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best "bang for the buck" in firearms
Rack Ops
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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.
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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Highpoint carbines.
Mosin's.
NEF rifles/shotguns.
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
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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
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]
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.
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
,,,,,any .22 you can teach a young'en to shoot with,,,,,[^]
+1 Cheap ammo and the gun won't bust the bank
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..
$275 new, scope extra since my eyes are shot anymore
$200 IIRC, came with the box and papers. Police trade, it was bead blasted.
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.
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.
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....
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.