I guess free is the ultimate cheap. Last weekend a friend gave me an old Spanish .25, copy of the Colt Vest Pocket, with ammo! Seems to operate OK. And not one gun law was broken in Texas.
I guess free is the ultimate cheap. Last weekend a friend gave me an old Spanish .25, copy of the Colt Vest Pocket, with ammo! Seems to operate OK. And not one gun law was broken in Texas.
I have some Iver Johnson/U.S. Revolver Co. pistols. I think they are pretty well made.
I like H&R 22 revolvers too.
I was given this RG23 and the Clerke's 1st. Now these are terrible pistols. I think the Clerke's 1st is possiblly the worst pistol ever made. Brand new in 1975 it sold for $15.00! I've read that you might get 75 rounds through it before the firing pin no longer works because the metal it's made of is so soft.
Intratec CAT-45 a very early polymer .45. I think it was under $200 back in 1995, weighs in at 20 oz unloaded and has the heaviest most stacked trigger I ever felt. BUT it does fire every time. serial number is 0008X. I wonder if the the SN range ever broke 100..... One of the early head people was George Kellgren! when he left, the company was renamed to Intratec and he went on to form Keltec. Sorry about the bolding... https://i.postimg.cc/YSvstvfd/cat-45.jpg
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Well, my "collection" started with a "cheapie" my H&R 900 .22 bought in 1966 with high school graduation gift money. Probably cost about $50.00 back then. I still have it and take it out plinking once in a while. It has brought me lots of enjoyment and good memories over the years.
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A kid bought one and one of his 'friends' disassembled it and bent the rails. I straightened them out and then he wanted to get rid of it. I gave him something for it. It is a beast. It's light as a feather and kicks like mule on steroids. It's kind of a novelty for me. I shot a 3" magnum shell out of it and swore I'd never do it again.
I recently picked up an Academy Sports House Branded ATA 12ga 18.5" autoloader with peep sights and an extended turkey choke tube. I already have compatible tubes, Mobil/Benelli type.
It was $319 OTD.
My 870 HD kicks like a mule, so my thinking was a gas operated autoloader would be worth a try.
I removed the fire control group cleaned production/shipping lube out and replaced it with a wipe down of Gun Shield. I can see the peep sights well and it functions fine with both high and low brass loads.
The one thing it doesn't seem to do as well as I hoped, reduce felt recoil from #4 buckshot magnum loads!
I picked up a box of Fiocchi defense 00 buck, but haven't tested those yet.
Yea, a new $300 autoloader? Sometimes things just seem to come over me...
I also once bought a Raven .25 for $25. Pistol was 100% reliable and I carried it a my old house when I cut the grass. The little lot was surrounded on 2 sides by farm fields and the yard was infested with snakes. I got pretty good at 1 shot stops while never stopping the little riding mower I was on. Worked well on the field mice and voles also.
Several years ago CDNN was offering the Turkish made SARARMS B6P, a poly frame copy of the CZ75 for about $245. Other than removing some sharp plastic mold flash and sharp edges on the trigger the gun shoots extremely well. There is a metal slide rail insert pinned into the front of the frame and after the first firing one of the rails snapped off. EAA (the importers at the time) fixed the issue under warranty with a very quick turn around, never had another issue.
When I first got into shooting in about 1980 a friend owned a gunshop and he talked me into a Taurus PT99 which I got for around $300. Not the cheapest of guns but if you break it down by cost per round fired it has been a tremendous value. I have fired 10's thousands of rounds thru that gun.
The cheapest one in my collection is this Colt's Agent. If I remember right,
it cost $150 way back when. I removed the hammer spur and the single
action notch to make it DAO. The Craig Spegel extended boots just about
doubles the value.
On the left Colt's Agent
2nd from left in KD's gator trimmed pancake
3rd from left in Roy Baker's pancake
4th from left in Black Hills lizard pancake
5th from left in Thad Rybka speed scabbard
I guess free is the ultimate cheap. Last weekend a friend gave me an old Spanish .25, copy of the Colt Vest Pocket, with ammo! Seems to operate OK. And not one gun law was broken in Texas.
You mean like this one? It was given to me by my first mother in law, so very cheap. It was alleged one of her brothers brought it back from the ETO. No makers marks and the most wonderful milling marks inside the slide. Shoots good, but weighs about the same as two LCPs.
I recently picked up an Academy Sports House Branded ATA 12ga 18.5" autoloader with peep sights and an extended turkey choke tube. I already have compatible tubes, Mobil/Benelli type.
It was $319 OTD.
My 870 HD kicks like a mule, so my thinking was a gas operated autoloader would be worth a try.
I removed the fire control group cleaned production/shipping lube out and replaced it with a wipe down of Gun Shield. I can see the peep sights well and it functions fine with both high and low brass loads.
The one thing it doesn't seem to do as well as I hoped, reduce felt recoil from #4 buckshot magnum loads!
I picked up a box of Fiocchi defense 00 buck, but haven't tested those yet.
Yea, a new $300 autoloader? Sometimes things just seem to come over me...
...of that Akkar shotgun knocking me out of the shooting booth. It's a crummy cell phone video so one second I'm there then I'm flying backwards and it just doesn't convey the violence that I felt. Then I put the gun down and mumble something like, "Enough of the that."
The only "cheapie" I have at the moment is an Ithaca 49 single shot .22. My brother's high school buddy left it with him when he left for Alaska. This particular rifle is the ugliest, crudest and most inaccurate pile of dung I have ever put to my shoulder. The inaccuracy is astounding. I'm not sure the 180 degree rule is quite safe with this gun. The only reason I still have it is I don't hate anybody bad enough to give it to them.
A new Ithaca M49 single shot .22 LR, that looked like a lever action, but was actually a falling block, was my first rifle. Got it on my 15th birthday. While the metal isn't very pretty, probably black painted zinc alloy, mine always held minute of coke can. It's in the back of the safe.
I've owned a couple of those Ithaca Model 49's over the years. I always liked them for those times when I wanted to carry a rifle around the woods, but didn't want to lug around a serious one. They were great for that occasional pot shot at a pine cone, or a stick getting ready to charge.
My first gun ever was an Ithaca M-66 20 gauge. A single shot break barrel that used a lever-rifle type lever to break the barrel. Sort of a shotgun partner to the Model 49. Good solid gun. I killed my first rabbit with it. My mother got it from Sears in those long ago, pre GCA-68 days, when you could call Sears and a truck would come by the house in a day or two and drop it off.
I bought a $150 Taurus PT-92 a couple weeks ago, mostly because it was $150. It also caught my fancy being one if the early models from around the time Beretta sold the factory to Taurus, so the gun is basically an original 1970s pattern Beretta 92 with a different name stamped on it. She's a good shooter to boot.
I've got an "Ivory Johnston" owl-head .22 revolver that I have had since around 1960, and I've shot it an average of about one bullit per year ever since. It does shoot, but it has no extractor/ejector. Sights are off, and not adjustable. ***! I have no idea what I paid for it, but I hope it was no more than $1.25
Cheapest one in my safe is a surplus CZ82. It's a very well made, accurate little pistol. It outshoots a lot of much more expensive gats
I just bet that cheap CZ82 has gone up in value since you bought it too...unless it has really serious condition issues. They aren't so cheap these days.
1989, eight inch Colt Python for 275 from Bootie's pawn shop in a bad part of Orlando Florida. it was out of time and peeled paint off the hood of my truck. That has been rectified and a Colt Leupold added in correct mounts for a Python Hunter for a total of 525.00
There was a time when I realized that all of my small J Frame size revolvers
had the concealed hammer. But as a collector of holsters,
I had quite a few with a retention strap or a hammer shield. So, what
good is a hammer strap or hammer shield if the hammer is concealed?
My quick solution was to buy a little Charter Undercover I found on GB.
It is shown on the left. The one on the right is a newer Undercover with
the concealed hammer.
2nd from left is one, by Idaho Leather, with the hammer strap.
3rd from left is another one, by Chic Gaylord, with hammer strap.
4th from left is one by Heiser, made for Evaluators, with hammer shield.
5th from left another one, by Wally Wolfram, with the hammer shield.
I don't remember what the little vintage Uncercover cost, but
it was "inexpensive", a couple of hundred bucks if I remember
right.
I just noticed my Idaho Leather holster shown 2nd from left has
the strap that goes behind the trigger guard, so it would work as
well with concealed hammers.
I have 2 Taurus PT111 G2's, a Taurus PT 809, and that's about it for the super cheap guns. The above 3 work great, zero issues. They all cost about $200 each. The next cheapest guns are the SARS, P2 K, K2 45, 2000, and CM9 G2. The P2 K and CM9 were about $250 each, the K2 45 was $369, and the 2000, which I just got, was $479 plus ship and transfer. Not cheap, but not as much as a "real" CZ 75, and it has better machining than almost any "real" CZ 75 I've ever seen.
Great Western 4 3/4” .44 special. Mechanically sound, good bore, zero blue/case hardening left. Pretty darn good shooter.
Bought it for $300 because of the historical value.
I don't consider these Tokarevs "cheap", just low priced relative to most quality guns. Most owners will acclaim to this Russian designed battle pistol; dead nuts reliable, accurate and a "blast" to shoot. This is my Korean war vintage Chi-Com model 54.
"A very pointless gun, as it is far from useful..."
I have to disagree with Screwball (post #17): In a horrific way, the Nagants were very useful to Soviet NKVD commissars who used them to execute (shot in the back of the head) 10,000 Polish POW officers in the Katyn Massacres. A Communist atrocity that too many of today's pinkos tend to forget or ignore.
I've got an "Ivory Johnston" owl-head .22 revolver that I have had since around 1960, and I've shot it an average of about one bullit per year ever since. It does shoot, but it has no extractor/ejector. Sights are off, and not adjustable. ***! I have no idea what I paid for it, but I hope it was no more than $1.25
I'm going down to the courthouse tomorrow and changing my name to "Ivory Johnson"!
Rohm RG10 and one I don't even know what it is, other than it's a 22 cal. and made in Spain. Anyone, anyone?
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I have the same RG but in all black with smooth white slimmer grips….made for CDM in NY State….has box and inside a box of 50 Federal .22 shorts….on back of box handwritten in blue ink pen…
“ For your protection, shoot straight”…. Found in an old woman’s sewing bench seat and sold to me for $6 bucks. Cheapest cost and cheapest quality firearm I ever purchased, but the story is a novelty I woulda’ paid $7….
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