Colt 1911 .45 full size and compact..The “guns you regret selling” made me think of this. Ones I wish I had bought back in the day:
Ithaca Mag 10 Road Blocker
Mossberg 500 Line Launcher
Ruger 44 Carbine
S/W 696
I’m sure there are more. All guns I figured I’d get around to owning one day and then they were gone, or only available used for crazy money. Oh, and I wish I’d bought a Thompson when I first started looking at them 20 years ago. I thought the prices were too high then. Shame on me.
A first generation Colt Python.The “guns you regret selling” made me think of this. Ones I wish I had bought back in the day:
Ithaca Mag 10 Road Blocker
Mossberg 500 Line Launcher
Ruger 44 Carbine
S/W 696
I’m sure there are more. All guns I figured I’d get around to owning one day and then they were gone, or only available used for crazy money. Oh, and I wish I’d bought a Thompson when I first started looking at them 20 years ago. I thought the prices were too high then. Shame on me.
Welcome to the Forum!About 15 years ago at the Market Hall gun show in Dallas there was a used but pristine 20" Winchester 94, "Classic" grade I think, in .44 Magnum for $225. I already had a Trapper, and though I liked this one, I thought I'd walk the show and see if there was anything I wanted more. After not finding anything, I came back an hour later and the price was now $250 because the guy had gotten an "I'll buy it at that price if nobody else buys it" offer from the dealer next to him. I passed and I've regretted it since an hour after I left the show.
I got that in 3" stainless and 5" blue last year.My Gunbroker bid won, so at least I’ll have the GP100 in 44 special.
Welcome to TGT.Another missed one is a nickeled 4" 586 that probably had never been fired at Nix Shooting Supplies back in the late 90s. I was foolishly only interested in stainless guns at the time. I don't remember the price, but I'm sure it was not bad.
I thought the 586 was blue?
Were they nickel also?
1980s up until about 1991 apparently:They were and are blued steel. the 686 was the stainless version. I can't recall S&W offering a 586 in nickel from the factory, and personally have never seen one. but it's possible they were offered as an option with the Performance Shop.