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Ever win a gun for a penny or crazy cheap

shootuadealshootuadeal Member Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
I must be lucky(although I doubt many people spend as much time as I do on the auction side).

Just won this gun for $0.26 today, well $20.26 after shipping[:D]. Sure it's a junker but I bet the seller never thought it would be that cheap.
http://www.GunBroker.com/item/649539120

One other time I won 5 misc receivers for $0.01. Sold them on here for $40 about a year later.

Lucky I am[:)]

Comments

  • TfloggerTflogger Member Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You're $20 ahead of me.
    Have fun, don't put your eye out.
  • tsavo303tsavo303 Member Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I sure its worth every penny[:D]
  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431
    edited November -1
    Do you have a bolt for it?
  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by skicat
    Do you have a bolt for it?


    Can you get a bolt for it????
  • jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,344 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nice gun if you can find a bolt at a reasonable price. I have a Lakefield .22 mag and it is very accurate. I think Salvage sells one like it now.
  • shootuadealshootuadeal Member Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by skicat
    Do you have a bolt for it?


    No, I looked on here but I didn't see any for sale.

    I will probably just sell it in the store for $50 or something, cheap guns usually disappear in a day or so. One of my customers that hits gun shows alot will probably buy it, gives them something to look for.
  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,195 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    salt for the proverbial jar..
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In the mid-70s I won a Remington model 700 ADL 30-06 on a brand-new punchboard after punching 10 punches out. I was sitting at a caf? drinking a cup of coffee and gave them $10 to pull 10 punches... To say the very least, he was not a happy camper. He asked me if I would leave it there, so that he could trick other people into buying more punches off that punchboard, he even offered me $50 when I told him no. But what's fair is fair and I walked out of there with the rifle in my hands. I wasn't going to help Him defraud others into customers thinking that they had a chance at it when I had already won it
  • pistoljimpistoljim Member Posts: 967 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not a gun but I won 18 boxes of nagant revolver ammo for under 100 bucks. Kept 4 boxes and traded the rest for a like new Yugo mauser at a gun show. Gotta love G.B.!
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mrmike08075
    Canadian lakefields have some parts commonality and interchangeability with savage models...

    Try numrich or jack first...

    Mike


    Went to High School with Jack First Daughters. One now runs the show their.


    But to answer the original Question Yes I did win one and the seller refused to sell.[:(!]
  • CoolhandLukeCoolhandLuke Member Posts: 7,826 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I own one, very good shooting little rifle, it was made in Canada,
    Mine has over two hundred confirmed kills, many rats * and possum.
    We have to fight so we can run away.
    Capt. Jack Sparrow.
  • Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    In the mid-70s I won a Remington model 700 ADL 30-06 on a brand-new punchboard after punching 10 punches out. I was sitting at a caf? drinking a cup of coffee and gave them $10 to pull 10 punches... To say the very least, he was not a happy camper. He asked me if I would leave it there, so that he could trick other people into buying more punches off that punchboard, he even offered me $50 when I told him no. But what's fair is fair and I walked out of there with the rifle in my hands. I wasn't going to help Him defraud others into customers thinking that they had a chance at it when I had already won it


    I guess punch boards are different now. The winning number is under a seal and it's kept hidden until all chances have been sold.
    I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Congrats you shot yourself a deal...[:D]
    "What is truth?'
  • kannoneerkannoneer Member Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nope, I have got some decent buys, but nothing extraordinary. Of course, there are some guns that are not worth the shipping and ffl fees. I have to add $50+ to every gun I buy so this keeps me from getting any for little or nothing.
  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    In the mid-70s I won a Remington model 700 ADL 30-06 on a brand-new punchboard after punching 10 punches out. I was sitting at a caf? drinking a cup of coffee and gave them $10 to pull 10 punches... To say the very least, he was not a happy camper. He asked me if I would leave it there, so that he could trick other people into buying more punches off that punchboard, he even offered me $50 when I told him no. But what's fair is fair and I walked out of there with the rifle in my hands. I wasn't going to help Him defraud others into customers thinking that they had a chance at it when I had already won it
    I did something somewhat similar back in the 70's too, I stopped at a old country store with several men hanging around inside shooting the breeze with the clerk and on the counter was a punchboard almost punched completely out...prize was a Remington 1100. I asked the clerk if anyone had won the 1100 yet and he said no, a quick glance and I saw @ 25 punches left intact but it was actually 31, told him I wanted all the punches left [:D]....for $31 I walked out with a new Remington 1100 but the real prize was the faces of all the bystanders looking lot like this [:0][:0][:0][:0][:0][:0][:0]

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Junkballer
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    In the mid-70s I won a Remington model 700 ADL 30-06 on a brand-new punchboard after punching 10 punches out. I was sitting at a caf? drinking a cup of coffee and gave them $10 to pull 10 punches... To say the very least, he was not a happy camper. He asked me if I would leave it there, so that he could trick other people into buying more punches off that punchboard, he even offered me $50 when I told him no. But what's fair is fair and I walked out of there with the rifle in my hands. I wasn't going to help Him defraud others into customers thinking that they had a chance at it when I had already won it
    I did something somewhat similar back in the 70's too, I stopped at a old country store with several men hanging around inside shooting the breeze with the clerk and on the counter was a punchboard almost punched completely out...prize was a Remington 1100. I asked the clerk if anyone had won the 1100 yet and he said no, a quick glance and I saw @ 25 punches left intact but it was actually 31, told him I wanted all the punches left [:D]....for $31 I walked out with a new Remington 1100 but the real prize was the faces of all the bystanders looking lot like this [:0][:0][:0][:0][:0][:0][:0]


    Yep they were kicking themselves in the rear and for not being smart enough to do what you did
  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Henry0Reilly
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks



    I guess punch boards are different now. The winning number is under a seal and it's kept hidden until all chances have been sold.


    That's a good thing that they have changed it. like I said the proprietor wanted to offer me $50 to leave it up to goat people into wasting their money trying to win something that they could not win because I already did
  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    Five years ago, I visited "another" auction site that does estate/consignment sales. They had an extensive list of guns, knives, kitchen crap, toys & crockery.
    I had bid $23 for a 5 gallon Red Wing crock by auction number.
    Turns out the auctioneer had trouble matching numbers of items to bids, and my Red Wing crock turned out to be a lot containing several .22 barrels, a torched Sten receiver, a half box of 220 Swift ammo, and a barreled receiver for a L1A1.
    When my FFL buddy called & said there was some paperwork that needed filled out; I was curious why there would be paperwork on a crock.
    I got to his shop & saw the crock (he had bid on a mis-matched lot as well), and thought it had to be a joke.
    His lot turned out NOT to be just the crock, but an antique glass butter churn, some Sterling silverware, and a couple of Toby mugs. Instead of the REM 11/87 he had bid on.
    We both made out like fat kids in a Birthday Cake store!
  • bk0331bk0331 Member Posts: 525 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I won a M48 Mauser right on this forum about 10 years ago. I forget who raffled it, but if you figured out the answer to his riddle you got the rifle for free. He even paid the shipping.
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