What is the least you have paid for a gun?

[jaykellogg]

Not acquired from a relative and technically able to shoot. I paid 52¢ ($23 after shipping and FFL)

Hopkins & Allen Blue Jacket #2 rough for parts .22 : Revolvers at GunBroker.com

 

[montegomx]

I paid 40 bucks for raven 25.

 

[steamloco76]

Back in 1996 I paid $105 for used a first run Marlin 880 SQ "Squirrel Rifle". They were selling for around $200 new. It is still the most accurate .22 rifle in my collection-beating out a CZ, Remington, Winchester, Browning and others.

The least for a handgun was $150 for my H&R R92 I recently posted in the "Any Love for Harrington & Richardson" thread.

 

[Gunslinger808]

$32 for a 1976 pre warning Ruger 10-22 about a year ago.
The fellow lost the bolt/recoil spring and just gave it to me.
So the actual cost was what I paid for replacement parts.

 

[Stophel]

I've had a Raven, don't remember what I paid for it, but it wasn't much. Cheapest gun I have now is an old 16 ga. single shot "Shapleigh's King Nitro" (Shapleigh's was a hardware store in St. Louis that apparently went out of business in the 30's). Perfect bore, locks up TIGHT. The barrel opening latch spring is cracked, but still functional. Need to make a new one, simple leaf. Paid $60. I'm gonna guess it's in the 1890-1910 period, more or less. Back when cheap guns were still fairly well made.

 

[jaykellogg]

The gun is actually better than the pictures. I believe it would fire, although the cracked cylinder would be dangerous to shoot.

I once paid $1 (one dollar) for a Stevens Buckhorn rifle missing the extractor. (it would fire).

 

[Stophel]

Years ago, my grandfather brought home a Clerke .22 that he paid $20 for at a flea market. I declined to fire it!

 

[4330Inroute]

$25.00 in 1978 for a Colt .22 automatic (pre-woodsman) 6 inch barrel with no finish or grips with a 4 digit serial number with matching serial numbered magazine that dated it to 1915. I was later given a set of mismatched grips and an extra magazine. With standard velocity long rifles I can do a 3-4 inch group at 25 yards from a rest but it has tiny sights and I have glasses.

 

[diamonback68]

I got you all beat. Minus $29.95!
I had a nickel 27-2 5" with a few minor issues that I had $350 in it that I used as trade bait at a gunshow. Dealer offered to trade me for a mint 28 no dash with faux ivory grips, pay the taxes, call-in and fees and throw in a box of Cor-Bon .357 Mag worth $29.95. In the parking lot I pulled the grips off the 28 and they were real ivory magnas in perfect condition. Sold the magnas to a fellow forum member here for $350.
So, I end up with a free gun and a box of Cor-Bons worth $29.95.

 

[Moonman]

I got a Model 36 no dash S&W for about $69,

they were hard to come by,

and it was NEW!!!!!

I forgot, that was 45 years or so ago!

 

[Grayfox]

Back in the mid-90s I bought a RG-22 from a co-worker for $10. Two weeks later I took it to one of those gun buy back events and traded it for $75 worth of grocery and gas certificates. $65 pure profit.

 

[Arik]

About a $100 a few years ago for an old Llama 9mm 1911 in bad cosmeticall condition.

For a modern gun. Last year $250 for a NYPD 5946

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[MArktAZ]

$89 plus tax for a Bulgarian Makarov back in about 2002.

 

[BearBio]

$25 for a Beretta 950(?) Jetfire, Minx, something like that. .22 short. Used for ccw in Cali.

 

[99tdr]

Back on the late 80's, a pair of Ruger SS 357's with 2.75" barrels for 10bux each.
Lightly used from a security firm that didn't want the in between Rugers any longer. I new the gun custodian.
They wanted 4" for the guards and true snubbies for the managers.

Than 65 bux for a Jennings 22 , NIB.
It recently flew apart at the range, had to track down a couple of parts to get it functioning again. Cost me 30 bux by the time I was done.. not sure it was worth it.

After that , IIRC 50 or 100bux for a S&WK19 4" combat master piece P&R, back in the early 90's. Well worn, spent time with two different LEO's. but was still a good shooter, after 5 years started having problems with it and sent it to S&W for restoration. Well worth it in the end.. 300 or 350 dollars total into it. but lost the R cyclinder in the resto...I have it (S&W gave me back all my original parts they replaced), but it's not safe to use on the it.

 

[Alpo]

I paid 40 for a 1st Model 32 Safety Hammerless.

I’d always thought that was it. But it could be this multi-gun deal I made, one time. A friend called, in a money tight. Needed 500 dollars. For that five hundred I got:

Winchester 290 22 automatic rifle, which I later sold for a hundred bucks
CVA 50 caliber inline muzzleloader, which I later sold for 90 bucks
Mossberg 500 20 gauge pump shotgun, which I later sold for 100 bucks
Yugoslavian SKS, which I later sold for 300 bucks
Uberti 1866 Winchester 44/40, “Red Cloud Commemorative”, which I traded for a S&W Model 21, that the owner had placed a price of 650 dollars on.
Winchester 94 30/30, 70s vintage, which I still have
Romanian “training rifle”. 22 LR bolt action, which I still have
H&R Model 48 Topper, 16 gauge single-shot shotgun, which I still have
Charter Arms Undercover, 2” 38 special 5-shot revolver, which I still have

He also had a Ballester Molina Argentine 45 ACP automatic pistol. He wanted to keep the Ballester. He offered me all the other guns for 500. I told him I didn’t really want them, but did want the Ballester, and he’d have to make it part of the deal. That’s when the price went up to seven, so the Ballester itself cost me 200. But, considering what I got for the ones I sold, I have 110 dollars in six guns. Then, adding in the value of the Uberti trade (650 dollars), less actual money spent (28 to ship rifle, 20 to receive pistol, call it 50 total) that’s 390 profit. If I wanted to I’m sure I could sell the Winchester, quickly, for 200. The 22 is worth about a hundred and a half, the H&R is worth around 90. The Charter is broken, but maybe one day they will have a “gun buy-back”, and I can sell it to the cops. Any way you look at it, the Ballester ended up costing me nothing. I still have it.

 

[CW Spook]

Somewhere around 2002, I bought 5 Mosin M44 carbines from Century for $250 for the lot. Best deal I ever made. 2 were Polish, 2 were Hungarian, and 1 was an absolutely mint Romanian. No real bargains other than that, but I have been given a few, including an 1898 Krag and a 1917 S&W.

 

[jaykellogg]

I am not looking for bargains. I am looking for cheap! I have many stories of bargains.

How about this for bargain and cheap? I bought a 1903 Springfield at a yard sale for $40. It was in a classic sporter stock and had a Lyman 48 peep sight. I believe it was never a military gun, I believe it was an NRA sporter. It was made circa 1927. It had an ebony forend cap and grip cap. It had an awful varnish job which explains the price. It had the star gauged barrel.

 

[410bore]

$32.10 for a FIE Bronco .410/.22 Over/Under Combination gun....Sold it about 2 years later for $400.00

 

[Stophel]

I was given a Jennings 9mm (non functional... of course), and an Iver Johnson break top .32 that would be nice, except the frame is cracked. Now, if someone would give me a boat, I could use the Jennings as an anchor...