed out forms and owned any of them!!!

Boy what a blunder the Burp gun no problem,but I'd bet the M-14 might have had a past history that would not be to my likeing!


Bob
 
Not mine, but two of my Dad's, which if not eventually mine, could have at least stayed in the family. One was a sportered 303 Brit. The donor rifle was carefully selected by a gunsmith, who tuned it all up and built a stock for it. It shot well, was beautifully balanced, and was a real sweetheart to handle. The other was a like new 71 Winchester which he let go to a neighbor for next to nothing. Dad could never understand why anyone would want more than one "big game" rifle.
 
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