Most expensive firearm you ever bought or almost bought?

[blackdeuce]

I haven't broken the $900 mark for a S&W revolver. Went over $700 for quite a few. I think a few of them would fetch more than $1,000 today, though.

I paid $1600 for a NIB SKB 885 o/u shotgun and about the same for a Browning Citori o/u shotgun. Third place goes to a Colt Competition AR15 rifle.

 

[feralmerril]

How can I accurately answer that? I remember at 11 years old in 1952 buying at a local auction a nice modern steel Parker (Not Damascus) 12 gauge double barrel hammerless shotgun for $21.00s! However I saved it up working for 35 cents a hour working for truck farmers on my knees weeding or whatever. I just looked that up on my inflation calculater and that $21 in 1952 was like $84.68 now--- but not to a fat kid working on a muggy hot field for .35 cents. And I even got stiffed out of $12s I figured he owed me when I went to collect. His wife told me he had run off with another woman to california and I was out of luck! I do have a long memory.
Number wise the most I have spent was about $600s for a nice colt single action back around 1988. Other guns were far harder to buy for a lot less money long before that.
The wet blanket.

 

[kamloops67]

My ruger new vaqueros were my most expensive, still paying. They were about a grand for the pair but then I needed holsters and matching calibre rifles and companion shotguns and then,i needed new holsters again and a different rifle and another shotgun...It ain't done neither.
man they eat a lot too.

 

[alwslate]

A new Ljutic single barrel Trap gun I ordered after owning a couple of
used ones. $7150. When I first started shooting trap I used a plain
field grade 870 Remington and if someone had told me I would end
up spending seven grand for a shotgun to break clay pigeons I would
have laughed at them. The prices of shotguns used for Trap and Skeet
make handguns seem cheap by comparison.

 

[YogiBear]

Aloha,

Ohio Ordnance BAR, one of the first production. $2,500

Bought 2. One for me and one for good friend.

Not to mention 40 magazines($8 ea) and 2,400 rounds of CMP

Real American GI ball ammo.

My BAR is unfired.

Also bought NRA Special Matching Beretta 3901 20 ga shotguns with our

Wedding date as Serial numbers, Over 1K each. I think.

Worst mistake I made was Not buying a Winchester M-70 375 H & H Take

Down made by Winchester Custom Shop, complete with Letter for $2,500.

Now the owner will Not part with it.

Wife has several Limited Edition Beretta 92s.

 

[Leonard]

Westley Richards 577 double post war with providence tying it to a Rhodesian hunter who was known as an elephant poacher in Mozambique

 

[Qball]

The most expensive gun i never bought, was a Valmet m76
Chromeplated with Downy Birch stock and bayonet.
Even the box it came in was made of Downy Birch
one of 100

unfortunatly it was a full auto, and as Swede i'm not allowed to own a full auto.
The dealer was going to lie and give me a certificat that it was semi auto

But i chickend out. I don't want to go to jail

 

[Arik]

$2500. Arsenal 107UR SBR with a aimpoint and mount.

For those that don't Google this is a short barrel, 8in, AK 47 with a side folding stock.

Pictures are not my but it's the same thing

Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

 

[BearBio]

The most I have bid was $7025.00 for a Colt SAA issued to the 7th Cavalry at the time of Custer. Went for $7026.00 at the last minute (literally). Most I've spent is $3500 for a 41 lc Bisley, shipped to Mexico City, locally engraved, ivory grips with ruby eyes.

 

[CW Spook]

I don't have much in the line of expensive guns. A couple of of my AK's went over $1k by the time I added optics and this one was about $1200, but I traded 3 or 4 cheaper guns for it.

 

[Naples22]

I almost bough a 22 Jennings once, far too expensive at $59.00

 

[bgrafsr]

I didn't buy it, my wife did. A 1914 Colt 1911 for $3400.00. It was a Christmas present. What a gal.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

Most I've spent is about $700 for a couple of my nicer S&Ws. Most spent for a rifle was a little under $500 for one of my old Stevens single shots. Paid $330 for the only "new" rifle I've bought, a Ruger #1b in 30-06. That was about 30 years ago.

As far as guns I've almost bought...

Bid a nice Baby Chief with a 3 digit serial # up to $800 before I had to quit. Was hoping to get lucky. There was only one other bidder and myself after $350.
Same thing happened at an auction with a nice 44 target pre model 24. I joined in the bidding when it faltered at around $600, then went toe to toe with an absentee phone bidder before bowing out at $1200. It was fun.
John

 

[Brian41]

As I stated when this thread was first started I have a hard time paying over $1000.00 for a gun. I do have a desire for a higher end 1911 and will have to break that rule. Maybe have to do some trading too. Since I retired I don't have the gun fund I once did. I used to spend much of my overtime money on guns and the thought helped me get through some long nights on call. Of course S&W revolvers were easier to find then and much cheaper than today.

 

[PALADIN85020]

The most expensive gun I own is this mint condition, unfired U.S. Model 1842 percussion musket. In 1975, I paid $625 cash ($2745 in today's dollars) and also traded an excellent condition Mauser C-96 broomhandle pistol in the deal. I have the history on the gun. It was produced at Springfield Armory in 1848, too late for use in the Mexican War. It went into war reserve storage at Springfield during the Civil War, as it was a smoothbore. Some years after the Civil War it went to a museum in Virginia, where it was kept for over 50 years. It was then sold to a collector, who sold it to another collector, who sold it to me. The metal is still untouched Armory bright. The wood still has those tiny raised segments that indicate it has never been refinished. The cartouche is as fresh as when it was applied. Again, unfired since it left Springfield 166 years ago. I've had it appraised at $6,000 or more if it would be put up on auction. I blew a wad on it, but it's one of those guns where less than 1% of them have survived in this condition.

John

 

[2011Corvette]

Most I have ever spent

Can you say Wilson Combat 1911? Times 2 = $$$$

coolon't tell my wife though)

 

[italiansport]

Not the most expensive but the most elaborate is this Schutzsen Rifle:
I bought it from a guy who claimed it was a "sniper" rifle a relative brought home from the war!
Jim

 

[BAM-BAM]

"The most expensive firearm (I've) ever bought".......

is my Registered Magnum......worth about 5-6 grand...........I'm guessing


glad I only "paid" $325 for it...LOL



Also have a Winchester 1885 low wall in .22short dating to 1887 hanging on my office wall....which I'm told is worth a couple of grand.

Finally, I have a 6" Colt New Service in .357magnum from 1938-9 that went to King Gun Works in Calf for an action job and target sights.......I never have been able to establish a "value" as they are a lot more rare than the S&W with the same sights ( never found a record of one being sold)........but it was my Father's so..... to me it's priceless!!!!!!!!

 

[zzzippper]

$3200 for a Shiloh Sharps Quigley, .45-110. The $200 was to move up in the waiting list.

 

[Jim R]

Here is a Ljutic Combo. This shotgun new was right at $40,000. That included both a set of O/U barrels, a un-single barrel with and adjustable rib, ten choke tubes, three trigger groups and a $600.00 case.

In the live bird ring this would be considered an inexpensive shotgun. I shot against a guy one time that had a matched pair of Fabbri's that set him back over 100K each and he was not the only one there with them


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[Club Gun Fan]

By far, my most expensive is my Smith & Wesson Revolving Rifle serial number 1. We had to get another mortage on our house. Looking back, my wife and I are glad we did.

 

[BubbaBlades]

The price of these Knights Armament Stoner 25 carbines has continued to go up since this thread first started. I'm not sure what they sell for currently, however, having an ACOG on it does not make it more affordable.
Are these SR 25s worth the price? It is to me. This is a 10 shot 100 yard group that I shot with factory match ammo. I shoot slightly smaller groups with my SR25 than I do with my Remington 700 bolt gun using the same ammo.

Mark

 

[Badkarma 1]

SIG P210, $1500!
Dale

 

[therevjay]

Colt SAA I bought new for $1100. Not really 'big money' but a great deal to me. It was something I've always wanted. I know but don't care that there are less expensive, stronger, more modern and probably better (sorry Col. Sam) SA revolvers avalible. I wanted 'the real thing' like the cowboys in the movies I grew up watching had. "No pony?...It's a phony!"

 

[bgrafsr]

$3200 for a Shiloh Sharps Quigley, .45-110. The $200 was to move up in the waiting list.

I was going to have Shiloh make me a "Quigley" as a retirement gift to myself back in 2008, but there was a 3 to 4 year wait, and I was not sure I would be around to get it, so I didn't order it. A couple of years later I found a replica 1894 Sharps in .40-65 and bought it along with some accessories. It shoots very well, once I got a custom bullet mould that is sized for the barrel's throat, which is .416", while the bore is .410".

 

[Jebus35745]

Most expensive gun was my Registered Magnum, it was a squeeze play but I got it. Larry

 

[bushmaster1313]

I have an irrationally exuberant desire for a Winchester 21 in trap configuration.

 

[LVSteve]

Most expensive rifle: FN FS2000 AKA The Combat Tuna
Most expensive pistol: Steyr GB

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

A 30 inch barrel, 12 Gage Browning Citori White Lightening. It was sweet, but my private parts are still more important.

 

[waynesigmeister]

I bought a Glock model 34 and had it customized by Zev Glockworxs for USPSA Open Class, cost me $2400 with five 15 round magazines. The gun has a custom ported barrel from KKW, Leopold electronic sight, all Zev Glockworxs internals, trigger and springs.