Gun Owners...Can You Forget? .....Of course you can't....?

Question

Of course you can't forget the coolest gun you ever had....
Of course you can't forget the rarest or most expensive gun you ever had...
Of course you can't forget the cheapest gun you ever had...
Of course you can't forget the one that was so lousy you wish you'd never bought it.....

The coolest was a Commando Arms MK-9 9mm that was supposed to look like an M1 Thompson...and came pretty close....
The rarest/most expensive was a Belgian Browning Sweet 16 with factory engraving and high-grade wood....
The cheapest was a 12 gauge snake gun of indeterminate early 1900's manufacture. 18" bbl and a regular stock cut right behind the grip, with a small buttplate re-installed and a short loop sling attached to the lower buttplate screw. Pretty cool for ten bucks!...
The lousiest was a tiny little Daisy .22 rimfire bolt action rifle purchased from Walmart. It only cost about 60.00, and never fired a shot. It didn't work NEW... They don't take back guns, but they took that one back!

Answer 1

I regret selling my Ruger MKII Government Model. I had purchased Wood thumbrest grips and had a total of 5 magazines for it plus spare parts. I will never live down selling this gun with all spare parts and magazines. Stupid, stupid, stupid. You cannot get them new anymore and MK II pistols are almost impossible to find used thanks to the godawful mess made by Ruger with the MKIII. I had about $500 invested total after paying $319.00 for the gun. It was not "rare" at the time but trading it was a huge mistake.

A runner up to the Ruger mistake would be selling a Springfield Armory "90s edition" (Yes, the first high profile sighted, flared ejection port, beveled magwell, walnut gripped, 8-rounder that SA had available aside from their original "WW2" 1911-A1.) back in early 1992. Everuything was forged and machined on this gun. NO CASTINGS! The only nicer SA 1911s were the Defender and maybe a Competition model. Things got bad in Geneseo after "Springfield Armory by Springfield, Inc." came into existance. They have never been the same.

The gun I wish I had never bought is a tie. The first is the P-95 9mm by Ruger. Horribly inaccurate except for the hottest loads, and the frame was very chemically vulnerable. The other was A Rock Island Armory that had a horrible slide job and a rusted, pitted barrel due to oil disipating during its storage from the Phillipines to the gun shop shelf. Truly a waste of money. I could have swapped the barrel but the slide was just a montrosity when it came to cutting work. it looked as if the slide was done by a blacksmith in Afghanistan.

The cheapest gun I ever had was an Iver Johnson topreak .22 that I never shot. It was $119. The coolest? Well, the ones that I own now.

Answer 2

The coolest and most expensive I have is a Puma lever action .357 trapper with the John Wayne D-ring. It feels just like a Daisy Red Ryder.

The rarest one was a Winchester 97 12 gauge (I know, they aren't that rare, but I haven't been buying guns for that long). I traded it for a 12 ga. Mossberg because it had a bulge in the barrel too close to the chamber to saw it off. I also have an old Savage 12 ga sidexside. It would have to be from before the war, since it doesn't have any serial number on it.

Cheapest and lousiest was a used Hi-Point .45 auto. I bought it because it was $95, and the gun shop wanted $75 to join the range. Buying the gun got me free range time, and it didn't shoot bad when the firing pin wasn't bent.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

My favorite was a .375 Winchester Model 94.. And the rarest is an 11-gauge of my father's, which he inherited from my great-grandfather.

Answer 5

The cheapest would be my first gun a 12g Lanber, my coolest would be my 12g silver pigeon v and my rarest would be a famliy heir loom an English side by side 12g, hammer gun with damascus barrels.
Worst purchase would be a side by side Aya 12g, needs chucking in the bog!!

Answer 6

Some of my favorite are L.C. Smith Double Barrel 16 gauge, Winchester model 21 Double Barrel 12 gauge, Sportsterized Model K98 German Sniper Mauser in 8MM caliber, Ithaca Models 600 sks in Trap, Skeet and Field Grade over & under 12 gauge , Winchester Model 52B Target Rifle with a 20 Power Redfield Target Scope in 22 caliber, Remington Model 700BDL Varmint Rifle with heavy Bull Barrel in 22-250 caliber, Ruger Single Six in 357 Magnum, Colt Python in 38 caliber, Hi-Standard Double-nine Revolver in 22 caliber, Fox Sterlingworth Double Barrel in 12 gauge, Sweet Sixteen Belgium Made Browning in 16 gauge, Winchester Model 94 Pre-64 in 32 Special, Savage Model 310 in 30-06, Remington Model 341 Sportsmaster in 22 caliber, Stevens lever action single shot in 22 caliber, Smith & Wesson K-22 Revolver in 22 caliber, Stevens Model 311 Double Barrel Field Grade in 12 gauge, Winchester Model 37 single barrel in 12 gauge, Savage Model 340 Rifle in 222 caliber, Winchester Model 43 Rifle in 218 Bee caliber, Mossberg Model 550 Pump Shotgun in 20 gauge, Marlin Model 1894 Rifle with octagon barrel old in 30-30 caliber, Franchi over & under Shotgun in 20 gauge Field Grade, Mossberg 22 caliber Target Rifle with bull barrel, Colt Combat Commander semi-auto Pistol in 45 acp, Raven 25 caliber semi-auto pistol.*