Guns I wish I had bought....

[PaulK62]

Amen to that! I briefly owned a Diana model 2, beautifully made and finished but...functionally worthless. Gats are highly collectible, but beyond that the appeal of such hard-to-cock, inaccurate, velocity-less-than-I-can-throw-a-pellet devices escapes me.

I have more the opposite problem...I've owned pretty much every airgun that ever appealed to me...but then sold at least a dozen I'd like to have back, sigh. One exception is a good SSP match rifle though, have passed on several that seemed too pricey at the time but now look like bargains.

Ditto to that, Mike. Just some of the airguns I wish I hadn't sold: Crosman 118, Crosman 107, Crosman 167 (one of each variant), Feinwerkbau 110, Feinwerkbau 127, Tell 3 (serial no. 22), small frame Hubertus (sold for $125 in '93 when I didn't know its rarity), BSA Model D Ladies Model, late model Britannia, a Kurbelspanner pistol w/original crank (exact gun on pg. 400 of 2nd Edition of John Griffiths' book, top right photo), Brown Pneumatic (sold to the late, great airgun collector Keith Bayliss. I wonder who inherited it?), and a pre-war Japanese millita that had a very detailed geisha version of Diana holding up her airgun and tossing down her bow and arrows (please PM me if you have or seen one). Maybe I'll start a separate thread on seller's remorse, unless it's already been done.

My biggest regret is not buying a Webley MK I rifle with beautiful wood when I had the chance. A friend of mine found it at a San Francisco gun show back in the mid '80s for around $100. When he offered it to me for $600, I balked, and someone else snatched it up.