3 guns you wished you'd not sold-on...

[Geezer]

Only two.

Webley Typhoon (80s model). My first air pistol.
Gamo/ASI “Paratrooper” repeater. Stupid, unreliable, but fun.

[hawkdriver]

my two innovas with machined aluminium stocks, one with fixed stock one with folding vz58 stock, they must be about somewhere, both had galway adapters fitted, superbly accurate and murdered too many rats !

[Tony.T]

My three-

A very early BSA superstar
A very early TX200 mk1

Both bought a few weeks after launch, eventually sold, the first to fund the second, then the TX went to fund a AA310 in a nice walnut stock- and the one that upsets me the most-

A B&M Bullpupped TX200 MK2. May as well have been a laser in a nice walnut stock!

[AC all day]

My first 77 (mk1 custom l/h Tyrolean stock) big Kassnar scope
Any of the 3Airlogic Genesis's I had,
No4 Enfield Aircartridge rifle.....
Hind sight would be wonderful to have

[Moss74]

A little slavia not sure which model, first air rifle, given away.

Webley Tracker deluxe .22

Early Tx200. 22

Hindsight eh? That's the way it goes, Martin

[mallyally]

Crossman 1400
fwb Mastersport
rapid 7 Tyrolean

Got 2 out of 3 back so that aint bad

[Kalibrgun]

Fx royale .22with lw barrel

Mk2 s200 .22

hw100 .177 jacko converted in form stock

[TonyL]

HW45 in .177 in the early 90s. I did get another in 2010, but it's in .22 as HC had run out of .177 at the time. Still want another.

HW35 in .177. Traded in for a .177 HW80 (still owned). But I now have a further 2 .177 35s.

FWB127 Mark 2.

[w preston]

airgun centre tuned hw77 .22
sharp ace .22
bsa lincoln jefferies 177 (1906)
should have kept a dozen more also?

[simona]

An immaculate walnut stocked British Longbow. Sold it to a mate's lad, with a scope, for 140 quid as that was all he could afford at the time. Despite lots of safety lectures and shooting sessions together, the rifle underwent the classic snapped pistol grip / bent barrel injury just a week after money changed hands!

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

My first Original 45 from some 30 years ago.
My lovely tiger striped tx200sr
FWB P70.

[silva]

Bonehill Britannia, Bonehill Improved Britannia, Webley MK1 Rifle, 45" BSA Cs with intact etching

[Muskett]

A Park 93 .177 in walnut.
A late BSA Mercury, the best BSA break barrel I've ever seen, and it handled so well.
Theoben SLR 88. I don't really shoot .22 but this one one shot so well. Just a great rifle.

One more for luck: an early factory HW77 .177 bought second hand for a friend. Just a tac driver, a rifle that couldn't help itself from hitting whatever pointed at. As good as my Theoben Fenman, which also "just hits stuff where you want it to".

[leadpig]

bsa ultra mmc
fx verminator
hw100

[Antoni]

Had a few airguns but only the one pertinent here.

In 1992 a work-mate bought a new HW45 in 22. I had a play with it and liked it a lot. Not long afterward he decided he wanted money more than he wanted the gun. I said I lived close to a gun shop and that they might buy it. I was very surprised at the their offer. He accepted. I made sure to give him the reciept along with the cash to make sure he knew I wasn't creaming anything off.

That's the nature of retail sales. It can't work any other way and still survive.

I made the decision not to buy it because - how could I have bought it from him at that price without a proof of how low a price had been offered?

That was then. I would handle it differently now. Except that it wouldn't happen that way now anyway because of the internet.

My recently bought used HW45 cost me a LOT more than that price, even allowing for inflation!