I came 30 seconds from making a big mistake

[micmacman]

i have a grocery list of sold regrets , especially when i did the purge , early on my collecting was all over the map with no focus , so in order to condense the number of calibers i had to keep stocked i chose those that "meant the most to me" and sold the rest off , used that money to reinvest into my focused , unfortunately like an idiot i did not take into consideration that some would out pace inflation and acru value well above what i had invested , couple early SP1 , pair of SVT40's

had a ultra rare Turk mauser that escaped the great ANKARA rearsenal to 8mm , must have been brought to the states thread from 2006 still shows up on google search https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...er-model-1893/ link to the discussion after i found it , this was dead in the middle f my purge and all the Turk mausers were sold , this rifle when i bought it i paid i think $150 and was told it was a swedish mauser by the sales guy , i had swedes before , knew that wasnt correct but admittedly i was stumped , i was thinkin south america contract but even then the crest was like none i had seen , after a week of digging i hit pay dirt , it was the Tugrah crest and from there it all fell into place , condition was bad , heavy pitting in spots and there was literally a 2 inch section of the bore that was just gone , so being in the purge i decided i didnt even want it as a wall hanger and listed it , sold for less than $20 under 3K , pics were lost when the computer took a crap , and when photo bucket went mandatory premium they froze the account because i wouldnt let them to extort money from me to get the pics which were just used for forum pics , and i had them on the computer which took a crap of course , was told later there were only 6 configured like mine in the states , mine was a previous unknown number 7 , i am still to this day satisfied with the profit margin on that one , i think i bought an Poly AK and a BNZ 43 RC SSZZa4 k98 and a pistol for basically $150

if you do not have regrets from sales then you were never a collector ,lol