Top 3-5 Hunting Items you totally regret selling

[Tom007]

We will have a little fun/regret on this one. Let's see what you all come up with here. The 3-5 hunting items you regret selling/trading/giving away. Here's mine

1) LC Smith 410 side by side. Very regretful move. I sold it for $2300 dollars back in 2003. Prices were down. They made very few of these. Bad mistake. Worth a lot more now

2) Bob Dixon Vest. I bought this when they came out. 6/7 years ago I sold it for $500. Thought it was a great deal, we all know how wrong I was. It was in mint condition. The only saving grace is, Mr. Fox replaced it and soothed my sorrow.

3) Remington S-P 10 that was customized by Mark Bansner. When Benelli came out with the SBE 3 1/2 inch twelve, I made the swap. Sold it too cheap, they are very sought after now, all going for over a thousand bucks, some breaking $2000 dollars.

These are my top 3, wish I had em all back. Looking forward to see what you all regret.

Be well, good luck this spring!

[Happy]

I have never sold any turkey hunting equipment ...ever. I have given away a pile though.... I had some old original tree bark camo I gave away a few years ago that I kinda wish I still had.

[bigwoodstom]

I've given away several of my Mabry boxes over the years as gifts and in retrospect I wish I'd just got them a Red Lobster gift card instead.

Good thing I still have plenty.

[3bailey3]

Jonathan Payne push/pull
Marlin Watkins long box
Steve Mann long box
Cody pot call that was made in 2000 for Mack's prairie wing, i gave this one to a good buddies son, the others I trade and came out on the bad end of it!

[aclawrence]

When I was younger my dad bought me a nice Mossberg 20ga with rifle sights on it. It was blued and had a pretty wood stock. When I was a teen I think I traded it in at a pawn shop for a camo Mossberg 835 12ga. Now I would love to have that Mossberg 20 gauge back. Later I sold the 835 and got a 870 and went on to kill several turkeys with it when I first started turkey hunting. Now I'm shooting a 20ga 870 so I'm pretty much back to where I started lol.


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[Greg Massey]

3 Items..  One was a Browning Stalker Synthetic stock 10 gauge... The Reason I sold the gun, it was like carrying a ball and chain while spring turkey hunting... LOL.

I wished now that I had kept it... It really was a nice shotgun...

I do still have some of the old Federal 4 / 6 that i look at from time to time to remind me of my love hate relationship with that mule kicker / heavy weight shotgun...

The other gun I regarded selling was a Mossberg 835 - 3 1/2 inch short barrel gun... I had a love hate relationship with it also, it was a mule kicker also... I do have some of the old Federal 3 1/2 inch shells left from that gun... lol

The last one was the first real turkey vest I bought, it was a Lynch and I sold it to a guy for 20 dollars, NOW I really do wish I had it back.. It was a shoulder strap type vest with 2 box call pockets ...

[Tom007]

Jonathan Payne push/pull
Marlin Watkins long box
Steve Mann long box
Cody pot call that was made in 2000 for Mack's prairie wing, i gave this one to a good buddies son, the others I trade and came out on the bad end of it!

That Payne was probably a beauty! Wow....

[Tom007]

All good ones for sure.

[3bailey3]

Yes that Payne was in mint condition, in the original box it came in, I think I got the Watkins box for it!

[Tail Feathers]

Early on I passed some real nice calls out of ignorance.  Sure wish I'd bought that Cody call, the highly regarded south Texas call maker who is now gone (his name escapes me).
I have given some calls away, no regrets there, but I don't recall selling any turkey calls/gear.

[callmakerman]

3 Items..  One was a Browning Stalker Synthetic stock 10 gauge... The Reason I sold the gun, it was like carrying a ball and chain while spring turkey hunting... LOL.

I wished now that I had kept it... It really was a nice shotgun...

I do still have some of the old Federal 4 / 6 that look at from time to time to remind me of my love hate relationship with that mule kicker / heavy weight shotgun...

The other gun I regarded selling was a Mossberg 835 - 3 1/2 inch short barrel gun... I had a love hate relationship with it also, it was a mule kicker also... I do have some of the old Federal 3 1/2 inch shells left from that gun... lol

The last one was the first real turkey vest I bought, it was a Lynch and I sold it to a guy for 20 dollars, NOW I really do wish I had it back.. It was a shoulder strap type vest with 2 box call pockets ...

Man I thought I was the only one crazy enough to shoot a mossy 835 with 3 1/2" Federals. Still have mine and it used to beat me up pretty bad at times. Now I'm shooting a Mossberg 20ga. and loving it. I think about using the 12 then I ask myself why. Still have that Lynch vest which was my first. It's a little beat up but it serves as my scouting vest sometimes.

[gaswamp]

have no items I regret selling or giving away.

[Yoder409]

....the highly regarded south Texas call maker who is now gone (his name escapes me).

Noel Gonzales

[mountainhunter1]

I gave away my Cody world class pot calls that I had (some of his very first he made) to a local church for a wild game supper for door prizes. It was the church - so it is not so much that I want them back - but I do think about what they are worth today.

I let friends talk me out of many of my Lonnie Mabry calls - and only have six of his calls today and wish I had thought that out a little better as well.

I live just 45 minutes from Billy Buice's door and never got a trumpet from him. I guess hindsight is always 20/20 but that sure was a blind man move. To my defense, I did not really get into air drawn stuff until 5-6 years ago. But still....I must have been drunk and did not even know it.

Thanks Tom007 - I will probably think about this - especially the Buice deal the rest of the day.  :-)

[bigwoodstom]

have no items I regret selling or giving away.

No reason to be the odd man out here. Next time you're up here in the mountains you can just slide me a Mann box caller and then regret it later.

Field grade will be fine