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Old 04-01-2014, 02:32 AM
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I'm at the fire station tonight and couldent sleep and I started thinking about some of the trades I've made over the years. Some better than others but atleast one that really stood out and I was wondering who else might have a good gun trade story. I searched and didn't see anything so I decided too ask.
My best trade is actually a two part trade. It started out with a raffle ticket. Some guys were trying to raise money for a local volunteer fire dept by raffling off an AR. I only had a dollar on me so I bought one ticket. Must have been my lucky day because a month later they called and said I won. It was a decent rifle but I already had an AR and didn't really want another so I traded it to a friend for a Remington 1100 and a glock 27. That glock 27 I carried for a while but I wanted to replace a S&W model 66 that was stolen a while back so I started asking around. Not many people are willing to trade a good S&W for a glock so it took a while and eventually I met a woman who had a 19-3 in good shape. She bought it new and after shooting it once decided that it was too much for her and never fired it again. Later she decided she wanted a 40 caliber and a buddy introduced us. I asked her to do some research to make sure she would be happy with the trade and after she did she still wanted to trade. So for a $1 raffle ticket I got a Remington 1100 and a model 19-3. I would consider that my best trade.
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Well one that comes to mind was a few years back Traded a 26' TV for a 625 mountain gun in 45 Colt. This was when these guns first came out and the price wasn't as crazy as they are now.
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Won a gun raffle at from a local fire department, when I went to the gun shop that was doing the paperwork and supplying the guns, I swapped a springs and plastic 9mm Glock for a like new K38 8 3/8 in the box with papers.
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My best ever, and probably the best I'll ever make: I traded a KelTec PF-9 even up for an early Pre-37 Airweight Chief Special. Complete with the red box and papers. The little revolver still had the aluminum cylinder and was in about 98%.
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I traded a recent-production Ruger SP101 for a 1971-ish Model 19-3.

I liked the Ruger, but I love the Model 19-3.


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I bought a beat up Marlin Model 60 for 30 bucks at a flea market, took it home and cleaned it up, then traded it at a gun show straight across for a NIB Benjamin pellet rifle.

I also traded a Ruger GP100 that I was into for $230 for a like new Colt Detective Special .38.

I've made other really good trades, but those are the first to come to mind.
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I got a gun for my wife, best trade I ever made.
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My dad got a couple of the last Colt Woodsmen and a Trooper that were at a Hardware Wholesaler who was dropping Colt. After some trading he ended up with a Model 29-2 and a 1918 vintage GI 1911 Gov't Model along with some boot. I'd say they were good trades!


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Beretta PX4 and some cash for an HK P7.
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my best trade was my life savings for a pre 1910 model 1903 springfield rifle. i was 12 at the time and had about $30 saved up from cutting grass. another interesting trade was when a friend of mine was in need of a car. i traded my wife's good running wrecked escort for a winchester m1a. i had to throw in our couch to sweeten up the deal. she was a great wife. never did understand just why she divorced me.
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I've never done a gun trade before the one I did a few years ago and I traded a nickel Model 27-2 with 6 inch barrel for a Model 17-1 with 6 inch barrel and an 18-4 with a 4 inch barrel. Both of the 22LR revolvers were in 95% or better condition and the model 27-2 was mint. Seeing it's my only gun trade I guess it has to be my best.
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I like Marlin rifle's quite a bit. Last summer I bought a pair of pre-safety 357 rifles unseen for $700. When they got to me one was perfect and even had a nice Williams peep site, and one was chambered in 375 Winchester (336 action). Guess he was dyslexic but I couldn't really be mad for what I paid. Traded the 375 for a 45 Colt Cowboy Competition. That was my best deal.

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Not as radical as most of the others, but traded a Mosin-Nagant straight across for this one:
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Best trade I ever made was to trade my IMI Desert Eagle in 357mag



for a H&R Garand and a Remington 1903.



Very happy with this trade.
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I remember the day I traded my first gun, a model 28-3 with a four inch barrel for a early 70's model 27 With a 6 inch barrel . This gun wore rosewood stocks, had a .500 target trigger and . 500 target hammer and had a glass smooth action job.it also had a mirror blue finish. I traded this gun off for my first model 629-1 with a 6 inch barrel and replaced the factory stocks for the ones that were on the 27.I do miss all three of these guns.
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I traded a recent-production Ruger SP101 for a 1971-ish Model 19-3.

I liked the Ruger, but I love the Model 19-3.


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That 19 is fantastic!
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Mine was a 6" 1974 Python.
I got a blond, she got my Colt......
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"Please don't tell me that you were born in 1974. "

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A Glock 17 straight across for a first year Model 57 4". The gun is a little rough, but its better than 85%.....I had about 300 bucks into the Glock.
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Not that I made it, (DARN!!!), but a friend of mine swapped a Ruger LCP for a Colt Detective Special...why can't I fall into deals like that?

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I traded off a used Glock 30 and $300 cash for this from 1919. It's a civilian model, so the holster doesn't match, but it was tossed in just because he had it.
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I guess mine is a trade string,I traded $900 for a NIB S&W 500ES and sold it for $2,600 and bought a pre 24 Pinto.I am happy with a $900 pre 24 Pinto I also traded a model 646 for a LNIB Lew Horton 3" 657 then traded the 657 and some cash for a mint complete pre 27 5".I paid $600 for the 646...
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I have 2. First a model 1889 Marlin...mint for $25.00 and the second, an 1886 Winchester 45-90....$100. Wish I still had them.
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Handgun(s)...a Colt Official-Police...$25.00 poker game bluff.
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My brother had bought a used Model 58, 41 magnum, to keep in his boat to shoot snakes. After spending big bucks for a box of ammo and shooting it once or twice, ( he had no idea of the power level of the 41 mag. before that ) he said to me " I think I would rather have a 22 pistol like the one you have..... So ,being the nice brother I am....I swapped him even- steven for my used Ruger MKI Target for that nice Model 58, didn't make him pay me any extra for it or nothing ! That was my best deal! He was happy, I was happy!
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I paid $25.00 for these two Berettas, a 70 .32 a.c.p. & a 71 .22 LR.



I later traded them even for a S&W 908, which my brother now owns.

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Traded this


For this


And this


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I made a straight trade of a new LC9 for a M66-3 that I had earlier sold to a friend in a moment of stupidity. It was one of those immediate seller remorse deals, and fortunately the friend to whom I had sold the 66 took pity. I didn't make money on the deal, but I have the satisfaction of getting back a part of my personal history, and my friend has a concealed SD handgun that makes him happy.
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Traded a pawn shop $60 for a E Remington and Sons 31 caliber percussion revolver with ivory grips from the 1850s. Traded the Remington for $800 and traded that for three S&Ws.
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Friend of mine needed a rear sight assembly for a model 66. I had one and he insisted I take a model 64-3 with 3 inch barrel in trade. He is a real good friend.
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I bought a sweet 1973 15-3 that some eejit traded in on a Glock.

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I traded a .380 AMT Backup, an Iver Johnson TP-22 and a Targa GT 27 .25acp for a brand new Sig 228. Had maybe $250 in those 3. Still have the Sig. Joe
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I swapped a $300 Glock even for a 681 which I recently traded even for a near flawless 28-2 4". I'm very satisfied with the outcome.
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I traded my Grandmother A Dinner visit for a Sharps Pepperbox Chambered in 22 Short, A Quarter Eagle Gold Coin, and a box of letters detailing his Times during the war and how the little Pepperbox got him out of a few Jams... My Great Great Grandpa carried the Pepperbox and the Gold Coin with him thru the Civil War...
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Traded a POC Colt Trooper 4 inch in .22cal prob 90 % with a dump truck trigger as I call them, u couldn't hardly keep on the paper at 25 yards and felt like weighed 5 Lbs for a Norinco Type 56 Pre ban AK 47
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Gee whiz gwpercel, my brother knows more about S&W's than I do, want to swap brothers? Sounds like yours is easier to trade with....

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Gave my son a very lightly used CZ75B for his B-Day one year. A few years later I offered him a pristine S&W Sigma 9mm in trade. He bit! Scoreboard!
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Many years back I traded a H&R 929 22 revolver for a 1941 vintage model 94 30-30 carbine. Don't know how many bucks have fallen to that old rifle but many. I had 16 bucks in the H&R.
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Swapped a saur 38H in 32 acp,two mags and three boxes win 32 acp ammo for a 1911A1 Ithaca 1943 and a huge cigar box full of assorted 45acp ammo. We both walked away happy. Frank
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I traded in a ruger redhawk in 44mag 7 1/2" barrel for a norinco m14 with some cash.
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Early in my gun life I was on the wrong side of the coin, lets just call it learning. I did learn.

My 1st WOW deal was a dollar raffle ticket that won me a REM 1100 20 gauge LW. The next week I bought a lottery ticket and won a Mossberg 20 gauge.

I bought a NIB Harris bipod for 75 cents at an estate sale. Traded it for a Star 9mm 1911 semi clone. Sold it for 300 bucks and bought a Smith revolver.

The best was a long series that kept getting better each trade. I had my stash money, $200, and went to look around at a gun show. I ended up buying 2 Sporterized 1903 Springfield's from 2 different gents for $100 each. After I cleaned them up and refinished the stocks I traded each one for multiple guns, and traded those for multiple guns. I ended up with 2 Kimber 84's in 7MM-08, 2 pre 64 Model 70 Winchesters and traded one M-70 for a Python actually 2 but I had to add $100 but sold one of the Pythons for enough to buy a 27-2 in 3.5 and a model 19 plus got my money back. I also ended up with several other guns that I sold to buy S&W revolvers. All of this happened over a 5 year period. I have 1/2 a safe full of nice guns that came from the $200 stash. And no one was taken advantage of. The LNIB Star was still in the box but the folks had lost the safety spring and detent, he hit me up for the trade. I bought one from a supplier, I think it was a buck plus postage.

I kept trading up and for guns I wanted, that run is over.

For the past 4-5 years all my guns have been purchased in LGS'. I had an extra 300 WBY and recently traded it for a LNIB Benelli Super 90 Montefeltro 20 gauge. I came out very good on that trade. I had wanted that Benelli since I first mounted one some years ago.

Dang my fever returned. I need to trade. Now to find an LGS or even a Gun Show......
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For all my buying , and occasional selling , I haven't done many actual trades . But here goes a cpl:

Traded even a Tarus PT111 9mm for an M-1 Carbine ( parts gun assembled from all GI parts , aftermarket pistol grip fiberglass stock , and cheap red dot ) . We were both pleased , and each received what they what they prefered to own.

Traded a '96 Suburban with a totally cracked transmission for a CETME .when the truck was previously functional , it was worth way more , but was no longer relevent. I get a lot more enjoyment out of a CETME than I would have gotten selling it as is for a few hundred. The mechanic I traded with got a functional full size 4x4 for a rifle he didn't use , plus his cost for parts.
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Just a few weeks ago I traded my 9mm M&P for a Ruger Redhawk Alaskan in 44 Mag. Best trade I've ever done. That Alaskan has been a lot of fun to shoot.
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