Most expensive firearm you ever bought or almost bought?

[CBus660R]

Define "Almost bought"......

Does putting down $200 on the proposed VLTOR Bren Ten (would have been just over $2,000) back in '09 or '10 count? I forget the exact year, just that my dad was still alive (he passed 10/30/10) and Bass Pro Shops had a SKU number in their system to do orders with. The project stalled and I wound up getting my money back after a year or so.

 

[Mistered]

At the ripe old age of 18 I wanted an 'Army .45' so a friend had a 1911 he was going to sell to me for $250. So he brought it by and I looked at it and it had a period shoulder holster with it but the gun did NOT say Colt on it but had some other weird marking, Uh something that said 'S Mfg. Co.' on the side - I passed on it because I wanted a real Colt................

 

[Lt JL]

a 2nd gen SAA made in 1958. Nickle, 5 inch barrel. I got it in a combo with an unfired 2" colt lawman MK lll, and a First gen Det. Special. All unfired. I gave $3700 for the three. I might have got a bit over my head, because I don't know that much about Colts, but I live to watch wesrerns with that nickle .45 SAA in my hands.

 

[rbrbrb6]

Outright purchase, not a custom project, would be Bill Grover's personal 44 mag Border Special that he carried and hunted with.

 

[Benchrest1]

My Tac-Ops Tango 51 with a Nightforce scope.

 

[jag312]

My Lanchester Mk 1* submachinegun. All registered and transferable machineguns range from expensive up to ridiculously expensive.

 

[BC38]

I bought a 98% 4" 29-2 with box, tools, & paperwork for $700 + an old Apple laptop I had $150 in. Held onto it for two or three years and never shot it because I didn't want to devalue it.

I ended up selling it for $1600 so it was not only the most expensive gun I ever bought, it was also the most expensive gun I ever sold.

 

[gunzo]

Bought a Beretta O/U once for $4400 & the wife was with me. Even though we have a deal that each of our extra money can be spent on what we please, I thought I'd catch it on this one. She never said a word.
Shot it for a while & realized like others here that it didn't make me a bit better shot, so I sold it. I got 5K for it & she finally told me that she thought I had lost my mind when I bought it, but evidently knew what I was doing. I don't hear that often.

 

[daniel lawecki]

I guess myself I don't put a price on things. If we run across something we like and know we aren't over paying then it finds it's way home. Be it muscle cars ,motorcycles or guns. I tell my wife you can't put a price on a good time.

 

[deadin]

Paid around $1400.00 for it about 15 years ago. Sold for about the same 7 or 8 years ago.....

 

[Dieseltech56]

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.

 

[walkin jack]

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

 

[rwsmith]

Most people wouldn't call this expensive...

....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.

 

[kenv1950]

Joh. Springer Mauser

 

[the ringo kid]

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.

 

[vt_shooter]

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 ...

 

[Gamecock]

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.

 

[Wee Hooker]

does this count?

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:

 

[Cardboard_killer]

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.

 

[jmr986]

It's a tie by a few bucks. Colt 4" Python and Korth Mongoose.

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