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best "bang for the buck" in firearms

Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
edited February 2011 in General Discussion
Dollar-for-dollar, which guns do you believe provide the most fun/utility for the lowest price?

Mosin nagant's can still be had (in good shape) for less than a hundred bucks. Ammo remains (relatively) dirt cheap as well.

I'm also a big fan of the Henry .22 levers....a slick little gun for around $250.

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  • catpealer111catpealer111 Member Posts: 10,695
    edited November -1
    Used Marlin 60s. Buy two used for less than $150 and you have one to shoot and spare parts if needed.
  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Although now selling at well above the give away prices from years ago, I think that the SKS carbine (take your choice of maker) still offers a lot of rifle for the money.
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    Savage rifles.
    Highpoint carbines.
    Mosin's.

    NEF rifles/shotguns.
  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mark christian
    Although now selling at well above the give away prices from years ago, I think that the SKS carbine (take your choice of maker) still offers a lot of rifle for the money.


    I remember picking up my Russian SKS for 80 bucks...those were the days
  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Nagant rifles are still a great bargin. A manufacturer could not produce those rifles now for what they are selling for.
  • tsavo303tsavo303 Member Posts: 8,914 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ruger 10/22
    ruger mk II
    ruger blackhawk
    remington 870
    savage 110
  • NOAHNOAH Member Posts: 9,690
    edited November -1
    you should have bought 20[:0][:(]quote:Originally posted by Rack Ops
    quote:Originally posted by mark christian
    Although now selling at well above the give away prices from years ago, I think that the SKS carbine (take your choice of maker) still offers a lot of rifle for the money.


    I remember picking up my Russian SKS for 80 bucks...those were the days
  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    M-N's, SKS's are a bargain still- As was the Swiss K-31 Schmidt-Rubin. Savage and Henry are both making very good guns for the price. Used Marlins (60's, Mdl 81s, etc) are very good guns for the money.

    Whatever you do, do NOT buy older Mossberg 22s, from the 40s and 50s. They will only dissapoint you, you will never find parts, and who wants a MOSSBERG for goodness sakes?

    But if you find any on auction, let me know, wouldya? [:p]
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    Dick's sporting goods is now carrying the 10/22 for $205 and ammo is dirt cheap and if so desired you can dress it up to almost know end.[;)]
  • MossbergboogieMossbergboogie Member Posts: 12,211
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
    M-N's, SKS's are a bargain still- As was the Swiss K-31 Schmidt-Rubin. Savage and Henry are both making very good guns for the price. Used Marlins (60's, Mdl 81s, etc) are very good guns for the money.

    Whatever you do, do NOT buy older Mossberg 22s, from the 40s and 50s. They will only dissapoint you, you will never find parts, and who wants a MOSSBERG for goodness sakes?

    But if you find any on auction, let me know, wouldya? [:p]


    Price on those buggers keeps going up. damn it!

    Can't even get a good post war after the bros stopped designing them cheap.

    Truth be told those guns were more gun for the money. 30 dollar rifle that shoots target percision.
  • joshmb1982joshmb1982 Member Posts: 8,228 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
    M-N's, SKS's are a bargain still- As was the Swiss K-31 Schmidt-Rubin. Savage and Henry are both making very good guns for the price. Used Marlins (60's, Mdl 81s, etc) are very good guns for the money.

    Whatever you do, do NOT buy older Mossberg 22s, from the 40s and 50s. They will only dissapoint you, you will never find parts, and who wants a MOSSBERG for goodness sakes?

    But if you find any on auction, let me know, wouldya? [:p]


    I just sold an old one locally. Id never shot it so why hold on right. I forget the model number but it was one of the older variety with the tube magazine that loads through the stock.

    It was apparently a model 151 very similar to this. Except it didn't have a peep sight and had a scope mounted on it. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=217157180
  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,539 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Savage 64f is a great little gun for the price
  • coltpaxcoltpax Member Posts: 7,516 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    SKS, Marlin 60, a use Stevens 38b, maverick 88, older (pre cabelas manufacturing) Thompson center hawkens. Yes, I own all of these. Maverick 88, you're getting a mossberg 500 without the tang safety for $100 less. Picked up the t/c for $100 in like new condition and it's a tack driver (sub moa at 100 yards on a good day). And the Stevens is a great little bolt action 410 that'll take the head clean off a rabbit, and I got mine for $100.
  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,521 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by forgemonkey
    ,,,,,any .22 you can teach a young'en to shoot with,,,,,[^]


    +1 Cheap ammo and the gun won't bust the bank
  • MossbergboogieMossbergboogie Member Posts: 12,211
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by joshmb1982
    quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
    M-N's, SKS's are a bargain still- As was the Swiss K-31 Schmidt-Rubin. Savage and Henry are both making very good guns for the price. Used Marlins (60's, Mdl 81s, etc) are very good guns for the money.

    Whatever you do, do NOT buy older Mossberg 22s, from the 40s and 50s. They will only dissapoint you, you will never find parts, and who wants a MOSSBERG for goodness sakes?

    But if you find any on auction, let me know, wouldya? [:p]


    I just sold an old one locally. Id never shot it so why hold on right. I forget the model number but it was one of the older variety with the tube magazine that loads through the stock.

    It was apparently a model 151 very similar to this. Except it didn't have a peep sight and had a scope mounted on it. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=217157180


    I am going to pretend I didn't read this..
  • kidthatsirishkidthatsirish Member Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got a Pardner protector for about 200 bucks out the door...synthetic stock, pkz finished, 12 gauge pump that is an 870 clone. Its built well, even for a chinese gun. 870s are just getting to expensive.
  • MaaloxMaalox Member Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you want to talk about modern firearms, what about the Kel-Tec line. Many folks don't like them, but I think they provide a good value and have a place in the market.
    Regards, MAALOX
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    $99 bucks with scope. GREAT shooter, like new

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    $275 new, scope extra since my eyes are shot anymore

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    $200 IIRC, came with the box and papers. Police trade, it was bead blasted.

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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    My Ruger 10/22. Paid $59 for it nearly forty years ago, first gun I bought with my own money. Have put tens of thousands of rounds through it.

    Saved my * once too along the California / Mexican border, north of Campo many years ago. At least that was what the Border Patrol told me.
  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Most foreign milsurps if in good shape, except for US and German. While excellent, well made weapons, they are a bit more priced as to what they are worth. For the deals, in no particular order, I'd say Mosin 91/30s, Turk 38 Mausers, Russian Capture 98ks, Yugo 48s, SKS Yugos, Enfield 3s and 4s, Swiss K-31s, etc. For handguns, Makarovs, P-64s, CZ-82s, and CZ-52s.

    For civilian guns, I've been VERY pleased with my Rossi single shot break open 30-06 after a few minor issues to start. Savage/Stevens CF rifles are a few hundred less than Remington, Sako, or Winchester similar types and often more accurate. Baikal shotguns. Ruger revolvers (vs. Smith or Colt) as well as their semi autos (though I don't care for the looks of them).

    Used stuff: single shot bolt or break open shotguns assuming they've been cared for. Usually under $75. Nickle plated revolvers if not fired with ammo they weren't designed for are a lot of fun at short range.
  • swampgutswampgut Member Posts: 5,555
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mark christian
    Although now selling at well above the give away prices from years ago, I think that the SKS carbine (take your choice of maker) still offers a lot of rifle for the money.


    +1

    When I was in high school a friend's father bought about ten of them for $75 each.

    I spent damn near three hundred on mine....
  • coltpaxcoltpax Member Posts: 7,516 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by swampgut
    quote:Originally posted by mark christian
    Although now selling at well above the give away prices from years ago, I think that the SKS carbine (take your choice of maker) still offers a lot of rifle for the money.


    +1

    When I was in high school a friend's father bought about ten of them for $75 each.

    I spent damn near three hundred on mine....


    I have about $400 in the one in my sig line... Man I wish I had a time machine though. If somebody would have bought lets say 100 SKSs for $75 a pop way back when, they'd make a killing in today's market.
  • dfletcherdfletcher Member Posts: 8,178 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thompson Center Encore - any other rifle out there that will let you go from 22 to 458 Win Mag and everything in between? Today I shot 222 Remington, 25.35 Win, 300 Win Mag and 416 Rigby. Great fun.
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