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What is the least amount of dollars you ever spent on a firearm?

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#1 ·
Besides free hand-me-downs or inheritance pieces, what's the least amount you ever spent on a gun?

Here's my cool story bros.

In CA you have to pay a $25 background/DROS fee when buying a gun. But you can buy multiple guns on one DROS free. So many time I justified putting another gun on the same DROS since I only had to pay the $25 once.

I have a habit of whenever I'm buying a rifle I ask the salesman, "Hey, what's the cheapest rifle in the store? Throw it on the same DROS and I'll take it home also." It's why I have 4 Mosin Nagants :D

Well about 10 years ago I was picking something up and asked what's the cheapest rifle in the store and the salesman picked up this old Steyr M95 and said, "This one is $59."

So that's my cool story. Cheapest I ever paid was $59 which around 2008 was a pretty good price for a firearm in CA. Even Mosin Nagants were around $129 at that time.

Here is what one looks like in case you've never heard or seen of one. It kicks like a mule. And very expensive to shoot. I bought a box of 10 rounds (New reloads) and put 3 through it to make sure it shot/worked well. Which it did.


 
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#29 ·
About 30 years ago I bought a Llama revolver at a gun show for $35. It was a 6 shot 32 S&W Long with a 3 inch barrel. The gap between the cylinder and barrel was about the size of a nickle. It turned out it was extremely accurate. Years later a widow I know told me she would like to have a gun to keep at home and I gave it to her.
 
#32 ·
Italian Mannlicher-Carcano in 6.5MM. I bought by mail for $14.95 and $2.00 shipping. I also bought 100 rounds of 6.5MM later for $6.00. Shipping was included. About half were duds, and it was horribly corrosive. I still have it.
 
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#33 ·
$240 out the door for a Beretta Pico "Upgraded Model"

I love this frackin' gun. Razor thin design with almost flush controls.
I put some night sights on it and Talon rubber grip tape. Handles +P .380 like a champ and was built to handle it. 500 trouble free rounds thus far.

Trigger has a nice reset as for as DOA hammer fired guns go. I don't have trouble operating the slide/mag release as often pointed out in some reviews.

Sorry for rambling :)
 
#36 ·
Eons ago, I bought a Walther PPK 22 in DURAL (lightweight) for $79.00
About 5 years ago I "discovered" it in my safe...box and all....decided to sell it, was like brand new and I wasn't going to shoot it and take a chance on scratching it....IIRC I sold it for $1600...
 
#40 ·
I know you said no inheritance pieces but I have to throw this one in.
Ithaca Model 37 pump 12 gauge. It belonged to my grandfather, a farmer, who kept it on or near his tractor while in the field to bag a rabbit, pheasant or whatever. He died in 1962 in a farming accident, and my grandmother said he would have wanted me to have it. I was 11 years old. Still have it. Its one of the models that can be slam fired.
 
#43 ·
$200 for a sporterized 8mm Mauser...and $200 for a 870 Wing-Master.
The guy I bought the Mauser from also threw in a set of reloading dies and 200 pieces of brass for an additional $50.00. I've seen nicer Mauser's that have been sporterized but not many.
 
#44 ·
$120 for a 4" Taurus .38 Special which was my first duty weapon.
 
#45 ·
$49.99 (less employee discount) for a Jennings J22 back in the 80's sometime. Bought it on a lark, but after playing around with it for awhile, I found it was amazingly accurate for a cheapy zinc alloy gun. I know it won't last, but it's been a fun gun for a 22LR plinker.
 
#46 · (Edited)
I bought three Type 56, Chinese Mosin-Nagant from a dealer in Arizona for $51.00 each, shipping included ($35.00 for the gun itself) when I first got my C&R, ten years or so ago. And let me tell you those things were rough. They'd been stored in a shipping container, in the Arizona desert for twenty-years and forgotten the seller said, and they looked it. Still they cleaned up, some stock refinish and cold blue and they looked decent and functioned fine. I never did shoot them.

Other than those...$79.95 for a Sears-Roebuck/Stevens 311 in 1968, and $99.00 each for both a Sears 12 gauge pump (about '77) and a "Unique" 22 pistol about 10 or so years ago. Unique was the brand and let me tell you that was a nice little gun. I wish I still had it.

Recently, $249.99 each for a pair of Ruger LC9s's Christmas before this last one. They were pink and purple, but shoot just fine. The purple one is my carry gun now. Black ones were $400.00.
 
#49 ·
I forgot about a Mosin M44 that I paid $109 and a couple tins of ammo for a few dollars more.

It had a hex type receiver (?)

I put about 20 rounds thru her and sold it. It was in gorgeous condition but beat the crap out of me...

Made a small profit and the new owner was really happy. Win for both of us...
 
#50 ·
4 SKS's in cosmoline for 39.95 each, in 1993. A Chilean Mauser with a Leupold scope for 75 bucks, in 1998. A 1917 Tula Peter the Great Model 91 Mosin for 75 bucks, in 2010, right before they started going out of sight for prices.

First handgun, a Charter Arms Bulldog from Otasco for 59.95, in 1979.
 
#55 ·
I bought a Hi Point for $90.
Given your vast repertoire of notable firearms, seeing that in print caused me to pause and smile...

Nothing exciting here, but a few surplus cheapies:
  • Mosin Nagant M91/30 for $99,
  • Makarov (Bulgarian), $79
  • Yugo SKS, $89
  • SIG P6 (the best of the deals, in my opinion) cost a lot more ($269, which isn't cheap) but was an incredible value for a lightly used SIG.

The SIG P6 and the Bulgie Mak still make me regret not buying more of them when they were cheap, plentiful, surplus firearms. *sigh*
 
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