Loaned out far to many pieces of kit over the years, but I regret giving out books and articles that I cannot get back or find again.

I regret that I waited until my body was out of warranty before my mind started working reasonably well.

My dear wife tells me that the Frank Sinatra song "My Way" will be played at my funeral so I'll quote the line from that:

Regrets I've had a few
But then again too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption

However, I still really miss that Colt Woodsman I had back in the '70's...

Paul -

It was somewhat fitting that the subject of missed opportunities came up in Torah study this Saturday.

Jeanette Isabelle

I had a Star BM (Spanish 1911 clone). It had the bad habit to go from condition 1 to condition 0 when carried in a holster. It had go.
My Uberti 1873 rifle developed problems and had regular FTEs. The waranty repairs failed to correct that. It was replaced by a Winchester 1873 rifle. The Winchester served well for several hundred rounds so far .
A Glock field knife proved to be not up to par. Due to the short tang it lost the blade when hacking off a branch and I was not able to retrieve it. Luckily noone was in the path of the blade.
A cheap charger ruined a set of rechargeables when a capacitor blew. I should have bought a better one.
Finally not really a regret but a tool that was drastically reduced in usefulness is a Leatherman wave. I can´t carry it legally anymore as the blade can be opened and locked one handed .

> A Glock field knife proved to be not up to par. Due to the
> short tang it lost the blade when hacking off a branch and I >was not able to retrieve it. Luckily noone was in the path of >the blade.


Good idea I saw somewhere (it might have been here). Hold the tip of the blade; not the handle when batoning.

qjs

I was not batoning. I held the knife at the grip and swung it at the branch. The blade steel was not too good either. So I replaced it with a tiny full tang utility knife like the one the character Mountain Phil used to carry in Barquero.