Thread about guns you missed out on for whatever reason. I'll start:
>See FR8 listed on Guns.com for ~$550
>Like the way it looks, but wait to do some research
>Do research over the course of a few days in between work/life
>Go back to buy it
>It's gone
>Haven't seen one since except for listings starting at $800 at the lowest
Just didn’t get around to buying pic rel when it was new a few years ago and could be easily found for under $700. Now “rare” and being gouged on GB for 1k plus.
I remember someone posting a complete BCM rifle for $1000. I didn’t buy it since I was dead set on building a retro and I kick myself for not getting it
I didn't buy a nugget when they were 80 bucks or an sks when 350 was the going rate. I am a massive moron.
This, though I will say JG has some GSS (gunsmith special) tier Chinese ones that all the reviews say has no issues. One review says the stock did have a minor crack, no other complaints of broken parts or stocks like the description hints at. $399.
Centerfire systems if they're still running their multi-month "anniversary sale", but no mags (~$100 extra w/ shipping, someone please find me a cheap surplus spare mag and put me out of my misery). Cheap ammo, though... =(
I will constantly envy my dad for a deal he got when he was my age. He had called a guy to work out buying a semi-auto RPK, but showed up right at the end of the gunshow. The dude had sold the RPK already, so he gave my dad a FRICKING CRATE of SKS's and two spam cans for $100, this was in 1992ish I think. Yeah I've got my pick of a thousand rifles of much better quality, but I like the SKS, and I want one for every cabinet with a spam can of ammo and a hundred stripper clips. Born too late bros.
Also, read Unintended Consequences https://archive.org/details/unintended-consequences-by-John-Ross
Back in 2014 I had the opportunity to buy a SPAS-12 with the original box for $900. Folding stock and everything.
Still haunts me to this day.
curious, why didn't you go through with it?
Because I bought a pristine russian capture K98k for $300 instead.
That’s passable. I would love a gewehr or karabiner
If I had known SPAS-12s were going to go for $5k in less than 10 years whereas a RC K98k will go for $1200 at most I would've rather have done that.
I remember not long ago when the nicest ones with arm hook stock and Joc were priced at the higher end @$1500.
want those returns again? Buy cheap Turkish handguns today
Probably. Popular for the time, in 10-15 years they'll either be everywhere or gone and either way ones from the first couple rounds of imports will probably be worth way more than you paid originally. Bonus if one shows up in a popular movie and gives them the Jurassic Park treatment.
Those guns appreciated because they had history and were well made and crucially were limited in production numbers. They were cheap because of economies of scale from military contracts or low awareness. Turkshit is neither well made, nor does it have any sort of historical provenance, nor have they stopped making it. I mean some *might* appreciate but they'd be outliers.
boy this Turk hate if very European. Ive never met more then a few Turks and never had a problem with them. Whenever someone mentions Turkey a whole crew of dipshits go on the attack. Dude if you knew anything about that handgun you wouldn't open your stupid mouth! ANyway why the hate? where you one of the dumbs who purchased a $150 shotgun and it stopped working after a few hundred rounds? what do you want out of $150 bucks! DO you complain when you drink that much booze and its all gone
anyway homosexuals are abound on /k/
>all that turkish cope
Lmao. A 320 dollar turkish shotgun can't even run 20 rounds, a180 dollars maverick will run thousands. Turkey doesn't make a single gun worth its "steel"
have a nice day erdogan
>turkshit
dick in son? what are you gay?
yes
Buys a $90 gun named "Dick in Son" and complains its not functioning correctly
>As P.T. Barnum would say " " every minute
>$90.
Imagine being that moronic
Buy real Italian and it would work fine.
Gee you're awfully defensive considering no one said anything about Turkish people or the country in general, just that their guns are garbage. And they ARE fricking garbage.
Hahahahahahahahahaahah
Kek no they won’t, I have a canik and it’s a pos that jams or has a failure to feed every couple magazines. Yes I left the slide open for 48 hours per the instructions and yes I fired 200 rounds of 124 grain ammo. Still the same piece of shit, frick whoever at the gun store who sold this junk to my mom who gifted it to me because “it had a kit and an extra mag” wow thanks.
you probably would have sold it soon after, anon, its not a very good gun.
I had a similar one happened to me, there was one of these clever girls listed at 1100 but I wasn't sure about it because it had the old lever safety and I didn't wanted to deal with the whole replacement bullshit
then I realized I was being a fricking moron and went for it, but it was already taken
good thing is they still had a SPAS-15 available, so I let my wiener decide and took it home
it may not have the cool factor going but it is an objectively better gun overall
Spas15 has as much cool factor as a 12 imo, only thing that actually exists that beats it is usas12. Also wish picrel was allowed in commiemerica.
>$400 K31
>even the ammo was cheap
Posted about a 200 dollar Sterling mark II here a little while ago. Watched some anon snipe it. I hope their purchase turned out well.
Wanted a hex receiver mosin but now retail stores want 700$ for what is essentially trash. So I just won't I guess.
The $500 PSLs in the late 2000s. Although if I got one, I wouldn't be shooting it much anymore given what ammo costs these days.
I remember at that time people were bashing them. Like get a wasr, the psl is garbage.
IIRC the PSLs had serious problems with vertical shot stringing during rapid fire. Treat them like a designated marksman rifle and they shot tight groups. Start blasting away quickly because ammo was cheap and your zero would start to wander.
They're still garbage but they're also cool
I was fully aware of PSLs back then and didn't buy one and don't regret it a bit. If someone offered me one for $500 today I would accept only to resell. They were always cope SVDs.
What inspires someone to think like this? An SVD clone will run you close to $10k these days. Imagine completely refusing to own a DMR in a remotely similar style even at $500 because it isn't the one that costs close to $10k.
>They were always cope SVDs.
this is why I didn't buy one
I forgot what that one youtuber was. Didn't he buy a bunch of PSLs and then mark them up at insane prices
Those were actually SVDs that MAC did scummy shit with.
Forgot about that dumpster fire. What a homosexual
Do you have a link to the thread
The raid never happend though:(
MAC is a unironically israeli trust fund millionare with family in politics, no way he's ever going to get raided
>given what ammo costs these days.
60 cpr for brass yugo surplus is too expensive for you?
>60c/round
>for corrosive surplus ammo
Anon, I...
$400-600 at auctions for an FR-8 pretty often.
Lucked out on a $300 one early this year at a Pawn Shop.
I've seen nothing but old posts on forums or listing that sold years ago. There's one on GB right now that's up to $1k
>Bulgarian ak74 kits in rguns for ~$600 in 2015
>bubba silver rattle can hakim for 100 in the pawn store
>sig stgw57 kit for 750 in 2016
Sucks being young and poor
>Sucks being young and poor
So true. Thats really the core of all my ragrats.
>350 for a berthier carbine in pristine condition.
>500 WASR
>99 SMLE
>300 k98k
>300 for 2x Dutch m95 in .303
Agreed. Frick me. By the time I got a job and money, the deals vanished. That's simplifying it a little but despite not being a zoomie I feel like I got fricked.
Same bros, I got my first guns during the age of cheap AK-74s and surplus pistols/Finnish Mosins.
Had no idea what they were worth or how easily they could be shut off and had no money or space to buy many of them anyhow.
I bought my Bulgy AK74 kit from WhatACountry for $680 in January of 2020. Now they're selling non matching kits for $1700. Crazy.
One of these bad girls. The seller got upset when I offered less than what he was asking
Mossberg 695, camo and scope
I want one of those bad passed up chance for one in 2010
What is significant about these?
One of the best bolt action 12 gauge shotguns built. Rifled barrels 3 in chamber scope ready. Poor man's safari gun. Scope bite for days.
This one got away from me recently
real life sniper shotgun
just need a bipod and suppressor
USP9 parts kit for 350$ on everygunpart like 3 months ago. I have a USP40 but I was short on spending cash at the time. If I get a good Christmas payout I might try to find another but so far I’m not seeing any for under 550, which I can’t justify to myself spending that much either right now. I would shoot so much more if I had a 9mm.
A Luger P08 Pistol for 1200 USD. Saw it at the store went to get cash for it but by the time I returned to the store someone already picked it up.
I remember at an LGS I saw a P08 that was just missing the trigger return spring for $600, was in great condition. Alas I wasn't 21 yet.
Why not buy the M43? It's the same rifle that hasn't been converted into the FR8. I bought one last month for 300
I just like the look of the FR8 more.
Missed out on an 1892 musket.
Normally they're pretty rare but this one had the ordnance stamps from being used in acceptance trials. Two others still known to exist.
I missed a mk 1 webley for $900 on guns.com as well, i wanted to ask about the bore and mechanical condition but since it was a marketplace seller they didnt know. I hemmed and hawed over it for a month, then it was listed on gunsinternational and sold within a couple days
Mk 1's go for $1500-$2000 on gunbroker right now
One of the only 3 SVDS (folding stock) imported in my country back before the war and thus stoppage of all imports. It was like 1200 euro more than the normal price of a tigr so I hesitated thinking prices would fall once they imported more. I still cringe at my stupidity.
A 750$ 6" polished stainless old model Colt Python in a used gun section at the range/gunstore
Like around 2006ish. Thought it was neat and went home. Went back later that day after thinking a bit to buy and it was sold
I sold one of these today for $750
Chinese Mosin carbine, $250. Pitted around the chamber under the stock which freaked me out a little. Looked like it was carried a lot, finish was worn heavily. Early import mark as IIRC it only said "China" and nothing else. Deeply regret not getting it but man, it was that or my .22 I use to hunt and love dearly; I could only have bought one at the time due to poorgayism. I'll regret it and probably end up paying $350 on one (ouch), I'm sure, but it went too quick for me to buy it. Apparently had the chance to buy it for $200 if I had found the previous owner. And that was during covid panic buying of all times.
At 1 point maybe 2013 - 2014 we're selling these at like $80 - $90 a pop if you agreed to buy at least 2. They were described as rough.
And that's what I really regret missing. I saw that era come and go. Had multiple chances to really get my ass out there and find someone convinced they were living in a time where imports were still happening and selling them cheap. Never did. I have my reasons/excuses but it still hurts, even if what they go for now is more affordable to me now than the old prices were for me back then.
$800 para-TTR
didnt have the money at the time
There was a Century imported IMBEL FAL that was at my LGS for 700 6 years ago. My biggest regret not getting it
SVT $700
Chinese SKS $125
MAS 49/56 $250
MAS 36 $79
Almost all of those were between 2010 - 2012
>MAS 49/56 $250
>MAS 36 $79
Fricking ouch.
So what's the next deal? Police trade in or milsurp?
>FNC Sporter
Simply didn't have the money at the time
>Sako M92S
Gunshop sold it even though i had a deposit on it, thankfully got the money back
>FMP SLG97
Didn't have the money either
>Colt Match HBAR
I let it slip by a matter of hours
One day.
Colt match HBARs are like $1,500 assuming you are talking about the ones with the bayo lug cut off. Genuine AR-15 A2s are like $1,700 on gunbroker if you wait for it.
>Sako 92s and 95 for sale
Afaik none were imported into the US, you sure thats what they were?
Beyond certain. I also do not happen to live in the US.
Unless it was a deliberately crafted fake (which I find unlikely) then yes I am sure that it was an M95. There was also an M76F that I didn't buy.
FR8 is kinda neat but not that great. get a Swedish Mauser carbine instead.
>not that great
Tell us about it pls.
It's converted from 8mm to 7.62. A rechambered & converted rifle isn't going to perform that great
it's a rather rough Mauser with rather rough sights. the form factor and looks are neat, which is why I bought it when it was cheap. had to take a file to the safety to make it work. all cleaned and lubed it works fine, but vompared to a Swede it's a piece if junk. get a Swede when you can.
How does it shoot? I was choosing between a FR8 and a bland, rebarreled 98 rifle for a 7.62 Mauser and went with the latter because the few forum posts on FR8s I found said they were more of a cool gun than a good gun.
it kicks because it's light. sights are okay, but a hassle to adjust. you can hit the target if you can shoot.
I dont own one but my great grandpa lets me shoot his when I'm at his place. Sights suck and get in the way when you are using the bolt leading to bleeding fingers, the bolt itself rattles and doesnt feel quite right (matches the gun), the recoil is the worst on any rifle I've ever shot due to how light it is and the report is so goddamn loud from how short the barrel is (only 16") it leaves my ears ringing loudly after only a handful of rounds even with doubled up earpro.
Its a novelty rifle and not even particularly fun to shoot.
>see gun
>like it
>realize its single stack and my consoomer gamer-addled basedtuber brainwashed brain immediately rejects it
>drive home
>realize im a fricking moron and i dont need double stack on a fancy carry piece
>come back
>its gone
The price isnt even that good why the FRICK did it sell so fast
it just wasnt meant to be bro, dw
An AUG A1 for 2000 dollars a few years ago. I had the money, but I convinced myself I couldn't spend it at the time.
You didn't miss out on anything. The FR8 is an innacurate piece of shit with awful sights, and a sticky bolt.
had a chance to buy one of those LMT 38mm launchers at MSRP that's about it.
>Thread about guns you missed out on for whatever reason
My Dad was a collector, had over 40 guns and family civil war relics like calvary sabre, musket with bayonette, etc...
When my parents seperated my mom pawned all his guns AND family heirlooms for pennies on the dollar. Mini-14s still in the box and plastic from the 1980s were sold for $60, etc...
Then she had him thrown in prison for failure to pay child support and while in there, filed for divorce and he had no way of getting representation or maybe he didnt know so she got to keep the whole house and everything in it.
Awful fricking c**t. My father died of alcoholism and depression a few months ago and she had the audacity to ask for one of his guns (since he kept collecting since he lost them all to her), claiming I now had so many surely I could give her one. b***h destroyed my family by making him sleep on the couch, pouring vodka on his face, not giving him any love so he had to find it elsewhere, his bank records showed he simped for this trashy hooker, gave her all his money because it was the only thing that made him happy
I got no inheiritance from him and she married a guy 20 years younger than her so i wont get her inheiritance either. She wants me to give her grandkids. And for what? She hasnt done anything for me. She has since claimed to have "Found God" and is now a qanon boomer rambling schizo
I'm tempted to take a picture of myself losing my virginity to a guys butthole and showing it to her, telling her i'll give her grandkids if she sells me her house for $1
Thanks for listening to my ramblings
That sounds rough anon. Is it even worth maintaining contact with her? That kind of person usually makes the lives of everyone they're involved with worse.
if you ever have grandkids (natural or adopted), don't let her have contact. she's a POS and she could potentially frick them up.
I was raised in a similar broken home anon. The best advice i can give is to cut your mom out of your life. She'll continue to hurt you and yours if you keep her in your life
unrelated but what mount is that on the SKS?
ak dovetail screwed into the stock
cool, thanks anon
100% swiss 551-2sp rifle that was imported for a fish and wildlife depatment in the 90's. They wanted just under 4k for it at the time (this was well before JDI was a thing). I got the 552, but wished I could have swung both.
Late 90's at a gun show in south MS a vendor had a pristine svt40 for $350. I still think about it to this day. Pic is the one that didn't get away.
>Cheap VZ58's(former tfbtv butthole)
>cheap wasrs
>cheap zastavas
Not mine but:
>was at gunshow with friend and stumbled into barely touched Colt A2 for $600
Couple years ago
>LGS has a Winchester 1897 on the wall
>$250
>Thing is ancient and has literally no bluing left at all
I deeply regret passing on it, same with a pristine Portuguese contract Russian captured K98 they were selling for about $750.
>Huh is that a Hakim for $300?
>Actually is the swedish original, fresh from a dead boomer
>Damn, was hoping it was one of those Hakim hatchetjobs rechambered to .308 and I really don't need another super obscure caliber
>Second I set it down the boomer who'd sidled up next to me buys it sight unseen from the clerk
>Huh
>$1500 rifle at the time
Stings but I had no real desire to buy it.
>be me
>be leaf
>be big Splinter Cell fan
>just got gun license
>see lightly used FN FS2000 advertised for $1,000 maplebux
>naw, should get a .22lr first
>FN switches to SCAR production
>FS2000 becomes unobtainium
Frick. Guess I'll never be Sam Fisher.
>I pased up on an fs2000 when they were 1700$ in my area because I wanted to wait until I had more disposable income
>They stopped being imported right when I was getting my career going
Frick FN for not importing the FS2000 anymore, especially when they don't even do anything interesting with their other guns anyways, I refuse to pay 4000$ to a scalper on gunbroker.
I want a tactical tuna so fricking bad
>$500 US Cavalry Krag Jorgeson at cabelas
>told the guy to hold it while I got the money
>1 day later it’s gone because he sold it anyway
lol they can't take it off the floor with a verbal 'I'm coming back' you moron
Except they did
>sold it anyway
Doesn't sound like it anon.
Not to me dumbass
IF HE TOOK IT OFF THE FLOOR TO SAVE IT FOR YOU BUT SOLD IT SOMEONE ELSE HE DIDN'T SAVE IT FOR YOU YA IDIOT
They do; I forget the process but anon should've been more specific and said to hold it for a couple days. Cabelas held a gun for me for like a week a couple years back, which was the max you could do that. Unless that's another thing Bass Pro ruined.
My man, I once saw one at a pawn broker for 350 about half a decade ago and I would have jumped on it if I wasn't there to buy an FAL off of a guy that was selling it for 600. I wish I just bought both.
My LGS had a few cool things I missed out on.
>Sniper K43
>Sako M95
>Llama XVI Airlite
>M1A1 paratrooper
I really, really, REALLY fricking regret not buying the M95 (especially since Sako is best Upotte) but I didn't have $3000 to play with.
Swapping around to the other side, here's a recent-ish pawn shop horror story
>Decide to stop at pawn shop because why not and I'm in the market for a PS Vita
>There's a rifle with a mannlicher stock on the rack
>O lawd it has double set triggers; ask what it is
>Employee reads the tag and says it's a Mannlicher in 7x64
>Now at full mast, I ask to see it
>Hmm, it's a bit more dinged up than I-
>Wait a fricking second
>It's a fricking mauser and the flat bolt looks like it was made with an angle grinder
>Zero markings ANYWHERE on the rifle except an electropenciled 4-digit serial - no proofs, not even a caliber marking
>Obviously home-made and it looks like it's been dragged behind a truck
>Eh, still might be a fun project gun; I wonder what they want for it
>$895
>nope,jpg
>Come back two days later, price is now $1195
frick shitko, eru best upotte
>He likes fat dysfunctional morons
Them's rapin' words, boy.
post your home address Black person, i will fricking stab you.
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC. Come get me homosexual I fricking dare you.
bullshit, the homosexual there can barely string two words together, let alone type a full sentence.
Okay, you got me. I'm at your mom's house.
you have my condolences
Fricking Daewoo K1A1 Paratrooper, still mad about that one.
Missed out on a g3 for high 500, was the ONLY g3 i've ever seen for sale at gun shows
>Rasheed
>Hakim
>Hakim air rifle trainer
>Colt Model 1908 with mother of pearl grips
>Swiss K31
I was browsing late night and checked my local gun shop website, they had listed a short rail first series CZ-75 for 700 bucks
I put a fricking alarm for the next morning but when I got there it was "lol we sold it already guess I better update that page innit?"
I'm still pissed
>tfw boomer coworker sold an OG Hi-Power to a customer for $400
This one pisses me the frick off. Saw them at a Pawnshop in Phoenix crawl down to $800. Had just built an AR and didn’t want something that was totally a novelty gun to be my next purchase.
Fast forward half a year and they get discontinued and immediately sell out everywhere. Apparently one of their manufacturers went belly up from Covid and they sold off some essential machinery.
They’re still out there but not at a price i’m willing to pay.
BRN-10's?
i built two of them, trust me anon they fricking sucked. they looked GREAT but they sucked.
the charging handle retainer spring was SO fricking hard, you basically had to mortar the rifle every time to charge it.
THEN once you got the retainer spring a little broken it, it would then completely fail to retain the charging handle, so it would fly back and tap you in the face after every shot.
trust me, they fricking suck. i built each one ofr ~$600 and sold them for $1,500 each. i bet the dudes who bought them are pissed lol.
Yeah man. I know they’re not hot shit. I just wanted them as a collector piece. But no way I’m going to pay over $1k for one.
There are way too many for me to list here. But a few would be:
>$400 trade-in P7 PSPs
>$200 Beretta Cheetah variants of all kinds
>Missed out on a $500 M1 carbine at my LGS
>Yugo underfolder for $400 at another LGS
>Those TGI built AMD-65's that went for $400/500
>Yugo mauser with a ZRAK that someone at a show for militaria collectors offered to trade to me for $100 and a chink SKS with no import markings
I feel like I should also say any of the more obscure handguns/rifles from the late 1800s-1950s that used to go for reasonable prices before certain guntubers told the normies about them.
>boomer was selling his 10/22 for 100 eurobux, showed up a couple days too late
>some importer restructured their website and was listing a bunch of surplus rifles at 1 (one) (uno) (oдин) euro each, never bothered to call them and ask if they were for real, they're gone now
it hurts just a little bit
Long time ago almost bought a turkish copy of desert eagle, i came back to the shop with the money and someone had already leased it which blew my mind but didnt blow my hand off gloriously
My unconverted 223 saiga will probably stay unconverted forever now that the boomer gunsmith nearby died and I can't find another who even knows what the saiga is. I refuse to mail my rifle because of how much gun shit and ammo I've already had stolen in the mail/fedex/ups. Pic not mine, just taken from google.
holy frick dude we used to just do it ourselves
i fricking hate zoomers just fricking convert it dude.
get a dremel holy shit
Took a trip around the us several years ago and stopped in Wyoming at a lgs. They had an arsenal 104 and I kick myself every day for not dropping the $1100 on it. I didn't know I loved 5.45 then. Kube forgive me.
>be me
>gunshow early 2000's
>see beat to hell yugo 59/66
>metal is all silvered and worn. stock has hella trench art
>$150
high price at the time
>2018 or so
>broomhandle mauser carbine in 9mm at gunshow for $900
Most recent was another chinese broomhandle with detachable mags sold for $1600
I could’ve bought a Swedish Mauser for $300. but I was in the Army at the time and didn’t want to get cucked by keeping it in the company arms room.
>sold my first 'surp to a zoomie troony prostitute who wont talk to me anymore
god dammit why the frick was i so stupid, is this how divorced parents who don't get to see their kids again feel like?
For me it was a 600 USD Black Widow Luger, was in decent condition, only 600 USD. The prices are sky high today.
Other were M14s for like, 1000 USD at one of the LGS.
I missed out on a 600 dollar k98 capture that still had all the markings on it. I still seethe whenever I see one online or in an lgs
There was a $4k, full auto, vintage, 50 round drum mag tompson at a bass pro shop in virginia. I had the money to get it, unfortunitely i was in the marines and i wasnt allowed to keep personal owned firearms on base. On top of this, my parents couldnt hold onto it because my father has a criminal record and the atf would probably finger his butthole and shot my dog once they caught wind of my purchase. I still think about from time to time, could have had my very own chicago type writer
My LGS once had a factory produced 14" Winchester 94 from 1921. They had to send it to the ATF field office for them to see if it was actually a factory produced 14", it ended up being legit so they sent it back with a NFA exemption letter. They wanted 1400 for it at the time, but I was poor
As a canacuck I missed out on the AR-15. I had my license before it was banned but never thought they'd actually shitcan it so I never bought one.
I also missed out on the pistol train, I managed to get a P320 but there are tons more I would've liked to have.
Bought a Swiss 1889 from a guy at a gun show, fairly priced in good condition. He had 5 boxes of 7.5x53.5 for sale. He kept going on and on about how rare it was. Was told from a young age never to buy ammo at gun shows cuz it's hugely overpriced in general. Can't find GP90 anywhere. I've put exactly two rounds through the gun in 10 years, cuz my dad happened to have two rounds in a can in his basement from the 70s.
So more like the ammo that got away, but still.
you know they make new production 7.5x55?
You know it's not the same right?
it shoots
it shoots its pretty accurate
https://www.sgammo.com/catalog/rifle-ammo-sale/75-swiss-ammo
The only company making new production 7.5x53.5 is a Swiss company who makes like 10 cases every 5 years for ludicrous prices + shipping + ordering foreign ammo. I just recently got into reloading, so maybe I'll use some .308 dies and make my own in the coming months, once I'm more confident in my ability.
oh "7.5x53.5" nvm sorry misread that
yeah never hear of it
idk i fire modern 12gauge out of Winchester 1897 made in 1907
Modern 12 gauge has the exact same pressure specs as rounds from 150 years ago.
I was very close to get a near mint AG42 for a steal, but my country banned them before I could