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 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 Mann box and then regret it later.

Field grade will be fine