Guns People Swore They'd Never Sell, But...

Above, Colt Python revolvers. Photo by Jeff Dean, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Did you ever have a gun (pistol, rifle or shotgun) what you swore you'd never part with? 

Then, you found that you needed cash badly enough that you sold your prized gun thinking you can later replace it but found the price skyrocketed.

The Avid Outdoorsman posted an article listing several guns that fall into that category. 

It begins with:

There are guns you buy because they make sense, and then there are guns you hang onto because something about them gets under your skin. Maybe they shoot better than they should. Maybe they remind you of a different time, when prices were sane and racks were still full of models people now treat like lost treasure. Either way, these are the guns owners used to say they’d keep forever, and a lot of them meant it.

The rough part is that life happens. Bills show up, priorities change, and sometimes a gun gets sold with the honest belief that another one can always be found later. Then later shows up and the market has gone completely sideways. These are the firearms that turned that lesson into a painful one for a whole lot of people.

To read more, go here.