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Old 12-09-2017, 12:42 PM
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I wanted to buy that gun museum in Cody, WY,,,,

but,, the wife left the checkbook in the other jet,,,




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Old 12-09-2017, 02:15 PM
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A 1911 Colt sent to France in Jan/ 1918....$2600 It came with Pistol, holster, two mags, and lanyard +one box of real old ammo unopened.
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Most paid for a gun: $2100 for a NIB Freedom Arms Model 97 .22/.22 Magnum.

Highest almost paid for a gun: 1952 NIB factory engraved Colt Commander in .38 Super...probably the only one of its kind complete with factory letter. It was my year of birth and I carry the identical gun also made in 1952. It was at Amoskeg Auction and I was there. Bidding in-house stopped at $2500 and I was high bidder. A phone bidder then just kept bidding... I finally quit when my next bid with the auction fee would have been $4K...

Most money turned down for a gun: About 2000 I bought a NIB Colt El Capitan for $900...the only .38 Super Colt ever made with an Officers length slide. At the time it was the most money I had ever paid for a gun. A few months ago someone sent me a personal message on another forum saying that he had seen a picture of the gun I had posted and would I sell it...offering $4K. I turned down the offer and he ended up offering $5K. I almost sold it but not having seen any for sale for a long to turned down the offer. A few weeks later one came up for sale on GunBroker...it hit $8500 with "reserve not met". A few weeks later another came up for sale with a starting bid of $7500 but the seller pulled the auction after just a few hours before there were any bids...

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BRNO, full stock small ring sporter, 7x57 (model 22f?), high 90s condition- paid too much, don't regret it.
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My most expensive one was a Model 28 Highway Patrolman. ..... it launched my life of buying more and more guns.

Based on this theory......that first 4" Model 10.........."cost" me.............. well ......... gotta be...... at or dang close to ....... a "big pile of cash" over the past 39 years...........


Well whatever the figure .... collecting/accumulating guns .......... values haven't gone down!


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A 2016 Browning Citori 725 Sporting O/U new for $2000...worth every penny.
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I don't have any real expensive guns but I do like Browning Sweet 16's. My quest to have one to hunt with cost me a pretty penny. I bought one about around 2005 for $900 and decided it was too nice to hunt with. Bought another one in not as good a shape for $600. Then decided to buy another barrel for it and send it off to Briley's to have it shortened and choke tubed. I had over $500 in the barrel alone when I got it back. So I guess I could say I spent $2000 to have a shooter Sweet 16!
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Old 12-09-2017, 05:19 PM
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My CT Brian custom built 1911. it was $2600 when i had it built. Tim recently told me that it is about a $6000 gun now.
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In 2005, after the insurance paid for my ruined gun collection from Katrina,
I bought a new Krieghoff K-80 Skeet gun, The gun, case and Briley sub-gauge tube set
ran just shy $10,000 shipped to my FFL. I still have it. It's a great shotgun.

I should have done years earlier.

New ones cost a lot more now.
My Browning only cost me $1000 to buy, but those 300,000 targets I shot through it cost me closer to $150,000...................
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Bought back my fathers M1 Garand Type I National Match that I sold about 10 years earlier for about the same price. NOT LETTING IT GO AGAIN!
Remington 40XC KS position rifle for the same price($1500) of course it needed a $800 Sightron 8-32x60 scope. It did not disappoint! 1/2” groups at 200yds
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Old 06-20-2018, 01:54 AM
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You guys have put me to shame. My most expensive has been a Browning 1911-380 Black Label, it was somewhere around $650. Something about it, I just had to have it.
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Well, I have an AR I assembled that, totaling up the receipts, is about $2600. But that doesn't feel like a $2600 gun since it was a lot of little purchases over a month or two.

Almost bought a $1600 627-0 recently, and came really close on an STI 2011 10mm for around $1700 last year (cost of mags was the deciding factor).
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A matched set of Krieghoff K-80 blued super scroll trap shotguns. One unsingle, and 1 o/u. Factory cross fitted, and consecutive serial numbers. It is not so much what I paid for them, it is the 20K+ that they are now worth after I sold them for a Ljutic LTX and a Perazzi GA88 o/u, and then had them stocked by Paul Hilmer. A spare trigger group costs over a grand. At least I kept them
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Integral suppressed full auto Ramo M2HB. Not much louder than unsuprressed .22 LR.

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Without a doubt for me it's the 2 Krieghoff shotguns that I use weeky in competition registered shooting. In order to stand up to lots of rounds you better spend a pretty penny for a good shotgun that will last.
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I purchased two Sigs that are 1K guns. I don’t think I’d go higher than that. For me, they’re tools to get the job done, nothing more.
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3000 for a Norinco NDM 86, including the luxury case





2650 for a Beretta 93 R full auto



2280 for an Auto Mag



2160 for a 1943 Savage / Auto Ordnance 1928 A1 full auto



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The shame is, a good quality 1928 A1 could be made and sold for under $5k if not for government's interference.

Thanks, Mr. Reagan.
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Small potatoes by these standards, but around 1400? For a gen 1 Benelli SBE. Best 14 hundo i ever spent.
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I owned one of the first 12 Colt 1911's sold to the USMC. I sold the gun for at the time what I thought was crazy money...$ 3K. Saw the owner a couple years later and he wanted $ 12K for it. Oops... But I enjoyed owning a piece of history.
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Btw, I had $ 500.00 into the gun.
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No "giggle switch" but it still wasn't cheap!

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OP mentioned those firearms we might have bought. For that category I will report almost having to buy the M16A1 that managed to disappear when I was medi-vacced out of Vietnam with a moderately serious head wound, then returned for duty about a month later. For a while it looked like Uncle Sam actually planned on making me pay (I think) $266 for that rifle. Those were 1970 dollars, back when my base pay (as a sergeant) was $248.75, combat pay was $65 per month, jump pay was $55 per month, overseas pay was $17, and family separation allowance was $30 per month (and we paid no income taxes while in the combat zone). Serious money at the time!

Today I would gladly put up the $266 for that M16A1, and pay the $200 transfer tax, with originals bringing $20,000-plus on the collector market! The profit would probably keep me well supplied with beer for several weeks!
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I see it a little different than most other guys here.The most expensive is the one that,to me,was the costlier.
In '85,I bought a Ruger P85 in 9mm.Shot one round through it and I didn't like it(not to downgrade the gun;some prefer blondes,others brunettes as they say).
I brought it back the same day to my LGS who bought it back...minus $100 1985 dollars.
At the then going price for the 9mm rounds were going(aprox $.006)I think that owning a gun for ?100.06$ a day was quite expensive!
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English style straight grip. Paper thin changeable
choke tubes (skeet, improved cylinder, modified,
full). Extremely light weight shotgun.

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My biggest purchase would have been a matched pair of two english Martini rifles in one fitted case along with a couple boxes of Kynock 303 British and 577/450. one rifle was in 303 the other was in 577/450 receivers were engraved. We worked out a deal at $50 a week to pay off the $1500 price tag. After a month of 4 regular $50 payments the dealer took me aside and said another customer would have liked to buy the cased set. But when he found out it was on lay away he backed out. He would refund all the money that I had paid him no harm no foul and sell the set to another buyer as he would have paid cash money. I realized I would be making monthly payments for 30 months tying up the sale to other propsective buyers. I said ok as I didn't want to incur any feelings against me as i did purchase firearms from him in the past. He handed me the $200 and we shook hands. Within a week the cases set was sold. Truth be told the manager was a nice guy and handled the situation well.
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In addition to Smith's, I'm into clay targets. Some of the guys there spend crazy money on shotguns. I've always been somewhat conservative in my spending (some say cheap, I prefer frugal). I have nice stuff mind you, two Browning OUs, two Browning A5s, Remington 870s, 1100s, etc but none of these are super expensive models. I have kids, so braces, college savings, etc. were always a bigger priority.

That said, two years ago, as a 50thbirthday present to myself, I bought a sweet little Beretta 20 gauge OU which, with tax, came to a few pennies over 2K. That's the most expensive gun I've ever bought
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Wife picked up a mismatched No. 4 Mk 1 (T) rifle for me. To date, this was the most expensive purchase made all at once ($2,800).

-Scope is a 1941 made No. 32 Mk 1 made by Kodak Ltd, and mount is an authentic Dalglish to a 1943 era rifle (by serial number). The mating of scope to mount was done at some point prior to post-war storage, suggesting cannibalization in order to keep a needy sniper rifle up and running. In my search on this scope, I found that they were basically unobtanium, and the few examples that I saw sold several years ago brought prices rivaling today's high-end optics. This one works flawlessly by the way.

-Rifle is a 1945 made BSA Shirley. The forestock and magazine are replacements, and the king screw sling swivel was replaced as well. Everything else (the most important being all metal parts) is original and appropriately marked. This was either a former sporterized gun that someone saved from bubba, or perhaps a rifle that was put together from cannibalization during the Korean War era. The rifle is worth less than the scope, but the history behind it is awesome.

Being into long-range shooting for a decade and a half has cost me quite a bit as far as equipment goes. However, I was always able to purchase/build parts separately. So while a gun may cost ~$4K or more, taking over a year to put it together makes it seem like it isn't so bad.
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Most expensive? My Model 27 5 screw .44 Special conversion.
Paid $750 for the gun, $900 for the conversion work.
Would I get my money back if I sold it? Nope. Do I care? Nope.
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Capt. F. a very neat revolver. Like any custom/conversion ,one has a lot of pride and satisfaction in owning.
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Capt. F. a very neat revolver. Like any custom/conversion ,one has a lot of pride and satisfaction in owning.
Absolutely right. I don’t shoot it alot but as you say the satisfaction is getting it out, admiring the workmanship, cleaning it and thinking “yep, I own it”.
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Old 06-24-2018, 10:59 AM
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All matching AR code MG42 with Lafette, Optics, extra barrels, barrel carriers and 2 50 round drums in carrier. Back in 1999 for 24K.
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I draw a line at $800, and, then, it's got to be a $2000 gun for me to even consider it. Paid that for a M52-2 (second one shipped) LNIB with all paperwork and accessories. Also paid that for a Smith Target Revolver with 6 and 1/2 barrel that letters to 1910 as a special order. . .one of a consecutive serial numbered pair. They are both pictured in my albums on this site. I have one of just about everything including Parkers, Drillings, Lugers, Colts, etc. There are just too many guns in the world and way too many around here in Georgia for me to fork out over $800 for anything.
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I paid $450 for an new 8" nickle 29-2 in 1975. At the time I was an Airman 1st Class in the USAF. Had to get a loan from the base credit union to purchase it. Not sure but I think I was paid 300 a month. In 2018 dollars thats about $2100. By todays prices I still overpaid!
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Default That would be my Accuracy International rifle.
With the S&B glass, Seekins precision rings and Atlas bipod. I have a little more then eight grand in it. It does shoot well! Second place would likely be my H&K Mark 23 suppressed, right at three grand.
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I have bid in the neighborhood of 2k$ on a nice K-32.
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I spent $2500 for a springfield armory super match M1A, $1700 for a colt single action army Sam Colt commemorative, and a couple of Colt single action armies at $1600 each (both NIB). I recently bought a Smith and Wesson 25-3 commemorative NIB with original presentation box with book and original blue box with all paperwork for $1400. Heavenly Days! I have to get my spending under control!
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A new Sig 210 is most the expensive I have bought.
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Probably my CS-9. Dream gun is a 1873 Winchester
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1937 Reg Mag. Ain't tellin the price. Paid $300 for stocks.

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Like Richard Simmons above, probably this one:


Full auto would be fun but I haven’t seen one under $30,000 in years. I couldn’t afford to feed it anyway!
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I don't have them anymore thanks to the downturn in the real estate market, but in their day they were plenty "spendy" as my Minnesota relatives would say...

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Once upon a time...…..I had this BHE grade Parker.

Should have kept it. But, some times a pile money comes along.

A feller wearing a bow tie and carrying a dinner sack full of money, left
the sack and he carried the Parker back to Union City, TN.



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Original 627 PC first of the 8 shots 975.00
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this day made my wallet really light,
the 1911 is a Nighthawk longslide with giraffe bones
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My most expensive gun purchase that I almost made was a cased pair of martini rifles. oOne was 303 British and the other in 577/450. Lightly engraved beautifly wood and a few boxes of Kynock ammo to go with him. every week I'd show up like clock work and hand over the $25 I agreed to pay each week. This lasted a few months when the dealer Said to me at $25 a week $100 per month was going to take 15 months to pay it off. He was trying to let me down gently. I got my money back and someone else got the martinis. Making $125 a week $100 a month was a lot to me. This was back in the mid 70's. Frank
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I'd have to say, my M&P 10.
$1300.00 for the rifle, $850.00 for the scope, another $100 in furniture upgrades. $260 for trigger, $100 for brake, $60 for bag, oh, now I need scope mount rings, cleaning kit, magpul wrench, etc etc etc etc. Never ends.
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