Cheap gun to practice gunsmithing

[Brandon H.]

Hi guys, I am searching for a cheap pistol, weather its semi auto or revolver, or rifle for cheap. I have a lot of nice guns already and I plan on trying to find a piece of junk and try to bring it back to life. Basically if its a pistol I would debur everything and sand and refinish the gun and try to smooth the action and a feed ramp polish and so on, just sort of try to make a crappy gun shoot for fun. Anyways u guys get the idea so through out some names of guns so I can look them up on gun broker. I Doint want to spend over $150-$200

 

[Red Tornado]

For your purposes, pawn shops might be your best bet. Find a neglected piece in a pawn shop and offer $50 for it. You can always find a Jennings, Raven, Lorcin, etc. for very little. Plus, you avoid the shipping and transfer fees you would be paying on Gunbroker, which tend to make cheap firearms less so.
Good luck and have fun,
RT

 

[marshall3]

Some suggestions

Some of the Hungarian milsurp pistols in .380, or Kel-Tec P11 in 9mm would be fun, and you would probably end up with a very useable pistol.

 

[absolute0]

Prowl the pawn shops and used gun racks for Marlin model 60's and High Standard .22 caliber revolvers.

 

[Eric F]

might I suggest a hi-point because even if you do screw it up it is still just a paper weight, door stop, anchor for a cannoe

 

[MakAttak]

might I suggest a hi-point because even if you do screw it up it is still just a paper weight, door stop, anchor for a cannoe

OH PLEASE!







there's no way the high point weighs enough to be an anchor

 

[John828]

Put an ad in the newspaper. I see them all the time in ours: "Wanted: Old firearms for gunsmithing." Or "Disabled veteran looking for old guns to learn gunsmithing."

Not too sure how effective it is, but hey, free is good.

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might I suggest a hi-point because even if you do screw it up it is still just a paper weight, door stop, anchor for a cannoe

OH PLEASE!







there's no way the high point weighs enough to be an anchor

He said for a canoe. It a slow moving stream or on flat water, it would work fine as long as it was lodged good on the bottom.

 

[CWL]

My feelings is that a piece of junk will always remain a piece of junk. You can't restore something that is made of soft metal and bad parts.

Why not look for a clunker M1911 or even a new bare bones RIA -they should be in the low $300 range. You can sure tune that up to a nice pistol with the right time and plenty of spare parts.

 

[Picard]

I'd suggest a cheap, milsurp pistol:

http://www.aimsurplus.com/acatalog/Russian_1895_7.62_Nagant_Revolver.html

(classicarms has cylinders to convert these to .32 ACP for cheaper ammo)

or even better,

You can pick that up from classicarms for $199

 

[Brandon H.]

Well I just went down to the pawn shop where I bought my Marlin 60 a while back, and they really didnt have much, I mean they a lot f guns in rough shape, but they were also $200 and up and most were just .22's. I did find a old bolt action .30-30, weird. They also had these cobra pistols new for around $150 but I couldnt find any spare parts on www.e-gunparts.com for it so im sort of iffy on that. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=99810996. Well hopefully I find one soon, Im quitting dip, have been off of it for 3 days and boy is it hard, and I need a project to take my mind off of it.

 

[tank mechanic]

Buy a mosin for ~$80. You get a whole bunch of projects: refinish the stock, reblue all the reblueable metal, smooth out the trigger(?). And when you are done you will have a pretty good rifle that looks really good.

 

[Eric F]

Pawn shops in my area have a bunch of .32 and .38 brake top revolvers for $25 to $100 I like enfield revolvers too se them a bunch for $150. A nagant revolver with a sweet trigger would be pretty neat.

 

[Dismantler]

Call some gunsmiths or gun shops and tell them what you want to do.

 

[35Rem]

Can't believe only 1 suggestionf for a Mosin Nagant. Would be a good time to get your C&R Lisence and get them as cheap as possible. You should be able to find a nagant rifle for around $100 locally.

 

[brighamr]

Buy a Mosin, and make yourself a pistol

you get to learn the NFA hoops while building a true "custom" gun.

Better yet, buy a couple of 10/22 receivers and build a gattlin gun. cheap fun

OR, buy a .223 or 762 saiga and convert it. little bit more expensive than the mosins, but when you're done you'll have a fantastic AK (and there's lots of help on conversions on the net)