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Handguns in your collection that you would never sell 🤙🏽

Series 80 1911 Government with 100 year roll mark. It was my first handgun.
CZ SP01 - Cajunized, work done by CGW.
CZ P01 - Perhaps my favorite to shoot.

Everything else in my collection can be had for the right price.
 
My first pistol, USP45

added a Jarvis barrel and matchweight comp because I couldn't get my hands on a legit Match
 

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Thought i keep my Saiga collection.... But been selling a few pieces here and there .....seems the itch has been scratched....😬
 
Any handgun that I have personally worked on or modified (which is to say.....all of them 😏).
 
I would not sell the Sig Sauer M11-A1 I purchased during the SSE days. During the same time I was able to acquire a P224 in 9mm as a little bro to the M11-A1 it’s a great little combo.
 
I have a few, but also a few that I sold when going through chemo.
I have a 1776/Gadsden Sig P226, a couple of S&W 945's, a 1911NRA commemorative with some gold inlay, a S&W 5 inch 27.
I sold a couple of P226 x-five competition model, one in 9mm, the other .40 during chemo. I greatly regret selling them, and can't easily replace them in California. They were incredible, so accurate and easy to shoot.
 
Nothing is secred you don't ever know what the world is going to throw at you. Things happen at the drop of a hat, that said...also many times we have regrets selling things and calling it just material stuff as a last resort we try to come up with other ways to handle the situation but for some of us it could be letting go of things you cherish.

88 Sig p226 carbon steel stamped slide (Tysons corner Va.)
87 Springfield 1911 a1 nib
Serbian Tokerev in 9mm para
HK USP Expert V1
 
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My Springfield Custom Professionals, they just announced that they are discontinued so they will become harder to find in the years to come. And my German frame Sig P226R (it's well used, banged up and recently cerakoted to tan), why? This was my first gun I ever bought, despite me no longer liking or supporting Sig. Everything else I could sell.
 

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I have a rule I hold myself to which is, "never sell your first gun". That first gun is a Springfield Armory 1911 Loaded in God's caliber. Since then, I have expanded my collection to many more 1911s which hold more monetary or historical value than the humble Loaded. Those 1911s are often chosen when I go to the range and want to shoot some .45; but, I will never sell my Loaded because I know I'll immediately regret it. You never get another 'first' gun.

I think I'll take it out next time I go to the range.
 
I have a rule I hold myself to which is, "never sell your first gun". That first gun is a Springfield Armory 1911 Loaded in God's caliber. Since then, I have expanded my collection to many more 1911s which hold more monetary or historical value than the humble Loaded. Those 1911s are often chosen when I go to the range and want to shoot some .45; but, I will never sell my Loaded because I know I'll immediately regret it. You never get another 'first' gun.

I think I'll take it out next time I go to the range.
Same case here, my 1st is springfield 1911a1, nothing fancy, but the first thing I did to it is custom slide cut by my own design, and engraved it with my signature, so I won't ever sell it. Gosh it has been 10yrs now
 
My first gun I got from my father. His bolt action, Monkey Wards .22. He was about 15 when he got it.

Four years later he went ashore in southern France, a month after D Day, carrying a Garand with a 1934 Beretta on his hip and 🥨 bullets flying around him. I can’t image …..
 
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Winchester M1D Garand Sniper
Springfield M1A National Match
....and although im not SUPER fond of revolvers, my Freedom Arms Model 83 .454 Casull is just too beautiful to part with. Actually, i WOULD part with the Garand but no one would pay me what i feel its worth. I had an AR10 Noveske / Armelite that i sold to fund a Benelli M4 that i regret to this day so selling anything these days isnt my first option.
 
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