Phaedrus/69
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I'm just curious how many of you have sold a firearm only to buy back the same model later? If so, how often have you done so? Obviously this could happen because you were experiencing a financial crunch and needed the cash at the time (which happened to me once in my early 20s) or because you were late to appreciate what you had. To start things off, back in the day I had at least six Taurus 85s! I always really liked the gun and never got a lemon, but I'd buy one, take it to the range a few times but always go back to my BHP for CCW. Eventually I'd get the itch to buy a different gun and needing to raise funds I'd sell the Taurus. But I'd eventually miss it and get another. The next is the HK USP Compact. I'm a huge HK fanboy but for some weird reason I could never make the USPc work for me. In my hands I can't get acceptable accuracy. It's never been the gun, and over sandbags they all shot superbly. But some weird aspect of the ergos just didn't work for me. The gun is "perfect" in so many respects that I think I returned to the well three times with different samples in 9mm and .40 but it just didn't work for me. My main CCW is now a P2000, nearly the same exact size but somehow it works better although I wish the USPc would!
A few years years ago I sold my Beretta CX-4 Storm carbine (set up to use 92 mags). I really liked the rifle/PCC and despite the atrocious trigger I could hit pretty well. The design though seemed to have been deliberately "neutered" and probably was, with 922r being an issue for an Italian gun. The sights sucked and I wish it would have been a total flatop rail, and various solutions for adding rail space at the front were all pretty klugdey. I had it along time but as I started to add more "real rifles" to my collection the Storm seemed surplus to needs. But as ammo prices rise I find myself contemplating getting another Storm! It's still probably inferior to my PSW and CZ carbines for home defense and general CQB stuff, but it's just fun! In the past I've always felt the need to "justify" the role of a firearm in my collection or replace it with something that fills the role better, but as I get older I understand that fun is role, too! Cheap fun is even better.
What guns have you folks sold but eventually repurchased?
A few years years ago I sold my Beretta CX-4 Storm carbine (set up to use 92 mags). I really liked the rifle/PCC and despite the atrocious trigger I could hit pretty well. The design though seemed to have been deliberately "neutered" and probably was, with 922r being an issue for an Italian gun. The sights sucked and I wish it would have been a total flatop rail, and various solutions for adding rail space at the front were all pretty klugdey. I had it along time but as I started to add more "real rifles" to my collection the Storm seemed surplus to needs. But as ammo prices rise I find myself contemplating getting another Storm! It's still probably inferior to my PSW and CZ carbines for home defense and general CQB stuff, but it's just fun! In the past I've always felt the need to "justify" the role of a firearm in my collection or replace it with something that fills the role better, but as I get older I understand that fun is role, too! Cheap fun is even better.
What guns have you folks sold but eventually repurchased?