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Old 12-02-2017, 02:10 PM
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I haven't spent over $900 on a smith revolver yet but I've got a few rifles and a T/C contender that have broken the $1000 mark.
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Old 12-02-2017, 02:50 PM
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Hand gun - S & W Lew Horton .44spl. Bought it from a retired Dallas cop for $700.00 It had been his duty weapon. When I was forced to sell a lot of guns I very reluctantly included that one. I priced it at $1100.00 in the hopes that no one would buy it and had decided not to lower the price any. I was still putting things out on the table at the gun show when a guy walked up and bought it and he spread out 11 $100.00 bills out on the table with out batting an eye and he had a big grin on his face when he did it. It hurt me to let it go.

Long gun - Colt AR-15 LE6920. bought it at a gun show for $1050.00 with a discount for cash. BTW that same day a LGS was selling them for $1789.00. I sold it the same day as the Lew Horton for $1200.00
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....but when I was looking for a .357 a 686 was out of reach so I looked at Taurus and Ruger., favoring the Ruger because of their reputation. But, IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A 686.

So I went for broke and I've never been sorry.
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Old 12-02-2017, 05:15 PM
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In 1997, I bought my mint-1935 M-98 German Mauser with 25 rd fixed (ansteckmagazin) for $800.00. I don't know what that is in today's $$$. A few years ago I bought one of those ATI STG-44/ .22 for $705.00 and yeah-I know-I likely paid about $150.00 too much for it BUT-it was during the gun scare of that time and I wanted it THAT badly. Also came in the wooden box-which likely tacked on an extra $100.00.
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Old 12-02-2017, 06:05 PM
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Off topic, but I bet more than a few of us regret not buying a gun that we thought was expensive at the time ... but we can't pay attenton to life's should haves and could haves ...
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I did buy this Browning 725 Grade V last year. MSRP $5,400.

I paid less than that, but it was still the most expensive gun I ever bought.
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USA Shooting Team Edition Steyr LP-1 Match Grade 10M air pistol. Amazing Olympic grade /aspirin splitting accuracy at 10M . Phenomenal in every way and gets about 350 shots out of one CO2 filling. This gun put me at the top of our local leagues for many a year.
Gave $1250 for it back some 20 years or so ago.
Sorry, no current pics although I still own it. Looks allot like this one:
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I bought a Browning Medalist, in the velvet box, for somewhere around a grand once. It was nice, but too much money for what it was, so I sold it and made a little money on it.


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It’s a tie by a few bucks. Colt 4” Python and Korth Mongoose.

The 2 on the left
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And it was disappointing, accuracy wise.
Happily, someone else wanted it really bad so I escaped unscathed.
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Browning Hi-Power. First pistol I ever bought for myself. Paid full retail in the days before the internet. Still have it.
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$1300 for a Benelli M3 auto/pump combo 12 ga. Was almost double what I paid for an electroless nickel Colt Custom Combat 10 10mm. The Colt today is worth probably more than twice the Benelli. Both purchased new. I feel like a cheapskate after reading most of the replies here.
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Old 12-04-2017, 02:34 AM
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For me it would have to be my .44 AutoMag Harry Sanford Commemorative Model 1 of 1000. In all actuality though, less than 300 were produced and mine serial number is very low 2 digits. Paid north of $3K for it almost 10 yrs ago. Photo is representative, not of mine.


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Back in my trapshooting days, I bought a new Ljutic Mono-gun Beautiful shotgun. Never did win enough money to pay for it
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My most expensive one was a Model 28 Highway Patrolman. Although only around $112 at the time, it launched my life of buying more and more guns. So I consider it my most expensive.
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This 1918 Carl Gustafs m/41B with a 1942 A. Jackenroll Optische scope sitting on top of it. I use it to shoot in vintage sniper matches. It's good to 700 yards and that's only because that's the limit of the ranges I've shot at.
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Neat stuff everyone and its funny, but I don't think any of us has spent too much, yet. I have recently been participating in online auctions (not Gunbroker) and have failed to win. Do to mission creep and the "fun"sensation of near gambling involved with this online bidding I will soon spend too much. I can hardly wait!
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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.
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SCAR 16 - $2,200. I did look at (with no intent on buying) a beautiful, museum quality, LNIB, unfired, 1896 Broomhandle Mauser pistol, fully factory engraved at Mauser from the turn of the 20th century once. It cost as much as my house. To say it was beautiful is to do it a hideous injustice. When I looked at it, I heard angels singing.

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$900 for a 340PD no lock, new. It’s become my EDC and saving weight is a must for me so I guess that justifies the cost.
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I like pre-war Merkel o/u engraved shotguns, custom engraved Colts and S&Ws.

I shoot em....And I put more value on the enjoyment of such items, than the monetary lay out.

When they hit the shallow end of five figures, I sometimes slow down a wee bit.....


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Klaus Willig engraved and gold inlaid 1951, .38-44 Outdoorsman.

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UPDATED Another old scratched up N Frame ...

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Sig P210 from @ 51 ~ 52



Bought it as the SSE was being closed. Got it imported from out of State on C&R.

Based on what they're selling for these days, I got a screaming deal! Still had to go with noodles and pb&j for a time.
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A few years ago we bailed my BIL out of jail, to the tune of $2500. He gave us his pre-ban Steyr Aug w/3 magazines, a Ruger P89, and a Calico M951 as collateral. Since then, he's done time in prison for dealing drugs, so as far as I'm concerned, his time to pay us back has long expired.

The Calico I consider trash, and I'm not too wild about the Ruger. But this Steyr is one sweet rifle!

Considering the value of the two I don't care for, I have about $1700 in the Steyr. But it's not like I bought it on purpose.

On the other hand, I have about a grand in my Ruger #1a Light Sporter .270 Winchester w/ Leupold VX1 3x9x40. This one I bought on purpose! (No good photo at the moment!)
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I'm a cheap buzzard. The most I've ever spent on a gun was $749 for a Sig P938. Yeah, I knew it was high, but the wife REALLY wanted it.
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I'm a cheap buzzard. The most I've ever spent on a gun was $749 for a Sig P938. Yeah, I knew it was high, but the wife REALLY wanted it.
I'm as cheap as they get, but I'd spend twice that if it would make my wife WANT a gun of her own.
Heck, I'd even buy one that was PINK if that's what it took...
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including 50k once for a rare Fabbri over-under.
New ones START at $89,000 and typically run closer to $125,000...

When I hit the lotto maybe; otherwise about $2500 for me.


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In the 80s before they became "bad", they were available for $450, including a LH conversion.....another example of "woulda, coulda shoulda......."
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well, I somehow got into lugers, so got used to saving up and buying less guns

Simson 1926 - this one is in the December Man at Arms magazine
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I like pre-war Merkel o/u engraved shotguns, . . . .

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My only O/U Merkel is this one:












Not a shotgun and not pre-WW2. It's a .375 H&H Mag. made in East Germany and test fired February 19, 1986 using Winchester 300 grain factory ammunition. Yes, I said it. Winchester factory ammunition in East Germany well before the Iron Curtain came down.

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A friend took in a Luger and wanted to swap it for my 520. I said no way. Another friend bought it and wound up selling it to a Chicago area dealer for twelve hundred, and that guy had bought it for resale... I could have had it for 350, which is what I had in the 520. Mauser Banner Luger, original holster and two matching mags, exc. Cond , no idea what that's worth today.
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A friend took in a Luger and wanted to swap it for my 520. I said no way. Another friend bought it and wound up selling it to a Chicago area dealer for twelve hundred, and that guy had bought it for resale... I could have had it for 350, which is what I had in the 520. Mauser Banner Luger, original holster and two matching mags, exc. Cond , no idea what that's worth today.
You missed a good one. The "Mauser banner" Lugers, most of which were issued to police, are great examples of late Lugers.

I posted mine on these forums a couple years ago: http://smith-wessonforum.com/firearm...#post138873225

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Merkel SxS 16 ga and a Browning Heritage O/U 16 ga, each about $4500.
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I have since spent more on a couple of trap guns, but the largest expenditure in relation to my income was a Winchester 21 Skeet. It was $2350 in about 1975. I didn't shoot skeet, but thought it would be a really nice gun for hunting pheasants. It wasn't. I could not think about hunting, just protecting the gun. Sold it back after about six months for what I had paid for it; probably a six or seven thousand dollaer gun by now. I went back to hunting with an 870, and enjoyed it a lot more.
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Old 12-06-2017, 07:16 PM
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$1,125 for a 1943 Ithaca 1911a1, all original military contract pistol. Still have it. Bought about 9 years ago. This was the pistol that started me collecting firearms. Worth a lot more now.
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The roster kind of skews our values in Kalifornistan. This is DW's entry level 1911 and I bought it unfired for quite a bit more than MSRP.

It's exactly what I like in a 1911 and I'm neither sorry nor disappointed. Would like front strap checkering though...

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Model 21 Winchester with 3 sets of barrels and extra fore end, 4A wood. It did help pay for my Daughters Med school, 24 years later.
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There are two contenders for this list: The first would be my Sig P226 Legion DA/SA, which is the most amount of money I’ve ever spent on one firearm transaction, though it was well worth it. The second, a LNIB 1980 S&W Model 41, is definitely higher in value than the Legion, however I paid a bit less for it, so I not sure it counts here...


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Perazzi MX2000RS 35/34 Combo. $9800 back in 2003. Yes I still have it and shoot it.
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Old 12-08-2017, 02:39 PM
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I was offered a 40X .22 with a Shillen barrel and a Jewell trigger on a custom built for benchrest shooting stock. It was built by a man that has built several record setting rifles. It was worth at least $3000. My sponsor offered it to me for $1000. But it was right after Christmas and I had spent every nickel I had. I told him I'd be back to get it (he had 5 of them) soon but by the time I got to him he only had one left and he said he had to use it himself because his rifle had quit working. Best deal I was ever offered and I messed it up.
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Wow, and I thought the $1000 I spent on a Winchester 1873 rifle back in 1995 was a lot. That and the $1000 I spent on a Smith & Wesson Triple Lock back in 2009. That's the most I ever spent on any gun ever. I've been lucky in my choices I suppose. But I never really bought my guns based on collector interest, all my guns had to be able to shoot and take out without me worrying too much about them getting dinged or scratched too much.
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I wanted one for a while. Even though I had the budgeted funds for it, I balked at the price. Purchased it to celebrate after I received test results indicating that a small cranial tumor was benign. I had a "life is too damn precarious and short" weeks.
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The most expensive gun I ever actually bought was a Savage 12 LRPV with a target AccuTrigger. I was looking to buy one new for around $1200 but luckily found one with about 10 rounds through it for $925. I'm sure I could sell it now for more than I have in it.
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Matched set of Purdeys-12 ga with case . They were asking $135,000 for the pair
I asked them if they would take a check and they said sure but we'll have to confirm with the bank first - and that was that
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Mine is a 38/44 Transitional Sportsman. I got it for $760 in an auction after commissions with rubber grips. Then found a set of sharp shoulder magnas for $175.

I was complaining to a friend the other day about never being able to afford a Registered Magnum, and he pointed out that if I just got rid of the duplicates and dreck from my collection, I'd be able to afford one.
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For me it was this Russell Smith engraved 29-2, not cheap but you only live once.
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