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What's the best buy you ever got on a gun?

RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
What's the best deal you ever got on a gun?


Having a passion for fine quality guns, I rarely run accross a bargain...usually end up paying whatever it takes to get a limited edition or one of a kind. Last weekend was an exception....bought a "Lew Horton" limited production (only 300 made) "Classic Gold Cup". They sold new for about $1300 in the early 90's....picked one up that looks to be NIB for $950.....one of our resident experts indicated he sold one a while back for over $2000.....made my day!
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kimber 98--A Kimber built on a 98 Mauser Action/synthetic stock, heavy fluted stainless barrel, 7mm Rem Mag--NEW--$300 here on GB!
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  • Fep1990Fep1990 Member Posts: 632 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Friday I picked up a As New Ruger P97 .45 for $200.00 less than 50 rounds fired through her. She still needs a little breaking that will hopefully come tomorrow morning!
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  • PJPJ Member Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    50 years ago I traded a Charlie Gerringer (sp?) Louisville Slugger baseball bat for a 41 cal Colt SAA. Couldn't find ammo, so I sold the gun $45.00 IIRC to help pay for a car. C'est la vie!

    Pete

    "Be kind to your neighbor, he knows where you live."
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A few years ago I had a aquaintence offered me what he said was an HK47 or something (he had no idea what it was), for $300, I told him there wern't no such critter ... he ended up trading it to someone else for some work on his car, then a couple months later the guy he had traded it to called me because he had heard I was interested in it and needed he cash. I told him to bring it by as I'd never got a chance to see it. He brought it buy and said he had to have $600 for it, when I finally got to see it, I couldn't believe it, ... it was an HK-93 and durn near mint with collapsable stock ... I ended up letting him get to me for $500. I picked up a few more mags, solid stock and a soft case then sold it a year or so later for $3600 ... haven't regrett it yet ...

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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Weatherby Athena OU for $750. I don't remember the grade but it was not the Athena III. I want to say Grade IV Field. Turns out it was worth $1800 in the used condition it was in. I traded for several other guns.


    ~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have purchased a number of guns, but I think the one I made the best deal on was the 1911A1 that I bought for Classic... I had been looking for one for him for a long time, but they were so high in price...
    Well they say good things come to those who wait and it did..Colt 1911A1 Property of USA..US Army, serial number dates it back to 1944, all original, in very good condition..400 bucks..been offered 2000 for it.. he loves showing that gun off and telling everyone how it was a gift from me...


    One woman's opinion
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  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    $1.00 raffle ticket won a Browning Gold and traded that even up for a brand new Savage Striker with ALL the goodies.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Used Ruger SP 101 3' barrel (like new) with 2 speedloaders, a lead build-up Wipe Away gun cleaning cloth, Factory Owners Manual, Yellow Original box with serial numbers on it and the brown box that the yellow box came in with serial numbers on it. $225.00

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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    odd this topic should come up. i bought a 357 mag yesterday for$50
    with holster & 2 boxes of ammo. der gebirgsjager of "experts" fame valued it at $200. tidy little profit if i may say so, & i do.
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • sig-mansig-man Member Posts: 591 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A co-worker gave me an old military type gun that had been in his fathers closet until he died then it had been in his closet ever since then, the gun,an original 1898 Springfield Krag, the price, FREE,I still gave him $50 because I felt bad, how's that for a deal...

    Edited by - sig-man on 06/30/2002 21:04:46
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  • BT99BT99 Member Posts: 1,043 ✭
    edited November -1
    About 4 years ago, a Sig 226, as new in the box, night sights, with
    15 factory hi-cap magazines, $400.00.
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Traded a 95% used Rem 66 for a 99% used Win 61. Still got it.

    Clouder..
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  • gskyhawkgskyhawk Member Posts: 4,773
    edited November -1
    two weeks ago complete bushmaster 24" heavy barrel flat top with by-pod, also another complete bushmaster A2 with collapsable stock 16 " barrel , and a complete upper in 9mm with conv. kit and 25 round mag, one 10 round mag in 5.56, one 5 round mag in 5.56, and two bushmaster hardcases, every item in like new condition for $1600,,, I'm going to keep the flat top for myself and let my brother buy the other one from me for a reasonable price and them I think sell the 9mm upper
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll let you know in three days.

    "If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • BoltactionManBoltactionMan Member Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I found a Remington 700 .300 Weatherby Mag. Stainless, detachable magazine with a Fajen Lamintated stock and a Leupold 3X9X50mm Vari XII. It was shot 15 times, (I later bought all the ammo the person had and that was the number of empties). Whole rig was $600.00.

    KC
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  • nelchrisnelchris Member Posts: 557 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Browning superposed lightning 20 ga and same in.410 20 in 80% ,.410 in 99% paid 1000 for the pair 3 years ago I think they are now worth in the 3000 range
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If we start talking about the WORST deal on a gun, then I can do some posting!!

    "Just my opinion."
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  • n4thethrilln4thethrill Member Posts: 366 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the most profitable gun i ever had was an ljutic lm6 super delux o/u i paid $2500 ( if memory serves correct )and i sold it 5 days ago for $9,000 not a bad deal...lol yesterday i bought a 357 desert eagle 357 with a custom made laser for 600 not that bad a deal either

    you can be king or street sweeper but everyone is going to dance with the reaper
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    HK USP $450.SAID IT WAS USED BUT THE PAINT WAS STILL ON THE SLIDE RAIL GUIDES,AND NO WEAR ON THE BARRELL AT ALL.FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES BRAND NEW

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,RUSTY WALLACE FAN AND AS EVERYONE SO OFTEN POINTS OUT PISS POOR TYPIST e-mail:WNUNLEY@USIT.NET
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    1979, I was 15. Dealer friend of my dad's sold me a Remington 722 in .308 with an old k-4 weaver, for $110.00. He even took payments I could afford with a paper route income. $20.00 down and $10.00 a week. Being young and very stupid I sold it in 1984 for $125.00. Probably my best buy and my worst sell all in one gun. It was the first gun that was mine with no strings attached. I still search the auctions every week for one to replace it.

    Woods

    How big a boy are ya?
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  • martzkj@msn.commartzkj@msn.com Member Posts: 582 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Remington 700 classic in 350 remington mag. with a leupold vari XIII 1.5-5 in excellent condition. $300.00
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't know if it was the best deal, but it was one of the first to come to mind. I went to a marina auction where they were going out of buisness and selling all boats. Bought a few. Traded one that I paid $150.00 for a Colt Sauer 30-06. Darn thing was so nice I was afraid to shoot it. Traded it for a 9mm Uzi + extras. Biggest clumsiest most awkward 9mm semi auto I ever shot. Would have been ok in 45 and Class III. Traded that for a Browning over/under 12 ga. + extras. Still have the Citori and it has killed alot of clays since then. The "extras" that were in the deals more than made up for the $150.00 I paid for the boat.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Member Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    17-18 years ago bought a 30-06 out of a guys attic for 90.00, it is a 03 Springfield, dates match very nice rifle

    Those people who see nothing but grey areas, no black and white, are lost in the fog.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Paid $200 to my Dad's widow for all his guns.

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • XracerXracer Member Posts: 1,990 ✭
    edited November -1
    Back in the late '60's, I was visiting with a friend who owned a kennel. Another dog breeder was visiting him, and, for some reason we started talking guns. The visitor said he had an Army .45 buried behind his cottage at a lake in upstate N.Y.

    He owned a trucking company, and one day one of the young guys who worked on the loading dock was showing around a pistol. It's said "US Gov't Property", so he was sure it was stolen and confiscated it. The kid didn't protest very much. He didn't know what to do with it, so he wrapped it in an oily rag, wrapped that in plastic, put it in an old ammo can, and buried it.

    I told him I'd give him 50 bucks for it, whatever it's condition. Hell, I figured I could get that much out of the parts....even if they were rusty, I could refinish them.

    He said he'd bring it with him next time he came over.

    A couple of months later, he did. It was a beautiful, unmolested, original Colt M1911 (1918 manufacture date) in 80-90% condition.

    I still have it.....not a bad deal for $50.00.
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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There have been some good ones, but most recent..
    Franchi 48AL in 20 gauge, excellent cond.
    Marlin 25MN .22 mag, excellent cond.
    Interarms 62A .22 new in box.
    All three for $350.

    There are no bad guns, only bad people.
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  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ruger 6 7/8 barreled .22 semi pistol $60.00, High Standard Auto .22 $50.00, Three screw Ruger .357 blackhawk $100.00, Colt Python $300.00, Browning Citori 12 ga. $450.00
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Best deal on a gun that I paid for that wasnt a gift was probably the Daewoo DR200 for NIB $420 kept it a year shot few thousand rounds through it resold it for $500 and took a 6" colt king cobra ss 357 mag on trade.


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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    RugerNiner,
    Can you post a pic of that SP101 with the three foot barrel, I'd LOVE to see that
    I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
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  • dobieman0690dobieman0690 Member Posts: 148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    it was feb. of 1968 stopped at local gun shop and there were 2 rem model 600s with laminated stocks one in 350 rem mag and the other in 6.5 bought them both total price 170.00 the also had matching serial numbers there long gone now should have keep both but what the hell thats life
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    A Shilen DGA in 358 Win. for $650.00 5 years ago. Last known retail price on them was about $3300.00 just before they quit making them.

    AlleninAlaska aglore@gci.net

    Free men are not equal and equal men are not free
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  • HerschelHerschel Member Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bought a 1903A4 from the DCM in 1971 for $21. I still have it. Have you seen what those things are bringing now? No, it is not for sale.
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  • groundhog devastationgroundhog devastation Member Posts: 4,495
    edited November -1
    Ya'll got to get your ears and head tuned up for the South now!! Was sitting at the lunch counter of a little store in Dugwell VA, that's just a little ways NW of Gogginsville, VA which is jut a little SE of CALLAWAY,VA eating a hotdog!! An old black man came in and asked the store owner" MRS. Overfelt, Does you has any 222Magnums?" She replied " No, I've got 243, 270.308and 30-06." He then said, " I wish I could sell this rifle and then I'd go's and buy's me a 243 toshoots them groundhogs." At the time I had a 6x47 with a 26 inch Douglas Air Guage barrel that I shot BR with. Probably had 2000 222Mag cases!! I looked up from my very delicious hot dog and said, " What kind of a 222Mag do you have?" He said, "It's and ol' Remminnton." I said, "Let me see it." It was an original BDL like new with a Leupold 3x9 on it!! I said, "How much does you want for it?" (Not really! I said, "do" just trying to keep you interest up.) He said, I's take 150 dollas fo' it!! I bout' broke his hand taking the gun and handing him the money!!!! Today that action has a 40X barrel on it and will shoot in the ".2s" with about anything you want to put thru it!! If you want to get picky give it 26.5gr. of 3031 and a 52 grain Fowler(NC custom bullet maker) Fed205 seated just touching the rifling and watch the eyes pop open when they measure groups!!! GHD
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Best buys I ever had were through the NRA pre '68. I bought a surplus 1911 .45 ACP made by Remington Rand for $14 and an unfired, still in the box 1903 Springfield for not much more then what I paid for the .45. I liked the experience so much, I did it again the next year. One per calendar year was the rule. I'm sure that some of our members remember the deals we used to get through the NRA and DCM before the Gun Control Act of 1968.
    muley

    **I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
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  • jaoobjaoob Member Posts: 441 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Best buy that I sold was a 37mm gas gun. Paid 300.00 and sold it for 3200.00. One of the best that I kept was the DCM .45 for 17.00 in 1961. (Colt 1911 model)
    (Pre 1968 GREAT gun buying days)


    Jim
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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    A few years ago I bought a Sig P228 (99%) with factory night sights, three hi-cap pre-ban magazines, Bianchi leather holster, and 200 rounds of Black Talon ammo for $350.
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