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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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#56 ·
Real Chinese SKS for $79 many years ago. Still in the box with cosmoline and paper wrapped. Six to a box.
 
#58 ·
In the early 1960's and before, (when ken grant is talking about above) almost anyone could buy guns form magazine ads and military guns from our government. Delivered to your door by the Postman.

I bought a couple (new) Springfield (Remington) 03A3 and 03A4 (sniper model) 30.06.

03A3


03A4



Bought a M1 Carbine for $20.


And bought a (new) GI 1911A1 for $17.
All have seen some changes over the years.



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I'm in awe of this. And at a loss for words. Cheers!!
 
#61 ·
I forgot one. I bought a Squires-Bingham Model 20, 22 rifle from K-Mart in the 80's for $49.95.

Pretty decent rifle actually.
 
#67 ·
In the early 1960's and before, (when ken grant is talking about above) almost anyone could buy guns form magazine ads and military guns from our government. Delivered to your door by the Postman.

I bought a couple (new) Springfield (Remington) 03A3 and 03A4 (sniper model) 30.06.

03A3


03A4



Bought a M1 Carbine for $20.


And bought a (new) GI 1911A1 for $17.
All have seen some changes over the years.



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I have my fathers old Remington 1100 that my mom bought him for Christmas in 1967 from the "Ted Williams" hunting section of the Sears catalog. It was back in the day when shotguns still had a fixed choke. Only way to change it was to buy a new barrel with the choke you wanted. I still shoot it on occasion during dove season. Still shoots like it came out of the box. It always brings back warm memories of hunting with my dad as a boy
 
#68 ·
In '91, a Ruger SBH .44 mag and a Taurus 4" .38 Special....package deal for $200. In '08, a Ruger Redhawk .44 mag from a relative for $400, but that came with two grips, thigh holster, and 950 rounds of Blazer AL case ammo. Heck, the gun was almost free in that deal.
 
#69 ·
Back in the late 80's I bought a couple of SKS for around $85 and a Mak 90 for $199.00.
In 09 during the ammo shortage I traded 5 boxes of cheap 9mm for a cheap 38 special.
I then traded the. 38 for a 1911a1 in. 45acp.
This was the most recent trade I made.
There were a few more over the years by I don't remember them all.
 
#70 ·
I forgot about an MPA 30 I bought from a guy for $50. Guy said it stopped shooting after a couple of the hardened machine bolts they use in it snapped. After a brief lookover, I took it off his hands. After replacing the bolts and cleaning it, it shot fine. I traded that gun for a Winchester 1300 Speed pump 12 ga at a local show. The seller had the shotgun in storage and didn't even know he had it. Winchester had discontinued the 1300, and after some fine negotiating, we traded even. The shot gun was NIB, unfired.
 
#71 ·
Nothing great here.

Rossi 22Lr, Long And Short pump with hammer gallery gun for 70 bucks in late 80's from paper route money.

SKS in mid to late late nineties for 99.00 or 79.00 cant remember and Ak47 for 129.00. I bought two AK's and one SKS that day. I was living south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and working in Columbus, Ohio at the time when somebody told me about some warehouse in Kentucky not far south from Cincinnati, Ohio. Can't remember name of warehouse or even make on AK's......Nineties were to good to me.....lol. Pretty sure SKS was Yugoslavia.

Two weeks ago I bought a Topper Model 48 16 gauge made in 1947 off a local kif for $40.00. First 16 gauge I ever owned. I got one 10 gauge, three 12 gauges, two 20's one .410. Now the 16. Thinking about adding a 28 O/U for grouse. Never had a 28 either.
 
#78 ·
When the East German Makarovs started coming in the country, sometime before 2000, they were about $100 (or less). I bought one. Then the Russian Maks showed up. I bought a couple. Later the Bulgarian Maks showed up at the gun shows and I bought several.

From the start I said, "These are $400 guns selling for $100.

Every time I went to a gun show, if I had money left over, I'd buy another Makarov.

Even though everyone that shot my Makarov wanted to buy it (5 or 6) I still managed to accumulate 17 or 18.

The most I paid for one was $340 (2006) for this (very nice) refinished East German.
A gun dealer had it don for his personal gun but never fired it.

 
#79 ·
$80 for a 22-250 w/3-10 power scope. Rifle had a thumb release. You would push the thumb release forward and pull the trigger. When you had your breath under control and on target you would release the thumb release. It was one of my most accurate rifles I ever owned. Sold it for $80. What a mistake. Can't remember the model. It was over 50 years ago.
 
#81 ·
In 1977, I bought a 1950's era Sears & Roebuck .22lr Bolt-Action Rifle with a Tasco 1.5-5x32mm Japanese-made scope for $20. It was missing the clip but in those days you could still go to the parts counter at Sears and order any part for anything they ever sold. I believe the 5 round magazine cost $4 or so and a box of 100 mini-caps was about $1 or so. That's the good story. THEN there's the other one... I was out of the firearms hobby for a good 30 years due to my mentor dying from Lou Gehrig's disease. I've recently moved to a rural area decided to get back into them. My first purchase was a GLOCK 21 which was a good call IMO but it was the second gun that couldn't have been worth it. I bought a Cobra FS380 with 2 7-round mags and a nylon holster for $75. I don't think I ever made it through an entire clip without a jam of some kind. I've read some great stories in this thread but that ain't one of them. I ended up selling it for $35 just to get rid of it.
 
#82 ·
When I first started buying handguns in 2004, I paid $50 for a Rohm RG 22 revolver and $100 for a Jennings Bryco 59 semi-auto in 9mm.... Both private sales from a friend... Needless to say I did not own either one for very long as after doing some shooting I learned the difference between cheap guns and good guns... Moved on to some Taurus pistols and finally Glock, Sig, S&W, and Springfield.
 
#86 ·
Ah, the Hinkley gun. My dad traded off a very nice 1911A in 38 Super for a boat and a RG 22. I've never shot it, given their reputation not sure I ever want to.
 
#83 ·
1957. Ten cents for a hamburger, nickel for a coke, and, at the local hardware store on Cherry Lane, $10.00 for a 22 single shot and a box of 22 shorts.
 
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