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If you could have just one rifle back ?

IndianaMatt said:
Unfortunately there are several I'd like to have back. The 2008 financial crisis was especially hard on my family and it was keep my guns or have Christmas for the kids.
In a Gander Mtn parking lot is where I sold most of them. I don't regret doing it and would do it again today.
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that's a great story, reinforces the American way and value of families, like it.
 
IndianaMatt said:
Unfortunately there are several I'd like to have back. The 2008 financial crisis was especially hard on my family and it was keep my guns or have Christmas for the kids.
In a Gander Mtn parking lot is where I sold most of them. I don't regret doing it and would do it again today.
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sucks man... I've been a fart in the breeze from bankruptcy myself, and I've only recently felt comfortable financially... I feel your pain.
 
I had a Ruger M-77 Varmint .308 that had been bedded and floated that would shoot one-hole groups at 100 yards. I shot it at NRA Whittington Center for Regional High Power Matches. I sold it to pay for a Winchester model 70 Match Rifle to keep up with my buddies. I have kicked myself many times for selling that Ruger.
 
I had a mid 60s vintage Remington 700 BDL with a factory Hart stainless barrel in 7 Rem Mag. That gun was hands down the most accurate rifle I have ever had. It would easily print 1/4moa out past 400. 1/2moa past 600. That's the farthest I ever shot it.

I traded that rifle for a Sako M995 in 300 Win Mag. I wish I had just bought the Sako and kept the 700.
 
reloaderlen said:
Most of us have done it ,sold a rifle for one reason or another and regretted ever since. So if you could have just one and only one back what would it be ?
For me it would be a Winchester 30-30 I received for Christmas when I was 14 , it really wasn't what I had wanted and I sold it a couple of years later to get the Remington 700 30-06 that I had really wanted for Christmas. A bit more gun than I really needed or could handle at 14 . My parents had spent a lot of their hard earned money to buy me that rifle money they really didn't have only to give it to a ungrateful punk . Hindsight is 20/20 but if I could get it back my heart would be happy and I surely would make it a deer slaying machine just as the man I sold it to 35 years ago has .
So what's yours ?
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I gave away the first rifle I bought, not once but twice as I have a disdain for the 30-30 cartridge and really consider a lever action a novelty. The only rifle I had in my hands once and still wish I had bought was a Schultz & Larsen in 7x61mm. The Pawn Shop I found it in didn't take kindly to my offer, which was $250 as I was hoping they would counter and I was willing to go $400. I don't think that Rifle had ever been shot, but it had bounced around behind the seat of a truck for sure.
 
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