We gun writers can be an odd lot. We’ve spent years, decades learning, practicing, packing away trivia, and amassing a large collection of books, guns, ammo, experiences, and memories. But we all have that one gun, the one we could have had, and for one reason or another passed up. Now, later in life, we find that they have been snapped up by collectors and are simply unaffordable. (Priced a 1960s Colt Python lately?) Or, there simply weren’t that many of them, and between time, use, collectors and neglect, there just aren’t any left. (Oh, the lust for a Fosberry in .38 Auto.)
Here are the tales of a few of us, of a particular firearm(s) that we let slip by, and what time, place and finances denied us that…
