Guns People Talked Themselves Out of Buying and Still Regret It

Above, my Winchester 94 and Ruger 10/22. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Until I decided that I wanted to buy a pre-64 Winchester 94 lever-action rifle in .30-30 caliber, I had no "craving" to buy "that certain gun." Well, maybe after seeing a friend's Ruger 10/22 during a shoot caused me want to buy comes close. But there were plenty of them around and I bought one in short order for under a hundred bucks. The Winchester as definitely a sought-after gun. I found exactly what I wanted in an Albuquerque gun store. 

There are some guns that people talked themselves out of buying, causing them to regret it. That is the crux of an article in The Avid Outdoorsman. 

They begin it with:

Some guns do not look like obvious buys at the time. Maybe the price felt a little high, the caliber seemed odd, the model looked outdated, or the buyer figured there would always be another one later. Then the market changed, the gun disappeared, and that “I’ll think about it” decision started hurting.

The worst part is that many of these guns were not rare when people passed on them. They were sitting in used racks, police trade-in cases, pawn shops, and surplus bins waiting for someone to recognize what they were. Now the same guns cost more, show up less, and make people wish they had just bought the thing when they had the chance.

To read more, go here.