Most expensive firearm you ever bought or almost bought?

[SweetMK]

I wanted to buy that gun museum in Cody, WY,,,,

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

 

[english]

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.

 

[SuperMan]

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...

Bob

 

[beagleye]

BRNO, full stock small ring sporter, 7x57 (model 22f?), high 90s condition- paid too much, don't regret it.

 

[BAM-BAM]

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!

 

[Gulfecho]

A 2016 Browning Citori 725 Sporting O/U new for $2000...worth every penny.

 

[flip flappy]

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!

 

[Marshal Tom]

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.

 

[oneounceload]

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...................

 

[rich5674]

Tied at $1500

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

 

[indie_rocker]

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.

 

[hkcavalier]

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).

 

[Narragansett]

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

 

[TXSWFAN]

Integral suppressed full auto Ramo M2HB. Not much louder than unsuprressed .22 LR.

 

[A10]

Integral suppressed full auto Ramo M2HB. Not much louder than unsuprressed .22 LR.

Neighborhood defense that won't wake the neighbors!

 

[daddio202]

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.

 

[SATX]

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.

 

[Iggy]

Jake Hawken, circa 1836. If a nickel would have bought a ticket around the world, I couldn't have got out of sight. I passed.

 

[CLASSIC12]

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

All here in Switzerland [emoji1237]

 

[Gamecock]

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.