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
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.
$15 - In the summer of 1967 my cousin Tom was 18 and I was almost 16. He had joined the Marines and was heading to boot camp, and then to Vietnam. He offered my a 22 no name single action revolver for $15, so I jumped on it. It was my first real gun, and as I fondled it, I wondered what it would be like to shoot it. A couple of hours later, my mom came home from work, came up to my room and asked me if my cousin Tom had sold me a gun. I said yes, and she said "sell it immediately, I don't want any guns in this house". I called a buddy that lived across the alley, and he came over and took it off my hands for the same price. Never saw it again. I just happened to go up to his cabin this summer and asked if he remembered that gun. He said he did, but didn't keep it long because it was "really loud". Cousin Tom is still with us, having been awarded 3 Purple Hearts from his Vietnam service.
I spent $85 on a brand new Taurus 85 38 spc. and it was one of the best guns I've ever owned. It shot straight and true. That was back in the early 1980s. I gave it to my daughter who traded it for something she wanted to be able to conceal carry. In the trade she got $190 for that gun. Darn good deal!
Paid 80.00 for a single action .22 revolver at an estate auction years ago. Don't remember the brand. Don't have it anymore either. Traded or sold along the way.
A couple of years back, the LGS owner pulls a like-new Raven .25 from under the counter...
He says,"I don't want to put this in my showcase, so gimme $10 and it's yours"...
"No problem" says I...
Runs like a top at the range, but wouldn't trust my life with it...
Still was a good deal...
has anyone in the 21st century get a gun deal like the ones posted here that were bought 30-40 yrs. ago? I don't think so; I have been looking at the gun shows & if anything, they're more expensive.
I know the $59 rifle in my original post is not a sot after relic, but I did only pay that in like 2008.
For a $59 firearm in 2008, I think that's pretty cheap.
$39.99 for a Marlin 30-30, at a department store in Middletown, NY called Playtogs. They also had Remington 1903A3's for $39.99, but my father would not let me buy one. Waaaay back in 1972.
Norinco SKS at a local gun show. 89.00 great condition, packed and wrapped. Funny, now I look around and they are going for 3-4 hundred. Ah the good old days....
20$ for a Hi Point 9mm with a barrel that looked like it had been put in a bench vise. Triangular cross-section on the end of the barrel! Sent it back to HP and they put a new bbl on it for free. Buddy gave me 75$ for it when I got it back....guy I bought it from said he'd have taken ten dollars for it, lol.
In 1936 my father bought a Model 107 Stevens break open single shot 16 ga. from a feed store near San Diego for $3.
My first purchase of a rimfire was a Winchester single shot bolt action with a 4x Weaver scope for $26 in 1963. First rifle was a used 1952 Remington 721 in 30-06 for $125 that also included a Weaver 4x scope.. that was in 1965.
Back in the early 70s, I bought a brand new Rohm 63 for about $37 at Gulf Mart. .22lr, 8 shot western style revolver. I still have it, but haven't shot it in 30 years. But, that's not the cheapest firearm I ever bought. Paid $25 for a .22 short derringer. Saw it in a gun shop, used, but it was brass plated with walnut grips. It was also a smooth bore and would only fire about every third try.
My first father in law passed in the early eighties. His wife had a big garage sale not long after selling a lot of his stuff. My wife (the first of three) wanted me to take some of our old stuff over there and sell it too. While I was there, I was looking around and found a leather covered box shaped case I had never seen before. I opened it and there was a Hammerli C02 pistol inside. I had never seen it before. I thought I had seen every gun he had. I asked what she wanted for it and she said $20.00. I paid it and went on my way. I took it to a friend of mine who was a competition shooter and he looked it up in his catalogs and said current value was almost $700.00.
I gave it to my oldest son five years ago and told him it came from his grandfather. Not the entire truth, but kept it in the family.
In the last couple of years my cheapest was $40 for a single action 22lr six shooter. It was a 1968 vintage German made copy of a Colt. It is actually a nice plinker.
Marlin M1(like a Model 60, but M1Carbine look)22lr, $80 new in box
H&R Survivor shotgun, 12ga, Has removable recoil plate-store survivor stuff. $125.00
Davis 32cal Derringer, Nickel Finish, $50
$40 for a worn out Marlin 22 back n 1980 or so. I still have the rifle and it isn't worth $40.
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