What is the least you have paid for a gun?
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Mickey D
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The lowest I 'paid was $49 for a Jennings J-22
Free, from a very good dear friend.
Rossi .22lr
Free, from a very good dear friend.
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4506517
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About $200 for a Model 67-1 with a pinned barrel, absolutely mint, 4 years ago.
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revho
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$44.00 for a Heritage Rough Rider in .22 and 22 mag cyl. Also had 50 rounds of 22 mag thrown in with it. I couldn't hit a half lame chipmunk at 3 feet with 4 shots. Took five shots. Made me thankful for my other guns because this one is a door stop.
Dalkowski110
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My Raven Arms MP-25 police trade-in. It looks horrible, but wow, someone forgot to tell it that it was supposed to be innaccurate and wasn't supposed to cycle back at the factory! Thing is a tack driver and I've never had one FTF or FTE with it!
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I have bought several 10 to 20 dollar guns that either were broken or just so dirty that they wouldn't work and had a few just given to me. Some I had to spend money for parts, some just needed a good cleaning.(did you know that too much oil can turn to varnish over time and literally glue a gun into a solid mass?).
Years ago you could buy a lot of good, working guns for 25 or less at sales, auctions etc. That is a thing of the past and if you figured inflation they may not have been as good a deal as they seem in memory either. My wages were a lot lower back in the 70's & 80's! Most good deals I find now are going to be non-working ones though I have gotten a couple from people who just wanted to get rid of them. Some people end up with a gun they just don't want and I have had folks send them to me cause they know I like guns. A couple times I saved a nice old gun from going to a buy-back or just being dropped off to the police to get rid of it.
Years ago you could buy a lot of good, working guns for 25 or less at sales, auctions etc. That is a thing of the past and if you figured inflation they may not have been as good a deal as they seem in memory either. My wages were a lot lower back in the 70's & 80's! Most good deals I find now are going to be non-working ones though I have gotten a couple from people who just wanted to get rid of them. Some people end up with a gun they just don't want and I have had folks send them to me cause they know I like guns. A couple times I saved a nice old gun from going to a buy-back or just being dropped off to the police to get rid of it.
dewey
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As I'm only 22 years old,LOL, I don't have all those ole' Back In the Day gun stories. BUT, I did buy a 9mm S&W blue RB AsNIB about 9 years ago for $100. The pawn man said nobody wants a 9mm REVOLVER !
YES, is was out in the sticks. And YES, nobody out there did want it....
YES, is was out in the sticks. And YES, nobody out there did want it....
I was at a North-South Skirmish and I saw the action of a double barrel shotgun sticking out of a barrel. It had a $2 (yes, TWO DOLLARS) price tag on it. It had the complete action, barrels, and forend. It was a Cresent Arms. I bought it (I think I was 16 at the time).
I glued two pine boards together and roughly carved a buttstock. The first time I fired it, it doubled! Hurt like heck! I later disabled the lock with the sears that wouldn't hold.
I later gave it to a friend who needed parts for a shotgun that his daddy owned.
I glued two pine boards together and roughly carved a buttstock. The first time I fired it, it doubled! Hurt like heck! I later disabled the lock with the sears that wouldn't hold.
I later gave it to a friend who needed parts for a shotgun that his daddy owned.
41RF
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It was about 1965; William B. Edwards, a then well known gun writer, had a small gun store in San Francisco, of all places. Was called Benet Arms, and he imported some unusual stuff. He had an early Webley RIC .450 that needed a trigger spring in addition to having an "even brown patina." It was otherwise complete and tight; he let me have it for $15. Of course, Webley Mk VI s were $14.95 mail order at the time.....
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I paid $35.00 for my pre-war No. 2 Mk I-in execllent shape-in 1972.
I paid $35.00 each for three Type 53, Chinese Mosin-Nagants. With 16.00 each for shipping, they ended up being $51.00 each, delivered to my door with my C&R. They were in rough shape, but cleaned up well.
The least I ever paid for a gun I planned to shoot, was $79.95 for a Sears-Roebuck double 12 (Stevens 311 rebadged). That was in 1967 or so I guess, just before GCA-68. My mother ordered it on the phone from Sears, the truck bought it to our house a few days later.
Least for a gun I still own was $99.00 for a Sears-Roebuck pump 12 (Mossberg 500) with two barrels (standard/slug) I got from the local Sears store after someone returned it complaining that the open choke slug barrel wouldn't shoot a good buckshot pattern. Maybe not, but the modified choke barrel would. Every deer I ever killed fell in front of that gun and a 3" load of No. 1 buck.
The least I ever paid for a gun I planned to shoot, was $79.95 for a Sears-Roebuck double 12 (Stevens 311 rebadged). That was in 1967 or so I guess, just before GCA-68. My mother ordered it on the phone from Sears, the truck bought it to our house a few days later.
Least for a gun I still own was $99.00 for a Sears-Roebuck pump 12 (Mossberg 500) with two barrels (standard/slug) I got from the local Sears store after someone returned it complaining that the open choke slug barrel wouldn't shoot a good buckshot pattern. Maybe not, but the modified choke barrel would. Every deer I ever killed fell in front of that gun and a 3" load of No. 1 buck.
Man, I guess it was out in the sticks if somebody sold a S&W to a 13 year old kid. Good for you!
My cheapest gun was a Mosin Nagant rifle about 15 years ago for $25. It was missing the upper handguard but I found one at a gun show a few months later for $10.
RWPBR
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I changed my neighbor lady an oil change on her caddy for a 1911 made in 1918 with an original holster, it had no firing pin and needed a new barrel bushing..I would have done it for just the cost of the oil and filter but she was insistent...God rest her soul 
BearBio
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$20 for this Beretta. Guy took it as payment for a debt and didn't want it.
sigp220.45
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Twenty bucks about ten years ago. Colt Police Positive Target .22 WRF, bought from a tribal PD evidence clear-out. It was used in a homicide decades ago and then sat around. Nobody else wanted it because "you can't get shells for it anymore". It still shoots pretty well.
HAWKEYE10
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I gave $20 for this Colt Scout in the early 60's. I also bought a lot of military rifles for $15 to $30. All were sent to my house. Those were the good ole days. Don
A rusty Iver Johnson single shot .410 shotgun from a junk yard in St. Charles, Michigan around 1956. Cost? 25 cents.
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