I think the question should have been, "Have you ever saved and ugly or messed up gun".
Why yes!
577x500 BPE Rhoda snap action, self-cocking hammer gun, with dry rotted and shattered wrist. Come-on a self-cocking hammer gun, I had to buy it.
12 Edwin Lang back action hammer gun with pitted damascus inside. There is a nice damascus pattern to learn browning on.
12 Patstone bar-in-wood hammer gun with SouthGate ejectors, weird stock dimensions until UPS busted it in the wrist.

They are waiting for me to get off my ... and fix-um.

Joe