What's the most amount of money you would spend on one handgun?

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I would probably put the ceiling at $1000 for me now that I am retired and on a fixed income.
I have more than $1500 invested in the AR15 my son and I built this year but that is a one off type of thing that is not likely to happen again.
I am still in the market for a few more nice rifles, shotguns and handguns, but I have the patience to wait for a really good deal. I make a lot of gun shop tours looking for nice Sako or other good bolt action rifles. I also go to a least a couple of auctions and/or gun shows a month to try and find a good deal.

Being someone who's not afraid to buy used, I've seen so many guns 1k or less that were great deals for my needs I can't ever see spending much over that.

I am not a collector and I don't need the Little Ceasers (extra most bestest) of any gun.

I've never paid over $600 for any of my handguns. Of course several would be worth $1000+ today. But in current production there isn't anything over $700-$800 I'd want anyway. I have some nice rifles that I have $1000+ invested in. That includes aftermarket stocks and optics.

It would depend on the purpose. I like to buy, sell and trade as well as hunt and shoot. If it were a gun to flip or trade, I would be limited only by what funds I have available at the time if the deal was right. I wouldn't spend 2k planning to make $50. I think the most I've spent on a gun to flip was 2k for a Python that was like NIB and knew it was sold before I paid the seller. For daily shooting, you can have a hell of a lot of fun with a $300 or cheaper gun. Most I've paid for a gun I shoot regular is probably around $700-800 for a couple of Model 27s I have in my stable.

I cannot imagine myself paying as much as $1000 for a handgun, but I might go as high as 600-700.

900k- 1M for an original Walker Colt.

Can I afford it? Hell no.. But that wasn't the question.

That said I shoot handguns more than anything else. In competition, EDC, hunting, plinking, etc.

In addition, my handguns don't need 3000 dollar scopes and 5 dollar a round ammo. So I am willing to pay for quality.

Dibbs said:

But I'm a shooter, not a collector

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So you assume the people who can afford a more expensive weapon cannot afford to feed it?

As much as I have in the bank for the right one.

......yes, I have a problem. I'm working on it though so I'll vote 3k.

bersaguy said:

What does a $5000 dollar gun do that a $1500 gun won't?

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What does a 1500 dollar handgun do that a 100 dollar High Point won't?

I shoot my guns. I can see paying good money for a good gun, but there’s a point at which you pay crazy prices for minimal increase in quality. I think I can see myself getting into a few guns in the thousand dollar range, and then with custom/aftermarket grips, mags, sighting systems I can see myself topped out in the 1500 neighborhood, maybe a bit more.

On my current budget, about $750
Hit the Powerball and add a zero or so

Recently put about $2500 into a Limited gun. Non-responsive reply from another maker saved me from spending $3500.

Right now I can't see going over $2500 since I still have 3 kids at home. I have a little less that that in my M1A if I include the scope so I don't see why I couldn't do it again.

I try not to let the price be the lone determining factor on what I want. Of course it's a determining factor in what I actually buy but I add guns I want or think are cool to the safe as I can afford them.

I don't compete or collect rare or old firearms at this time. Maybe I will when the kids finally leave the nest. For now though I will just accumulate as many as I can and shoot them as often as I can manage .

Outside of collector pieces, there aren’t many handguns which can’t be bought or built for $6000 or less.

A new M41 costs more than $1000



I don't want to know the cost of a new Les Baer Wadcutter, but it has to be over $1000.



The precision match pistols are much more expensive than the simple rock busting variety.

After around 2500 it’s more of bragging rights

I’m not a big handgun guy really. I only own 3. All snub nose revolvers. For a defensive handgun I don’t like paying much more than 7-800 and I have scarcely ever done that even in the past.

I do like hunting though. Handgun hunting is at least on my radar and I would put out 1500 for the right setup.

I never buy new guns either so less monetary output usually gets me more

What I would like to have and what I could afford are always two different things. And what is practical means a lot. I have more than enough guns, shotguns, pistols, revolvers etc. My Present
carry guns are IMO everything I desire. And the one I like the most, I got on sale for $300.00. Well built, easy shooting, excellent quality, fits me like a glove. I do not see how spending two or three times more would add a single advantage. This gun I am sure will outlive me. Knowing what I know now, I would have paid $600.00 for the gun if that was the cost today, or had to replace it for whatever reason. I shoot my guns often and know that the amount of ammo that goes down range is going to really be many times more than the cost of the gun. And I hate not owning and not shooting my guns. I spend a lot of time focusing on my EDC guns.

If I did not already have all the guns I now have and wanted another gun, I would say $800.00 would be my limit, but would even have serious thought before purchase.

After not considering any new firearms over the last two or three decades I'm still in the "Sticker Shock" condition when it comes to the current prices for cars and firearms. Fortunately I have also found few modern guns, handguns or long guns I'd even want. Also, it seems many of the guns I do own but don't seem to shoot are now worth what I would consider ridiculous prices so it is about time to sell them to folk that would enjoy them.

I selected the $500.00 option even though I would have a really hard time convincing myself to spend that on a new firearm.

In today's world a man could own one gun and spend only $300 and be very well armed, have a good gun, reliable and dependable. A good holster can be had for another $50.00.
Take all the money that most of us have spent on,other guns and crap etc. and this man put all that money into noting but ammo and range fees and shot the hell out of the gun on a diligent schedule, I would bet that he would be able to out shoot all of us and still come way out ahead in saving.
Buy a Ruger, which gives about the best CS out there, and a company that will replace the gun when it goes down and that is all there is too it.
The rest is just fluff.

For me it seems to be somewhere north of $5000, which is what I have in each of these. Bearing in mind that these guns were not built for bragging rights or sitting in a safe. They were built because they were exactly what I wanted, not for the benefit of others, bragging or showing off. I may even have the stainless .44 engraved. As for what they will do that a $1500 gun won't, not much. Unless you want a hand polished finish, linebored over-sized cylinder, minimal cylinder gap, bank vault lock-up, octagon barrel cut from premium stock, custom sights, one-off parts, a crisp 2lb trigger and hand fitted grips to your exact specifications out of a relatively scarce material like Dall sheep horn, bighorn sheep horn or ivory.

I find it odd the reasons people think others spend their money. For the record, I'm not entirely comfortable with posts like this because it does look like bragging.



Couple years ago I got a good deal on a used FA83 Field Grade with .45Colt and .454 cylinders. With the scope and $1000 worth of bighorn grips by Rob Rowen, I have about $2800 in it.



About $3400 for this one, not including its first set of grips.

If I had to replace the three handguns I currently own, it would cost less than a thousand, and that's buying new. Fixed income and my needs are modest in this department.

$2,500 is the most that I have ever spent on a single handgun. I did so because it was a collectors item that was more of an investment.

Varminterror said:

Outside of collector pieces, there aren’t many handguns which can’t be bought or built for $6000 or less.

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Now that was funny Varminterror.

The most I've spent is $600, and I've done it twice (one was $575, actually.)

I guess I could be swayed to $1,000 on a seriously attractive find, one in which I was sure it was going to be a solid investment in which I would easily be able to recoup my spending, or even profit from it, if needed, fairly quickly (like within one year.)